Recent content by timm123

I don't know why, but I have this weird fascination watching people who are totally engrossed in something. Usually they're reading a book or doing work, but I just can't take my eyes off. Also, wearing a T-shirt I got for free for the first time. I don't mean like a gift, but a handout at...

In a word, Psychonauts. I'm absolutely addicted to finding collectibles, and anyone who has played the game knows how many figments of imagination there are in the game... 100% completion with a 32 hr playthrough twice. On the second one, just getting the figments wasn't enough. I wanted to...

I think you're missing something in your hypothesis of two underdogs coming together. It would be less like two starcraft players talking over teamspeak and more like trying to stop teamkilling in tf2 with friendly fire on. Factions of that size are so varied and wildly unorganized that there's...

Can one not be oneself? Does the existence of an avatar change the reactions one has to his environment? No. Just because you act differently when in a (virtually) intense situation than you normally do when hanging out with your friends doesn't mean you've radically changed your personality...

Oh man, if real life mimicked Monkey Island I'd be set. Whereas most people would probably be trapped in their house for days looking for the front door key, I'm pretty sure I could McGyver my way into the position of Emperor of Earth withing a few hours with just a rubber chicken, a roll of...

So, I was thinking about picking up an MMO this summer, but I can't tell which I would like more. From the comments I've read, LotR has a much more mature fanbase, but CoH seems like it has wacky, crazy kinds of fun. By the way, WoW, EVE and everything else is out. I've perused all the other...

That was actually a very inspiring story, about two people who took a child who everyone, including her own mother, said would never rise from a near comatose state. Compared to other severe deprivation cases, Dani's story is a legitimate miracle. Those first 5 years are impossibly and...

Since the number of people who murder after legally getting a firearm is about the same rate of kids who kill after playing video games is the same, I'd say keep 'em both. The solution is better education about ESRB to uncaring parents and about gun laws to the general populace. Also, ending...

It's $60 for the simple reason that Microsoft is hurting for money right now, and its analysts project that customers who would buy it at $40 will also buy it at $60. No doubt, it's going to be a well put together game and we won't know whether the price is justified until we see it. If this...

Everybody thinking this is gonna be Half Life 3 really needs to take a step back and consider some facts. Half Life 2 took them nearly 5 years of 12+ hour days to perfect it. Using the same engine and even the same graphics, Valve wouldn't be able to release a full-length game that lasts 14-16...

Honestly, Assassin's Creed 2 looks like the most fun game out of anything I saw at E3. It's gameplay demo wasn't hyped much, but man did it look ever so sweet. Ubisoft drastically improved on the original with a better setting and much, much better missions, while avoiding gimmicks. I just hope...

Didn't they try getting rid of E3 a couple years back? I think one year they tried to just "tone it down a bit" and focused it more on developers than consumers, but instead all of the hype just got redirected to other conventions like PAX and Leipzeig. I think E3 is a great thing for the...

So in Half Life 1, I assume that Gordon was around 25ish as a recent college graduate from MIT, but after the Gman puts him in stasis "outside of harm's way" and time and space, does Gordon age? We know that Half Life 2 takes place about twenty years after the original, but since we never...

Sorry, but Indigo Prophecy wins hands-down. You find out the old grandmother chick is actually an evil electrical embodiment of a computer AI and the leader of the Purple Machines, when this was never referenced AT ALL during the game. What made it even more confusing was that you had been...

Man, that jack in the box in DK64 from that video scared the ever-loving crap out of me, especially since it was the first 3d game I'd owned. Seeing it now, it looks like a retarded duck, but man that thing was creepy. What else... oh, right, Floormasters. After the first one got me, I quit...