mosespippy

The video game industry, and especially it's advertising, sure does seem targeted to 18-25 males. If there's one thing I know about marketing it's that they love putting people into demographics. A comparison of who games are marketed towards vs who actually buys and plays games would be interesting.

The name Game of War: Fire Age sure does reek of SEO optimization. It might not rate on google searches, but I bet it pops up in a lot of app store searches. Celebrity advertisements likely came after the company had gained popularity and money.

@dizzyhippos: There is no reason to die on the easier difficulties. Run past everything. Fight the golden hands. With the XP from golden hands, bosses, and the few other fights where I got caught I hit level 99 before November, and each dungeon took 1/4 the time it took me on normal.

I could have sworn the PlayStation vs. Playstation vs Play Station and SNES vs Super NES points were already covered by the official style guide that Jeff wrote using the guides system, but I don't know if that even exists anymore. Google sure is hell isn't turning it up. The no italics or bold for game titles was also part of that style guide.

Should probably add not to write in future tense either. It's real dumb seeing game name will be released in 2014 (especially for a game with an indefinite delay).

Ryan and Patrick were going through all the Jurassic Park games at one point. Don't know if they finished it.

They made the interns play Farmville for a while but that series never saw an ending.

Speaking of interns, Fear Gauntlet was pretty good. Matt Kessler and one of the other interns played through a bunch of horror games. This was well before Spooking with Scoops.

I remember really liking this boss. Such a great design. Unfortunately I only played the DLC with one of my experimental characters and was a bit under leveled. It beat the shit out of me maybe a dozen times but it was a fun fight every time. I especially like fights where I can cut off the tail.

I should really finish the DLC. I never beat Manus and don't know where to fight Kamaleet.

Right now I'm watching former GB intern, Nick Robinson, and former co-worker of Dan & Jason's, Phil Kollar, play though Resident Evil Revelations 2 on Polygon. It's been scratching that Endurance Run itch.

One of the interesting things about FFXII is that they use a range of commonwealth accents do distinguish each region of the world. I wouldn't say they look anime either, but maybe that's because you spend most of the game looking at them from behind and from that perspective they look normal. And it's got lots of memorable locations, from a sea made of sand, to a refugee camp on a holy mountain, to a lighthouse in the middle of the ocean, to a region that changes completely between the dry & monsoon seasons, to some sort of chernobyl like disaster zone except magical instead of nuclear and everything in between.

@bribbins: Just under 62 hours. I might have been a bit slow because I was playing with a fractured arm and couldn't hold the vita properly for a couple days so I was playing one handed. But man is it good. I almost started it again as soon as I finished it, but I realized I have 4 other JRPGs on my Vita that I haven't touched. I'll definitely run through it again before the sequel comes out (assuming that the localization hasn't been canceled).

I think these are for console gamers who want to take advantage of steam sales. It's not for everyone, but guess what? Big powerful desktop rigs aren't for everyone either. To each their own.

@krullban: Yeah, the free aim is perfectly fine as far as TPS games go, but if you're using it then you're probably also being slow and methodical, which means using the clunky and slow cover system.

None of this would be an issue if match making could actually fill a lobby. With tens of millions of copies sold there are likely over a million daily players. Even if <1% are using free aim that should still be enough to fill a lobby. Hell, it only half fills lobbies when in auto aim servers. There is no acceptable reason for them to not be able to fill a lobby.