EvaUnit02 on 13/10/2008 at 14:32
Quote Posted by Koki
They actually said "Dogshit" in a major magazine?
PC Zone has always quite informal, very "working class" British.
Quote Posted by Malf
Besides which, this is an EA title, right?
You just
know it's got SecuROM.
Likely, but it doesn't necessarily mean that they'll be an activation limit. I.e. the recent PC port of Mercenaries 2 only had a CD check.
Ostriig on 13/10/2008 at 18:59
Quote Posted by Koki
They actually said "Dogshit" in a major magazine?
Yes. I was rather disappointed with the author's recurring dog fetishism, since his main term of comparison for the game was a "three-legged dog [that] still runs around and licks his dick". Now, that's quite alright on the internet, but I have these misguided, antiquated expectations of a quasi-academic language when it comes to actual printed publications. After all, if I wanted a reference manual for this sort of metaphors, I could just check some fellow TTLG members' posting histories.
For free.june gloom on 13/10/2008 at 23:18
It's been an honour providing such services.
june gloom on 14/10/2008 at 07:43
Unfortunately game reviewers' collective memories kind of only go back as far as 2001 or so. We've known this for years. It's still irritating, but it's nothing new.
N'Al on 14/10/2008 at 09:37
Ugh, the reviewer never said that back-story via text, audio and video logs started with Doom 3.
Why are you lot even making an issue of this?
vurt on 14/10/2008 at 09:48
Quote Posted by N'Al
Why are you lot even making an issue of this?
why are you making an issue over our issue? i have issues with reviewers that doesn't remember or even knows about, the probably, best PC game of all time.
N'Al on 14/10/2008 at 10:00
Thing is, from what's written in the review, you have no way of telling that the reviewer doesn't remember or even knows about, as you're saying, the 'best PC game of all time'. All the reviewer is doing is not mentioning it.
You're making implications about things that aren't even there, a.k.a. mountains out of molehills.
vurt on 14/10/2008 at 10:35
Quote Posted by N'Al
You're making implications about things that aren't even there, a.k.a. mountains out of molehills.
But if was there, if he had mentioned SS2 (instead of a crap game such as Doom3) i wouldn't have an issue with it to begin with would i? ;)
And stop making such a bid deal out of this or "a.k.a. mountains out of molehills" as you so nicely put it. I didn't want a 2 page disussion about it tbh.
But...(:rolleyes:) If a (music)reviewer forgets to mention (or doesnt even know about) that the song he's reviewing is a cover of the Beatles, and instead he mentions a really crappy band that made the same cover, any Beatles fan would be pissed. It's the same thing. But let's move on. It's not the end of the world.
