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I rarely play modern first-person shooters, but did enjoy the genre more in my youth. As such, for purely nostalgic reasons, my favourite first-person shooters are the ID classics including DOOM, Quake, and Wolfenstein.

I tend to watch video game reviews and let's plays from people who have for the most part moved on from YouTube, though some of them still maintain a strong YouTube presence: Noah "SpoonyOne" Antwiler, The Angry Video Game Nerd, Pushing Up Roses, and... well, that's actually about it as far as...

The notion that someone in his or her mid-to-late thirties is "too old" for video games is outrageously out-dated, misguidedly snobbish piffle! Anyone who suggests such a thing is seriously out-of-touch with the past decade or two of the video game industry, which now dwarfs the film industry...

As for what I consider to be the best film based upon a video game, I vote for... *drum-roll* Paul Verhoeven's Starship Troopers, which I view as a satire of war time propaganda (albeit unsubtle, ultra-violent satire seems to be one of Verhoven's greatest strengths, as per his RoboCop). As for...

We in the Western Market all missed out on the "real" Super Mario Bros 2 at the time in 1987, but we eventually did get it in 1993 as part of the SNES' Super Mario All-Stars. In the end, we eventually had two great, fun Super Mario Bros 2 games! ;) :cool: And though all of the above comments...

As for necoring the threads, just consider us a couple of regular Herbert Wests! ;)

Withholding the "real" Super Mario Bros 2 from the Western Market due to its difficulty and instead releasing a character swapped clone of Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic was indeed an inexplicable act on the part of Nintendo--for several reasons. In retrospect, the notion that "this game is too...

But still, despite all of that, I doubt that Little Britain would be the absolute worst game--especially if it's actually not broken and playable! If Little Britain is being nominated as the worst for its revolting gross out factor or tasteless, then there's far worse games out there on that...

I wasn't even aware that there was a Little Britain game! And, yeah, based upon that trailer it looks... not particularly great. And when your game is based off a sketch comedy series that routinely features characters projectile vomiting in disgust... you might want to do a sufficiently...

I wasn't even aware that there were NES cartridges made of the "real" Super Mario Bros 2! How does it differ from the Japanese Famicon version? There's of course a good reason as to why the "'American' turnip based Mario 2 (Nintendo should have slapped a sticker on its package proclaiming it...

Ah yes, the "real" Super Mario Bros 2 that we didn't see until it was included as "The Lost Levels" in the SNES' Super Mario All-Stars! The original, Japanese version of Super Mario Bros 2 for the Famicom was essentially a much more challenging version of the original Super Mario Bros, ramping...

I've personally find that Mega Man III is easier than Mega Man II, especially with respect to the final Wily fight! In fact, I generally find that each of the six NES Mega Man games are generally easier than the last. It's almost jarring to see how much more difficult the original Mega Man is...

My all time favourite Angry Video Game Nerd episode depicts several rather frightening glitches from classic console games (and blames them on a "Game Glitch Gremlin," naturally!) I swear, the glitched Clubber Lang will haunt our nightmares! I also found a fun French Blogspot website...

On the other hand, the very fact that there's a website solely dedicated to "liberating" every possible cartridge of Shaq Fu surely speaks volumes as to just how terrible it must be! (I've honestly never had the "honour" of playing Shaq Fu for myself! Largely because, then and now, I'm not a...

People usually bring up something like the Atari 2600's E.T., Superman 64 , Shaq Fu, or Big Rigs Over The Road Racing as their vote for the worst video game of all time. In my own opinion, the likes of Superman 64 is worse than the Atari 2600's E.T. or Shaq Fu, and the Big Rigs game is even...

We all know who is really to blame for youth delinquency and all of society's other great ills, and its not video games: Blame Canada! (I'm allowed to say that, being a syrup sucking, metric system using, Queen saluting Canuck myself.) Now, I'm sure many of you are rolling your eyes at my...

Cherry picking the most flattering sentence fragment out of a fairly mixed review, and ignoring the rest, as if it were an entirely positive, glowing review? Well, if Hollywood's ad men can get away with it when they advertise their movies: then why not us? ;) :rolleyes: :p

Just to play Devil's Advocate for a moment: I highly doubt that anyone is seriously suggesting that violence doesn't pre-date media and art and/or that media and art are the end all, be all, ultimate, sole cause of violence. That's a straw man argument, exaggerating and distorting a position to...

After we've all gotten the fundamentals of our new electricity-free society off and running, I most would definitely be interested in trying to get a like-minded group together to play table-top RPGs like Dungeons & Dragons, Call of Cthulhu, Shadow Run, Rifts, etc. (One would have hoped that a...

In retrospect, it would have been far more accurate to refer to Dune II as a proto-Command and Conquer much more so than as a proto-StarCraft--as Dune II literally is a proto-Command and Conquer! ("Proto-StarCraft" skips too many important intermediate steps and ignores too many great games in...