Back in the days of yore, we gamers were limited to blurry screencaps in poorly printed magazines to get us hyped up about upcoming games. Man, has that ever changed. Gaming is big bucks, so now even our countdowns countdown to more countdowns (thanks, Konami) and our teaser trailers have their own teasers that run [...]
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Some Other Hassle: Gaming Retail
I haven’t had time to play much that’s not on a cellphone in the last week, but I still managed to be completely annoyed by something in gaming. No, I don’t want to preorder. No, I don’t want the strategy guide. No, I don’t want to pay more for shinier packaging. I’m really, really sure. [...]
Some Other Hassle: Animal Crossing
Ever since college, I’ve completely lost the taste for Japanese games. I was condemned to live with a handful of socially bankrupt, self-proclaimed “otaku “ who spent every waking hour watching horrible Japanese cartoons in a language they couldn’t understand with the volume turned up to eleven, dropped Japanese words like “otaku,” “bishounen” and “top [...]
Some Other Hassle: Digital Rights Management
Some Other Hassle will return to maligning your favorite games next week. Something far more annoying came up this week.
As Technology continues to improve, grow, change and permeate our lives, capitalist pig-dogs continue to do everything they can to squeeze every cent out of it. Seriously, though. Most of my gaming over the past three years has been spent doing so without any physical media of the games I’ve been playing. And it’s scary to think that I don’t actually own those games at all. It’s not just games, either. I never really minded DRM, realizing that it’s a necessary evil, until this week, when I came up against some serious barriers to using content because of DRM.
Some Other Hassle: Puzzle Quest Galactrix
First thing: I am not a reviewer. I will not be giving any games scores, and rarely will I be saying anything nice. My purpose is to be a critic. I’m that guy who enjoys pointing out plot holes in your favorite movies. I’m that guy who breaks the illusion of your favorite magic trick. Hopefully, I’ll be the guy who points out the problems in your favorite games (hereafter referred to as “that bastard”).
