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People who suggest that HIV is not a real illness (like cancer) shows a complete lack of respect for all those people suffering from that deadly disease. Now it's up to the reader to decide what it worse: Showing utter disrespect for Steve Jobs, or showing utter disrespect for many thousands...

I never said that D2's skill system was good. It actually wasn't. Not at all. D2 sure left A LOT of potential for improvement when it comes to skills. The lower skills were completely worthless, the higher skills weren't all that perfectly balanced. A new game that comes out now surely has to...

The point of this is purely psychological. In fact the game does not need a skill calculator, since you do not have to plan a build. You can change your skills on the fly in any town of the game - removing points, re-adding points - everything can be freely done in the game, so actually your...

Look Bob, this is so simple, I'm actually surprised you don't get it. People laud you and fully agree on your "superior" skills and knowledge about movies, whenever your criticism of a movie reflects their own opinion about it. People love to get reassurance about their own opinion by...

Well most of you guys seem to young to remember, but exactly - EXACTLY - the same thing happened back in the early 90ies, when games where switching from 2D hand-drawn sprites to 3D engines with polygons. And damn where those first 3D games ugly. Blocky models, flat low-res textures, bad...

Dear Jonas, you say it's wrong to be fanatical about indie games and to point a finger at the industry, but then again you point your own finger at people who do so, and seem to be quite fanatical about that yourself. There's always people out there who like to shoot their guns just...

So where does Diablo3 - being an Action RPG - fit that scale?

As long as there are software licences, and software does cost prizes that people living in poorer countries simply cannot afford - there will be piracy. Even if prices are adjusted, there still will be people who pirate software just for the heck of it. You can try to reduce the amount of...

I'd like to recommend "The White Chamber". http://www.studiotrophis.com/site/projects/thewhitechamber Gameplay-wise it's your standard issue 2D point'n'click adventure, old-school lucas arts style. Nothing new or innovative there... BUT... the story is rather mysterious and outright...

Exactly my point. "everything" = full version of the game. shortened version of the game = NOT everything. So she MUST get the full version of the game. Even if there was the possibility to play a "gamers digest"/shortened version of a game (choosable at game start), she just couldn't do...

@Susan: Isn't there a little error of logic in your thoughts? I mean there is already this division in main quests and side quests. If you only do main quests (and skip the sidequests) you do get through the game faster. Now you call for an autoskip feature, that does skip the sidequests for...

Well, i'm not sure about that. It's hard to draw a line between sword & sorcery and high fantasy, but i would tend to categorize all the official d&d campaign settings and the rulebase itself as rather high fantasy than sword & sorcery. Typical elements of high fantasy are: .) a range of...

Well, i think you are a bit off here... At first i thought this would be exactly the same question as "Who needs movies, cg and special effects when a few lines of well-written text provide all the imagery you need?" - Well, i don't think that the relation of films and books is some...