Recent content by ArtellTheWanderer

Recently, Xenoblade Chronicles, and before that, Rune Factory Frontier. Both are awesome games.

Apparently I'm stuck in the fictional South American country of Arulco. During a civil war between a totalitarian *****-queen with near endless numbers of troops, and a handful of mercenaries and the town militias they've trained. My nerd ass is boned to the 11th degree.

I don't watch television, and it's mainly for the reasons that the OP discussed. I can't stand all of the commercials thrown at me during the course of a show (especially how many of them seem to have the same smarmy 'folksy' music--you know, when the repetitive guitar, the occasional xylophone...

While this planet means that humanity may be able to relocate when our planet becomes unsuitable for human life, I hope that such conditions arise from natural causes and not human negligence. We need to learn how to manage our own backyard properly before we starting altering conditions on...

Quoted for truth. Instead of adding more one-dimensional characters, maybe they should actually develop the ones they have if they're going to give the series a story. Sure, each character has a role to fulfill, but if you're going to tell a story, you need MORE than that. You have to give the...

Personally, I prefer health bars. Health does regenerate, but not within seconds. On that note... Gonna fire up the "Way Back Machine" for this one (1999), but a strategy RPG called Jagged Alliance 2 had somewhat of a MORE realistic health system. I say MORE realistic because while...

There's a pen and paper game with a setting like that. It's called "Dead Lands." Of course you've got your typical Wild West gunslingers, but one of the character classes is a "Mad Scientist"--an inventor who creates steampunk devices but becomes more deranged as s/he does so. These devices are...

The weird thing that I hate is sort of related, but not exactly the same thing. I hate the trend of combining words and names together, which is a trend that the media and advertising firms tend to be jumping on left and right these days. I'm talking about words that are supposed to sound...

Reminds me a lot of Shadowrun (the role-playing system and the SNES/Genesis games, not the crappy knock-off multiplatform shooter). Looks bitchin'.