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  • Paul created a blog
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Dec. 15, 2008
  • MattyFTM said: "Virago said: "this is terribly frightening." If your frightened, you've gotta think how jeff is feeling." At the moment, somewhat hopeful and interested. He's sitting on a couch without pants, thinking about jumping flash. He has very skinny knees.
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  • Paul had a submission approved for Jeff Gerstmann for a total of 128 points.
    He said this on an episode of the hotspot.
    11 months, 1 week ago
  • Paul replied to the topic Beer is the answer in the Beer board.
    DualReaver said: "Marijuana should be legalized." Yes?
    11 months, 1 week ago
  • Paul replied to the topic So, Twilight
    Cogito said: "Yeah, stop trying to make your argument here, they are 3 completely different forms of media. It's like your trying to compare the quality of a bike to the quality of a car, "B-But the car has 2 more wheels, and they are both used for transportation", yes but they are two completely different forms of transportation." Three? What's the third one? I'm not talking about transportation, I'm ...
    11 months, 1 week ago
  • Paul replied to the topic So, Twilight
    pause422 said: "It entertains those who actually enjoy that I guess, yes, but when you see a movie, its completely different than playing a video game. A video game can be fun with no story what so ever, and movie, unless something else is redeeming it, like absolutely amazing action scenes or something, which I'm very sure Twilight doesn't have, what's left other than a decent story, or climax to ...
    11 months, 1 week ago
  • Paul replied to the topic So, Twilight
    OmegaPirate said: "Paul said: "OmegaPirate said: "pause422 said: "Left 4 Dead isnt supposed to have a story....its not a single player story driven game. You make that out to be a criticizm to Left4Dead, but its exactly what they were aiming for. The writing on the walls of the safe houses, and design of the survivors and special infected are there so the player can say for themselves what they ...
    11 months, 1 week ago
  • Paul replied to the topic So, Twilight
    RHCPfan24 said: "The argument Paul is making doesn't make the bit of sense. Listen to pause422^Who cares if L4D doesn't have a story? Do you care if Tetris has a story? It is the same thing. They are not meant to be single-player driven affairs a la BioShock or something like that. They are multiplayer focused games like Counter Strike, another Valve creation. I don't know much about Twilight, and ...
    11 months, 1 week ago
  • Paul replied to the topic So, Twilight
    OmegaPirate said: "pause422 said: "Left 4 Dead isnt supposed to have a story....its not a single player story driven game. You make that out to be a criticizm to Left4Dead, but its exactly what they were aiming for. The writing on the walls of the safe houses, and design of the survivors and special infected are there so the player can say for themselves what they think happened. Valves story ...
    11 months, 1 week ago
  • Paul replied to the topic So, Twilight
    pause422 said: "Left 4 Dead isnt supposed to have a story....its not a single player story driven game. You make that out to be a criticizm to Left4Dead, but its exactly what they were aiming for. The writing on the walls of the safe houses, and design of the survivors and special infected are there so the player can say for themselves what they think happened. Valves story game is ...
    11 months, 1 week ago
Added by Paul on Aug. 18, 2008

I finished Braid last night. Finished is objective in this case; I read the entire story and read every castle message. It was pretty obvious from the beginning that I was not going to roll up on the all the puzzle pieces any time soon, and the story really grabbed me. So yeah, played that. Seriously, that story is sad. Sobering, I guess. It's also completely immpossible to fully understand. It might be the best game I've played this year, and that's saying a fair bit.

On a different note, I embedded music into my profile. Does it bother you? Let me know.
Related to: Braid


Added by Paul on Aug. 15, 2008

No, not the thing with cars, I mean web traffic. I'm kind of a data nerd, so every once in a bit I look over a bunch of site traffic data, and play analyst. Here's my take on the numbers.

GiantBomb - GameSpot

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That's one small explosion.



 


 













So, It might be hard for you to see GiantBomb on that graph, but it's there. You just have to squint. Seriously, how preposterously tiny is that traffic?
This tells us that while in some people's eyes, (myself included) GameSpot lost money when they fired Jeff, and GiantBomb is seriously affecting them, that couldn't be farther then the truth. Currently, GameSpot is holding at .6 of all internet traffic, and as shown by the graph below, GiantBomb occupies only .006 percent of all internet traffic. (Just in case you're interested, Yahoo.com is the leader, with 28 percent.)

GiantBomb

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So, long story short, GameSpot is not in trouble... yet. Here's a weird little anomaly for you; starting June 15 - July 15 GiantBomb traffic went up, but GameSpot traffic went down. If this was timed somewhat differently (in conjunction with the launch of the real, still a threat GiantBomb) then I would say with confidence that indeed, a fair amount of people had completely stopped visiting GameSpot all together, and were now exclusively visiting GiantBomb. However, it makes more sense to interpret it this way:

Kids get off from school in late May, early June. Traffic on both sites go up. Lack of content and lackluster E3 content drive traffic on GiantBomb down in July, while some technical difficulties plague GameSpot's  E3 coverage as well. In the end, E3 was not kind to either sites. Traffic on GiantBomb reaches it's peak right around when it launches, and descends somewhat after that. Interest in games goes down a while after E3, so GameSpot's traffic slopes downward. GiantBomb, on the other hand, pulls in more traffic based on the new site appeal, although the sites are so shockingly different in size, it's hard to find any correlation. Really, it's like comparing apples and oranges, and comparing them (in terms of traffic) will be pointless endless they ever near each other in size.

IGN - GameSpot - 1up

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Here's some thing a little more interesting; the numbers for IGN, GameSpot and 1up. Look at that! IGN and GameSpot are mirroring each other almost EXACTLY! 1up, on the other hand trails a distant third. I think this is interesting; whenever I think of these sites, I think of them as being somewhat equal, but the divide between IGN/GameSpot and 1up is shockingly vast. I think this also says a lot about IGN's other components (music reviews, movies stuff, etc.)... It's obvious no one Is going to IGN solely for that content. I say this because of the amazing mirror that GameSpot is to IGN... When game X was released, everyone rushed to either site to get info, so they are almost always identical. However, no one rushed to IGN when the Dark Knight was released... IGN's traffic is just like GameSpot's on July 18th.

Well, I'm sorry to have bored you... And please, excuse the sloppy writing. I haven't slept in like two days. 

All graphs and data pulled from www.alexa.com


Added by Paul on Aug. 13, 2008

Yeah, I downloaded the demo for Rearmed on XBox live arcade, and it's totally not doing it for me. The first console I bought was a PS2, so it's not like I have any fond memories of it, and I don't like a lot of platforms, so... 
Honestly, nothing could be more uninteresting to me. 

Oh, I totally would get it for the 360, cause it's the only one I own. 


Paul's Reviews
Cruis'n Exotica (ARC)
When you think of the brand Cruis’n, you probably think of the ill conceived, poorly ported Wii game that came out in late 2007. Well, here’s what you should be thinking of: Cruis’n Exotica. It’s a game that came out in 1999 for arcade, and later N64. Now, selling the ...
Reviewed by Paul on July 22, 2008
Ace Combat 5 (PS2)
Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War has the look of a glossy, finished game. There are really no bugs, short of a few minor targeting issues in the last mission, and all of the numerous CGI cut scenes look fantastic. Every single mission is thought out, and paced reasonably so ...
Reviewed by Paul on July 21, 2008
Mercenaries (PS2)
At a glance, Mercenaries is exactly what it appears; a low rent Grand Theft Auto clone. Once you delve under the surface, however; it gains a personality of its own and will eventually have you hooked. The game begins with you as a mercenary working for the corporation “ExOps”, a ...
Reviewed by Paul on July 21, 2008


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