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April 07, 2009
12:57 AM
mastersword369 is now following CaptainStupid.
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1 year 1 month ago on PCG Exclusive: Star Wars: The Old Republic
Are you sure this coverage is exclusive? I just read about this product in detail on GameSpot last night (the same date listed at the bottom of this PCG announcement).
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1 year 1 month ago on Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway (PC): Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway
"Baker must lead his squad through one of the most punishing Allied defeats in World War II: Operation Market Garden." Actually, Market Garden was one of the least punishing "defeats" for the Allies during WWII, if you compare it to the fall of France in 1940, or the Nazi blitzkrieg that captured much of Europe between 1939 and 1943. How about the merciless crushing of the Warsaw uprising in the summer of 1944? I could go on and on... except that Market Garden wasn't even a defeat. Most of its objectives were taken. Only the British and Polish Airborne forces were mauled. The U.S. paratroopers survived to fight another day. Market Garden didn't "end the war by Christmas," but it sure helped liberate a lot of territory. That's not what I would call defeat.
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1 year 1 month ago on "Mature" games that are actually mature
This article is refreshing and interesting because the writing style of its author mirrors his mature subject. I'm disgusted with video game "journalists" universally paroting the same cliches and buzzwords spewed by marketers. Even better, this piece contained zero baditude. I want to sincerly thank Charlie Barratt for not wasting my time or insulting my intelligence with dead language like "basically," or "core" or "in terms of." Every time I hear or read some journalist describe anything as "core," it seems like the strangulation of thought. Fire every hack "writer" in games jouralism, and put Barratt in charge.
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1 year 1 month ago on The Crysis Continues
That would be awesome if I could read just one article that doesn't include the meaningless word "core" and the dead phrase "in terms of". If life was a drinking game, and everybody had to down a shot every time somebody wrote "core" and "in terms of", we'd all be dead from alcohol poisoning.
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1 year 2 months ago on Gordon Freeman: Strongest personality in gaming
I reviewed my last comment, and now it looks wordy. I'm going crazy! In summary:
1. "In their early days, videogames were a crude and unsubtle medium." (Weak!)
2. "Early video games were crude and blunt." (Strong!)
P.S. They're still crude and blunt. (I win!)
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I hate lousy games journalism writing. Think I'm full of crap? Read the book Death Sentences: How Cliches, Weasel Words and Management-Speak Are Strangling Public Language.