I always saw Second Life as the precursor to the Metaverse from Snow Crash, or, to be painfully cliche, the beginning of the future of the Internet. Unfortunately, what innovations has it made since 2003? Flexible prims? A voice program that lets you listen to 14 year olds pretending to be adults jabber over your […]
Maybe if they bothered to play more than 30 minutes of Dawn of the New World they’d realize that in most "Tales of" games the characters actually fucking develop over the course of the game. Sure Emil is timid and soft-spoken: He saw his parents get slaughtered before his very eyes! He […]
No, let’s get it straight: WoW follows the same tired number-generator-based combat that’s plagued this genre for a long time now. There’s nothing epic about waiting hours for a raid to get together, or hours fighting your way to the boss, god knows how long fighting the thing, and then *maybe* you get […]
It doesn’t sound like they were calling Nintendo or Microsoft out on the reliability of their consoles. They’re pointing out that the PS3 doesn’t require you to go out and buy a bunch of accessories/add-ons to make the console "complete" (or aren’t even an option).
Which, in a way, I agree with. I use all the […]
Fee’s for things like this set a bad presidance (however you spell that). If EA charge a one off fee, the next lot of people will. We are already paying with adverts - that’s the whole point of Home - they give us free stuff and we look at their adverts.
If companies were smart they […]
It’s that 5% that people follow. Korgath had Death and Taxes on it for a long time…everyone flocked there because of the end-game raiding (D&T first-killed most of the vanilla content).
Do you think D&T was just a bunch of random scrubs that came out of the woodwork and decided "hey, lets be the best […]
As much as I wanted to like SL, it never delivered on its potential, and certainly delivered on the less desirable aspects. The engine is now archaic, LindenScript never delivered its proposed common runtime.
Speaking as someone that used to own land in SL back in the early days, I am honestly surprised to see an […]
They took the skill completely out of the game. Sure the pixar graphics will turn some people to play it, but it’s crap compared to TFC. As someone who’s played TFC for nearly 10 years and other similar games(QTF, FF, etc), I find myself between a rock and a hard place with TF2. Sure, I […]
Isn’t there some stereotype about Italian men being momma’s boys and womanizers which might lead to her view on being desireable based on how much money a guy is willing to offer?
I agree with you though, that doesn’t say much about a woman’s desirability when a man would pay to have her. It’s just […]
E&B was the first MMO that had me interested enough to break out of my MUD habit (I still have my E&B Beta t-shirt, heh). I couldn’t justify $15 per month at the time after years of MUDs (the winner for that was Auto Assault), but it was incredibly enjoyable while in beta, particularly […]