We cried for hours. After 15 years together, we broke up. And the following day, Giant ROM began. I had just finished Commander Ryckert, a very silly game about Dan's adventures in space. It was getting positive feedback in the forums and I was elated. Then someone mentioned how a lot of people were making cool games with a Giant Bomb theme lately. Someone else said a game jam would be cool. An...
Working in an office with Nerf guns at every other desk has prompted me to get my own. Working on a board game that's inspired from Modern Warfare 2 and Borderlands has only deepened my craving for guns with interchangeable bits and pieces. I've gotten familiar with some light mods to raise performance a smidgen, but all in all I'm just having a blast messing with the things. I got the scope at...
I just found out about site quests and achievements. This is going to be awesome. ...just as soon as they recognize the fact that I already have more than 10 S-Ranks. Or is that not how that particular set works?
So I spend 1600$ on a quite powerful gaming rig which can run circles around any FPS. I naturally want to get Bionic Commando on it, so I get Bionic Commando Rearmed on the same platform so I can get the bonus costume. The game has yet to fully function. They charge 5$ more because they can get away with it on PC and the result is an obvious console port that doesn't even make it past the map s...
Didn't play Halo 1 or Halo 2? Don't have any clue what the story is before Halo 3 starts off? It's the Halo Puppet Show to the rescue! Halo Covenant: Hi, we're a bunch of allied aliens and we're here to destroy all of you because our gods told us to. No hard feelings. Humans: Crap. We're outnumbered and out-technologied. Good thing we've just completed training on 30 or so Spartan-II troopers....
No more wars. I now have all major consoles, for the first time in my life. If a game comes out, there's no more spite or disappointment - I can get it. All consoles are flawed yet all have their own very cool qualities. There is peace on my crowded, crowded desk. Snowed in, game on.