Recent content by aristos_achaion

Makes sense, in my opinion -- charge people for what they're using. If it costs extra to support IE7, then charge IE7 users for that work.

I typically agree with Bob on movie issues, but Tree of Life was easily one of the *worst* films I've seen this year, or, really, in my life. It felt pretentious while still managing to be trite, symbolically confusing while managing to remain shallow, and somehow manages to say essentially...

I've never thought of the end of the main quest in these sorts of games as the ending...it's always annoyed me that, e.g., Fallout 3 and New Vegas didn't continue after the main quest, forcing you to save right before the big final mission. As for addressing you differently...well, it's nice...

Eh, I'm not going to say to balance the game, per se, but it definitely helps to give the game flavor. You're going to be carrying your armor on you no matter what...it's pretty unlikely that you'll have multiple sets of armor to swap out; unless you've got really high-level enchanting, you're...

I've been playing Skyrim for 60hr easily and have yet to beat the main quest. (I've gotten as far as , but never actually gone through with it.) However, I can see an argument for getting through the main quest pretty quickly and dicking around afterwards. For one, if you want while you...

If it were really something I couldn't eat (say, if they'd given me something I were allergic to, there was something nasty in it, &c), I'd be really apologetic while sending it back. (A couple of "I'm so sorry"s and "I don't want to be that customer, but..."s can really go a long way to getting...

1. Well, it only makes sense gameplay-wise that the Shouts not be 100% necessary...otherwise, it wouldn't matter what class you played as, you'd just be Shouting your way through the game. But if you find yourself never using your Shouts...well, you're really ignoring a pretty useful aspect of...

You can also buy Hjerim if you capture Windhelm for the Imperials. (Or, at least, I did when I did my Imperial playthrough.) Of course, that then makes the Blood on the Ice quest start up bewilderingly in the middle, so if you don't already know the quest was there, you're wondering why exactly...

What I see about child-murdering is less that you're not a child murderer, but you're a murderer from whom children are magically exempt. Not even just an amateur murderer...you can join the Dark Brotherhood! Sure, you start off morally justified with but you're eventually asked to kill These...

I tend to enchant a blacksmith's apron with a smithing buff, so I actually get a bonus (in addition to the role-playing benefits).

I'm kinda curious where they got Blizzard from...did they just figure all video-game companies starting with a B are the same? Also, read through the signatures...more than a couple are kinda hilarious.

I don't know if the Imperials trying to cut off your head qualifies them as "bad guys"...you start out as a prisoner in the last to TES games, too, and the Imperials were often nice guys.

RIP Jordis the Sword-Maiden...apparantly, ED: Also, RIP Alvor, the blacksmith fellow in Riverwood. Went on a suicidal charge against an Elder Dragon, presumably pushed over the brink by working day in, day out next to the bodies of his wife and the thief that killed her lying next to his forge.

Yep. My female Dunmer and Ysolde are a happily married lesbian couple living in Solitude. It works the same as any other marriage -- any marriageable NPC is available to a Dragonborn of either gender. Supposedly, sleeping in the same bed as your spouse gives you a bonus to learning skills...