Cyber Rat

My mother always used to comfort me with this whenever I got a lower grade due to my horrible handwriting.

It's ok, we know your posts lack any other qualities

It's a tie between God Hand and Nier for me...

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/03/16/homefront-sells-0-copies-in-uk/

Oh and almost forgot to mention this. Me and my friends literally jumped for joy when

Scorpion is very awesome, yes. I don't like Mileena though (then again, I never liked her sai-spamming guro ways). I seriously hope I can figure out how to play Stryker when he's available. I'm gonna roll a Stryker + Cage tag team just because it sounds so ridiculously bad. (I mean, seriously, aside from Quan Chi, have any other two characters been trash talked as much?)

Played the demo today with a bunch of friends. I'm really liking how the game plays and am surprised that Cage is not nearly as useless as he used to be. Oh, and Sub-Zero's moves are so slow...

Related to your comment, not the actual essay you linked: you cannot completely compare chess with video games, because they both function as "a game". Chess lacks a story, narrative and characters that have any use besides pre-determined ways to act with variables. Chess is the same to games as books are to games, as music is to games, as acting is to games. It is an element that makes a whole. You'll never say the color purple is art, but a painting containing the color purple could be a work of art. It's a stupid and faulty comparison. Related to the quoted paragraph: movies and music are an industry as well, and neither of those are disregarded as lacking artistic merit. Like I've said before, right now 99.9% of games are not works of art. They and the whole medium have the potential to be at one point, but people are listing all the wrong reasons why they are not right now.

Alex Kidd in Miracle World for the Sega Master System.

Carlito's Way > Scarface

I'd buy the Japanese version.

Art and originality aren't perverted or dead, it's just the influx and amount of information via the Internet that makes one feel that way. (Potential) Artists and art lovers weren't exposed to the works of millions of people before the Internet, but today, everyone has their personal webspace and it's easy to lose track and hope for "art" until you realize that those kinds of people always existed. They were just anonymous and far away from you so you didn't know. This post has been brought to you by lack of caffeine. EDIT: Also, saying since art is tacked onto worthless stuff, games can be called art doesn't really mean much. I don't think any good art was appreciated during its own time alone. I am always reminded of Don Quixote, which is often regarded as one of the best written works ever. It was originally "just a parody" of popular knight novels during Cervantes's time. Fast forward till today, and nobody remembers the knight novels, but everyone looks at Don Quixote as a work of art. What I'm getting at is that whether someone calls Heavy Rain, Bulletstorm or Crash Bandicoot art matters very little, because as time goes by, people might be less enthusiastic about these titles and be more objective about it since they weren't exposed to the actual release. We will probably end up with only a few games being remembered. I'm not talking about nostalgia though, like the way people feel towards Mega Drive Sonic games, but rather something in like 50 years. And I'm guessing a good deal of those games will be stuff that was panned or received lukewarm response from reviewers (here's to hoping Nier and God Hand get up there ). Remember that movies were entertainment only when they first appeared, being 5 second clips. Gaming still needs to evolve much more as a creative medium, but it did manage to evolve into an industry, which is slowing down that process, in my opinion. What the Heavy Rain author said (in some thread, either this one or a different one, not sure) about games needing to mature and change was kinda true, but I disagreed with him because I though he went the completely wrong way about it and was on an ego trip.

If it's well written, then yes. The person below me cried when Simba's dad died.

More pictures here: http://www.abc.net.au/news/events/japan-quake-2011/beforeafter.htm

I had no idea the Namco X Capcom opening was so good.

That's actually a reasonable solution compared to the rumoured "PS3 games will get serial keys".

Yea, that's the problem really. I don't think it's necessarily some bullshit excuse by EA because I am aware how moderators or people not high up in rank can say or do things that you honestly shouldn't. On the other hand, it might just be a bullshit excuse and they only reacted when they saw the backlash. Sadly, we'll never know for sure.

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/03/11/ea-retracts-game-ban-for-forum-violation/ Well, turns out it was officially a mistake, in which live support and the moderator made some bad calls when asked about the problem. Of course, it could be that EA saw the shitstorm such news could cause and are saying it's a mistake rather than admitting they changed their minds from a bad call. At least the guy got his game access back. If you helped with that Thursday, cool of you.

Hmm... strange then. He might be overdoing it then or getting an error for some reason. Still a temp ban from even one game is too much (albeit less than banning all games).