As someone who also played Half-Life a decade too late, the part that blew my mind was the lack of on-screen text or transitions. The occasional interruption of “Loading...” and a chapter title and that’s it. Compare and contrast with other games of the same generation (even a few years later) and you’ll find…

I keep trying to get rare achievements to push my Spiral Knights achievements out of my rare achievement showcase, but I think where it's a free-to-play game everyone "owns" it whether or not they have played it — they keep finding their way back to the top of my list.

I think this is my favourite reaction to anything ever.

It'd be cool to see a nod to it, such as unique visual effects (i.e. Suicune continuously discharging electricity for a few seconds after an electric attack from Pikachu), but I'm right with you here... locking certain moves out of a character's arsenal against certain characters just seems like a bad idea.

(Mild spoiler) Cid joined the party on and off in FFIV. You could also have him join you in some of the spinoff (FFTA comes to mind, I'm not sure about FFT as I don't think I've ever even finished it.)

I still wonder how I hadn't even heard of the Dreamcast until it was already EOL. Does anyone else in Canada remember it being advertised?

I'm allergic. x(

Ooo shit, this one reminded me of how the PC port had Squat mapped to "Insert" and I spent like three weeks making fun of it.

Define "perfectly trained" — if you're talking about stat manipulation (IVs and EVs in the right place) in Gen VI it's so ridiculously easy a monkey could do it. I set up a framework of high-statistic pokemon early on and bred them all the way through the normal game until I had all 6 stats represented in every egg…

Personally I was trying to avoid 8.1, but I get the impression that I'm one of the only people in the world who LOVED Windows 8... for gaming! Windows 7 was good, but I still occasionally ran into some dumb compatibility issues and I had to chase around fixes and patches and... that's PC gaming. Windows 8 has…

I'll sit quietly with you :D

I'm actually a bit excited. Thanks for reporting on this, I may not have noticed.

"Sometimes the attention itself creates the story," admits Chris. "There's also the issue of what people complain about online, versus what real consumers do.

Ohh. I didn't get it either, thanks!

As someone who works at a help desk for a major chain, I'm positive this would work in most of the situations I've seen. The problem that comes up though is that an alarming number of guests seem to insist on running the cat5 from the ethernet port to one of the LAN ports on their router... That won't work, and it…

I can't speak to all hotel chains, but the one I work for uses a captive portal for login access on ethernet or WiFi. If you call us at the helpdesk, we're pretty determined to get you connected... so if you can give us a MAC address for your interfaceless device we'll figure out a way to get you set up.

Done right, I think achievements are cool in a lot of ways. I think the bigger issue is that people want to pad their numbers and publishers have recognized that and started offering easier and more accessible achievements in games in large numbers to generate sales. The result is we get so bombarded with the…

Now that is a fascinating point. He does read it the same way both times, though I hear it as "2048 6 3", not very much pause between the 4 and 8. Could be a coincidence, could be the whole point. 2048/6/3? People have brought that up as possibly a date but I can't see it being that simple. Going by your split,…

240863. I had just woken up when I read these comments (hence also the horrible grammar, please forgive me). Either way, the 0 doesn't make sense in its position as a date without considerable amount of manipulation. Bearing in mind this is the same guy who makes us read pause menus and CD cases for information, I…

If you were prefacing Kojima's birthday, wouldn't the number be 024863? The man is pretty thorough; I bet there's a hidden meaning.