Commentary

I must say that I agree with today's Penny Arcade. Yes, spoilers suck. But there's also something of a statute of limitations on that stuff. Seventy-year-old movies seen the world over? Your own fault, I figure. Game that just came out yesterday? Their fault....

So, XBox 360 is coming out soon. Media's talking about it, there are various magazines and buyer's guides in the stores now, sites are chattering about it... Feels sort of soon, somehow. It's weird. To me, XBox almost doesn't feel like a video game system, not a...

I think it's cool that Mirage Studios/the official TMNT website host their own eBay auctions of old TMNT toys. But looking back... man, what were they thinking? That's what I like best about the new line: even the weird gimmicky stuff seems a bit more plausible, or...

Specifically, this bit of insight regarding Rockman Rockman on PSP: "I can't imagine this appealing to the people who bought a PSP for the "image". Which is to say 'most of them.'" It's actually a pretty good point. Also, regarding the level editor: "Multiplayer giant...

Sign in one of the elevators of our apartment building. Personally, every time I see this sign, I think to myself, "Bullshit." I really disagree with the notion that what they describe in these pictures is heroism, unsung or not. Seriously, since when is a...

If you haven't read it already, Red's Trip Through Your Wires chapter 24 is up and waiting for you. I'm rather satisfied by it, as the missus gave a pretty damn good portrayal of my namesake in the piece. Better still, I can see my choice for the voice of this younger...

rom woekitten's journal... ....I still think the elevator to the moon is the most ridiculous thing CAPCOM has come up with for the X series. >> My reply is thus: The irony is astounding. So much science fiction, and one of the times they do something actually grounded...

Wow, can't believe how slow I am on this... I just noticed, in all the coverage of X8... it looks like you don't have to rescue Reploids anymore. This both thrills me, and disappoints me. It thrills me because frankly, ever since they went the MMZ1 route of "get the...

The sad truth, as it stands. We've become victims of our own popularity. Sort of. Erdrick wrote:Quote:I don't care how many polygons are tossed onto the screen, the underlying gameplay of X8 is beyond old, it's dead. Mega Man should advance. Since it has not, I find...

w00t! MegaMan X7 voices in English(under "Media")! Axl sounds boyish, perhaps a slight bit TOO much so. Still, it's comparable to Legends' MegaMan, who is about the same age. So it works. Zero's jarred the hell out of me. The grunts and oofs were good, but actually...

Hmm. Know one thing that, in my view, makes Mega Man Battle Network, among other licenses in the genre, stand out from say, Mega Man Zero or Mega Man X? Despite the weird, off-the-wall world in which they live, where everything from the microwave to the doghouse is...

Ever have something you enjoyed a lot once upon a time, but quit following for no particular reason come back, and suddenly you can't get enough? Well, it's been happening to me lately. And what it is, is just a little out of the ordinary, by my reckoning. It's not GI...