TomFooligans's discussions

I love Robot Unicorn Attack. It's so arcadey that it reminds you, they've got some really great people making games over at [adult swim]. Simple, yes, but addictive to the point of cravings. Nevermind that there is always another high score to be beaten. One of the best $0.99 purchases you can make on the App… Read more

@tomrobbins9: Me either, until I saw Kotaku's post that the poor thing only sold 3,000 units. Abysmal. Read more

I am not sure how I feel about this...either they are trying to keep a previously important series alive (less likely) or they are just hoping that if they put out enough Tony Hawk games, eventually they will sell again (as if the game ever sold on brand alone to begin with). Read more

I don't care if these people are the most—or least—talented people money can buy; all I care about is whether or not they understand how to program spawn points. Read more

@Guntrigger: Well, I think that had the beta'd it, it might not have resulted in differently balanced weapons, which I only suggest because I am eating the PR cake and believing that they were sincere in their claims of attempting to make the all-around game the most balanced CoD experience yet. Read more

@VBerg: I can sincerely say that I can count the times I was spawn killed on MW2 on one hand, and CoD4 may be a bit far in the past for me, but I definitely remember being appalled by the (for me) perceived upswing in spawn killings in World at War. Read more

@iskygge: I think a big issue is that the maps aren't necessarily *that* small...and there are a fair share of large maps; rather, I think that regardless of the size of the map, there are too many obstacles and walls and buildings to allow for good sniping. If you have a sniper rifle on a map like Villa or Cracked,… Read more

@thecast: Although I agree that knife detection could be better, I don't seem to have as big a problem with it as my pals do. I tend to have more success with otherwise inaccurate knife "lunges" while I will often miss close up knife "swings" as if the entire mechanic was just for show. Read more

I just want not to spawn in a pile of bad guys, or for a pile of bad guys not to spawn on top of my position. Why is this the second swing and a miss for Treyarch in the area of "logical spawn points"? Why did Infinity Ward get it right before, and in-between Treyarch's most recent two efforts? I'm not trying to… Read more

@TheGreenBeaner: Never played it as a youngster, but I always wanted to. Only reason I had a DC at all was that my mom got dumped and she, like my late father, and like myself, spends money to make herself feel better. Read more

@gamerguy2002: Thanks, champ. Fekkin' saved! Read more

Do want Powerstone on 360. Other than that, most of my fond DC memories have since been replicated on other systems (Rez, Sonic Adventure, Street Fighter III, Skies of Arcadia, Jet Grind Radio, and so forth). I'm aware that Powerstone was brought to the PSP but I am not one of the 18 people who still plays that… Read more

They should frame Tony Hawk: Shred and put it in a museum, calling it, "Activision: A Portrait of Medicocrity." Seriously, what better imagery can one imagine for what is wrong with the Activision business model than game sales so pathetic as these? Split it evenly across the country and you're looking at 60 sales… Read more

Very interesting read. I got a similar desire to go digging for Black Ops reality checks and turned up that Vorkuta was a real Gulag, and that today, many (a whole lot) of its residents are either descendants of former prisoners (who cannot afford to leave) or are former prisoners themselves. Read more

@CubemonkeyNYC: o shit. That's what I get for not clicking. Read more

Reminds me of the story I read on Giz some years ago of the video featuring a dog head which seemed to be kept alive (in some capacity, like responding to light and taste) that was alleged to have surfaced from Cold War soviet experiments. Read more

LGalcuard's comment was superbly interesting. Decent crop this week, with his being the highlight. Read more

I did have a laugh at the times when he seem to be trying to go Bronx with his accent. And that might have been a good compromise within his ability. But you're absolutely right, Luke, he just can't do Americans. At all.

@chrismoke: Played it once; got my ass beaten down in the opening 10 minutes. The friend who had me play it though, he's beaten it... Read more

@MrPerson: I wondered at the end if that might be the case; of course I don't want McWhertor to leave Kotaku, but I was sincere in that the game could have been better if it had been corrected in development with the simple suggestions made by McWhertor in this review. Read more