Tim

Amnesty is anti-civil rights? That has to be the stupidest thing I've read in some time, and I read *the Internet*

There are even better music apps out there. Check out ThumbJam, seriously. Polychord is also great.

For a reader, I love Pulse.

This is not disrespectful, tasteless, etc. It's just boring, lousy, unimaginitive "art".

Now if only someone would make a game that actually dealt with the reality of 9/11 and what it represents for all of us who now have to live under the phony "war or terror". The official fiction that has been shoved down our throats is so laughably false as to need no refutation here.

How about a game where we fight the real terrorists? Oh, right, because then the developers would end up in Guantanemo...

I don't count it as piracy when I ALREADY BOUGHT ALL THE GAMES I HAVE ROMS FOR A LONG TIME AGO. Only a fool would repay for all the games they already bought. This just saves me the trouble of hooking up my dusty old NES.

also, SNES Rainbow Road levels

SNES Ghost Valley levels, esp. whichever ones had shortcuts

What retard could ever possibly think that gaming is *defined by story*?! Sorry guys, guess Mario's not a game. Yeah. and fuck all those other classic "games" too. Didn't they know they were toys all along?

Seriously guys, come on.

I was surprised that the little survey didn't give us a 'Myth III' option. That's what I want. I think that game would have a very good changing of finally nailing RTS (technically it would be Real Time Tactics) on console.

Like it or not, video games DO NOT need stories. What makes a video game art is not some half-assed analogy to narrative media, it's the space of possibilities created by the designers and the satisfying experience of interacting with it. Some games do narrative well (Half Life 2, Portal), but it's completely unnecessary. Most all of my favorite games, e.g. Mario, have no storyline worth mentioning at all. When they try to add storyline, it just detracts from the experience, e.g. the Metroid series.

Also, it's ridiculous to get upset because someone who reviews books is ignorant of video games. They and most of the population. Get used to it.

I've been playing video games for 20 years, and I can honestly say that I consider N to be one of the greatest games of all time. It has complex gameplay that emerges from a simple control scheme, and it constantly challenges you to become better, learning new moves that you never thought you could pull off before.