Recent content by Johnny Wishbone

The three main council races (Asari, Salarian, and Turian) placed themselves higher in standing than everyone else and are responsible for the following: - viewed the Rachini as a threat and used Krogans to wipe them out to near extinction - then viewed the Krogans as a threat and...

Um....So far I haven't seen or heard of any outrage or any Americans claiming to be offended by this. So why are your panties all twisted up? Let me check your profile....yep, just as I suspected: you're British. Funny how the most rampant anti-Americanism today comes from our supposed...

Well, either I'm going to give a lot of you hope, or seriously depress most of you. I've been gainfully employed for 20 years (I'm almost 40). I have a BS in Computer Science from a major university in the midwest USA. I started my first "professional" job working for the university while I...

It's funny...I seem to remember another game company making massive, unpopular changes to an established product and claiming that the community would "come around" and "deal with it." How well did that work out? Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it.

I think everyone here is missing the point; "hurt me personally" has nothing to do with his emotions or mental state. "hurt me personally" means "I didn't get the six figure bonus I was expecting; it was only 5 figures (as was contractually obligated by my employment agreement)." Doesn't it...

Pot meet kettle? Cliff reminds me of the type of dorky kid who never really got bullied growing up, but still went home every night and obsessed over his "enemies list" and imagined every possible negative thing that occurred that day as the most horrific injury against his person. And he...

I regularily play Tropico 4 on my 360. While I'm not going to say the controls are great using a gamepad vs keyboard/mouse, it's not as tragically dreadful as everyone likes to think. Basically, you pretty much have to use the pause time function to do any building, etc. I have a heck of a lot...

This sounds like the kind of press release a sports team puts out in support of an embattled coach; as in "Coach So-and-so isn't going anywhere and has the full support of the front office." And then a week later, they fire his ass for some random, unquantifiable reason like: "He lost...

As much as I like a good Microsoft/Xbone bashing thread, this really is old news, guys. From the moment they did the 180 on the DRM, Microsoft has said that the Xbone will still require a one-time internet connection in order to work when you first power it on. You have to register and activate...

Achievements have really done nothing more than turn games into work. "Well, I beat this game 2 weeks ago, but since I want that achievement for killing 10,000 guys with headshots using a single shot pistol, I guess I'll have to grind out another 300 hours..." How many times have you found...

I guess I'm in a very small minority here because I fucking hate the game. I guess the GTA series just isn't for me anymore. I loved San Andreas; I still play that game to this day. I tried playing GTA4 and gave up on that POS after about 10 hours of play. This game seems way too much like 4...

Translation: "We're still going to tell the consumer what WE think they want, we're just being less obtuse about it this time." Of course it will "sell out" when it is released. Microsoft will report that it "sold out" on launch day because they will only count how many consoles they sold to...

"I think the problem was that people got in their minds that what we were trying to do was somehow evil or anti-customer." When you debuted the console, you had a perfect opportunity to explain to everyone why what you were trying to do was good and pro-consumer. Instead, you chose to...

Of course the console hardware itself has about 3 years of life. Basically that means that they expect the console to have the necessary horsepower to still be able to play games developed in the next 2-3 years. What they aren't telling you is that Xbox Live for the 360 only has 6 months to 1...

Weren't there reports coming from the devs months ago about Microsoft having to throttle back the CPU and GPU speeds by as much as 30% because they were having stability issues with the hardware and couldn't make it work at native speeds? If that's true, then even this "boost" is still less than...