Recent content by Gapperjack

I've thought of yet another way to play GTAIV. I call it Moscow Rules Basically you designate one of the islands as safe territory and all the rest as hostile territory. You drive out to somewhere in hostile territory and then have to make your way back to the safe territory without being...

I've never understood why spells in so many RPGs seem to be all about combat or healing. I want to have a vast array of spells that all do individual things, each have a decent use. I want spells to levitate objects from a distance, spells to create water, to make a hole through a wall that I...

I agree with you, even if you're wrong on a handful of points. Serenity was released through Universal, not Twentieth Century Fox. Whedon didn't want to work with Fox again after the Firefly fiasco. Not sure where the whole pirate thing came from? Firefly is a Space Western, straight and...

If it's Brucie, the answer is yes. Genetically Superior baby!

Reading through this, I now have a list of P&Cs to hunt down and play. I must admit I really do miss the heyday though. How come no-one has mentioned the Zork series? Those were great! Still think Grim Fandango is my all time favourite though, and I do have a massive soft-spot in my heart for...

Agreed. Earthworm Jim was the Don. Where oh where have all the Earthworm Jim games gone?

I'm going to totally go against the grain of the thread and put a vote in for James Bond 007 on GameBoy. That game did the rare thing of managing to make it feel like a Bond film - and better still it felt like a 60s Bond film with Connery. You even had gambling mini-games and stuff. That...

and the prize for most lame retort goes to...

Well under DC comes Vertigo, so it's DC all the way with me. DC do need to stop having Crises. I agree with the idea that Marvel comes across as less serious than DC. Even though it was a while back, look at the Black Mask/Spolier fight in War Games. That's some really nasty stuff.

I feel the stupidity of MGS2's plot is summed up perfectly in this strip: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2001/11/30/

They don't necessarily have to be a spiritual phenomena, though. It could be that they are explainable by science, we just haven't learnt enough about the world yet to understand them. I believe, as you do, that there is a proper explanation for everything. However, I have also encountered...

Or, as most would call it, the mass murder of 110,000 (Immeditate deaths in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Hiroshima 70,000, Nagasaki 40,000. Later estimates placed the total deaths at 200,000 in Hiroshima alone by 1950 due to long term radiation effects. I can't find those stats for Nagasaki.) people...

I was wondering what people thought about ghosts. A lot of people believe in them, and a lot of people don't. Do you believe in ghosts? If so, why, and what do you think they are? If not, why not? Finally, please let's not get too religious with this discussion, as that's the sort of...

There's an accurate definition of the word. For me, 47 if up-there, definitely. Roman from GTA IV isn't (he's not the protaganist, and doesn't act anti-heroically), but Niko certainly is. He's the protaganist, and you certainly symapathise with him while recognising that what he does and...

Well with RPGs, immersion is pretty much the whole point. The clue is in the title - role playing game. If you don't get to feel your that character, to really get involved with the storyline and care about the decisions you're making, then it's not really an RPG at all. Just because you improve...