Glad to see you...

If the gaming industry is an automobile, and the game designers are the drivers, then that makes us, the players, backseat drivers, and we'll be damned if we're gonna let the industry keep on heading the way it's going (good or bad) without letting them know what we think. So buckle up, feel free to complain about there being no air in the back, and bring your most critical and analytical mind to the open air discussion of the current age, Backseat Gamers!
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Friday, April 20, 2012

Most Favorite MP Gaming Moment Ever

We've all been playing games together as a group for the better part of a decade now and I want to know what's been your favorite moment of playing with each other ever?

I can recall dozens of hilarious moments, but I think my all time favorite goes to Lead Salad. 

He was visiting me for the week and his visit happened to coincide with the release of Resident Evil 5.  We both went to GameStop at midnight and bought it and then went back to my apartment to play LAN coop. 

We played for a solid 4-5 hours straight and things started to get a little....slap happy.  We were fighting some villagers and one of them happened to jump in such a way that the bottom of his foot was exposed and Lead Salad blasted the bottom of the guy's foot and killed him.  It may not sound funny, but we shit our pants laughing for about the next 20 minutes and it's something I still laugh out loud about to this day.

What's yours?

Thursday, April 19, 2012

Used Games

I know we aren't really supposed to link to other sites, but I just don't give a shit so here:

Videogames Can't Afford To Cost This Much

and

GameStop The ScapeGoat

I thought that these were extremely well thought out articles on not only the state of used games, but the cost of new ones as well.

I tend to agree with all points the author brings up.  How about you?

I think that publishers and developers need to take an honest look at their games and ask themselves if this game is worth 60 bucks?  Will this sell better at $40 bucks?  Is a tacked on MP (cough*Dead Space 2*cough) really going to sell more copies of your game? 

I think the last new game I bought that was only $50 bucks, at launch, was Perfect Dark Zero and that launched with the 360.

I'm not saying GameStop is perfect, but their trade-in policies have allowed me to get many a new game I otherwise wouldn't have and for that I'm grateful and frankly, the developers should be, too.

Also, Goozex.