CrazyGamer

All that matters is that I know what a reviewer means when they give a game a specific score. But the more 1 thought about it, the more I realized that your method is actually inferior to the method used by most other reviews. The reason is that the other method is so familiar to everyone. Most people in the U.S. grow up receiving grades on a similar scale (A, B , C. D, and F). Just as kilometers, kilograms, and Celsius have less meaning to me than miles, pounds, and Fahrenheit, your 5 out of 10 means a little less to me than the other guys’ 71 percent. While the benefits of switching to the metric system are obvious, I don’t see any benefit to scoring differently than everyone else. It’s just a minor annoyance

I’ve been a big gamer my whole life, but this past year or so, I’ve been shying away from longer, more involved games, I’ve devoured many great casual games (Bookworm Adventures springs to mind), sometimes beating them in as few as two sittings, but I just cannot commit myself to anything tiiat would require an emotional investment (Obiivian, Prey, or even Half-Life 2, for god’s sake). Is something wrong with me?

As a 25-year-old gamer, I feel the “Gray Power” article. Hit on some good points. Perhaps the older crowds aren’t as ridiculed in some gaming communities as [in] others, but let’s face it, generally speaking, if you’re beyond your early {very early) twenties and caught playing an MMO, then the unofficial imaginary teenybopper handbook states: “You have become too old to piay games or enjoy yourself: now go die.”

Oh how I treasure those golden “You’re how old?” moments while playing a game because, hey, whats not to love about being made to feel like an outcast freak? So I play games at 25 years old. At least I can take comfort in knowing I’m not alone in my senior citizen-gamer status. My wife is an avid gamer too, and we’re celebrating her 48th birthday very soon.

One thing you should have mentioned: that evil StarForce copy protection, I’ve read all the horror stories about StarForce, and I chose to avoid having one of my own - so I cracked DiRT (a game I legitimately bought) just to avoid this mess.

DiRT was the first game I bought that included StarForce, and it wiil be the last. If I [had known] about this ahead of time, I wouldn’t have bought DiRT.

What”s with that 10 out of 10 score given to BioShock in issue 11? You make me sick! It’s not perfect, not close to perfect. The A.t. is clunky, the gunfights are dull, the plasmids don’t offer much of a difference in the game, the end-boss battle is a joke, and there is absolutely no replay value once you’ve beat the game. Not to mention the fact that the endings are bland, 5ince you guys are connected, check into what’s going on with the Advent Rising trilogy. People want a second and third game, and I have yet to come across any game that has tome out since Advent Rising that has a story that actually has me wanting more or has kept me on the edge of my seat. Yes, Advent Rising had quite a few flaws, but the story and overall gameplay make it a must for any FPS/action junkie

I’ve been a StarCraft addict for about five years, and I would do just about anything to get my hands on a demo of StarCraft II. However, i play games on my laptop. It isn’t a state-of-the-art, $6,000, gold-encrusted machine,, but it’s sufficient, I can play games like Warhommer 40,000: Dawn of War - Dark Crusade. However, I was wondering what StarCraft Us system requirements will be. Do you guys have any guesses?

I finally have the motivation to write [to] your mostly harmless magazine. It was only a few paragraphs into the BioShock preview when a nasty spoiler was burned into my brain. And while it wasn’t as nearly as cruel as an idiot screaming. “Snape kills Dumbledore!” out the window of a passirg car to fans outside a bookstore, your unforewarned Spoiler has ruined at least a small part of the game for me. A bit of vagueness would have been in order, or at lest some spoiler warning before you basically gave a play-by-play of the game s opening, I understand that this is a preview of game and at least some of the information will be revealed, but please, leave the details out. And just for a bit of payback; In Titanic the ship sinks, in Apollo 13 they make it back home safe, in 300 they alt die, and Vader is Luke’s father