Johnny

PC Gaming Master Race reporting in.

Oh dear jesus, that terrible secret is locked deep inside the vault of horrors, never to be spoken of.

Day 8: Oh jesus... Uh... I guess... wow, that's a tough one. I guess I'm gonna have to go with Chrono Trigger Day 9: Chrono Trigger, Day 10: That's... A very very broad question. I guess if I did have to choose, I'd say StarCraft 2.

Seeing as how the demo is the only way the developer provides for me to try it before I buy it... Are EA expecting me to pirate it to try before buying or something?

I was not interested at all, but that trailer was pretty cool. We'll see when it does arrive.

Oh? I thought I was pretty clear about it. Hold on, where's my megaphone? I was not talking about the single-player campaign!

One question: How is the D-pad, compared to say, the Playstation controllers?

Well, add to the low angle and weirdly scrolling 2.5D visuals that DOOM 1 and 2 runs at a completely ridiculous speed. I think they are the one time where I ever had to just stop playing because of it.

I've played quite a few hours more of the MP demo than it really deserved, in case it would get better. Well, it did, but not enough. It feels like Call of Duty: Nanosuit Edition, and while the Nanosuit certainly adds a few elements of strategy, it's not enough for me. If you enjoy Call of Duty style games, then sure, this may be a game for you. As for me, I liked Crysis 1 because it did quite a lot of things in more oldschool ways. For example, holy fuck weapon pickups, I don't remember last a shooter actually asked me to control weapon respawn points! I like what they've done to the suit powers, with the exception that I would like Armor to be the default mode if you're just walking around; my biggest issue with Crysis 2 is really how quickly everyone dies outside of Armor mode.

This is my Foobar 2000 layout, edited as of a minute ago.

Day 6: Vaan. God damn you, Vaan! Day 7: Uuuuh. I can't think of any one couple that actually felt believable.

I don't think I've ever been able to truly identify with any game character. Generally, they are all heroes (or villains) that routinely risk their life over the course of the game.

I've played The Sims 1-3 in ways that had nothing to do with horrible experiments / torture and without cheating.

In reality, snipers are really quite balanced in Crysis 2 BEFORE you count in the killstreak system, which is really stupid. I've often missed killstreaks because the dog-tag wouldn't pick up at all. If the your team know what they are doing, taking out a sniper is really not a huge issue at all, as they are pretty useless from medium range and lower. Put on armor so you don't get oneshot and you really can't fail to kill one.

I would say Vagrant Story is more "unknown" than "underrated". People who do know about it usually speak of it highly. As for underrated games... Crysis was actually a remarkably open-ended shooter that let you tackle encounters in a great many different ways. It got a lot of shit for being way too pretty though.

This is a tie between Alyx Vance from the Half-Life games and half the fucking cast from Beyond Good & Evil.

I feel like I'm the guy who doesn't know shit about Pokémon. Which is completely alien to me because I'm usually the guy theorycrafting EVERYTHING to absurd details.

I REALLY like the look everything about this. Except for one little detail. Why the fuck Games For Windows Live?!

I can not be 100% sure that this is the case, but the first game I REMEMBER playing was Super Mario Bros.

Probably. At some point. Definitely not at once, though.

As I see it it's pretty simple: if something fits into ANY of the normally accepted definitions of art, it can not be objectively denied as art. Wether it's good art or not, is a completely different matter. For reference, here's a list of some such definitions from wiktionary: (uncountable) Human effort to imitate, supplement, alter, or counteract the work of nature. (uncountable) The conscious production or arrangement of sounds, colours, forms, movements, or other elements in a manner that affects the sense of beauty, specifically the production of the beautiful in a graphic or plastic medium. There is a debate as to whether graffiti is art or vandalism. (uncountable) Activity intended to make something special. (uncountable) A re-creation of reality according to the artist's metaphysical value judgements. (uncountable) The study and the product of these processes. (uncountable) Aesthetic value. (uncountable, printing) Artwork. (countable) A field or category of art, such as painting, sculpture, music, ballet, or literature. (countable) A nonscientific branch of learning; one of the liberal arts. (countable) Skill that is attained by study, practice, or observation. According to some of these, games are art. This discussion, as I see it, is pretty pointless.

Isn't pretty much all non-shooter videogames a japanese speciality at this point?

No... I was a dumb kid and didn't fully understand Scar's motivation, so I was very busy being confused by the sudden betrayal that only a dumb kid couldn't have seen coming. The person below me liked the Dune movie.