I'll still get into a good old-fashioned internet fist fight if the mood suits me.
Check out this article about how the PC gaming market is not dying. The author claims that PC gaming offers more variety and innovation and then lists a bunch of samey shooters and RPGs. In comments, I tried to argue that, although the PC gaming market excels in many areas, it is not the home for the broadest range of gaming experiences. I pissed him off.
Red Dwarf VIII is better than I remember.
Once you get past the drudgery of the three-part "Back in the Red," this final season is pretty good. "Cassandra" seems filled with the kind of writing that seasons 1 through 4 were famous for, and "Krytie TV" has probably the best payoff of any episode in the show's run.
The Speed Racer trailer is really freakin' good.
I think my favorite shot in the trailer is when you see the thugs with machine guns. Those guys look exactly like the long-haired, derby hatted, plaid suit-wearing criminals that always showed up in early anime like Speed Racer and Lupin the Third. Dead on. I love it.
Kingdom Hearts card game is finally out.
Yeah, sure, a game that debuts with a focus on the first PS2 game comes out over a year after the second PS2 game. I like some of the mathematical tricks that are deployed to determine the playability of baddies, but the overall gameplay seems simplistic and the endgame is not in theme (you win when you play 13 points of World cards? That's it?)
The Simpsons Game really, really, really sucks.
Anybody who gave these game anything higher than a 4 out of 10 needs to come to my house and play the game for me. It is so very awful.
re: the PC gaming article. Man, that guy was struggling to support his argument. I do think the PC has distinct hardware advantages, the mouse and keyboard driven interface benefits certain genres, and it's easier for independents to get their product out, but with modern consoles, you can't make blanket statements about the PC's superiority anymore.
Agreed. Plenty of benefits to PC gaming.
It was the "more variety" claim that really bugged me, although he's wrong on a few other points too (like pricing of console games... he wants to pin the entire console game industry with $60 games! ...and he seems unaware that modern consoles have web browsers and email and other such non-game functions.)
To date, he has categorically refused to list this "variety" as it appeared in 2007.