He'd better be glad his company isn't Publicly held. If I was a shareholder, Id be pissed that the company isn't maximizing its profits and so would the vast majority, he'd be done and gone within a quarter. Its a stupid way of doing business and it doesn't work in the real world. Sentimentality has no place in…

Yeah, X11 isn't a bad choice if you're familiar with it. And from the sounds of it you've got commercial UNIX or non-OSX BSD experience. I just find it an aggravating display server, though it gets the job done. I just figured someone made it a dependency and hadn't really the faintest idea why.

And hell, Id say…

James T. Kirk (both prime and Abramsverse) would be proud.

And I should hope everyone here gets the reference, but in case you're that guy/girl/AI, Here

My only question is why in the fuck would someone want X.org on a Mac in the first place, or what kind of idiot developer would make it a dependency for an OS X application.

I'm not surprised, his teams at Origin and Digital Anvil (before it got borged by Microsoft anyway) worked extremely well with him. I've always hoped that he'd be able to get his hands on the Wing Commander IP, or even to get the IP do a true Sequel to Starlancer, but Star Citizen's looking great.

Do you know who he…

Me too Vanos, the only developers that I liked as a kid that are still around are Bethesda, id, and Valve (half-life was life changing the first time I played it, and I strongly suggest checking out Black Mesa if you haven't already especially since you mentioned Sierra). The rest are gone, and its not just a PC thing…

I love how the logo's basically Origin systems old one, but more stylized. Brings back quite a few fond memories of Mr. Roberts' previous work.

I wasn't around for the C64 era, but I was for the later DOS and 16-bit console era, before the rot started really setting in at EA around the middle part of last decade. Used to be they left their developers alone and their games were great.

No bullshit either, yes it is very hard to believe if you have only known EA…

Origin Systems (the developer) has nothing to do with that abomination other than sharing the same name. That's all EA's doing.

I miss and remember Origin Systems myself. Its a slap in the face that the only thing the kids are going to associate with the name Origin nowadays is going to be how much it sucks. Wing Commander was actually the first game I ever beat, though I lost quite a bit before I ever destroyed the Kilrathi station and won.

An…

I've got mad respect for this guy for even trying to work with his condition if he hasn't had surgery for it yet.

As someone who had Adhesive Capsulitis (frozen shoulder, its symptomatically similar, and what he has can even cause it, he may have both. It hurts like a motherfucker either way. Don't repeatedly screw…

I long for the days of Final Fantasy IV, V, VI and VII. I started off on Final Fantasy IV, when it was called Final Fantasy II, and if anything there was always this basic consistency that you could expect, up until X killed open travel and XIII reinforced that.

Of the "Modern" FF games, only XII was any good in my…

I'm sure they will. And precisely all three voting members of PETA, as well as their braindead celebritard followers, will care. They're so democratic, they're ruled by what amounts to a Soviet Troika.

You were stuck with a 486 after 1994? I'm sorry.

But that would take fortitude and maybe a modicum of individuality, two traits that most gamers seem to lack.

And thank god they aren't or we'd still be playing linear games with more melodramatic dross than daytime television here in the US. Japanese gaming's upset that the rest of the world's progressed and no longer has a completely misogynistic view of women, so they bitch about our character designs instead of making a…

I used to help the MWDs* train since the school was at the same post I was stationed at for a couple of years. Ive stared down the mouth of a good number of German Shepherd Privates. A German Shepherd or Belgian Malnois' teeth are about that sharp, the model's actually pretty damn accurate.

Its not the incisors that…

Yeah, I tend to write like that, its a little prolix/wordy but its better than being ambiguous. It drove my old first line Supervisor and my first Commander crazy when I was still in the Active Duty Army. Plus, I'm passionate about this. I've been a gamer a long time, and I don't want the industry ruined worse than…

"You also enjoy the Xbox old school without an internet connection at all"

Yeah, sure can. But only as the most fucking expensive DVD/CD player you've ever owned.

Gaming on the XB1 requires the system to be able to perform the 24 hour check-in. So for all intents and purposes without an internet connection, it only…

The hell was Doritosgate?

I'm fairly new to following gaming news as I'm much more into IT news as I can say its job related when I'm reading it. But don't get me wrong, Ive been at this awhile, first game I beat was the original Metroid (don't ask me how either, I was 5 and 6 at the time), the first PC game I ever…