TheMightyEthan

Oh yeah, when I say "cheap" I'm definitely referring to the mechanics themselves, and you're right that the onus is on the developer to fix that. I do not blame players for utilizing mechanics, however stupidly designed they are, and I will do so myself at every opportunity. *Edit* - The exception being in friendly games with my actual friends. Then I will agree to extra rules (like no lighting before the jump in Mario Kart) in the interest of keeping the game more fun. The only situation I'll get mad at someone for using a "cheap" mechanic is if they previously agreed not to. But in the absence of such an agreement, any mechanic is fair game.

Most of my friends are taller than me too (I'm 6'0"). I always felt short too, until one day I suddenly realized that even though most of my friends were taller than me, most of the random guys I see around are shorter than me.

In the US the average height for adult (20+) males is 5' 9.5". For white males 20-39 it's 5' 10.5". For adult females it's 5' 4". For white females 20-39 it's 5' 5".

I definitely have to agree with ODST and ME2. So awesome.

To me something is "cheap" if it gives a very disproportionate advantage compared to the amount of skill required to use it. So a strategy/tactic/whatever that requires little to no skill to use, but is extremely difficult or impossible to beat, is cheap.

No no, I mean the aiming on Reach felt too slow, cause it's so much slower than MNC. I didn't mean the actual speed of play.

I was playing Reach on 8, but then when I went back to it after MNC it felt WAY TOO SLOW so I cranked it up to 10. It still felt too slow.

The deals have been balls almost every day. I'm eying Europa Universalis III though. Has anyone played it? I need opinions.

When did 6'0" become short?

That would be why I can't quick-scope... I think I even turned it up from default. But then I play most games with higher sensitivity than most people do.

They both have Live MP. Catan does not have local MP, which is stupid.

Marked off Aliens vs. Predator. Again, eh. Probably doesn't help that I made the mistake of getting it on the PS3 though.

Marked off Darwinia, because eh.

They took all the things about Burnout that I loved, and threw them out the window.

Because fuck Steam.

Super Mario Bros 3. Got it with my NES. I was like... 3 or so at the time. My parents had no idea what they were creating.

King Jimmeh, I am torn. You put San Andreas back on, which I appreciate, but you took off Paradise, which I do not appreciate. We are now frenemies.

I am keeping a close eye on this game. I hope we get a localization.

Oh yeah, I enjoyed SMG quite a bit, just thought that it was too easy.

Halo 2: on Legendary, if one person dies it resets you to the checkpoint. Halo 1/3/Reach: If one person dies they wait to respawn until (one of) the still-living person (people) can get to safety. If (all) the still-living person (people) die(s) before that happens, it resets to the checkpoint. Halo 3/Reach: If you turn Iron Skull on, if one person dies it resets you to the checkpoint, if everyone dies at the same time it resets you to the beginning of the level.

I actually like SMS, even though FLUDD was stupid and irritating. SMG was just too easy.

D-K, it felt small because in order to have that many cities and villages, each one had to be tiny. It was like being in the middle-of-fucking-nowhere, Kansas, just with tall buildings in the tiny-ass podunk towns.