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  • Grampy_Bone
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  • Cognitive Dissonance and the case of Lair

    Hmm, Factor 5 releases a flight game with clumsy controls and a painfully severe level of difficulty. Why is everyone so shocked?It always cracks me up how upset people get over review scores. The only people who have any right to be mad over criticisms of a game are those who helped to create it (developers) and those with a vested interest in its success (publishers). If you bought the game, the review is moot, they already have your money. To the consumer who has already purchased the product, it doesn't matter if the game gets a 1 or Continue »
  • meaningless term

    I just got done playing through Fahrenheit (Indigo Prophecy in the US) and I liked the game; but it insisted on calling itself an 'interactive movie.'  Blech.  Other people like to call heavily cinematic games like Metal Gear Solid series or Final Fantasy games by this misnomer.  There was even an Interactive Movie genre back in the old days when real FMV in games was novel.Seriously people this term is meaningless and I wish you'd all stop using it.  Everyone has a different idea of what it means and none of them are descriptive enough to be worth anything.  Continue »