February 2013
1 post
help my friend mike sacco!!! →
natellite:
hey guys, my friend Mike Sacco - who you may have heard lost his job earlier this month for some stuff he wrote about Borderlands on twitter - is looking to get a psychiatric assessment for his depression and anxiety issues.
as a freelance game journalist and writer who recently lost a good portion of his income, he obviously doesn’t have health insurance, and i know better than just...
October 2012
1 post
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"'Guild Wars 2' writer disappointed in game's... →
From Polygon.com, a really interesting infograph about the breakdown of GW2 races and classes. Perhaps not surprisingly, humans are overwhelmingly popular. It’s too bad - the writing in GW2 is universally solid, but some of the content in the Sylvari zones particularly has floored me. I hope more people get to see it.
September 2012
1 post
yo it's time for a greenlight post
rabbivole:
if yall aren’t looking at steam greenlight you should be. it’s a fun way to see the absolute worst of what indie gaming has to offer AND support some rad games that should be on steam
i thought i would collect some of the things i think people should go check out!!!!
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I agree with everything jason says as a rule, but he’s especially correct here.
July 2012
1 post
Obsidian missed Fallout: New Vegas Metacritic...
rabbivole:
ahahahahahha holy shit bethesda
Unfortunately for Obsidian, Fallout: New Vegas currently has a Metacritic average of 84, a single point below the average that would’ve earned the company royalties on its product. “[Fallout: New Vegas] was a straight payment, no royalties, only a bonus if we got an 85+ on Metacritic, which we didn’t,” Obsidian creative director and co-owner Chris...
June 2012
5 posts
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Tomb Raider, Rape Culture, and a Concise...
I’m still collecting my thoughts from the Big Three’s press conferences, so thanks for bearing with me through my horrifically busy schedule this past week. I want to take a short break from the madness of E3 to talk about something only tangentially related: Tomb Raider.
Now, listen - I’m not going to stand up and issue forth an indictment of this almost two-decade-old...
caramelzappa asked: Just read your EA conference impressions. Just wanted to say that Crysis 1 was most definately a sandbox game. It was all about having these huge environments, willed with destructible objects, and how you could use the nanosuit to approach a situation from any angle and handle it however you wanted. It's sandbox in that you can use whatever playstyle or strategy you want at any time and just...
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Ubisoft @ E3 2012: Awkward, Tasteless, and Dumb.
or, What the Fuck Did I Just Take
Wow.
I just got done watching Gamespot’s replay of the Ubisoft press conference from yesterday - my work schedule is necessitating a more leisurely pace for these recaps. And… I don’t know, you guys. Someone really needs to check in on Yves Guillemot, make sure he’s okay. This shit is getting weird. And I don’t mean Satoru Iwata...
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GameSpy: SimCity Disappointment: You Won't Be Able... →
Oh, dear.
As anyone who’s played one knows, one of the simplest pleasures of any SimCity game, dating back to the 1989 original, is the consequence-free “What if?” scenario. The kind where you obliterate your city by triggering an apocalyptic wave of fires, earthquakes, tornadoes, and monster attacks, then time-warp it back to pristine condition by loading a saved game. When I...
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EA: Medal of Honor, Battlefield, and the White...
So you guys saw these games during the EA press conference, right? If not, go check it out. I’ll wait.
[[MORE]]Welcome back.
A brief word on BF3 before I get into the real meaty stuff. And please understand that when I ask this, I’m not trying to be a smartass:
What is the difference between all of these games?
Full disclosure: These military FPSes really aren’t my thing....
