I found your discussion on video games and your parents views on them very interesting. I could never get my dad when I was younger to understand or appreciate games. It's interesting that some of your love of gaming came from your parents and some find it very difficult to get the older generation to understand that gaming isn't antisocial or time sink.
Do you think you a lot of people become PC gamers because as kids their parents have negative views on gaming and therefore wont fork out the cash for a console for their kid?
P.S. Most random thing said on the podcast this year ... do you even lift ? lol Jess
The Spike VGA Trailer is awesome
Will you guys do a end of year wrap up on your favourite games of the year on each platform ?
Total agree about games being too easy Diablo 3 was so disappointing after finishing the game 3 times on cakewalk mode, I really didn't have the enthusiasm to finish inferno and then start a new game with a different class and do another 3 play unchallenging play throughs.
I liked dragon age's on the fly difficulty change in the options menu. I set it on hard then if i got really frustrated with one fight, I altered the difficulty down just for the one fight to keep my momentum going
As Ed said about Dota 2 its really satisfying to be able to master a complex game.
Although taking a break from playing a competitive game like Dota and find yourself almost back to square one. (I found this with SC2)
P.S. I've being hearing complaints about SC2 hacks ruining ladder games
Been playing Borderlands, finding Zero a little annoying not enough sniper ammo and weak melee
Its common for corporate takeovers to occur in economic downturns, it generally serves to cut management costs e.g. 1 head office instead of 2 and I don't see any issues with this but EA have a history of changing the culture in the companies they takeover Westwood comes to mind as well as Bioware. This is why they piss off so many gamers. EA do an excellent job with their sport franchises though. I think the whole AAA games thing silly, what is a AAA game and what is not seems very gray. It is ironic that the AAA system is the same as credit system for low risk and well innovation is risky :)
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