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Comment on Review: Men of War by LionEyez

LionEyez — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 16:03:11 +0000

Good review! I completely agree with all your points.

Comment on Article: The Myth of Meritocracy by Zeland

Zeland — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 12:07:56 +0000

You see, the decision Jake made (to only accept male raiders) is because the other 24 male raiders will get distracted by the 1 female. It is NEVER ABOUT THE SKILL. Female can be just as good. It is about the other 24 males (boys) who will treat that one female raider differently, which in the future will cause something we don’t need: DRAMA.
Anything from “2 minutes of awkward moment” to “leaving her real-life boyfriend, who introduced her WoW, and then later seduce the guildmaster for more free epic loots.
I guess Citgo sums it up pretty accurate (despite a bit blunt) :
“Let’s be honest, you’re throwing a vagina into a pool of greasy, fat, neck-bearded, basement-dwelling virgins. It’s bound to be a clusterfuck.”

Things are a bit different in end-game raiding. Hours and hours of practicing and getting the hang of boss fights. Sometimes, it feels like a second job, which leaves almost zero room for error (**reminiscing Archimonde’s fight**).

Now, if we’re talking about casual gaming, forget everything I said. Pick-up any game/ online partner and screw up anyhow you want (read: have fun).

Btw, I agree with Weirdunclebob: For The Horde.

Comment on Review: APB by dan dooinit

dan dooinit — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 09:55:49 +0000

Sadly, I was a huge fanboy of this game( followed the hype ) because gameplay seemed seemingless and I was okay with it being a PVP game with heavy customization. I was so hyped and getting ready to preorder. Until, I played the beta. Now remember I was walking into the beta with an already sold expectation. 15 minutes into the beta I literally uninstalled and never thought of coming back. Car control was horrible, people talk more than do anything,Population can be DEAD EMPTY. The preset music they added to this is horrid. And RTW had the balls to say they would be a GTA MP killer. Please I’d play San Andreas MP anytime before I touch this garbage again. Overhyped with nothing to offer

Comment on Review: APB by Cody Pardy

Cody Pardy — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 19:19:28 +0000

Ok, I agree with the others on this. There are pros and cons for every game although this game has a lot more cons then pros. Being over gunned or having a gun that seems to be useless is very annoying. There should be more people in a district and there should be more then 3 districts considering one of them (the one with the most people) is just a designing district basically. The overall game got boring in a week and I don’t even want to play it anymore to be honest. I wouldn’t pay for more time on this game because all you do is go to the orange area and click f (no strategy involved) I was kinda hoping for a game that if you went into a bank you had to like watch the doors and stuff so that the enforcers wouldn’t get in and stuff but I guess not. By the look of the picture where they are holding the bags it made it look like they just exited a bank but really all you do is hit a door then the bag magically appears on the ground I give it a 10/10 for customizable character wise and every other thing, 2/10 for game play. 0/10 for storyline (I honestly don’t see a storyline) 6/10 for graphics (not bad but could be better considering all the tools out now)(AKA low budget game) and over all fun I would have given it a 10/10 at first but now I dropped to a 5/10 and the 5 is only cause I made some friends in game and I play with them a bit.

Comment on Review: UFC Undisputed 2010 by ciaran mcmahon

ciaran mcmahon — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 07:19:03 +0000

how do i downloaded the DLC? and to turn it on?

Comment on Article: The Myth of Meritocracy by Kathleen

Kathleen — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 22:08:44 +0000

Here’s a question. Why are we proceeding with the assumption that a greater percentage of testosterone-induced aggression makes one a better raider? Raiding doesn’t call for aggression; it calls for calm assessment of one’s environment, mastery of skills, the patience to repeat those mastered skills as long as it takes to get the job done; the ability to cooperate with other players and tolerance for their mistakes and quirks. Why do we take it as an article of faith that boy-hormones magically grant these skills?

Aggression leads to in-fighting, short tempers, ragequits, the devolution of a smoothly coordinated raid into a pitfight. Before I went on BC, I was one of the small percentage of women afflicted by serious PMS. At certain times of the month, my hormone-induced aggression went through the roof. I wanted to pick fights, I wanted to smash, I wanted to kill as many mooks as the video game could throw at me. This aggression did not make me a better raider. It didn’t even make me a better PVPer, because even PVP requires skillful coordination with fellow arena members. Should we assume that aggression is magically good in boys but bad in girls?

Comment on Article: The Myth of Meritocracy by tb

tb — Tue, 25 May 2010 10:42:09 +0000

US? Holy crap, the author is a woman!

Comment on Article: The Myth of Meritocracy by Ramenth

Ramenth — Tue, 25 May 2010 07:48:22 +0000

Out of date information is out of date. Latest figures put the playerbase of all online games between 52 and 63% female. That’s not 4 out of 10, that’s 5-7 out of ten.

Comment on Review: STALKER: Call of Pripyat by PWilcox

PWilcox — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:05:43 +0000

Good review made me install the original stalker and the 2009 mod

Comment on Identity and Choice-Based Gaming by Choco

Choco — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:37:42 +0000

Great article, I really like it!

I do like the point specifically about your character in Dragon Age. Though maybe you could guess that Ferelden is a more sexually-free nation and Lady Cousland straight up had a son from another country somewhere in Thedas. I mean, if you really really want to stretch it. It’s kind of a silly point, but I do think the larger problem is you can make an aged character and you’re made out to be kind of the fledgling in the family.

But then I made a dwarf commoner, so really whatever I could be I think would likely fit.