Recent content by wild_quinine

Yes, but what you have to remember is that for most Linux afficionados, the challenge of getting something to work is usually a great deal more enjoyable, motivating, and rewarding than actually doing whatever it was you were trying to get to work. And that goes double for games.

Uhm... it's okay to disapprove, and you're entitled to your opinions. But having a kid has nothing to do with anything. You think people stop wanting to have sex just because they've got a kid? If this were true the human race would pretty much die out, and its half-life would be a single...

Okay, I realise this is a subjective thing, but WoW was not *terrible* before level 70. Maybe it's boring to level up six characters in a row to 70, but I LOVED WoW from 1-40ish, first time through.

Evidence, or Proof? If you want Evidence, look into the Jeff Gerstmann Kane and Lynch review scandal. If you want proof, try beating it out of Gerstmann or his former employers. I admit, I can't tar IGN with the same brush, but the last time they gave less than 9/10 for anything the pyramids...

I disagree. 1) They're well known. That does not equal 'respected'. 2) I doubt they pay all but a very few people that much. 3) Maybe they *do* put out a lot of garbage. 4) You probably shouldn't trust those sites. More than a few times they've bucked to pressure from advertisers. In...

Two points: Firstly, if something is still worthless after 20 hours, I'm happy for a reviewer to call time on it. I don't care if it paints the Mona fucking Lisa at twenty seven hours in, I'm not spending a fortnight of my spare time suffering for someone else's art. Secondly, how much do...

I honestly never believed for a minute that the game would not come out. Not sure I believe it even now - that's one hot property.

Oh, wait. It was a *millstone* it hit today. Nevermind.

Well, it hit another milestone today!

As far as I'm aware, the above is just utterly, completely wrong. 3DRealms are (were?) a privately owned company, and have no 'parents' as such. Take Two have a license to distribute Duke Nukem Forever, but absolutely no ownership over Duke Nukem, or 3DRealms, whatsoever. End of story...

I think has hurt my perception of Nintendo, too. They've definitely been amongst the worst players when it comes to region delays this generation.

Yes, yes, very funny. Grandpa's on his soapbox again. However, the point really is that a lot of the time when people say that Nintendo sold out/jumped the shark/started rehashing old ideas or whatever, they're talking about things that happened before 1995. Before 2000, certainly, when this...

Matt 95, eh? That'll be your birth year? For someone with a few more miles on the clock, I often find it hard to believe that today's fourteen-year-olds were born in 1995. Interesting side note: when people talk about the nintendo of old, the real glory days; they're talking about stuff...

QW:ET - Dropping off the last energy cell in quarry, with a tormentor dive and finishing the level with one second on the clock. It was more luck than skill, but I got my share of kudos.

Well that makes most games guilty, I reckon. There are a few very well done, very subtle games with truly artistic characterisation. But for the most part, video game writing is a mish-mash of hack stereotypes. We should all be offended by most games, most of the time. I'm not sure racism is...