Recent content by 22Phoenix22

When it comes to the silent protagonist, it really depends on how well the writers of the game do their jobs. The good: Jedi Knight 2 Kyle Katarn has a very distinct personality but he is very likeable. Most of all he doesn't really impose his own morals on the player but just makes...

I've been thinking about the whole Sims franchise. I used to play the sims 1 (now the sims 2, yeah i'm lagging a bit) and I always hated the fact that there were such an incredible amount of expansions. I always felt that paying 30 bucks for an expansion was a ripoff, especially since there were...

Actually he semi hit it. It is true that the main cause of crime is poverty, HOWEVER cultural diversity plays a big part as well. The reason for this is that different cultures view an action differently, be it a crime or completely legal. Take for example ritual slaughter, discrimination...

This is just rediculous because it is a blatant lie. Criminality (rate of people that have come in contact with police in a bad way) amongst Marocons in the Netherlands is roughly 50% against the 8% of the rest of the population. We also see the Turks and Surinams also have a rise, where Turks...

The biggest problem I have with Call of Duty is the invisible script lines. Sometimes (noticed this in CoD 1, 2 and Modern) I would be waiting for my guys to catch up with my or press the attack on the enemy, not knowing that I was standing 1 meter away from the line that needed to be crossed...

But when we take games like BG2 in thought. It had plenty instadeath abilities but they weren't TOO bad because there was a maximum amount of spells per rest, and you could revive people. My thought was, if in BG2 that much opponents are player classes, why do we have to resort to the rather...

That sounds totally sweet. Still pay 2 play?

Because if the player can be instadeathed, the enemies can too :). This makes a much faster gameplay then the hackhackhackhackhackhackstunhackhackhackhackhackstunhealhackhackhack gameplay :P.

There is one thing that seems to be missing in MMORPG's like WoW and Lineage 2 and that is the threat of getting instadeathed. If you see in games like Neverwinter nights (even though it has Persistant Worlds, it's not completely MMORPG) there are spells that can instakill anyone, which is...

It can be good if the amount of force users is limited (like 1 per 1000 characters or such). That way force users can realisticly kick people's ass but there will still be balance in the game and story (would be really silly if kashyyyk was inhabited by 20 000 force users, flinging wookies from...

Actually, Diablo 2 shined because of the multiplayer. I totally agree that the single player was a total grind fest and I didn't enjoy it at all. However, the moment you log online and join 7 other people it can get pretty cool. Especially if you are fighting above your own level (and some of...

I'm having a problem that may sound familiar with some other members of this forum and that is that I haven't found a game in a long time that I actually enjoy. I'm thinking of the RTS genre requiring you to have korean fast keyboard skills and feels more like a job then a game (since it'll be...