since I'm fealing particularly philosophical today... look up something called "Death of the Author."
Basically the concept is that the author's interpretation is irrelevant. Only the readers interpretation actually matters.
If extended into the realm of interactive fiction then, yes, it is the player's job to make something meaningful out of the protagonist character.
oh my god... seriously? A jack Thompson apologist. Just checking but does any one see any swastikas on this website that I'm missing?
Holy effin Jesus on a stick! I guess we should call Mengele (the guy who experimented on auschwitz prisoners and discovered roughly half of modern medicine doing it) and Hitler (who resurrected Germany from financial death... and well... every one knows the rest) heroes too while we're at it.
And f*ck Godwin's Law...
I totally agree. I mean the touchpade/lcd screen idea is pretty cool... but not for that price. And it *is* rather portable... compared to the 14lb monstrosities most road-warrior gamers end up using.
But... yeah... no... no chance of me buying this (even if it wasn't a razer product) and no chance of any one I know buying this. So I totally agree with you there.
If anything the mistake razer made was using a subject most pc gamers feal really strongly ...
no it did not say those things. You need to see a doctor to get those voices seen about. Seriously.
When did razer say their product would save pc gaming? I must have missed that part of the advertising campaign. I thought they said pc gaming is not dead.
The article even acknowledges all that in the first paragraph or so and then, completely at random, starts talking about how razer's product will not bring people back to pc gaming.
Again... when did razer say it would? I took it as them saying "pc gaming is not dead... so if you are a pc gamer h...
You must have amazing vision. That or one really friggen huge TV. Based on everything I've read and my own personal experience: below 60" 720p and 1080p are indistinguishable to the casual observer.
And getting a $500 video card wont save you from having to upgrade your video card again in a year to keep your 1080p resolution going. If your dead set on playing at 1080p then buy a video card for around $120 and replace it every year. The performance difference betwe...
I'm not sure you understood what I said.
Opened is not the same as Opened. Two different things. Confusing? Absolutely... that's my entire point.
One refers to the packaging being off... the other to the box being physically opened after purchase.
Are you saying your friend did not open the box after he bought it? Because if so then please specify. Like I stated above that is the most important detail and both you and the author l...
Meh... I still like the default from ME1 and 2.
Look... I'm all about doing things different and going my own way. When people ask me if I take the road less traveled I always give them a perplexed look and ask, "there are roads?"
So I customize the crap out of every character I play... except FemShep. The best I can explain it is that the default femshep from ME1 and 2 just looks like a defacto female military commander. She's a little El...
This author REALLY didn't do his/her homework.
It was confirmed over 3 months ago that Cerberus would be a major antagonist in ME3. And also that they are pawns of the Reapers.
And don't think just because the covert, militant, human-supremacist, mad-scientist funding, super organization run by a Lex Luthor wannabe turns out to be *gasp* evil that your choice at the end of ME2 is meaningless.
As much time as Shepard has spent in and ...
Seriously? Did you really think that working with Cerberus was ever going to end well for Shepard? I mean... not one member of your crew... not even Little Miss Genetically Superior thinks Cerberus has your interests at heart. Every last one of them spends the entirety of ME2 telling you over and over not to trust Cerberus. hint-BLUDGEON-hint?
Oh, you think cause you're a bad guy to then they are going to be all buddy buddy? Hello! Bad guys screw each other over more...
really... you know where I can get a new PS3 for $180? Tell me... I need to replace mine.
And no $180 didn't come out of thin air. I just dropped $180 on a new video card in April and there isn't a game on the market or coming out in the next year that I wont be able to play max settings @720p.
Oh and the computer I put that video card in is 4 years old already. Built it in early 2007. 2gigs DDR2 800 Ram. Core 2 Duo 2.1ghz. Plays Crysis 2 max sett...
I've never had a problem with my purchases at Gamestop. I'm not a fan of the company and prefer to business elsewhere when I can but I can't name one instance where I or any one I know has had a problem with them. I don't doubt that they engage in unethical practices... they wouldn't be a successful American company if they didn't. Even Google (whose slogan is "do no evil") has engaged in its share of unethical activity.
So I wont argue that ...
As much as I hate to admit it... this is the final nail in the coffin of something I said long ago... that proprietary software companies would forever seek to avoid "application repositories" to maintain tight control over their product and limit their subservience to other companies they might find themselves in competition with.
Well... seems I was dead wrong. I'm putting that fact in print for all the people who like to say I never admit it when I am.
What in the hell is this guy on? Reboot Final Fantasy? Seriously?
He must never have played more than one final fantasy game... because they reboot Final Fantasy every time they release a new game (which 30 minutes ago I would have assumed every one knew already).
And a prequel? To what? Every final fantasy takes place on a completely different planet with no knowledge of the other planets. They each have their own story with absolutely no connection to othe...
er... I beat him before breaking level 40.
I spend most of disk 2 and 3 running from the fights cause I was bored of them... wanted to see the story. Granted my boss strategies are killer and better than what you find in most strategy guides... but still.
Took me about 7-8 tries on Sephiroth. Now days... same level... I still get him first time every time with lots of room to spare. And if I get to him at level 99+ I can pretty much put a brick on the cont...
Would have put the final boss from ME2 rather than ME1 (100 foot tall terminator with instant death beams? Compared to... the hopping red guy. yeah... such a hard choice). Seriously Saren was a great villain for sure... but the final fight with him was so meh.
you seem to be assuming hardest=best. And that there isn't a reason Final Fantasy 7 is treated as being "super duper awesome."
I disagree.
Surely difficulty is a factor in how good a boss is... but more important is persona. There are bosses so hard they made grown men cry and gave entire generations of children inferiority complexes. And those bosses are only remember by niche groups because they were just "that boss at the end of that ...
Been saying it for years. The future of software is online-only terminal style access.
Basically, there will come a day when your computer starts and, instead of booting from the hard drive, it will connect to your OSs service on a website over your 10Gbps fiber line. Half of that sounds awesome (10gbps fiber, hell yea!) and the other makes you worried about the thought police.
But that's where it is going. Cloud based services were the first major ste...
Oh yeah... I love me some big tittied bad ass babes with big guns... when it's played straight and there is more to the game than those things. The "more" part is something Tomb Raider has never seemed to deliver on before.
I don't care if they make her boobs the size of mosquito bites to be honest. I don't care if they are big enough to qualify as a terrain type. If there isn't a decent game attached to them I'm not interested.
I totally agree that Oblivion wasn't a big leap forward from Morrowind... but I always felt Morrowind seriously lacked polish... and oblivion had that.
But hey... to each his own.
I'm expecting Skyrim to make me forget to sleep... just like Daggerfall used to. Never did beat Daggerfall... time kept running out while I was running around doing random stuff and stealing the Yearly GDP of every country in the game twice a week (yes I know that's impo...