I aim to misbehave

Why must video game developers continue to bolt on useless multiplayer modes to their great single-player games? Are they that afraid of the vocal minority backlash? Are one player games really that bad?

See also: Bioshock 2.

I think this is a first: I don’t particularly take this personal blog very seriously but even so, I marked an annoying, ill-informed little troll as spam today. I doubt I’ll ever do it again, but this shit was seriously getting worse than any religious fanatic I’ve ever encountered–and it was over a game!

Wondering this morning if the hardcore blogs and gaming sites are subconsciously boosting their Other M review scores a few points because the game was “made for them.”

Also, reading the responses to any negative views reminds me, again, of how immature the “serious” core gamers really are. Irony’s fun though, so it’s all good.

It’s funny: The most “serious,” hardcore of gamers leave the most asinine, ill-informed and childish comments on blogs when a review doesn’t go their way.

Weird how that works, huh?

Maturity runs rampant at Activision.

A rare moment of self-reflection: I am, apparently, simultaneously both a rabid Nintendo fanboy fanman and someone who’s been attacked for bashing Nintendo for the looming turd that is Metroid Other M.

If you want to make a fucking movie, make a fucking movie. Honestly, what the fuck are these people doing to one of the most beloved cult video game franchises ever created?!

I hear Rockstar is releasing a $450 tell-all art book set that “tracks its decade of game design with hundreds of color photographs, illustrations, wireframes, ads and product shots.”

I wonder, does “company infighting” gets its own volume, or what?

The term “girl gamer” is about as real a thing as “casual gamers” or “hardcore gamers”—each term was created by marketing departments to segment the only true group, gamers, into sects so that whiny forum dwellers could feel good about themselves.

Never met him either, but I’m sure he is. Just look at the chest-thumping, self-important games his company produces. Also, did you know Unreal Engine is god’s gift to gaming? Because it totally is!