Recent content by The Atheist

When I was much younger I used to, cos sometimes I didn't know when I'd be able to afford a new game and so a bad game was better than no game, but nowadays I have no reason to subject myself to games that I don't like. The only real reason to do that is so you feel like you haven't wasted your...

Most of my real life friends are console gamers and have either a 360 or a 360 and PS3, so I prefer it if they buy games for 360 if it's a game with online multiplayer that we're all likely to play, which they pretty much always do anyway. The only reasons I care in those cases are because I...

1. Gears 3 2. New Assassin's Creed 3. Uncharted 3

Thinking about it, if you buy online from a UK store and you're outside the European Union, you don't have to pay VAT. The prices you see on almost all UK sites (apart from sites selling direct to the trade) show prices inclusive of VAT, which currently stands at 20%, so if you're an American...

DS games is probably the worst example you could have picked. I have no idea why the price of them is so high here. 3DS games are already on sale for pre-order at an RRP of about 65 dollars each, which is more than we'd pay for 360 or PS3 games.

The achievements system is fine. It's those that either abuse it or become obsessed with unlocking achievements that are/have the problem, but they are in a small minority. I can take or leave them most of the time, but sometimes they extend my fun with a game when it would have otherwise ended...

I agree. The system MS use to detected gamerscore cheats is automated, therefore, they are highly unlikely to use an automated system that throws up a lot of false positives. It's based on things such as unlocking online-only achievements while not being connected to Live, or, for example...