Mass Deduction (née scrapking)'s discussions

I haven't read Moneyball, which is why my comments were restricted to the trailer (since you expressed curiosity about whether people who hadn't read the book would be confused... and, well, I was! :) ). Read more

I'm confused after watching the trailer. They're going to get cheap players, put them in positions they're not familiar with, and win games? WTH? Read more

I've got big hands, but slender fingers. Read more

What I will never understand is that my favourite two original Xbox controllers were the Microsoft "Duke", and the Mad Catz MicroCon... the largest, and smallest, Xbox controllers on the market, respectively. Read more

@t('-'t).........................The Unpronounceable: What was so bad about the black and white buttons? Read more

@GtheMVP99: It was amazing for Project Gotham Racing, so big and round you could almost mistake it for a steering wheel. Still have an original launch day Xbox with an original Duke. Read more

I like this one more, FWIW. Read more

The article suggested it might be around 2014, so my comments were framed in the context of the article. Read more

@soren121: There have been lots of 3D XNA titles. "MotorHEAT" is one of the first ones I ever heard of (and it's awesome, BTW), but there are many others now. Read more

Nothing near final hardware has ever been delivered to a developer 3 years ahead of launch in video game history, I don't believe. The PowerMac-based dev kits hadn't even been rolled out to 360 developers by this point prior to the 360's launch yet. Read more

Sony needs to be made familiar with the concept of the "Dump Day", a day where you lay out all the bad news that you could possibly lay out to get it over with a create a sense that you're aware of the fullness of the problem and on top of it. Read more

@Smitty: If you'd have capitalised "move" then I would have said "I see what you did there." :) Read more

@traintracks: See above. Read more

@VagEnthusiast: He doesn't call himself Dude Huge, and has aksed others to not do so either, so I believe you're out of line here (at least for your stated reason). Read more

@VagEnthusiast: Didn't Dude Huge deny it was going to be a trilogy several years ago, rhetorically asking "why stop at just three"? Read more

How can any discussion of fantastic on-rails shooters not bring up Starblade, Afterburner, or for the love of the gods, Panzer Dragoon! Read more

My favourite video game show was "Game Nation" that aired on Canadian network CTV in the mid-90s. It was part news show, part game show, and all crazy hosts (including one guy called the "Ted Head" who appeared almost exclusively as a head shot on monitors around the studio). Read more

I'm glad at least that it's becoming generally accepted that the actual amount of cost-effectively harnessable power in the 360 and the PS3 is virtually identical, and that to get significantly more power out of one or the other requires too much in the way of human resources to be practical and/or profitable. Read more

@BubbleF**kingBuddy: But how do you know if you can afford to? It might have a tidbit that's relevant to whatever gameplay is eventually coming up. Read more

There's nothing wrong with shooters, but I like more variety than that. This trend towards "me too" retail releases is a big part of why I've switched to indie games. I've played some amazingly innovative games, and enjoyed new takes on classic genres that haven't been revisited in eons, and paid $1-5 for each game… Read more