Nintendo actually embodies a lot of the principles I just mentioned in their best work, but they also exist in a weird, annoying space where I have to buy their console to play their games. Which I always do, and then always end up with a console with 8-10 good games, all but one or two of them first-party. Every damn…

Here's what I wish: I wish gamers would stop demanding that graphics get better every single year. I love gorgeous graphics as much as the next guy, but this constant demand for more and more photorealism has gotten us to a point where big-budget, pretty-looking games have budgets and credits the same size as (or even…

Holy shit, do I ever love this website Game Design Reviews. It eloquently and succinctly points out things that have always bugged me in games, but that I lacked the design prowess to specifically name.

"It looks pretty neat, even if the trailer does misspell "plebeian.""

How's that now? Any software on an iOS device is called an app. This includes everything from one-pic joke apps to Baldur's Gate which contains around 150 hours of content.

Yeah, I know about the sensor bar. I actually keep my chargeable bar plugged into the PC so it charges even when the Wii is off (because I have to unplug and move it when I actually play due to positioning). It's the WiiMote seeing the IR dots that matters.

Enjoyment and critiques aren't always a zero-sum formula; I enjoyed BioShock Infinite greatly, and would recommend to anyone smart enough to get the plot and jaded enough to stomach the violence. I also simultaneously didn't really care for the combat, which is what you spend more than half the game doing. It's just…

So much <3!

That's pretty badass. Does the cursor = Wiimote? How do you handle certain 3D space movements? (e.g. push the controller toward the screen in Metroid Prime 3)

You're being ridiculous*. Nintendo has bejesusloads of money. The 3DS is a smash hit in Japan and is doing very respectably in the states. Just because the Wii U is doing poorly (likely due to having almost no games yet, and yes its central design conceit is stupid) doesn't mean Nintendo will be shuttering any time in…

I had my Wii in a box for about six months last year for the same reason. Finally hooked it up to the VGA input on my computer monitor with one of these bad boys.

Yeah, it was an early third-person shooter in the days before the control scheme was standardized. I bought it bargain bin for five bucks around '99, and after dying like six times in the same spot because I couldn't get my character to perform some simple action, I uninstalled it.

Aww maaan, this is like the time Robin Scherbatsky was hinting at having bagged a celebrity and it was the Frozen Showshoe. CANADAAAA!!!

I'm set in that department, e.g. aforementioned wife.

Whee, totally missed the "this thread is two years old" note at the top.

Oh, you weren't bashing on hipsters until 2006/2007? That's cool I guess. I was doing it like years before that, but, you know. If you were getting enjoyment out of it, good for you.

I played through the trilogy as MaleShep, and my wife played through as FemShep. We both went Paragon so I basically got to hear the exact same lines read by each of them.

Oh come on, cigarettes don't need Hollywood's help to look cool.

I totally get and agree with the central point of the article. Tanning is dangerous and stupid. But isn't it like, so ten years ago?

To me, it feels like the zenith of "tanning is for cool people" was back in the late 80's and early 90's. I guess I can only speak for myself and my circle of geeky early 30's friends,…

The new layout has promise; biggest improvement is the comment ordering is no longer based explicitly on the number of responses, so the atmosphere has gotten a lot nicer as a result of burner trolls not getting promoted.