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  1. System Shock 2 on What's the Importance of Graphics In Video Games? · · Score: 1

    One of the best games I have ever played. Atmosphere was great, story was great, and the graphics were terrible even at the time of release. I would have never bought the game on an impulse due to the fact that the graphics just made it look old. I was an informed consumer that had read many reviews about how great a game it was so I bought it. Most people aren't informed consumers so graphics are some of the appeal when they look at the box in a store. This game never did too well despite being awesome and I think the graphics were a large part of that.

  2. Office meeting on Nielsen Recommends Not Masking Passwords · · Score: 1

    This man has obviously never had to log into a machine or remote console on a PC during an office meeting that is being projected for others to see. Bad time for password "shitcockballs"

  3. Re:Possibly, but unlikely on Natal Technology a Gift To the Disabled, Amputees · · Score: 1

    When the boss glows green, he reflects melee attacks. When the boss glows red, he reflects ranged attacks. When you're color blind, you just die. Clearly, I need to muck about with my own hardware solution rather than trouble a developer.

  4. That was easy, NEXT! on Disney Strikes Against Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    just another bad business model that doesn't stand a chance

  5. Re:Damage is already done. on Microsoft Will Ship Windows 7 in Europe With IE Unbundled · · Score: 1

    By uninformed I mean people that couldn't tell you what a web browser is let alone how to switch to another one if they were so inclined.

  6. Damage is already done. on Microsoft Will Ship Windows 7 in Europe With IE Unbundled · · Score: 1

    Include all popular web browsers and the uninformed are just going to click the internet explorer link. Include any other single web browser and it'll be just like a monopoly all over again. Include no web browser and hilarity ensues.

  7. Re:Bullshit on A Case Study of RMTs In EVE Online · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If you bought some of that gear from an NPC the isk is in fact lost.

  8. Re:FF13? on FF XIII Timeframe Set, FF XIV Confirmed · · Score: 1

    As much as that is great in theory Square... Squinix (whatever the hell they're called now)... can't make a sequel. They might pop out something that they call a sequel but at best you'll have one of the characters from the previous game and radically change the gameplay that made the original fun.

  9. Re:download numbers are not good statistics on The Sims 3 Racks Up Over 180,000 Downloads Prior To Release · · Score: 1

    I always thought developers stopped doing demos because because they couldn't spare the development time to make one while trying to rush the over-budget overdue product out the door by holiday season.

  10. Re:Break the rules by putting a MMO on a console on Throwing Out the Rulebook For MMOs · · Score: 1

    Keyboard and mouse would almost have to be required for this console mmo, because you'd have to have a chat channel in the game somehow and while a headset might work for party communications I shudder to think of a voice enabled "Barrens chat".

  11. New games need more incentive. on Throwing Out the Rulebook For MMOs · · Score: 1

    I'm up for trying out a new game, convincing my friends to dump WoW is difficult.

  12. Re:You HAVE to change the formula on Throwing Out the Rulebook For MMOs · · Score: 1

    The Eve release wasn't that bad. All I remember was a 1-day rollback on the 2nd or 3rd day.

  13. Re:NEVER EVER buy a game to a current movie on Terminator Salvation Game Launched, PC Version Recalled · · Score: 1

    If they stop making money they'll stop making them. Idiot tax.

  14. IMPORTANT QUESTIONS on How Google's High Speed Book Scanner De-Warps Pages · · Score: 2, Funny

    I wonder how ass curvature comes out with that scanner.

  15. Re:Saw It in Music! Coming Soon in Games, E-Books on Why Bother With DRM? · · Score: 1

    Stardock is a publisher. Demigod is developed by Gas Powered Games and Sins is developed by Ironclad (?) I think.

  16. Re:Back into the Internet Lexicon... on StarCraft II Beta Signups Open · · Score: 1

    Three defilers and a dozen or so hydralisks can toast a carrier rush. Dark Swam + Plague.

  17. Re:What's Important? on CCP Speaks On Player-Elected Advisors For EVE Online · · Score: 1

    Congrats, you just described the official forums for every MMO out there. /cookie

  18. Re:Shadow Warrior would have been better on Duke Nukem For Never · · Score: 1

    Didn't 3DR get sued over Shadow Warrior's dialog?

  19. Re:Games != Windows :-D on Apple Racks Up the Gaming Patents · · Score: 1

    Unlikely, in the real world developers will be split on platform lines and exclusives will abound.

  20. As long as... on Nintendo and the Decline of Hardcore Gaming · · Score: 1

    As long as there are OCD people, egos to feed, and basement dwellers with something to prove, there will be hardcore gamers.

  21. Re:My first gaming experience. on Nintendo and the Decline of Hardcore Gaming · · Score: 1

    Need For Speed series I think.

  22. What is IT? on Why IT Won't Power Down PCs · · Score: 1

    What is IT? Why should I care if IT can't power down PCs?

  23. Re:This already occurs in NYS on The End of Tax-Free Internet Shopping? · · Score: 1

    Newegg was charging sales tax to NY orders for a while but stopped. It is the responsibility of the buyer to declare their untaxed internet purchases on their state taxes.

  24. Re:Nonsense on Linux Needs Critics · · Score: 1

    Sometimes developers are less critical of changes that they know require more work. They can never truly know what a less technical end-user will want.

  25. all i am reading... on Increase In Xbox 360 E74 Problems · · Score: 1

    When I first came here, this was all swamp. Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built in all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up.