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September 21, 2009
2:35 PM
MacGyver1138 commented on:
Gaming's would-be innovators
I really like Fable. That may partially be because I hadn't really heard much of Molyneux's hype about it, and just liked it for what it was, rather than what it was supposed to be.
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1:44 PM
MacGyver1138 commented on:
Which villains will appear in Batman: Arkham Asylum 2?
The idea of an isolated area similar to the first game is probably necessary, but I really want to see Rocksteady's take on Gotham City, so I would love to see at least part of the game there. Even if it is only an intro fight or final boss fight, it would be nice to see the Dark Knight in his element.

As far as villains, they really do have lots of choices that they set up in the first game. Personally, I could see Two-Face, The Penguin, or Scarecrow being the main villain, with lots of minor villains similar to the first game. Scarecrow would actually give the developers an excuse to have a portion of Gotham "quarantined" which would be the isolated area they need to have the feeling of the first game, but with a new setting. Also, seeing as how Batman uses fear so much, he makes an interesting villain to play off of.

An entirely new villain created for the game would be interesting as well, though I don't know how well that would tie in with all of the existing villains sure to show up.
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July 24, 2009
9:53 PM
MacGyver1138 commented on:
The Citizen Kanes of videogames
I would add one to the list: Goldeneye for the N64. Like many on your list, it wasn't the first of its kind, but it did revolutionize FPS games on the consoles and proved they could be done well, which paved the way for Halo, Resistance, COD, a million other console shooters, etc.
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July 09, 2009
6:14 PM
MacGyver1138 commented on:
What if GamesRadar designed Downloadable Content?
I'm a big fan of at least one of these. How can I get in touch with Bethesda?
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July 08, 2009
10:07 PM
MacGyver1138 commented on:
Why 3D is the new HD
NinjaKillr, any 1080p TV will not work. It has to have a 120Hz refresh rate in order to properly display. Many TVs are only 60Hz.
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July 01, 2009
9:42 PM
MacGyver1138 commented on:
What are the favourite 'types' of people used on video game box-art?
@StrayGator: I was wondering the same thing. I would think a lot of manga/anime characters would be considered Asian or Oriental, which would make them non-white. (Though I have never really understood that, as many Asian people have skin tone that is almost identical to the "typical" white person.)
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June 30, 2009
3:11 PM
MacGyver1138 commented on:
The 12 greatest arcade machines of all time
I love how far videogames have come, but I do miss the days of the arcade. There was something cool about the community aspect, and being able to play any of the dozens (or more) games you wanted, all in one place. I just wish that my parents hadn't always made me feel like I had wasted money every time I went. *sniff*
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June 23, 2009
3:44 AM
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June 17, 2009
9:50 PM
MacGyver1138 commented on:
Facts about... the ice world
I want to be in an ice level right now. My office's air conditioning is broken, and it is a wonderfully humid 90 degrees Fahrenheit up here.
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June 12, 2009
8:29 PM
MacGyver1138 commented on:
The best and worst credits
Failureisinevitable, that was an impressive post. You were wrong about Halo 3's ending though; it did happen after the credits had rolled. Up to that point, the game ending made Master Chief appear dead.

Sage62 is right about Madworld's credits being hilarious.

I would like to see some more inventive credit sequences. They can be a memorable way to end a game.
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June 10, 2009
3:41 AM
MacGyver1138 commented on:
The Top 7... E3 announcements you missed
Microsoft really, REALLY needs to let users add their own drives to the 360, or at least offer larger, fairly-priced drives. They are continuing their effort towards offering good content available for download, but a lot of us Xbox owners only have 20GB of space. I am unwilling to buy their 120GB HDD for 140 bucks, when a regular 120GB laptop HDD (which is what is used in the 360) can be had for 40 or 50 bucks.

MS is doing a lot of things right, but this is one area that Sony has done far better in.
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June 09, 2009
7:34 PM
New Tomb Raider: Underworld (PC) Cheat: Codes
June 08, 2009
8:35 PM
MacGyver1138 commented on:
E3 09: Mario Galaxy 2 sums up Nintendo's wrongs
I don't know. I don't really think that every Mario game has been a whole lot more innovative than those before. The Doki-Doki Panic version of SMB2 that we got in the States was a big change, but that wasn't the original plan, and the Japanese version was essentially a harder version of SMB. Also, SM Sunshine wasn't much different than SM64, other than updated graphics and the stupid paint-washing FLUDD mechanic.

We've been through these and still have decent Mario games, so I think that Nintendo could pull it off. It should be a good game, so long as they don't try to water it down for casual appeal.
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8:35 PM
MacGyver1138 commented on:
E3 09: Where are the missing games?
I'm with Mr. Tamborineman, I would love to know what is happening with Battlefront 3. Last I heard, they had quit work on it, but I would hope someone else picked it up to continue work.
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8:34 PM
MacGyver1138 commented on:
E3 09: Why wait? E3's hottest games reviewed NOW!
Man, this E3 has shown a bunch of great games.

I really look forward to the second Just Cause. The first one had its flaws, but it was a heck of a lot of fun and boasted some excellent draw distances. With any luck, the flaws from the first will be polished out, and it will be even more fun to play with the grappling hook and parachute. I just hope they still let you drive/fly absolutely EVERY vehicle like the first one did. I was pleasantly surprised to hop in and fly the giant cargo plane, only to crash it on a crowded bridge!
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8:33 PM
MacGyver1138 commented on:
Red Dead Redemption (Xbox 360): 12 things you need to know about Red Dead Redemption
I was only mildly interested before. After reading this, I am quite excited for it, and then you go and tell me that it's going to be a year or so before I can play it!
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May 29, 2009
9:37 PM
MacGyver1138 commented on:
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Xbox 360): Is Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen the next Team Fortress 2?
I'm a huge fan of Luxoflux, for Vigilante 8 and its sequel. Maybe they can actually pull out a decent movie tie-in game. It's a shame that they are going to be on a tight schedule in order to ship it around the same time as the movie comes out. It would no doubt be better if they were able to release it "when it's done."
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May 28, 2009
4:48 PM
MacGyver1138 commented on:
Smashiest glass!
I loved the DMM in The Force Unleashed. Breaking the focusing glass in the Death Star was quite fun.
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May 22, 2009
3:50 PM
MacGyver1138 commented on:
The 50 most overlooked games of this generation
I've played a lot of these, and I just added several that I haven't to my Gamefly queue. A couple of these got some terrible reviews, which mostly kept me from playing them. Web of Shadows is a game I likely would have played if it had decent reviews. After the wet turd that was Spider-Man 3, though, I didn't want another crappy Spidey game.
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May 21, 2009
3:07 PM
MacGyver1138 commented on:
Fun with stereotypes: starring Punch-Out!!
I think King Hippo was supposed to be Samoan, as most Samoans are large, and he was from an island in the South Pacific.

FisfulofPelican, Bald Bull was a dick.
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May 15, 2009
3:52 PM
MacGyver1138 commented on:
QOTW: What game do you always go back to?
Mike Tyson's Punch Out still gets quite a bit of play from me. It is still so challenging that it remains fun. I also play Contra quite a bit for the same reason (also Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Select.) I even occasionally go back to the original Donkey Kong. I love games from all generations of consoles, but I still have a soft spot for the 8-bit games of my childhood.
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May 12, 2009
4:39 PM
MacGyver1138 commented on:
Leisure Suit Larry: Box Office Bust (PS3): Leisure Suit Larry: Box Office Bust
Spike, I would call the original LSL game a cult classic, for sure. It was a pretty fun game, and it was pretty witty. That doesn't have any bearing on this game, though. This looks like ass. The last 3D LSL game was also shit, so I'm not sure why they bothered to make another.
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May 08, 2009
8:31 PM
MacGyver1138 commented on:
QOTW: What's your biggest hobby aside from gaming?
Reading books (usually Fiction, Sci-Fi, and Fantasy to keep my nerd-cred.)

Messing with computers is probably my other big hobby. I do it as part of my job, and yet I still enjoy doing it in my free time. (I wonder if hookers are the same way?)
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May 06, 2009
8:24 PM
MacGyver1138 commented on:
Gamings most memorable epidemics
Stuff like the Goon Swarm and the Blood Plague crack me up. I didn't really get into WOW for very long, but one of the funniest experiences I had in that game were when raids would kite big bosses into populated areas and watch them rain down destruction on all of us weak, low-level players. Awesome.
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May 01, 2009
6:57 PM
MacGyver1138 commented on:
123 games with untapped franchise potential
So many of these games definitely deserve a shot at sequels. I'm particularly fond of Giants: Citizen Kabuto (though Armed and Dangerous was kind of a spiritual successor) and Breakdown.
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5:03 PM
MacGyver1138 commented on:
QOTW: What was the first game you remember pre-ordering?
The first game I remember preordering was the Legen of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Up until that point, I didn't even realize that you could preorder. I had to do it with that game to get the classic gold cartridge. Luckily for me, I also got a t-shirt and a sample CD. The CD was actually pretty sweet, but I wasn't about to flaunt my nerdiness hard enough to wear that shirt in public.
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April 29, 2009
6:13 PM
MacGyver1138 commented on:
The many faces of Wolverine
I can't wait to play as Wolverine again in the upcoming PSN/XBLA Marvel vs. Capcom 2 remake. Ridiculous combos and special attacks will never go out of style.
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7:30 AM
New Tomb Raider: Underworld (PC) news from N4G:
Livingstone promoted to 'life president' of Eidos N4G
Ian Livingstone has been promoted to 'life president' of Eidos, following Square Enix's acquisition of the company.
April 27, 2009
5:01 PM
MacGyver1138 commented on:
The Top 7... Games where you play as food
You Brits and your food combinations! Pardon my xenophobia, but beans for breakfast?
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4:49 PM
MacGyver1138 commented on:
12 games you might never play
Life, Battlefront III is one that I was thinking. I played the crap out of the Battlefront games, and I really hope they bring them back.

Crackdown 2 is another one that I would like to know the outlook on.
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April 23, 2009
6:58 PM
MacGyver1138 commented on:
1000s of Battlefield Heroes beta keys to give away
I have a key, and I played this for about a day. This game is pretty crappy, if you ask me. The characters are SLOOOOOOOOW, and it takes way too many shots to kill someone. The vehicle handling and physics are equally crappy.

I like the idea of a free-to-play game, but I definitely won't be playing it anymore.
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5:30 PM
New Tomb Raider: Underworld (PC) news from N4G:
Lifetime sales of Eidos Franchises Revealed N4G
Tomb Raider, Hitman, Deus Ex and Kane & Lynch lifetime sales data
April 21, 2009
7:36 PM
MacGyver1138 commented on:
The Top 7 greenest games
Everybody always says how great Okami is, but I honestly did not enjoy playing it very much. It was pretty, but the gameplay didn't do it for me.
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April 20, 2009
4:49 PM
MacGyver1138 commented on:
The 15 stupidest game types Wii invented
Any article with a Monty Python reference is a good article by my standards.

Also, thanks to recaptcha, I now know that "pshaws" is a word in the dictionary. Yes, really.
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April 15, 2009
7:07 PM
MacGyver1138 commented on:
A rather impressive list of videogame currency
jamminotha1n2: I'm sure Bison knew. He had the forethought to know that a defibrillator built in to his suit made him impervious to bullets, so I'm sure he thought the money situation through. Because it totally makes sense that a defibrillator can raise you from the dead after taking a shot to the brain.
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April 10, 2009
7:26 PM
MacGyver1138 commented on:
Paul vs 8-bit
That bridge exploding noise from Contra is permanently burned into my mind: BOOM-CHIKAK BOOM-CHIKAKA
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7:23 PM
MacGyver1138 commented on:
Videogames versus the real world - final round!
Another Punch Out reference!? I think it was destiny that I played that game last night.
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7:18 PM
MacGyver1138 commented on:
The 10 greatest mustaches in gaming history
Thanks for the Punch Out reference, because I actually played that game for the first time in years last night.
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April 06, 2009
4:19 PM
MacGyver1138 commented on:
The glorious carnage of Red Faction: Guerrilla
I loved the first two Red Factions. I played the multiplayer beta of this, and it was OK. The destruction is a lot of fun, but the multiplayer gameplay was only average. I really miss the ability to destroy terrain like you could in the old games. I can remember spending a long time tunneling between two bases in Red Faction with a rocket launcher.
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April 03, 2009
4:13 PM
MacGyver1138 commented on:
Which version of Mario is the best version of Mario?
I'm a big fan of the original Jumpman sprite. Really, I think you probably had a tougher time deciding bad Marios than bad Sonics. Most Marios are at least passable.
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April 02, 2009
6:55 PM
MacGyver1138 commented on:
11 hot women that have played game characters in movies
Now, were any of these movies any good? No, no they weren't. At least there were lovely ladies in them.
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March 26, 2009
4:02 PM
MacGyver1138 commented on:
Beloved games we hate
I absolutely agree on GTAIV. That game was the biggest letdown. They took all of the fun out of the previous games (including the top-down GTA and GTA2) and replaced it with realistic physics. Yippee.
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March 25, 2009
12:00 PM
New Tomb Raider: Underworld (PC) news from N4G:
OnLive Beta sign-up begins N4G
The official website of OnLive launched last night. If you haven't heard about, it's the newly unveiled internet-based game delivery service. A beta sign-up form is now onl...
March 24, 2009
7:37 PM
MacGyver1138 commented on:
The Top 7 hated habits of the mainstream media
Seeing some of these things brings my blood to a boil. If the media were shown to have been so blatantly WRONG in most other cases, they would get jumped on and made to look like fools. Yet we see and hear them repeatedly bashing games for all kinds of things that end up being untrue, and there is barely an apology in sight. I love that Geoff Keilly got the point across to at least one media moron, but I'd like to see that happen more often.

I also cannot stand the double standard between games and movies. Movies can contain murder, sex, nudity, rape, foul language, and horrific acts of violence and be called art. If a game does the same thing, it is blamed for the downfall of society.

Great article, and hopefully something that will be seen by someone in the mainstream media. (Fat chance!)
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March 19, 2009
7:10 PM
MacGyver1138 commented on:
How much money do videogame movies actually make?
It is pretty interesting to see this represented with actual numbers.

The worst part about most of these is that the game stories have potential to be pretty good movies. Max Payne especially disappointed me, as they could have just followed the game storyline and thrown in some slow motion gunfights and it would have been decent. It would have been better than the convoluted mess that got made instead.
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6:45 PM
MacGyver1138 commented on:
Gaming's biggest price drops
It is a little different, but I get PC games all the time with hardware. Just shortly after Quake Wars came out, I got it with a new videocard. More recently, I got Company of Heroes: Hell's Highway with a motherboard. It's no string cheese, but when I would have paid the price for the hardware anyway, it is a nice little bonus.
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March 18, 2009
6:54 PM
MacGyver1138 commented on:
The most misleading game ads of all time
It does suck to be mislead by ads, but the marketing often works. I can say that I was grabbed by the Halo 3 and Perfect Dark ads when I first saw them (though I was already planning to buy both of those games.)

The whole CG graphics or showing screens from a more powerful console are the worst, if you ask me. Those truly seem aimed to mislead, whereas the ones involving real actors, miniature, etc. are obviously not intended to represent actual gameplay.
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4:38 PM
MacGyver1138 commented on:
The Top 7 games you either love or hate
The Lurcher is absolutely right. Just because you say, "Nice article" doesn't mean we won't report you if your comment is completely devoid of relevance.

I totally agree with the article. I don't particularly understand the extreme division on games, but it seems the most notable with big console exclusives. I'm actually surprised that MGS4 or GOW2 weren't on the list. Those are two that also seem to be love or hate, based mostly on console "fanboyism."
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March 16, 2009
6:52 PM
MacGyver1138 commented on:
How not to be a total jerk online in SFIV
Next time I get called a bitch in any online game, I am responding by calling the person a wether. That's hilarious.

I'm not much of a fighting game fan, (mostly because I got stupid-frustrated by getting worked back in the SF II days) but it always strikes me as funny at how there is all of this etiquette you should follow when playing a fighter. I can't think of another genre where there is so much backlash for using moves built in to the game. I'm not saying I don't agree, it just stands out to me.
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March 12, 2009
4:29 PM
MacGyver1138 commented on:
RIP: The Resi characters that croaked it
Traditional Chinese: 去與神

It must be fun with Babelfish day!
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