LiamK • Comments

  • Fire Emblem DLC censored in the west

  • LiamK 05/05/2013

    @coderkind On the other hand, some of those playing possibly ARE 8 years old. So...

    (Really, I dunno. On the one hand it's seems a bit of a silly thing to censor. On the other hand, getting worked up about it also seems a bit silly. I DEMAND MY RIGHT TO SEE GIRLIE BOTTOM IN TACTICAL ROLE-PLAYING GAME, and so on.)     Reply 0

  • And this is what Activision's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game looks like

  • LiamK 03/05/2013

    @bad09 "new art styles for the cartoons are never a patch on the old one where they all had character"

    You mean the 80s cartoon where all 4 Turtles were drawn exactly the same, with only their different coloured bandanas to tell them apart? Yes, they had much more character than the 2000s cartoon or the latest CGI show where all the Turtles have different designs. Y'know, for personality.

    But hey, if you want to play "things when I were young were awesome and things now are shit", knock yourself out.     Reply 0

  • Garry's Mod: $22 million in seven years and now Garry is making a new PC game

  • LiamK 07/03/2013

    @SuperSoupy as that money pays for the infrastructure required for him (and us) to get an education which in turn allowed him to make millions of pounds, then shooting the taxman would be rather spiteful just because he is now in a position to not require those services. But yeah, screw the tax man, and schools, hospitals, the police, fire brigade, roads, charities, etc etc. Reply +4

  • Forget the Dead Island: Riptide pre-order incentives, what's happening with that awful Zombie Bait bikini torso edition?

  • LiamK 02/03/2013

    @Kryon

    Er, are you honestly saying that there's more violence directed at men because more men die in the army than women?

    You do understand that when army members are killed, it's not because they are men (or women), don't you? Because otherwise you've managed to miss the point so spectacularly that it can actually be seen from space.     Reply +2

  • Star Trek Preview: "It's like someone spliced Metroid Prime into my Uncharted"

  • LiamK 13/09/2012

    So many posts, and not a single "There's no such thing as a Vulcan Death Grip."

    And you call yourselves fans.     Reply 0

  • Transformers: Fall of Cybertron Review

  • LiamK 24/08/2012

    "I pity the young-uns and their Ben Ten bullshit these days..."
    @SClaw What about the young-uns and their non stop Transformers cartoons for the past 14 years, at least half of which have been much, much better than the original 80s series?     Reply +5

  • Lost Humanity 8: Days of Nothing

  • LiamK 16/08/2012

    @NiolK
    "Her mother isn't especially girly so her preference for floral dresses and pink toys didn't come from her and she was, for the most part so far, home-schooled so it's unlikely that peer pressure lead to here preferences."
    The problem with that argument is that is assumes that pink is natually a girly colour. Less than a hundred years ago, baby boys were dressed in pink and baby girls were dressed in blue, because pink was a "stronger" colour.

    It would be almost impossible to determine if cultural pressure plays a part in stuff like this. You say this girl was "mainly" home-schooled, but did she spend any time around people her own age? Watching television? Did she ever wander into a toy shop and see that while the boys aisle was full of colour, the girls one was pretty much wall to wall pink?     Reply +1

  • LiamK 16/08/2012

    I am arguing that white privilege doesn't exist because it implies all whites have it, which they don't. You are arguing that the white race, is, in general, in a privileged position compared to other races.
    They are kind of the same thing. Sure, not all white people are rich. But I bet you a bottom of the rung white person would have better luck trying to find a job than a bottom of the rung black person, if all other things are equal.

    It's like the article "Straight White Male - the lowest difficulty setting there is" states: there are rich black females. There are poor white males. But by and large, in the vast majority of cases, a straight white person will find things easier in life than a gay black female.     Reply 0

  • LiamK 15/08/2012

    @Azhrarn

    Harley Quinn the original character isn't misogynistic. She was a victim, and only really worked with the animated series version of the Joker, but she wasn't misogynistic. The version in the video games though who is incapable of covering up her suddenly massive breasts? Different person.     Reply +3

  • Saturday Soapbox: The Outsiders

  • LiamK 11/08/2012

    The thing is (and to be fair, this is touched on in the article itself) is that there's a real danger of comparing A successful Indie project to ALL commercial games. The commercial games that bomb make a big splash. The indie games that don't are noticed by no-one apart from the guy who made it. Of course, it's also true that the former instance is going to cost lots of people lots of money wheras the latter is only costing one guy time and money, but it's still unfair to do a direct comparison.

    This thing is a bit touchy for me because it veers dangerously close to the arguments spouted by Gove that we should get in teachers from outside the teaching profession, because they would have "new ideas" and not be "burdened by the existing" rules. Again, like the acticle mentions, an idealic Dead Poet's Society situation. This, of course, is bollocks. In 99% of cases teaching comes down to study, preperation, and more preperation. We have a danger nowadays of demeaning professionals and assuming that anyone can do their job.     Reply +6

  • EA's Battlefield 3 Facebook adverts worked big time

  • LiamK 27/07/2012

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  • Worms Collection announced for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360

  • LiamK 25/07/2012

    Do we really need Worms on a G3 console in 2012?
    ...nope, sorry. I've tried hard but I can't work out how the Ps3/360 are "G3" consoles. This is either a measuring system I've never heard of before, or some people think that the PlayStation 1 was the first ever games console.     Reply +3

  • Father blames Microsoft as son spends £1150 on Xbox Live

  • LiamK 13/07/2012

    Although I agree with most of the comments, is no-one else depressed that apparently "mong" is still an acceptable insult in 2012? Reply +2

  • X-Wing Retrospective

  • LiamK 01/07/2012

    Well, there were meant to be 9 episodes, with Shadows of the Empire (I think) following on after Return of the Jedi.
    After 20-odd years, you think that lie would have been put to bed once and for all.     Reply +4

  • PES dev slams FIFA 13's aesthetic changes

  • LiamK 29/06/2012

    "We always focused on gameplay and that's what we want to get back to."
    Er, hold on... you've "always" focused on gameplay so this year you are going to "get back to" focusing on gameplay?

    Buh?     Reply +14

  • Microsoft announces new Surface tablet

  • LiamK 19/06/2012

    This could be very useful in an office environment. We have several people requesting iPads at work, but from a security point of view it's really tricky. You'd be amazed at the number of offices that lock down the user's PCs, but give them free reign on their iPads and smart phones.

    A Windows tablet that can slot into an existing Active Directory structure, using all your existing policies could be very useful.     Reply +5

  • Lego Batman 2 trailer shows Joker, Batman talking

  • LiamK 12/06/2012

    Batman sounds like Mysterion from South Park.

    Oh my god, Kenny is Batman!     Reply +1

  • Is Nintendo HD Ready?

  • LiamK 03/06/2012

    Hollywood movies are sh*t. Anime is ace. In place of explosions the ?void? lol is filled by quality as any sane person would expect. Strange.[/quote

    Or maybe some Hollywood films are shit, some are good, some anime is shit, and some is good?
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  • Epic unveils Unreal Engine 4 with stunning in-game screens

  • LiamK 17/05/2012

    I think we should all remember what a massive mainstream success the Neo Geo was. Reply +4

  • SWTOR Game Update 1.2 tomorrow: patch notes, maintenance timing

  • LiamK 11/04/2012

    The chief reason for this is actually highlighted in this article - maintenance times. European players are treat like second class citizens with peak maintenance times that are ran at the same time as the off-peak times for our US counterparts.
    The article says that the downtime is 6am to 2pm. On a weekday, that seems a fairly reasonable time.     Reply 0

  • Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime Review

  • LiamK 15/03/2012

    My wife would get on well with one of these. She goes on lots of courses and travels a lot, so a tablet that also works as a laptop replacement would be perfect. Is there a better Office package for it, even one that costs? I don't think OpenOffice is available for Android, is it? Reply +1

  • LiamK 15/03/2012

    ...a digital storefront that is literally bursting with apps and games.
    Hnnng.

    (Isn't there another new one of these coming out, with a better screen, and some oddness like quad core only being on the wi-fi-only version?)     Reply +3

  • Should More Indie Developers Be Saying 'Just Pirate It'?

  • LiamK 01/03/2012

    I have been downloading episodes of Transformers: Prime from Torrents. I do this because I can't buy the series on DVD, either region 2 or region 1. If/when it comes out, I will buy it. I know a few people who download the latest US TV episodes, and most of them would pay for it if there was a legal alternative that didn't involve waiting.

    I know it's a bit "I want all my stuff all the time now!", but when you have a global communication network, it feels awfully backward to be saying "oh, I can't watch that TV show for another 6 months or so."

    I do agree with what someone else said... when I had an Amiga 90% of my games were pirated, and I had more than I could play. Nowadays I buy everything, because I can afford it. Games, by and large, are great value for money compared to almost any other form of mass entertainment. I also spend my time trying to convince relatives not to by (for example) R4 cards for their kids DSs, if for no other reason that it means they can never buy them a game for Christmas again. ("Oh, why did you buy me this? I could have just downloaded it.")

    My nephew used to download pirated stuff on his jailbroken iPad all the time. The thing that stopped him was when I was discussing with him what he wanted to do when he grew up. He has an interest in technology in general, and said he'd quite like to make apps and games. I asked him how he'd feel if he made an app, came home and found that all his family had pirated it.     Reply +2

  • Revealed: GAME's memo to staff on Mass Effect 3 cancellation

  • LiamK 29/02/2012

    Also, if someone actually spoke to me in the way that email suggests I swear I'd be leaving the store with bloody knuckles, handcuffed and never to be seen again.
    @Shikasama You mean if someone apologised for the situation, empathised with your predicament, offered you a full refund and an extra £5 voucher, you'd feel compelled to punch them until they were bleeding all over your fist?

    I hope I'm never in a restauranet with you if they get your order wrong.     Reply +68

  • New Xbox 360 update tinkers behind the scenes

  • LiamK 23/02/2012

    Why are you sitting around waiting for your 360 to shut down, rather than doing anything else in the world? Reply +35