Recent content by AnimalAl

No, it's not the beginning of the end, it's the end of the beginning. Much more fun to be had by all.

Hear, hear! this last holiday season had WAY too many first-person shooters coming out all at once. Spread it out, I'll be more inclined to buy them all.

YEAH. Tell 'em, Balthazor. It's simple economics. CUnk, let me tell you the rest of the story. I stopped producing, but I kept a buy order open and a clone to sell them every few weeks. Funny thing. No one was producing shuttles, my dickish competitor got bored and went elsewhere, and so...

It's certainly not the worst game ever, but there is this strange love/hate relationship I've noticed among many (one which I share). You tend to work hard to get a good ship, get to know a region of space, then you realize that empire space is kinda slow. All the juicy bandits and rocks are in...

Sid Meier's Covert Action http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/sid-meiers-covert-action That was a classic game, very enjoyable, simple yet good variety and original.

See the map... http://go-dl1.eve-files.com/media/corp/Verite/influence.png "I feel a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced..."

And for the record, I did crap my pants in the hospital scenario, when I turned the corner and this flood of zombies hit me. Fortunately I had an auto shotgun and friends behind me. There's nothing like the last part of the fifth mission of a campaign, when you're waiting for the feds to rescue...

I would not characterize this as a flame, but maybe a critical comment. If you don't like TF2 or L4D because of comparisons to Crysis or Gears of War, maybe it's because you're comparing grapefruits to apples and being surprised that they taste different. The audience of Valve's games (to...