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#1 Posted by Gee_rad (49 posts) - 11 months, 3 days ago

@Baconbot: @Baconbot said:

@Godlyawesomeguy said:

I want the sequel to be named Saints Row The Third- II.

Needs a subtitle too.

Saints Row: The Third II: Electric Boogaloo

#2 Posted by Gee_rad (49 posts) - 1 year, 1 month ago

@Megasoum said:

@Brighty said:

@Megasoum said:

How about clicking on the spellcheck in Word? Or you know...reading your article before putting them up? It's not like you are writting a 1000 pages long book.

Jesus Christ man, stop being such a condescending dick. I'm sorry you're bitter and jaded at the world around you, but manifesting that teenage angst and lashing out over the internet over typos on a news article won't solve anything. All it does is just make you look even more pathetic. The delicious irony of it all is that there are nearly half a dozen grammatical mistakes in your three sentences alone that are complaining about there being grammatical mistakes.

Anyway Patrick, keep up the good work.

Wow really? lol... Who's condescending and "lashing out" here?

Did I do something to you in the past that I might have forgotten? I killed one of you puppy or something? Wow wtf...

Dear Megasoum,

I respectfully request that you stop being such a jerk. Thank you.

Yours truly,

Gee_rad

#3 Posted by Gee_rad (49 posts) - 1 year, 11 months ago

I've often thought it would be interesting to rate games as dollar amounts, because there are a lot of games I wouldn't want to pay $60 for, but might be worthwhile at $15. It might not be a good rating system, but it'd be interesting.
 
From best to worst:
no score
Buy/Rent/Skip
letter grade
integers or half-integers out of 5 or 10 where the entire scale is used
integers or half-integers out of 5 or 10 where nothing gets below a 50%.
movies ("On a scale of Gigli to Citizen Kane, I give it an Empire Strikes Back.")
adjectives (e.g., "joyous" [Katamari Damacy], "surreal" [Deadly Premonition], "adjectival" [Super Scribblenauts] )
Start To Crate
nominally out of 10, but nothing scores higher than 3 (except for Shaq-Fu)
any real number
any complex number
2d6-2
integers out of 100

#4 Posted by Gee_rad (49 posts) - 2 years, 3 months ago
@MikeinSC:  What makes you say Kagan should recuse but won't? First of all, she has not been shy at all about recusing herself in cases where she should: she has recused from all cases where she has been in any way involved as White House Counsel. However, I don't think there's any reason she needs to recuse from this case. Although she was in that position while this bill was being created, she was not involved with the bill. In fact, the bill wasn't even written by the White House directly. Obama pushed for Congress to pass a healthcare bill, and he was involved in some of the negotiations, but Congress wrote the bill, not Obama, and certainly not Kagan. I understand that you'd prefer she not get a vote because she's likely to vote to uphold the bill, but arguing that she should recuse is a big stretch. Besides, the absolute worst outcome of this case is that the Supreme Court votes 4-4 (which would uphold whatever the Court of Appeals rules).
#5 Posted by Gee_rad (49 posts) - 2 years, 4 months ago
@K9:  I think you don't realize the number of web games there are. There are approximately twice as many flash games on Newgrounds as there are for all consoles since the NES combined ( source). Web games would ALSO include Flash games not on Newgrounds, Java games, AJAX/CGI games (such as die2nite or Neptune's Pride), Facebook games, etc.
 
Secondly, while there is no shortage of bad console or PC games, web games have a lower barrier to entry and consequently a lower signal:noise ratio.
 
Third, the worst of the web games are far more derivative, shorter, and just generally poorer quality than bad console or PC games.
 
Fourth, bad console/PC games are usually still notable. For one thing, a team of people spent a lot of time working on it and it cost some publisher a lot of money. For another, it gets written about. Velvet Assassin gets written about. ET gets written about. Epic Mickey gets written about. Even Power Gig gets written about. The vast majority of the stuff on Newgrounds has no impact whatsoever on the industry or indeed anybody but the creator, some of his friends, and a subset of the Newgrounds community.
 
I think that's a pretty good case for not allowing every single web game.
 
On the other hand, there is a lot of good/important stuff happening in web gaming, like Canabalt; I hate Farmville, but it's important because it made tons of money and it's affecting the gaming industry. Neptune's Pride has gotten write-ups from the likes of PC Gamer and Rock Paper Shotgun. I think those games probably SHOULD be included on Giant Bomb.

While I understand the desire for a more precise set of guidelines/rules (especially since it's easier to remove them than to add them later), I think even a minimal policy on web games being notable MIGHT be good enough. As long as it's clear that the list of web games isn't intended to be complete (and therefore nobody should attempt to add every game on Newgrounds), most of the crap web games will be excluded by the simple fact that no Giant Bomber knows or cares about them.
#6 Posted by Gee_rad (49 posts) - 2 years, 5 months ago
@luciano34: 
I think you are asking what "no 'I' in 'team'" means. "There's no 'I' in 'team' " is a common saying (particularly in sports). It means that you should do what's best for your team, even if it means you don't get as much individual glory. For example, in basketball, if you have a teammate who is wide open, you should pass him the ball and let him shoot, even though that means he gets credit for making the basket and you don't.
#7 Posted by Gee_rad (49 posts) - 2 years, 6 months ago

I think the more important question than ghost nudity is ghost selective solidity. Ghosts can go through walls. But they still walk on the floor or sit on chairs. Are their butts/feet more solid than the rest of them?

#8 Posted by Gee_rad (49 posts) - 2 years, 6 months ago

I hate teasers like this that don't tell you anything. Movies do that all the time to try to get viral marketing. That said, I'm curious to know what 5th Cell's twist on it is. I don't see them making a generic shooter.

#9 Edited by Gee_rad (49 posts) - 2 years, 6 months ago

Gameplay video from Japanese site AppBank:

#10 Posted by Gee_rad (49 posts) - 2 years, 10 months ago

This one:

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