Recent content by SuperNashwan

Out of interest, the only released game I can think of where this happened was Valve's re-release of the original Half Life, with the engine replaced. They brought it out with the source engine for physics, but left everything else unchanged. Grenades definitely flew better, cant remember if...

Ive just finished watching the documentary, and what struck me is the bias in how the programme was made. In the same way as gaming manufacturers put devices in the game to make it compelling, media companies put devices in their programmes to make you feel a certain way about the material they...

Lol yeah its like once you open the floodgates ... do you think its like the whole "hunter gatherer" instinct, like that article on escapist says? How about buyers remorse? Ever get home and fall into a black hole of self rebuke at how the game shop masterfully jedi-mind tricked you into...

Hmm just noticed there's an article on this kind of thing on the escapist http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/columns/experienced-points/8395-Experienced-Points-The-Future-is-Still-Retail Similar kind of things being said there

LOL I feel your pain. I am currently eyeing up Battlefield Bad Company 2 and ARMA 2. No cash ... sucks to be me ...

Now I have a desire to play tower defense games I didnt know I had either :O For me its also because its so easy. Two clicks, and you have the game, and you dont even feel the pain of opening your wallet / purse ...

Hi there What sales medium tempts you the most to try a new game or piece of hardware, or pick up that one you have been thinking about? I went in PC World the other day, and began browsing new graphics cards. Something that struck me was that I had been looking at these cards online, and...

SiN Emergence was a game I kind of enjoyed, and which had at least verbally jumped on the 'episodic' bandwagon (the same bandwagon that the wheels fell off shortly after because it was silly). They never made any more episodes though because the studio went bang. Its not like the game had a...

To reply to the original post: These are just my musings on the topic, but I think one reason that the media and people in general might be keen to blame video games for events like school shootings is because we have an inherent distaste for the idea that any one of us, or perhaps our...

Hmm fascinating. I'm tempted to print those off and stick them in the back of the book! Thanks for the links, sounds like a good piece of historical controversy.

I've got the book - Men Against Fire - in which he makes this claim, and you are not entirely right. This is a quote from the chapter on Fire Ratios, where he is talking about post-action interviews made with a "full assembly" of men who had served in the 'Pacific and European Theaters' of World...

Totally agree! STALKER X-18 was really unsettling the first time through, genuinely makes you feel vulnerable. Once you know how to handle the poltergeists, and figure out that if you keep running about you dont get hit so much, it becomes less so. But those random bangs and knocks and noises...

I used to know loads of straight edge kids. They all grew up to have normal middle class jobs and enjoying beer, once the teenage desire to find their niche wore off. Seriously, the only thing they retained were the silly 'discipline' tattoos they had put on the stomachs, which became rapidly...

I am about to go public with my fart-collecting metho-pants. At the end of each day, everyone in the world must download their collected farts into the metho-grid, where it is piped away for unlimited power. I mostly got the idea from Star Trek. Or maybe it was flatulence, one of the two. And...

I have seen people on here get really angry and genuinely compare computer games to Mozart or great classic works of art, and that made me laugh to be honest. To take the movies example - there are movies that many will agree are 'great', but you are not going to find them in a national museum...