Jrad

Oh man, I didn't think American internet could get any worse. Looks like I was wrong. Anyone who thinks this is gonna be a good thing for the consumer is deluded. Comcast has no incentive to improve internet quality without competitors. Companies do not spend money to improve customer experience just for the hell of it.

This is amazing. Pitt's blog post was fucking hilarious, especially the whole feeling violated because his criticisms regarding a product were being showcased on the product page. "The most disturbing game I've ever played," is totally the kind of reaction Rohrer was seeking from these kinds of critics, and it just so happens that's enough of a hook to get some people interested. Pitts thinks the game's awful? That's fine. But when you make a public statement about a game, why the hell wouldn't you expect it to be referenced? Pitts comes across extremely asinine. I haven't read his review (and frankly, if he has this kind of attitude, I have no interest whatsoever in anything he has to say) but I'm sure it's nothing but hyperbolic bullshit anyway.

The only childishness stems from Pitt's treatment of the 'situation'. If you're a journalist, don't bitch and moan when people quote what you say. Rohrer included a link to the full review. The context was there. He even added the review score now, so it's seriously a non-issue.

Props to Rohrer. More developers should act this way. He's pretty much cemented his position as my new favorite 'indie' personality.

I'd absolutely agree with you in most contexts. Like if this was a personal blog post about how The Castle Doctrine made Pitts feel awful or something, then sure. You're right. But when you write a review of something, you have no business getting pissed off when the makers of the product you're reviewing refer to said review. He wrote a bunch of trite bullshit about Rohrer's game, and Rohrer figured he'd make the best of it. Don't want to be 'involved'? Then don't write the fucking review.

Looks better than the PC version, honestly. I just opened it up at 1440p fully maxed out. Wish they'd patch over whatever improvements they made for the 'next-gen' version, hah.

@undeadpool: There were some hilarious reversed and broken social link conversation snippets in Persona 4 that you can't actually see because it's impossible to break those relationships. Someone dumped the text files, and you can check them out here: http://web.archive.org/web/20090328044654/http://www.rejectedidealism.net/persona

It suggests there were more reversals planned, which were either removed or never implemented for some reason. Hopefully they'll leave them in for Persona 5, but I'm kinda doubtful.

I'm not sure how much the game has changed in the 6 months or so since I've played it, but back then, it definitely only really appealed to the kind of people who enjoyed tinkering with stuff like Minecraft's redstone. It was more or less a multiplayer puzzle game, where the puzzles were all created by other players, and whether you got to keep the reward for beating a puzzle was dependent on how good your own puzzle was. Since then, I guess he's added loads of ways to subvert the puzzles somewhat (burglary tools, for instance) which probably changes the dynamic a bunch, but the core is still the same, and it's why the game's interesting.

Honestly, the best part about the game was being able to see all the failed break-ins. When someone falls for your traps and dies, it's great. Or if they take a wrong turn, lock themselves into an area where there's no escape -- it can be fun watching them struggle and attempt to get out, before giving up and killing themselves. The attachment I felt toward my houses wasn't because they were, er, 'houses', I felt attached to them because I invested money into them and because they were incredibly efficient death machines, and if I died I was losing hours of investment and planning. It's the same with the family. The entire game is framed around home-invasion, but it's the mechanics that make it a game and it's the mechanics that matter.

They probably aren't harmful, but to anyone whose diet consists of something more varied than bread and water, they absolutely aren't necessary (unless you've been diagnosed with a deficiency!). For the average person, they're a complete waste of money.

Maybe this is my 'privileged' heterosexual white male side speaking, but I can't stop myself from rolling my eyes when people take offense to things -- especially when it's stuff like this. Okay sure, if someone's making a personal statement about you, getting offended might be a reasonable course of action. But if someone cracks a joke based off of stereotypes or generalizations -- even if it's in bad taste -- surely you can avoid taking it as a personal slight? People should be free to say whatever they want. Don't like what they're saying? Don't listen to them.

I try to transfer the games I'm not playing to my HDD. I only keep a few on my SSD because of space concerns -- 240GB just isn't enough to keep a maintain a sizeable library -- nothing worse than coming home after a Dota 2 update to find your drive has 0 bytes of free space! I have a couple of 3TB drives though so I don't uninstall games when I'm done.

I seriously thought about buying GTA5 and digging out my PS3, but frankly I'm so accustomed to buttery-smooth framerates and beautiful 1440p visuals, I think it'd take me hours to adjust to the dated graphics. I decided I'd just wait for the PC version and enjoy it fully from the start. I need AA even at 1440p -- at 720p, the jaggies must be horrific.

Yes please. I really enjoy hearing Rorie's opinions on things. Also, Alpha Protocol was the best game of this generation.