Recent content by Ferricyanide

KotOR reminded me more of Dragon Age than anything: a lot of pausing, tactical positioning of your squadmates, careful use of powers, and so on. Mass Effect has those elements but at its heart is a shooter where you control one guy, and give your teammates orders, while the other two basically...

This was always what I read into it. The Covenant are fanatics being manipulated by "Prophets." Pretty obvious symbolism, I think. But that trailer with the blue eyes thing... that's a little unsettling. I definitely agree with the idea that the Covenant is more interesting. I always...

This was my first thought as well. For those of you who didn't watch the YouTube video, Big Rigs has no functioning: 1) Collision detection (You pass through any scenery, including bridges, and you can simply fall off the map.) 2) Opponent AI (They just sit there at the starting line.) 3)...

I was hoping the episode would end with them breathing fire and levitating, but maybe that's more advanced stuff. Actually, that's probably a better moral: Yoga is only okay when it grants you superpowers.

...What? There's two forms of butane: butane (also called n-butane) and methylpropane (also called i-butane). I'm not an organic chemist but this TBHQ stuff looks like a phenol. I don't know the exact mechanism but it just looks like a tert-butyl group was substituted on one of the spots on...

Yes, but he has to wear the whole set. That means extra weakness to fire from the knife, and no jarate to put himself out because the secondary slot is taken up by that shield. (My flaregun thanks you, Croc kit.) And since the new rifle goes well with the SMG, it means that combination can't...

Yes. The only multiplayer shooter I play is TF2, and that game specifically has a nemesis system, so I'd assume the developers intended players to go for revenge. That said, I won't specifically go after a class that's a hard counter to mine, since it's probably not going to help my team at all.

Since it doesn't seem to have been addressed, the Qunari in Dragon Age are supposed to be analogues of the Seljuk Turks. (You can figure this out pretty easily when you learn about their long-time conflict with the Byzantines Tevinter Imperium, their use of cannons, and them being on the...

Yeah, I had to pick it. Not sure how it affected the results, though. Maybe I'll give it another shot.

I voted yes, but the only way to use it would be very, very subtly. Say you're in a survival horror game, and you're walking down a deserted hallway, and the controller at the same time cools down a few degrees, giving you a chill. Turn around and hey, there's a monster behind you. Or maybe...

The Avernum games play more like the original Fallout. The graphics are simple, but there's a lot of work put into the story, characters, and gameworld. If you're curious, every single one of their games has a massive demo [http://www.spiderwebsoftware.com/products.html] they offer for free...

I'm going to have to second this. Not all of us have the good fortune to find ourselves in a situation where gaming makes us an asset, not a perceived liability.

I actually prefer Dragon Age's style to the black-and-white style of karma found in Fable or Fallout 3. I don't walk around in real life with a little karma meter that adds or subtracts when I do something. There's only my decisions and people's reactions to them. (And my reactions to their...

Three more that deserve a mention: Alternate Start [http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=11495], which lets you change your background to something other than "Amnesiac Death-Row Inmate." DarNified UI [http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=10763], which pretty much shrinks...

I don't see what's so bad about this thing. It can't be worse than just eating two of each individual sandwich, since there's less bread. Now I just feel compelled to try one, although I'd probably leave off the veggie patties.