No, this is not the precursor to a topic discussion about political correctness. I’m talking about one thing and one thing only: PC games. That’s right, I’m that guy. I’m the guy that flexes his muscles at being a self-proclaimed PC gamer. I like to flex that muscle. It makes me feel superior. I try [ Read More ]
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My whole life I’ve been avoiding MMOs. Not because they’re bad, but being the addiction-prone gamer I am, I figured getting involved in one would be the end of my real world life as I know it. Goodbye sunlight, goodbye relationships, goodbye job and social life. I’ve spent so long listening to people talk about [ Read More ]
Categories: Featured, Game Commentary, Game Reviews, Gaming, Touchy Feely Overthinky Gaming Stuff
I have been chatting with some of my friends about DC Universe Online. Like myself, most of them have not played a console MMO game. I played Final Fantasy XI for the PC and I still remember the horrible interface. DCUO has that in common with FFXI but I most say, you get used to [ Read More ]
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Just be honest with everyone. When you don’t create a PC port, it’s not because of piracy; instead it is because you would rather just spend less effort and time to produce for a market that is easier to appease and has a greater profit return.
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So Mass Effect 3 is slated to hit sometime this holiday season. If you’re a fan like me, you probably have two or three distinct Shepard characters that you’ve been babysitting through the first and second game through various choices. In some ways, Mass Effect 2 seemed to be a bit of a sham in [ Read More ]
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You want to know what has been replicated in a production line in flashy colors for the past thirty years? Gamers would say: Mario. Parents would say: a child’s toy. Perhaps that is why few make the distinction between the two, because we as a gamer culture in America certainly don’t strive to set the bar much higher from where video game developers have sat for a decade now.
As I sit here tonight on this eve of Cataclysm.. supposeably taking a nap.. it occurs to me that I am (I think) the only member of the Slightly Relevant crew who is awaiting it. I am one of the few among our numbers who doesn’t technically qualify as a “doesn’t like WoW/doesn’t play WoW, [ Read More ]
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Hey Kaos Studios, the 1980s called; they want to know if you’ve heard that the Soviet Union has collapsed.
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And before you know it you’re reading about this damn game on Kotaku and Gamasutra, and you’re seeing it popping up in comics all over the place, and, Christ, it’s got a huge following at Facepunch, and—wait a minute, this guy has made HOW MUCH off of this game? Millions? All by his lonesome? And he’s making a company out of his earnings to develop the game in full? That’s when you go back to that dismal Google Images photo you found and then you wonder how it translates into a giant following and bags of cash. Somewhere, right now, Bobby Kotick is trying to figure out the answer to the same question.
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Will Cataclysm be another successful expansion pack for Blizzard? It
has the potential to go over more like a star wars prequel. Fanboys
who loved World of Warcraft in their youth, will come back to this new
version which will be both dumbed down and turned upside down.
Destroyed capital cities, dumbed down talent trees and unclear class
roles will go over like Jar Jar Binks.
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