Recent content by schwal

As someone who bought a netbook with an early 16GB SSD that is slow as all hell, I must warn against just getting a cheap one. Most hard drives these days come with drive cloning software and decent instructions, but the relatively small sizes make it a bit more complicated than simply moving...

To be frank, the only games I have ever seen with good fans are (turn based) strategy games. Because they make suggestions, notice obscure bugs (and if the dev won't, often fix them), and generally understand game balance. Take Frozen Synapse: in the beta, the sniper rifle seemed...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthrise Trimmed off the extra black on the top, leaves me plenty of room for icons in the black bits without obscuring either them or the image.

The last third of Red Dead Redemption had this air of dread over the whole thing. It was the most atmospheric part of a game I've ever played, with the possible exception of Bioshock. Also it was amazing. And seriously depressing. Go play it.

I thought the head from doom was American McGee, he was a level designer for id at the time. For me the end of Far Cry 2. Your character shoots himself in the head. While you are still in a first person camera. Freaked me the hell out.

How am I the first person to say The Oregon Trail? Other than that, I dunno, maybe KoTOR 1? though I never beat it. or even got off the first planet.

Farcry 2 was the single most annoying game I have ever played. I even beat it, but i was incredibly angry whenever i stopped playing it, not because it was terrible, but because if they fixed 3 things it could have been great. Instead it played like GTA4 with a 2 star wanted level for the entire...

Why is this a poll? I find most fanboys equally abhorrent.

The pistol is from battlestar, and the thing on the bottom is a (small short range) grenade launcher.

never been a fan of mmorpgs, and i hated bully. and every splinter cell after the first one. And let's get one thing straight, I fucking loved Assassins Creed.

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2003/12/24/ that was five years ago. at least they've slowed down a little since then.

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You mean Turok? That was his name you know. or do you mean Slade, cranial drill intrusion victim? (missed reply button)

GTA 4 sniping the pilot of the police helicopter through the opposite bottom window my first attempt was freaking sweet. ------- ( |*) ˅ ˅ / /(Bullet)

Every single person in Bully. I rented it, played it for an hour, went do do something else, and when I came back I realized how much I hated every single character.