Brian Ashcraft's discussions

A special effects geek is also a game geek? Who woulda thunk it? Read more

@Ironfistchinmi: Me too, the Doom series seems an odd one to try to put emphasis on story though. Read more

Worked the first time for me, and I thought they'ed be out of keys by now. Read more

@thedevilsadvocate: Realistically you're never going to get a good enough look at the thing outside of cut scenes to tell how bad it looks so it's not really a big deal. Read more

@System_Zero: It's even better to surf on the roof of a car in a trenchcoat flashing people. That's the easiest way to complete the flashing diversion. Read more

@shan6: You have a 3.2 GHz DUAL CORE CPU that's 3 years old? I find that hard to believe. I have a high end dual core processor (as of last march) and it's only 3GHz. Read more

I'm right with them on the browser thing. It's completely pointless other than the initial "hey, cool." gimick. Anyone who has a broadband connection is going to have a computer of some sort with a web browser. Youtube and Hulu integration would be great though. Read more

This could be good. I'll be optimistic for now. Does anyone know if the perks will be persistent (CoD4, awesome) or per-game (Shadowrun, mediocre)? Read more

@AtomFury: Dropbox is so useful it's scary. Within a week of installing it I became so reliant on the damn thing that I shudder just thinking about what life used to be like without it. Read more

Songbird's a nice app, sadly since they switched to gstreamer, I have some nasty playback issues in Windows, which make it essentially unusable as a music player. Read more

Rogue still has the advantage of using webkit instead of the godawful IE/Trident renderer steam uses. Read more

The XIII trailer looks great. I'm quite optomistic despite Square-Enix's rather disappointing performance as of late. Versus just looks like it's trying way too hard. Read more

It's probably just because it's affordable, but if Square Enix actually thinks that the current creators of Tomb Raider and Kane and Lynch are a good foundation for entering the western market... well, let's just say that the reason for their inability to crack the market is pretty clear, they're completely out of… Read more

@PapaBear434: Agreed, my good man Read more

@damatman: They don't live in the actual house, they live in the basement or garage, silly ;P Read more

I have to say I liked Crackdown's Keys to the City much better. They they weren't as impressive looking in the physical sense, but they were much more useful and everyone got a set. Read more

Adventure games may not be a violent genre, but when I think of games that make me want to become violent, adventure is on the top of the list :P Read more

There will be alternatives out before you know it. All this will ultimately do is give the companies that make these "homebrew" devices more money. Read more

You can hold R (or whatever button is configured to switch between first and third person) to move the camera around to see yourself. Please take a picture! Read more

Feature-wise (other than the terrible windows sidebar/gadgets, which unfortunately still look terrible in W7). What bothered me was performance. Needing at least an extra gig of RAM to get performance comparable to XP sucks. Having sleep, hibernate, SHUTDOWN AND REBOOT, or all of the above not work on every computer… Read more