dirigiblebill • Comments

• X-Wing Retrospective

• dirigiblebill 01/07/2012

  @D_arkTrooper You beauty. Thanks for those links. Reply +1

• Realm of the Mad God Review

• dirigiblebill 02/04/2012

  EG/Stanton - you might also want to consider the hectic brilliance that is Transformice. http://www.transformice.com/ Reply 0

• When Is a Game Not a Game?

• dirigiblebill 11/03/2012

  Much as I enjoyed this, there's a certain element of having your cake and eating it. "The 'is it a game' argument stops us having more interesting ones," you say. But isn't your article essentially an exercise in re-definition, one that makes room for the less-accepted possibilities of Dear Esther, LSD and co? Doesn't that demonstrate that debates over what constitutes a game are, in fact, worth having? Reply +1

• MotorStorm RC Review

• dirigiblebill 27/02/2012

  The result looks and plays a lot like the classic Micro Machines

  EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE. Reply +15

• Deep Insecurity

• dirigiblebill 11/01/2011

  "No it isn't, because it's illogical and it does nothing to explain why ease of piracy - which would logically REDUCE legitimate sales per machine - in fact coincides with the opposite effect."
  
  Just to chip in here - a high software attach ratio could be positioned as a cause of increasing piracy because software attach ratios are, to a degree, registers of demand, and I think it's fair to assume that pirates, whether they want to earn a living from their "trade" or not, will follow demand. Reply -1

• Call of Duty: Black Ops

• dirigiblebill 02/12/2010

  Great piece of writing - and masterfully tuned to Eurogamer sensibilities too (i.e. DANCE, YOU POP CULTURE ALLUSIONS, DANCE!)
  
  ;) Reply 0

• ScamVille

• dirigiblebill 30/11/2009

  Good summary of the issues by Rob, good (and challenging) comments from industry insiders (or people who appear to be so). Thanks everybody. Reply 0

• Monster Hunter Tri

• dirigiblebill 28/10/2009

  So which will you be playing more, Keza - this or Demon Souls? I loved MHF2, glad to see they've finally got round to doing a proper online component. Reply +1

• PSPgone

• dirigiblebill 03/10/2009

  Good article, particularly this point: "...a solid concept that was tugged in every direction by competing needs and ideas within Sony."
  
  The lack of a touch screen is irksome. Together with the sliding form factor, this would have put clear light between PSPgo and the iPod Touch/iPhone - slide it open for "trad" D-pad and face button gaming, slide it closed for short-burn Mini experiences, music and internet browsing.
  
  PS. I wonder how much credibility there is to the idea that a costly, feature-crippled PSPgo is the price we pay for the PS3 Slim and PS3 price-drops? Reply 0

• Nintendo games dominating in 2009

• dirigiblebill 06/07/2009

  A more accurate headline would be "Nintendo games dominating UK in 2009". Reply +6

• Prototype

• dirigiblebill 12/06/2009

  I should know better than to comment, but you, Mr Fapula, are an irrational twat of the very, very highest order. Congratulations.
  
  Do you want a medal? How about a punch in the face? Reply 0

• Tecmo unveils Undead Knights for PSP

• dirigiblebill 08/06/2009

  "unveils"? We've known about this for a while.
  
  http://games.kikizo.com/features/intervi... Reply 0

• inFamous

• dirigiblebill 22/05/2009

  What I love about his last post (other than the fact that he seems to think bolding something is a good substitute for, you know, proving it) is that Zedux actually stopped to explain what "STFU" stands for. Now that's considerate forum behaviour, kids. Reply +1

• dirigiblebill 21/05/2009

  This review is terrible because it has reminded me that the internet is full of delusional, barely literate walking scrotal sacks.
  
  To anybody bitching about the score - please kindly take a big step back, unzip your flies and fuck your own face. Reply +1

• dirigiblebill 21/05/2009

  "I POSIT that I cannot CONFIRM or DENY EG score until I ACTUALLY played the game and FORMED my own JUDGEMENT."
  
  OMG TEH LOGICS Reply 0

• Demon's Souls

• dirigiblebill 24/04/2009

  Farticus:
  
  As I'll never own a PS3 I'll just have to wait for the 360 port.
  
  Reply 0

• dirigiblebill 23/04/2009

  MisterCraig - I suspect she was being figurative :p Reply 0

• dirigiblebill 23/04/2009

  Jesus H Christ. I had no idea this game existed and now I want it so much I'm considering selling a kidney.
  
  Superb, well-structured and detailed review, Keza - you should show us some love at Kikizo one of these days ;) Reply 0

• Valkyrie Profile: Covenant of the Plume

• dirigiblebill 23/04/2009

  An interesting but by the sounds of it not entirely advisable reversal of the series' long-running soul-collection mechanic. Reply 0

• Little King's Story

• dirigiblebill 23/04/2009

  Which one did you watch first? Reply 0

• BioShock 2

• dirigiblebill 21/04/2009

  What's your occupation? Literary? Academic?
  
  From what I can remember of it, that article wouldn't have looked out of place on Gamasutra. Reply 0

• dirigiblebill 20/04/2009

  @Yossarian
  
  I recall reading your "rant" a year or two back. Good stuff - would like to see more. Do you write regularly for any sites? Reply 0

• BioShock 2: the cutting room floor

• dirigiblebill 20/04/2009

  Hell, at least you tied yourself in knots over the tricksy matter of objectivism. I once ground myself into a wall trying to ask some chap what he thought of DLC. Reply 0

• Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned

• dirigiblebill 16/02/2009

  Christ, a Scorsese fanboy. That's a new one.
  
  /takes notes Reply 0

• Flower

• dirigiblebill 16/02/2009

  "Learn how to play fuckign videogames dumbasses"
  
  "Fuck IGN" is a genre now? Reply +1