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I'm with ya. One other thing that made the first Red Faction IMHO the best was the variations in environments - you'd go from stinking, cramped mine shafts to gleaming rich settlements no time at all. The atmosphere just wasn't the same in Guerilla (fun as it was).

I really hope they have plans for more than just miles upon miles of tunnels and rotting ruins.

My God that is an ugly app...

By the way, did you also like gaming better when it was on vinyl?

That's some pretty tall leaping there.

Lots of reviews complain about difficulty, or bad controls - and generally they are right. I've played more than a few games where I ignored the warnings: "how bad can the controls be, this game's badassery will make up for it" - and gotten burned for it.

No thanks. With gaming time ever decreasing as life takes over, if you can't smooth out your controls I simply don't have time for you. Sorry, nothing personal, but I have an ever-decreasing pool of gaming time, and the market has a lot of games that don't suffer from basic control and difficulty issues. I can't even play all of THOSE.

And I get that you're cool, you're old-school. You come from a bygone golden-age era of gaming where gamers were badasses capable of leaping tall buildings in a single bound, where masochistic self-immolation was part of the *experience* of being a gamer. Reloading that save point 25 times over to execute the absolute flawless victory? Sublime, best moment of my week.

Clearly people who don't want to constantly reload, people who just want a challenging, entertaining time without a million retries - clearly they're just hand-held pansies.

"Gotta love a gaming generation that lets reviewers control their opinions."

You mean, like every gaming generation? :P

Fact of the matter is, there are a LOT of games coming out nowadays - way too many even for someone with no life like me. I can't play 'em all - so I will go with the consensus.

Joystiq wasn't the only reviewer to think the game's bad.

You can get it in-game also...

@Xega No, it's because it runs interpreted code, which has not been allowed by Apple since day 1. Honestly, the author should have seen this coming.

The problem here is that:

1 - The app runs interpreted code, specifically prohibited by the dev agreement. The reason for this are many, but mostly to do with security.

2 - Not only does it run interpreted code, it will download code from the internet and run it - this is against Apple's dev agreement. Any and all code that your app will run needs to be in your app bundle that you distribute. Imagine installing an app on your PC where it can run amok, download code, and run it?

Honestly, I'm not a fan of Apple's draconian measures on iPhone/iPad dev, particularly this new stuff re: middleware, but this is a whole lot of nothing. Being able to run unverified, interpreted code in a non-sandboxed environment is pretty unsafe from a security and privacy perspective.

@High You mean the UK - the rest of Europe seems to be doing just fine when it comes to preserving freedoms and privacy. The UK though, yeah, is completely fucked.

Sony can keep my $100, I'll keep my right to, oh I dunno, take pictures in public, among many other things that Brits just outlawed.

@cc3d Actually, the comparable 24" monitor is the Dell U2410 at about $540. TN vs. IPS is a *gigantic* difference both in price and quality.

Also, if you think you draw on a screen better with a mouse than a tablet, there are a LOT of digital artists who'd like a chat with you. Wacom's entire business has been based on the fact that drawing with a mouse really, really blows.

@youngluck Not just that, most of us have shitty TN monitors that are terrible for photo editing. I'm too poor/cheap to buy a big IPS screen, so this might be a good way to preview pictures :)