Recent content by Evilpigeon

Especially with multiplayer games, it goes beyond stuff that you tweak for performance reasons. It allows people to customise the game to make it play better. For instance, you often get to remove effects that might obscure vision, even if they don't have an effect on your frame rate...

You seem to have the ability to approach a problem in multiple ways and come out with multiple solutions - i.e. choices - confused with perfect choice, which would be the game reacting to everything you could possibly think of doing. my whole point was about using text dialogue to allow for...

It's possible for an RPG to cover a very wide apectrum of player choice (although obviously not every possible one.) To make it work, you sacrifice voice acting. Text responses makes it much easier for the game to acknowledge choices you made without it costing very much in terms of money or...

Don't show off any valuables and stick to crowded places, being armed is a terrible idea and isn't going to help you. You're mostly going to be working during the day so you're probably perfectly fine anyway.

The alternative to the current situation for many of the species we eat is extinction due to being thoroughly warped thanks to thousands of years of selective breeding. See also, how fucked up some types of Pedigree dog are. I think genocide only applies to systematically wiping out people but...

The way tech is going, there's less and less need to actually know specific things. All you need is enough knowledge to have a good idea of what you're looking for as well as the ability to digest that information quickly. Being able to do numbers in your head is unnecessary rote learning. As...

A chunk of it is due to you using steam in Euros. Steam doesn't like Euros. For example Company of heroes 2 is £39.99 which is cheaper. You might want to look at trying to change your location to the UK to get better deals. Skyrim legendary is £24.99 Bioshock infinite is £29.99 Rome 2...

First off, sorry for using an incorrect term. My correction: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/32/World_map_worlds_first_second_third.GIF See the blue bit. Should have said first world, not west. Secondly, wikipedia puts the US murder rate higher than everywhere in europe except...

It's always strange to me that the arguments against gun control goes something like this. "Yes, I know we have nearly the highest murder rate in the western world but it's because we don't take care of our citizens and has nothing at all to do with guns being widely available" Yet the...

This is a problem with the prison system in places like the US, rather than a problem with the concept of rehabilitation. Countries that provide a decent living standard in their prisons and who don't focus on imprisonment as revenge (good example is Norway) have significantly lower reoffending...

I think people are missing something here, yes there are plenty of girls who like the sorts of games currently available but when it comes to the full on, sit down experiences currently available on consoles or pcs they are in the minority. There's a reason for this and you aren't going to...

Popularity and quality are not linked. The film/ book/ game with the widest appeal is simply the one that's most innoffensive. The more people you can explain the premise to without turning them off, the more people will go to watch it. It has very little to do with the quality of the work in...

It's not an assumption, without qualifiers you allow no room in your statement for disagreement. Using your example, it'd be like saying "blue is the best colour". The nobody cares about that is the debate over whether or not blue is in fact the best colour is so insubstantial and petty that...

I think you're missing the point of the statement. The point of 'in my opinion' is not to inform everyone else that what you're saying isn't gospel truth, it's a device to demonstrate that you're willing to allow others their own points of view. Without qualifiers such as 'in my opinon', 'I find...

I just can't believe this is a sustainable way for companies to release games. Surely people are going to start 'equating always online' with 'won't be playable for the first few weeks' and stop buying into this.