Donutta's discussions

@No Star is the New Star: I wouldn't say it's shitty, really. It's not even close to AAA, but it's not "Oh, I would have had more fun banging my head against a wall" either. Read more

@ceooflhm: Gamestop employees? I'd be more worried about normal people coming in here and calling you precious. A class action lawsuit over a video game case? Good grief. Read more

Mass Effect 2 I can understand, and I realise that if you are open you might as well sell everything you can, but MAG? Really? The beta was awful and showed no promise. I had more fun with Vampire Rain, of all things. Read more

@Owosso: It's not another $40. It's well known that PAL gamers pay far more for all games than Americans and Canadians. This is only a £15 increase over the usual RRP, which is US$24. That figure also includes a hefty tax in VAT. Read more

Funny how currency conversions work. £59.99 and US$100 work out to be roughly NZ$130 and NZ$140 respectively. NZ$130 is what the standard edition is going to retail for here. :( Read more

@maschinerie: I felt so uncomfortable watching that. I almost stopped a few times because I was just cringing in vicarious embarrassment. Read more

This game was a disaster from the start. I remember when I got it, I went to try and play it online and I wasn't able to buy the hunter's license despite the fact it was being sold officially in my country. Enquiries on the matter were never answered, and it reached the point where I just returned it as defective… Read more

@AcornPop: I definitely know what you mean about Warhawk. I jumped on it a while ago and started playing. I wasn't any good, but you know, I didn't care. I got a message after the first round that read: "L2P faggot." Read more

Really? While I've found most people on PSN don't have mics, those that do are, on average, bigger assholes than I've found on LIVE. In fact, one of the things that reminded me that I didn't want to play MAG was my time in the beta. People need to remember that it's a game... Read more

I'm kinda of sad that only one person so far has mentioned Shatter. It was not only the best digital download for me last year, but it was also my runner-up for GOTY. Read more

I went to go get Bruno from the on-demand thing the other day. It was 400ish MSP I think. At first it seemed like a good deal until I worked out that it was actually cheaper to go to the video store and rent the Blu-ray. Read more

@warpwhistle: If they want to do something like this, really they need to think about the cost and reward benefits of it. Read more

@AOClaus: While it's impressive tech, if it's reasons like this that Gran Turismo 5 has taken like six years to come out, then I think "gamers" need to give up on the series. Joe Average has no benefit for this. Read more

@AoE: Tim Rogers is a verbose video games journalist who over-analyses everything in life. Some people love him for it. Some people hate him for it. Many just say "TL;DR." Sometimes he writes for Kotaku. Tim Rogers love found here. Read more

@Shinta: Yeah, except I live in New Zealand. If I wanted them the next day, I would end up paying something ridiculous in shipping costs, if the supplier shipped to New Zealand at all. If I went for standard shipping it would be about two weeks, if it was on time. Read more

All the consoles have hidden costs. For example, I just got an Elite 360 (or is that 360 Elite) and discovered it no longer comes with HD cables of any kind. So the next day I had to go get one for NZ$30. There are also the costs of batteries and wireless adapters... but I decided against those. Read more

@snakepliskin: Yeah, it did. Especially when you got the leap ability. Quite a few times I'd try to grab and I'd just drop to the ground far, far below. I guess the difference was that I was never really under duress in Assassin's Creed II like I was in Uncharted 2, so I never felt like I died and had to repeat a… Read more

@grantanamo: Tight-as-hell controls? Did we play the same Uncharted 2? The controls were awful and the broken context sensitivity almost put me off the game entirely. The train sequence and the entire monastery level very nearly brought me to tears. Read more

I don't know how many people know this, but I was surprised to see that Assassin's Creed II had been turned into a book. We, as a community, seem to gush over Uncharted 2's story, but I think being a book says a lot about how the plot Assassin's Creed II was enough to stand on its own. Read more

NSMBW outsold MW2 on 360? Wow! Read more