Can never be too safe with parenting young kids. Even though I was watching South Park and Scarface by the time I was like 8ish, I think I turned out okay. With that said, the older I get I realize that maybe my friends and I were a little too ahead of ourselves. I see kids my brothers age at 15 and they feel so young and immature whereas some friends of mine had addiction problems by then. Puts things into perspective I suppose.

It's not a dumb question because you care about your kids! Buuuuut... I haven't played the game :S

@dmcmaster

On the opposite end, I dealt with EA customer service two days ago pertaining to my Origin account and issues with my email not showing up as registered, yet I could still change my password but not sign in. They were the most pleasant people I've ever dealt with on the phone and I've dealt with so many doozies lately: gas company, hydro, rental car, internet, basically everybody under the sun screwing up my services lately.

I support IGN's decision to fire their employee for plagiarizing and I'm not sure what they could have possibly done to catch the plagiarism as well. However, if you read what he was writing in his three reviews in question - the writing is not particularly professionally written nor is it a particularly detailed critique. I find a lot of critics suffer from middle of the road writing ability and I'm not saying they do not deserve their opinions or that they should not be critics, but the quality of a review can be an indicator of when somebody is in it for the cheque or if they are trying to push themselves in their ability to analyze a game.

I hope IGN and others really take a good look at what they publish in the future.

Aliens Colonial Marines on PS3

My roommate went to Canadian Tire (hardware store) looking for an air mattress and returned with Colonial Marines somehow. The critics were not harsh enough on this game. They must have been playing the PC version only. This game was an absolute piece of shit and one of the worst games I've ever played. We did it for the novelty of playing a bad game, but I think the Metascore is too high. There is no dynamic lighting on PS3, you can't see anything.

The framerate drops to a studder, the audio will only come out of the right speaker no matter what troubleshooting I do, the AI disappears, the AI won't attack you, the story is nonsense and I can never hear what they are saying because they audio is so bad and muffled. Sometimes I can't tell if my gun is shooting because the audio cuts out, there is no vibration, and there are no FX to show that the gun is in fact shooting.

What a mess, but we played it for the novelty of a terrible game and it delivered. I still think Shellshock 2 is worse but its close.

@bigdude1

GTA IV and RDR are very similar games. Especially the cover system, shooting mechanics, and mostly mission structure. I felt like RDR could have been a lot more than it was and so could GTA V for that matter as each game has only marginally introduced new ideas since GTA IV. RDR2 already has addressed my concern that there will not be new ideas. It looks a lot more fresh than I imagined.

This looks to be going in the right direction. I felt like RDR didn't need to be in the west. The gameplay was essentially just a typical shooter. RDR2 suits the theme a lot more with the bar fights, and roaming the varied wild environments. It doesn't look like GTA in the Wild West and I'm happy about that.

@darthammii

It’s crazy that you and Shim know about it because there are tons of gamers at work and nobody heard of Extreme G. I wanna play the PS2 game now.

My dad stole this from Blockbuster before they revoked his membership. It's pretty much a slower Wipeout/Mario Kart with bikes. Then they have a Twisted Metal type arena mode. The aesthetic is awesome and the music is kinda decent. I think it is relatively unknown because I've asked so many people about this game and nobody has heard of it.

I searched for XG-2 on YouTube and this guy is the first video that came up:

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Everybody always talks about SpongeBob Squarepants: Battle for Bikini Bottom, but the real unknown title that is far superior is SpongeBob Squarepants: Revenge of the Flying Dutchman

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Music, levels, humour, acting (actual cast), EVERYTHING is great in this game. Some levels are sparse and music gets recycled but this is basically the Simpsons Hit and Run of SpongeBob. So much ganeplay variety too. Most licensed platformers wished they were this fun and well contextualized.

Look at that roll jump - Mario Odyssey origins.

@tokeeffe9

So unfair. I believe a meritocracy should be able to work in theory but this is what happens when a bunch of frat bros run a company. So so frustrating.