Recent content by Metalgamer81

The game looks pretty sweet to me. But "cock rock soundtrack?" Really? I've never heard anyone singing about going to L.A. strip clubs in a Castlevania game. If by "cock rock" you meant "symphonic rock" you'd be more spot-on, then we might want to discuss your understanding of the word "cock."

There is a massive difference between costing the industry money and the industry failing to make money. NOT making a game doesn't cost anyone anything. Making a game that fails entirely because it is totally retarded costs the industry money. Unfortunately,the only sort of game that could...

This article raises several questions. 1. What sort of judge hands down a guilty verdict then later publicly states that the defendant was not responsible for his own actions? I'm no lawyer, but didn't he basically contradict his own verdict? I reckon the case could be appealed based on that...

At first I had the same reaction. My thought was "this is NOT Final Fantasy." Then I noticed how vastly improved it was over the traditional turn-based combat of the previous games in the series. Of course, then I played through to almost the end and I realized how tedious the gameplay was. Once...

My first gaming experience is hard to recall... it was either playing hours and hours of Super Mario Bros. and Duck Hunt with my sister when I was about 5 or it was when my parents bought a computer for their business and got Spy vs. Spy and some weird game where you played a little two-legged...

I think that was a pretty awful response to negative reviews. It's like saying that poor review scores are the fault of the audience for expecting too much. I think this is what ultimately soured me on JRPGs. Don't get me wrong, I was one of the most avid JRPG gamers I ever knew for a long...

I agree with everything the original poster has to say. I played WoW for two years, during which time I advanced a rogue to level 70 and several other characters to lower levels. Part of the fun of RPGs is learning not only what works best, but what works best for the player. WoW is elitist...

I own several, and not those cheap stainless steel knock-offs, either. I've got four functional pieces with live edges and heat treated carbon steel and my collection is expanding.

This thread has many replies and I'm not certain if this has been brought up, but from a sociological point of view hasn't competitive sports all but replaced war? The idea is the same. Two competing sides use their physical prowess to systematically defeat one another by taking enemy ground...

The author of this piece lost me when he said that if the boss spikes a healer, he would lower tank damage to compensate. That's like saying that when the game introduces an element which challenges the player, he should then remove some other challenging element. Basically, the author just...

From time to time I have had to deal with people who just didn't seem to care what was going on. It seems like every so often you get that one individual who just logs on, ignores the other players and does his or her own thing. That works in a lot of games, but it doesn't work in L4D. I did...

I was disappointed with the "horror" elements in FEAR. Again though, like my post above says, when I'm totally omnipotent I can't be afraid. The bits of the game that threw the player into some kind of alternate reality were pretty freaky, but not to the point that they were actually scary. Even...

The trouble with most horror games is that monsters aren't scary if you're a superhero. If you can shoot them dead, cut them down or beat them senseless, the monsters really aren't scary anymore. The Silent Hill series does a pretty good job of severely limiting the player's ability to...

I'm not sure I understand what you're saying there. Disney Channel? There's anime on the Disney Channel?

My first video game experience was probably this wierd little computer game my parents had bought for us in the 80s in which the player controlled a little robot that captured creatures in a net... but that may have come later. My first mainstream video game experience was Super Mario Bros...