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Re: Facebook Friends Can Now Be Filtered By City (Again)

KMxRetro — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 03:31:34 -0000

Seriously, who retweeted this and got a bunch of replies advising them of how cool they were? Is it just me that feels that the whole "OMG!! THEY DONE CHANGED A BUTTON!" crew are more than a bit tiresome? "GOOGLE HAS MADE THEIR SEARCH BOX BIGGER!" - Great, I'll look at it when I next USE Google. "FACEBOOK LETS YOU FILTER BY CITY!" - Again, I'll notice and use that when I come to filter through my friends list on Facebook. Hardly what you'd call "news."

As for "The biggest complaint from users? They want to find their friends by location when they travel" - that's just idiotic. Seriously. How many people truly have NO IDEA about where friends (that they want to visit) actually live?

Re: BREAKING: Facebook Introduces @Mentions in Status Updates

KMxRetro — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 03:27:38 -0000

But its BREAKING!!! IT HAS TO BE KNOWN NOW! (Apparently.)

Re: Ochocinco to NFL: I Found Twitter Loopholes!

KMxRetro — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 06:18:37 -0000

Not to be an idiot, but does anyone REALLY care about this? Surely it isn't any different to the guy in your office that found a way "around" the "no browsing" rules by using his phone?

Re: Ashes Cricket 2009

KMxRetro — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 08:24:23 -0000

As well you should, since it rocks.

Re: FIFA 09: Ultimate Team

KMxRetro — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 04:57:16 -0000

Waiting for what?

Re: FIFA 09 - Best 100 Players

Simon — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 08:45:10 -0000

You really are an egotistical jerk. Get the rankings correct and people wouldn't comment on the problems.

Re: FIFA 09 - Best 100 Players

xxxhitdanxxx — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 15:33:37 -0000

but he's right this is a stupid list because players like Frey arent better than Vidic and Lampard and how in hell can the 2nd best player on the game be a Goalkeeper?

Re: FIFA 09 - Best 100 Players

KMxRetro — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 03:57:07 -0000

TY. Eye obv dnt knw tht.

Re: FIFA 09: Ultimate Team

KMxRetro — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:42:22 -0000

Hi Kyle,
No, of course it won't. It'll just remove your team from the game, so you can start a new one.

Re: FIFA 09 Commentary Packs available

sastre14 — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 10:42:48 -0000

how? im kinda new in fifa 09 :(

Re: DSi Ware launch lineup is less than impressive

KMxRetro — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:32:41 -0000

Did you type that from your DSi, by any chance?

Re: FIFA 09 - Best 100 Players

KMxRetro — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:05:41 -0000

Of course, the phrase you were looking for was "This list is a failure" or "You have failed at compiling this list" - neither of which is a question.

But never mind.

Re: FIFA 09 - Best 100 Players

KMxRetro — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 12:40:15 -0000

Richard "m8" - Congratulations on being able to get to 192nd position in the "World" on FIFA (despite the leaderboards being split between all the various console versions) and yet not being able to spell.

Re: The Eurogamer Scandal

KMxRetro — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 12:40:14 -0000

That's a hugely misaligned argument though, unfortunately. A book is sequential, meaning that you have to read to the end to find out what happens. A game - and certainly not this one - is generally not as rigid in form, and isn't being reviewed based on just the story anyway.

If you were reviewing a book where the pages gradually started to smell like someone had just farted, with that smell becoming worse every time you turned a page - I very much doubt you'd get to the end just so that you could review it ethically.

Re: The Eurogamer Scandal

Baconstrip — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 10:10:07 -0000

TammyFae is right. If 2 hours was good enough for the review, then he should have been upfront about it and admitted the amount of time invested. People could gauge his credibility at the outset instead of assuming, like every other good reviewer, that he had actually spent time playing the game.

If he made the claim about its leveling system on 2 hours....well, that is indefensible.

I can't understand why you are defending it. Even when I was a kid, I knew writing a book report when I didn't read more than a couple pages was wrong. This is just basic journalism ethics here.

Re: Prototype

KMxRetro — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:41:23 -0000

Haha, awesome! I've found its unbelievably calming to pick up a pedestrian, climb to the top of the nearest building and see if you can't bowl him into something destructible. Free-roaming at its best! :)

Re: Where on Earth is Professor Layton 2?

KMxRetro — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 01:04:11 -0000

It's still confirmed as just "late 2009" everywhere I look, but I hope that 24/08 is true. :)

Re: Guitar Hero: Metallica

KMxRetro — Thu, 21 May 2009 12:05:57 -0000

A fair point - and one that I wasn't aware of, what with not being a Metallica fan. Thanks for pointing it out. :)

Re: Complete FIFA 09 Team Rankings - Best to Worst

fake_tales — Tue, 19 May 2009 06:43:07 -0000

Where does it display a team's chemistry?

Re: Battlestations: Pacific

KMxRetro — Mon, 18 May 2009 05:06:09 -0000

Oh, really? That's strange, as I found the tactical map does very little. Especially when you're attacking the Iowa in the final Japanese mission. Then again, the AI on that level is so poor that you don't need it to.

And questioning the amount of time I spend with game to review it is a little rich, especially when you can't even be arsed to make your comment legible.

Re: The Eurogamer Scandal

KMxRetro — Wed, 13 May 2009 08:23:21 -0000

Awesome reasoning.

Re: The Eurogamer Scandal

KMxRetro — Tue, 12 May 2009 19:16:10 -0000

A lot of fair points. I'm not particularly tense, since I have no affiliation with the game, Eurogamer, Ed Zitron or the review itself. That's more than can be said for some of the commenters here though. :) TammeFaeForever repeatedly suggested that the industry was made up of untrained enthusiasts, I think you'll find. It didn't hit close home to me at all. I have training and I have paid work in the industry - as well as this site, which is my own project.

If you feel that a review written after two hours of playing time is "illegitimate" then fine. I would say that the majority of MMO titles can't be reviewed within two hours. However, if the reviewer - who is supposed to be giving a recommendation on purchasing the title or not - wouldn't play the game for more than two hours, then why is that not enough? Surely he or she can fairly say "this game is rubbish, I wouldn't play it for more than 2 hours" without that being in some way unethical? I'm not saying that's what Zitron did, but it seems that everyone is expecting every reviewed title to be fully completed by anyone wishing to write a review of them - when that is neither practical, nor required in 90% of cases.

Re: The Eurogamer Scandal

KMxRetro — Tue, 12 May 2009 19:13:32 -0000

I never said that 2 hours WAS enough to review Darkfall. I said that "there are times when two hours is all it takes to review a game of ANY nature."

And I'm not blindly assuming that Ed is correct. I VERY CLEARLY state that I reserve judgement as I haven't played the game. I was posing the question to you guys, after presenting what I know - hence the questions at the end of the article.

Re: The Eurogamer Scandal

KMxRetro — Tue, 12 May 2009 18:35:38 -0000

Where did I assume that Ed was correct, please? I said I'd never played the game - and I probably won't - so I can't pass judgement. For all I know, it could be the greatest MMO ever created. And I very much doubt that Zitron has a cross to bear against Aventurine, given that even people on their own message board don't know enough about the company to be able to spell the name correctly.

Re: The Eurogamer Scandal

KMxRetro — Tue, 12 May 2009 18:31:38 -0000

A lot of fair points. I'm not particularly tense, since I have no affiliation with the game, Eurogamer, Ed Zitron or the review itself. That's more than can be said for some of the commenters here though. :) TammeFaeForever repeatedly suggested that the industry was made up of untrained enthusiasts, I think you'll find. It didn't hit close home to me at all. I have training and I have paid work in the industry - as well as this site, which is my own project.

If you feel that a review written after two hours of playing time is "illegitimate" then fine. I would say that the majority of MMO titles can't be reviewed within two hours. However, if the reviewer - who is supposed to be giving a recommendation on purchasing the title or not - wouldn't play the game for more than two hours because he thinks that its a load of old rubbish, then why is that not enough? Surely he or she can fairly say "this game is rubbish, I wouldn't play it for more than 2 hours" without that being in some way unethical? I'm not saying that's what Zitron did, but it seems that everyone is expecting every reviewed title to be fully completed by anyone wishing to write a review of them - when that is neither practical, nor required in 90% of cases.