Recent content by Bebus

Already done: finished DA2 last week! DA:O I played a coldly arrogant Aeducan prince, carrying a bloody big maul, who ended up with half the party dead or gone because they couldn't stand him. I went into the final battle with just Loghain, Sten and Oghren (+dog slot mod), because I quite...

My girlfriend gets huge headaches from the effects, and I've honestly not noticed my experience heightened by 3D effects in those movies I have seen in it - and yes I've seen Avatar, etc. I watched them again in 2D and thought they were just as good, without the distraction of the awkward...

Crikey there are a couple of miserable posts on this thread! So what if it doesn't "work", or if Claptrap as a character is annoying? It's obvious these two have a great relationship if hobbies can manifest themselves like this: it's a lovely gift on multiple levels.

I once woke up after a night out, fuzzy memories, pounding headache and sick to my stomach, to a foul smelling room. Naturally I was quite worried: bad smells are never, ever a good thing, especially when there is no obvious source. Had I thrown up in my sock drawer? Dragged in the carcass of...

Do you remember the first version, where we watched an identical cutscene under 1 of 3 colour filters, before dumping us right back into the Normandy with a crappy screen that said, and this is a direct quote from the finale of what was supposed to be the epic space opera of a generation...

While most of the replacements aren't any good, I found a few of the missions actually benefited: Wrex is a total champion, but if he's dead the krogan/genophage arc of ME3 has a lot more nuance. Wreav, I think, represents the average krogan far more than Wrex and you get an idea of just what...

It certainly is "a thing", and in my experience most people who deny it are, well, usually part of it themselves possibly without realising it. Symptoms include insecurity manifesting in the form of defensively lashing out against women who offer any genuine insight into their condition. But as...

Suicide Mission, ME2. It was the culmination of a whole game's worth of gathering allies, earning (and trying to keep) loyalities, upgrading your ship and hearing just how much of a threat the Collectors are. You can assign your crew to their own strengths (or not) and there are very real...

I got invaded by a guy who disguised himself as a barrel. That's all: no attacks, and when I whacked him he didn't defend himself. I was curious as to how long he would keep it up, just following me around: I continued the game as far as I could, clearing the entire locked in area, then just ran...

I think of all the games I've played, The Witcher series manages to do it best. There is very rarely an obviously "better" choice, and the game doesn't really punish you for making one choice over another: something that truly frustrated me about Mass Effect. You might get different gear one way...

DA2, I'd say. Personal tragic story, set in a single city, plenty of potential political intrigue... they could have made Kirkwall alive, given importance to so many characters and events, but it all just... fell flat into a mire of disconnected story, dull setting, repetitive combat and...

I don't know if it's been mentioned, but perhaps Americans can take comfort in the fact that Sherlock Holmes famously didn't know that the Earth revolves around the sun, claiming that although interesting the knowledge has absolutely no practical application to his life and as such should be...

I've always liked the thought of each creature having one or more out-of-battle abilities it is able to do, which are unlocked by beating a Gym leader and having him/her teach how to do it. Eg you have a Squirtle or whatever, and once you've beaten Misty she teaches it how to carry you on water...

I'm not sure "room temperature" is quite right: it implies a pretty nasty lukewarmness that frankly isn't appetising, and can affect the taste negatively. More accurate is "cellar temperature": it's not the near-frozen gnat urine that passes for beer in certain circles but instead a little...

Heh, exactly what I was gonna say: whenever a boss 18x the size of you lands in the woefully tight space you have to fight them, you know you're pretty much stuffed.