T w e n t y S i d e d
I’m milling around the mall today and I spot Scrapland in the bargain bin for $4.99. I’m thinking to myself: I avoided this game on purpose when it was new. Why was that again? Annoying missions? Erm. Dumb plot? I don’t think so. Ah well, you can’t go wrong for a fiver. Even if it sucks.
I get it home and make with the installing. Once it’s all done I try to run the game. It says I need to reboot to finish installing the “Protection System”. Ah DANGIT!
Now I remember why I’d been avoiding it. Now it’s too late.
Note to American McGee and the goofs at Enlight software: Nobody wants to steal your lackluster game. Get over yourselves.
Crysis 2
Crysis 2 has basically the same plot as Half-Life 2. So why is one a classic and the other simply obnoxious and tiresome?
The Terrible New Thing
Fidget spinners are ruining education! We need to... oh, never mind the fad is over. This is not the first time we've had a dumb moral panic.
Another PC Golden Age?
Is it real? Is PC gaming returning to its former glory? Sort of. It's complicated.
The Brilliance of Mass Effect
What is "Domino Worldbuilding" and how did it help to make Mass Effect one of the most interesting settings in modern RPGs?
Skylines of the Future
Cities: Skylines is bound to have a sequel sooner or later. Where can this series go next, and what changes would I like to see?
Starforce has been responsible for severing my relationship with several game makers. It can be circumvented easily by the hackers, but the average shmoe who bought the game legally ends up with this disease infecting their computer. It’s evidence of dinosaur thinking.
Sheesh. there should be a website to keep track of games that f*ck up your system when you install them. Spread the word to our gaming brothers, so to speak.
I don’t understand American McGee. If I ever come out with a game and call it “Alexican McDoenau’s Blastopia”, you are allowed to stab me.
It’s not too late. You can still evacuate non-executable data and format the winchester in that box, and thus salvage at least the data and hardware.
Why is StarForce so bad and How do I know if a game has it?
Click on the Starforce link above to read what it does. The list of offending games is here.
Thanks.