Recent content by Alucadrian

It does add a new element of fear, the climbing spiders. However, there is a solution that no one here has yet mentioned, as well. There are two types of blocks, and only two, that spiders cannot climb. One is Sand, which isn't all that helpful as sand is nigh-useless to build with. However...

This is entirely fascinating to me as a phenomenon, I must admit. Zoom out from the issue and look at what's happening here in the frame of this question: When was the last time you ever, EVER saw a game inspiring this much buzz, talk, sales, play, and now actual knockoff emulation... before...

You know, I think that you've got me on a few points in there. I did misremember several posts as yours that actually belonged to other posters far more befitting the insulting names I was calling, and that's just sloppy thinking on my part, and even less justified writing and admonishing...

*grins, finally interested* Ah... a challenge, albeit of a rather brittle sort. Allow me to inform you, since you seem still trapped beneath the mistaken notion that simply demanding things with a stamp of your little foot brings about change in others: You shall have me off this high horse when...

The recurring frequency of this might have clued you in by now, friend, that as a joke it isn't really meeting the minimum requirement.

Good question. This thread title interested me (a male who originally had no intention of posting since the question was stated as not being for me) at first, and then proceeded to both amuse and irritate me in alternating turns. What's amusing: The speed at which a thread started with the...

Word. Every revolutionary intellectual thinker in the history of humankind began as the tiny fraction of a percent standing alone against the grand majority who believed otherwise. This doesn't make every minority correct, but it does suggest that good science lies in hearing out and being...

Intelligent, cohesive, intriguing beginning to open a discussion, TC. My physics class has just finished a three-week long segment on the global warming issue, so I find the conundrum of insufficient data on both sides of this question to be very interesting indeed. My regards, friend.

A lukewarm review, friend, since it seems to be deliberately looking for game idiosyncracies to complain about. Some of the "weaknesses" listed here are the result of player error, not systematic flaw. Others seem to be distinctly twisting game elements either to sound worse than they are or...

*chuckles* Well spoken, friend. You make some good points. The "horror" part of "Survival horror" is indeed somewhat dependent on believability, which is to say relate-ability, which is to say resemblance to reality. Are not the most horrifying films and media those which initially bear a close...

Hate to say it, but having tried both, I find Lord of the Rings Online to be a better game as toward what I'm looking for in an MMO. Better graphics, deeper plotline, more vibrant characters, even down to the smallest NPC. Less pulp, more plot. *shrugs* But as ever, that is only my opinion...

First of all, I feel it's important to point out that Resident Evil, as a series, has never billed itself as "zombie games." It bills itself as "Survival Horror," and used zombies as the incarnation of horror in its first several titles. So the premise that the recent games are somehow...

Damn, but I DO remember this! I had always believed this to be a glitch in my game alone; never realized it was so widespread. I'm good enough about saving that I generally keep three files for an RPG in progress and rotate between them cyclically, but that doesn't mean my last save wasn't quite...

You misunderstand me, friend. I wasn't employing those examples as a proclamation of their quality as ideas; at best that could only ever be my opinion anyway, never fact or law. I was speaking of them as examples of the synergy to which I was referring. There is simply too much irrefutable...

This answer contains my response as well, but I challenge the first half of it as incomplete and untrue. I believe that the idea, its inherent and perceived quality, and its manner of expression are all equally of great importance. The difference, as has been said already, is in that...