This is the future.

Perma-death is terrible if you can just restart the mission to avoid it. It goes from being a cleaver mechanic that adds a layer of suspense to a thinly disguised grind that forces you to replay missions.

Jesus Christ, why trade one abusive relationship for another? If you are going to get effed, at least get effed right.

We started playing together after her DVD player broke and I replaced it with a blue-ray player in the form of a PS3.

"Innovation is the development of new customer value through solutions that meet new needs, inarticulate needs, or old customer and market needs in value adding new ways."

My relationship used to be like that, but after much effort on my behalf I finally convinced her to play with me. Not just play to humor me, but play and enjoy it. Now I tank, and she heals.

“Frankly, some of the so-called ‘franchise games’ are quite difficult for nongamers to play, so making accessible games for these players is key. With Zelda, we have to consider how to make it accessible for new gamers to pick up and play... That’s a philosophy that’s very strong at Nintendo.”

Yes, the Saturn multi-tap had 5 controller ports, and the console could support one multi-tap in each of it's two on-board ports.

I don't know what kind of games you like, but at the very least, those I mentioned range from good to epic by almost any gamer's standards.

The enemies in Doom were created using toys and props animated with stop motion camera techniques, then scanned into a computer and colored in with pixel art. Perhaps this is made in a similar way?

The chapel scene in System Shock II was pretty gory. The artificial gravity aboard the starship Rickenbacker is reversed when you first enter the area, making everything in the chapel including the cross upside down, and conveniently concealing the bulk of the carnage. After you flip the gravity, all the dismembered…

The first number is true. If you look at the numbers on Nintendo's website and other places on the internet you will see casual games like Wii Sports and Wii Fit are their best selling titles.

Sega Saturn supported ten person local multiplayer in 1994, so if by "pretty new for a console", you mean "not as good as features available on a console almost 20 years ago", then sure... my argument is "flawed".

I can't hear anything about this movie without thinking to myself "IT'S AWESOME O'CLOCK TIME!"

The whole screen in controller is not a new thing in the gaming industry, the touchscreen is not a new thing in the gaming industry, the hardware is nothing special, the marketing campaign sucks. I am not the one who needs to try harder, Nintendo is.

Using the phrase "erotica novel" in reference to Anne Rice is almost redundant. Her novels contain so much explicit sex they all might as well be considered erotica.

Those people that don't really care in the first place are what makes up 90% of nintendo's customer base.

The gamepad is an incredibly innovative controller for a console.

Of course it is the perceptions of the people that give value to art; but it is the artists who create the object of which the people assign value in the first place, and it takes people with the foresight or capacity to understand the complexities of a work of art to appreciate it. Failing that, it takes years of…

First post? I was wondering when you gais would start a music blog.