TomFooligans's discussions

In vanity, I avoided Death Note. I was in high school, and I had always sworn that "my anime" was better than "that anime on Adult Swim," and by extension, the people who watched "that anime on Adult Swim." I regret this, as I have come to understand that Death Note was not just a fad anime, but what will be… Read more

I think it's very trendy to knock Dead Space now that it's behind us, but when it first came out, it received positive reviews for being a good game and hey—it even did what it set out to do, which was make you nervous, and tense, and cause you to jump excitedly from time to time. It had a lot of Resident Evil in it,… Read more

Wow. That list of included games was sort of heartrending to read. Read more

This is wonderful, and so much less embarrassing than American masked do-gooders, walking around Cincinnati in black rabbit costumes and wielding fearsome pepper spray. Read more

This is the only type of reporting I would like to see about the games murderers play. I believe that we need to drag the rest of the media world into a type of discussion where it's not *that* he played video games, but *which* games he played, just as I would expect them to turn up this or that type of movie or… Read more

I'm not entirely sure what your thesis is, as "silent rebellion" needs some elaboration, but the general idea I get is that you are suggesting Modern Warfare 2's faults were deliberate attempts to express some sort of indignity. I have to disagree with that for several reasons. Read more

I always wonder about "mouse-on-console" gaming, because the input method really is different than that of a regular controller. With a controller, the game is listening for how far away the stick has been tilted from the dead zone, but with a mouse and a PC game, it is always listening for any slight movement… Read more

This makes me a sad guy...Capcom is consistently among my favorite game companies, and has been since I was a child. Mega Man X. That intro when you turned on the game, and Capcom's little 16 bit logo appeared, and seemed to say, "we know you, and what you want in a game...you can always trust us." Sure, they've… Read more

@r2khimself: Well, that and they're making money off it. Read more

@Spiffyness: I'll have to take your word for it. I only had a DS Lite. Read more

It was always going to be the Gameboy Micro of this handheld cycle. A neat little device on its own merits, but barely more appealing than (or less appealing than) its older sibling. Read more

True that. I haven't bought a retail cord in years. $2-4 is my normal HDMI price. Read more

I lol'd a bit at the inclusion of Bejeweled Blitz, rather than Bejeweled 3... Read more

This is very interesting. It reminds me of when Apple claimed (and I can only assume it was true) that the original "i"OS in the iPhone was a customized build of OS X. This could do wonders for carving out a niche for Microsoft to have integrated solutions, combining Xbox, Windows, and mobile devices. Very exciting… Read more

Does this remind anyone else of those pay-per-play video game setups in the hotels of yesteryear? I feel like in the 90's on every vacation, there would be a hotel with a SNES controller hooked up to some proprietary game-streaming system that charged by the hour... Read more

Très intéressant... Read more

I love Kotaku, Crecente, and NPR...this is just great. Listening now on my iPhone. Awesome. Read more

I played a lot of Castle Crashers in the year which saw its release, but never owned it myself—the price was too steep. I believe the only $15 XBL titles I have picked up were Shadow Complex, Limbo, and Braid...Magic too, if that was $15. Crashers though, seemed at its most fun with friends piled in a living room. … Read more

If my PS3 still worked, I would be dying for them to announce Chrono Cross for the US PSN store...I tried to play my PSone discs in mint condition and the system always got hung up a couple hours in...I imagine that by releasing it to the JP PSN store, they don't expect such bugs to occur. When I die, Chrono Cross… Read more

@Tmboy: Oh come on now, I was just making a bit of fun out of this kid's shoulder bruise. I'm sure in real life I would be taken aback, but I would know almost immediately that the anecdote would later lead to lots of laughter. Read more