Recent content by efeat

Pretty much this. Describing the Crissaegrim hardly does the weapon justice, so I will instead present video evidence. Here is a boss fight using conventional weapons. The player is not super-leveled or using anything out of the ordinary for this fight: (Embedding time codes on this...

Electric box 1 & 2. If you like slow paced, rube goldberg-esque puzzle games, these are for you. http://www.candystand.com/play/electric-box http://www.candystand.com/play/electric-box-2

Well...if you really need it to be a laptop, and you really want to play games on it, and you really want it to be inexpensive, and you're OK with turning down graphics... Get a Core i3 CPU with the Intel HD Graphics 3000 (see this chart [D8DE2E65081A8194]) Sandy Bridge CPUs are quite...

I would think that taking cover to regenerate health constantly is just as analogous to hide and seek as searching for health packs. I know hyperbole is fun, but please stop making it sound as if every health pack in a game requires 20 minutes of laborious scrutiny to find. Most games have...

Tavion. Or at least, that's how it's phonetically sounded. Anyway, Shadow Hearts 3: From the New World has a female as the final boss. Edit: Ninja'd on the Tavion.

I use Anandtech and Tom's Hardware first and foremost when it comes time for benchmarks and tests and reviews. If I need additional benchmarks or more niche data, HardOCP and Guru3d are also good resources to tap into. When it comes time to purchase, Newegg is the first and often times the...

2D BOY agrees with you. They do not consider their pirated copies to be lost sales, and think DRM is a waste of time and money. They have also re-analyzed their original '90%' figure and have concluded the piracy rate to be 82% or lower. Of course, the piracy rate for world of goo was still...

Pretty much what this guy/girl said, though I didn't see a mention of the fantastic soundtrack in there... What hooked me on ODST was the fact that it wasn't overly dramatic or overindulgent. The Halo universe is a pretty neat one, and I was very happy to see it from a different point of...

Killing off the protagonist is an easy to way have a shock factor, but it takes some talent and skill to do it well. Here's a completely spoiler-free example from a game I recently played. I was playing a game called "Super Quest" and it was pretty neat. It had a main character named...

I'm going to conduct an experiment where I express my opinion relying almost entirely on other peoples' words. Read all this as if it were one sequential thought. Here goes... Now, some might say... That's a completely understandable sentiment, but that's more of a problem with the...

For me, anisotropic filtering is one of the HIGHEST priorities. Some games do some texture filtering on their own prior to anisotropic so it looks aniso doesn't do much, but the ones that don't look awful with it disabled. You can see the textures get very blurry, very quickly without...

Aw, I'm sorry. It worked for me :(

80 games for $1175 If the site keeps saying you have 0 dollars and joined in the 1970s, use a custom URL. Start steam and go community -> profile -> Edit my profile -> Custom URL (it's just above where you pick your avatar.) Put in random characters, then copy those random characters into...

Shadow Hearts: Covenant (2006, PS2) Why oh why did I not play the Shadow Hearts games sooner? Sure, it has its idiosyncrasies as being a JRPG, but the end result was fantastic. The judgment ring and combo system kept combat interesting beyond just hitting "attack" forever. Characters were...

I play on the PC because I get to reap all of its benefits without suffering its pitfalls. You see, I work in IT. Building and troubleshooting systems and tweaking operating systems and programs is exactly what I get paid for in my day job. To keep my own personal gaming machine running...