Recent content by Phancypants

It's largely because of unified hardware. Devs love consoles because they know EXACTLY what they have to play with. With PC releases, you need to be able to perform on a wide variety of hardware, both in manufacturer and performance. As well, on a console you know exactly what processes are...

Yes. PR money comes DIRECTLY from development money. Every dollar spent making a poster could have added 3 polygons to the sheriff! If they hadn't blown so much money at PAX it would have been isometric! We were 3 bobbleheads away from Van Buren! That's not exactly how corporate money works.

It's not solder melting, it's the PCB of the motherboard warping due to heat. On-again off-again in a badly cooled environment causes it to warp and damage the connections. That's why the oven 'fix' exists, where you pretty much put your 360 in a low-temp oven that remelts the solder to make...

Wasn't there a perk where a tree grew out of your head or something?

Right, fine, I'm dense, no point persuing the discussion any further. Editing out any insults btw, sorry for bringing it down to name-calling.

The point is that the people who posted his info went out of their way to gather the information and posted it together in a public place with malicious intent. That's something that well-adjusted people don't do.

I can get many users passwords by opening their top desk drawer and reading the post-it. It's easily findable. Does it make it right? If looking for, then posting someone's personal information (regardless of how you found it) on the internet without their permission doesn't strike you as...

Re: Beth No, it's the psycho who thinks that stalking some guy online and posting personal details is an appropriate response to lying about having a game early. If a guy at my work bragged about a 50' OLED TV, am I allowed to flip through the mail on his desk to find a home address...

Arguing that games are art does not help anything. Many game players (including myself) do not consider the majority of the games 'art', and it points the discussion in the wrong direction. The debate isn't about art vs. entertainment, it's about children vs. adult. The reason there is no...

<Edited> Hah, you're suprised that no one gives 2 shits about youtube comments? Welcome to the internet. I get annoyed when I read the comments "Fans hate this", "Real fans think that...". I can't remember a time where I haven't had a fallout installed on my computer. I regard it as...

It isn't. They started at the end of the main quest, and worked their way backwards. There are some that can only be knocked unconcious, but the instant they are not 100% critical to being able to finish the main quest, feel free to drop them. In interviews they said they spent a lot of time...

Good, because FO3 looks amazing :)

I don't read it that way. First, nothing is said about quality, you added the 'surpass the quality' bit in yourself. What Emil said was that by trying to copy the originals, you do yourself and the original IP a great disservice. Think of it like the long string of James Bond actors. The...

I was happy to read in an interview that they've taken a 'show, don't tell' approach in Fallout 3. Don't give me a 20 minute cutscene while people discuss how horrible everything is. Toss me in the wasteland and let me see for myself!

Bethesda has an internal 'speed run' contest for all of their games. The dev's sit down and try to finish it as fast as they can (of course, knowing every detail, every plot point, every location of every item etc.). Right now, the winner is at 1hr 46min I believe. If you do nothing but the...