Recent content by InkySpines

This isn't really limited to games. Games were probably the last medium infected (gasp...otherizing language!). I originally started reading the Escapist because that crap wasn't as ubiquitous as every where else. What we are really witnessing is the death of Western Liberalism...

The U.S. is the largest western nation in population and GDP by a fairly large margin. Moreover, HBO is an American company. The EU isn't culturally unified in any way close to the U.S. and schedule anomalies would start getting even more ridiculous then it is now if even large countries like...

I will second World of Warcraft: the Burning Crusade. One January evening my guild pushed into Serpentshrine Cavern. I can't remember if we had taken down Leotheras the Blind or Morogrim Tidewalker, but in the afterglow of our successful efforts a 5 man group spent the next few hours around...

I really don't think it will matter. A (non-DLC) questionnaire or tickboxes will be more than sufficient. I've played through DA:O several times with different outcomes, and went out of my way to not kill my party members in all of them. My head canon was fairly close to the human warrior...

I can understand not liking his work for any number of reasons, even if I don't agree with them. Maybe his books are overwritten, maybe they are just more schlock dressed up as literature. Maybe Kvothe is too Harry Potterized. Maybe the Bard archetype is played out or conversely maybe there...

Pacific Rim had the MINIMUM amount of optimal Kaiju action IMO. If there is one silver lining in this for me, it's that ticket sales appear good so far. Hopefully the US military stuff doesn't turn off the global audience too much. It didn't for Transformers at least. If we can get a...

It took me about four views of this comic to conclude that is Theon in the upper left of the beach scene playing with his "sand castle"

Bob pretty much sums up my impression better than I could. If you absolutely need your Kaiju fix like I did it will satisfy it, but just barely. Getting to that satisfaction is an exercise in patience. It's almost as if they recut this from a better Godzilla movie in order to serve up more...

Not to criticize the comic (which is funny as usual) but I just don't get the continual internet rage over the series deviating from the books. Its obviously and explicitly an adaptation, not a direct representation. A lampshade is hung on Tyrion's disfigurement in his first scene after the...

Dragon Age Origins was one of my favorite games in the past decade, but DA2 was simply too much of a burn to preorder this. The worst part was it was a slow burn...I didn't realize how much I hated it until chapter 2. I absolutely want to believe this is a good game and the longer...

I prefer mouse and keyboard, but while the mouse is great, my left hand always feels suboptimal on the WASD. Good enough, but somehow inappropriate for controlling an avatar. Hotkey MMOs and RTS are out of favor these days, but they are the only genres that actually seem designed for keyboard...

Fallout NV is indeed painfully slow. On the other hand, Dragon Age often feels like you are flying around light as a feather. It depends on the nature of the the gameplay to whether it feels appropriate or not. If you see your avatar as an abstraction of stats and capabilities...

I would go so far as to say good sound can be more important than graphics. For example, even years ago WoW had dated graphics, but the music was top notch. I always kept it in a continuous loop and probably less than 2% of thousands of hours I played was spent listening to anything besides...

A very strong argument can be made for the Civilization series. Civilization scratched a 4x itch many didn't even know they had. CivII improved on Civ's mechanics and graphics, and its expansions added some very user friendly scenario building tools that produced countless quality fan made...