Recent content by James B Hamster

Yo. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mPlAr0Y62o Alternatively, do a search for "Sonic Enema" and click the first playlist that comes up. That's my contribution to the matter.

Oh, my... Numbers... Flags... HEXES... Everything I've ever wanted in a strategy game! ...No, I'm not being sarcastic. I genuinely weep that my computer is so old that it surely won't run this.

For me, it has completely run the gamut of having put it on my GameFly months ago, forgotten about it, and randomly have it skip ahead of seven other titles to ship a day BEFORE it was scheduled to release. Being a big fan of the Alice mythos (the actual one, that is) and having been completely...

I always give money to anyone who asks me for it, bar none. And I don't skimp, either: usually a twenty if I have it. I see it as my Christian duty to give charity to those who ask for it. After all, my Lord has taught that "whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not...

This is the most amazing thing ever. The character optimization rules are what stopped me from finishing TES III and IV, IV in particular: I don't consider myself a power leveler by any means, but when you set up a system where I have to play a game a certain way and perform certain actions...

I want to point out that the Roman goddess Venus is technically not a direct analogue of Aphrodite. Although most of the more familiar entities in the Roman pantheon can be held up side-by-side against the Greek pantheon to find little in the way of differences, it is generally held that...

Hurrah, it keeps getting worse. Like I said when this was first announced, it was almost bound to happen sometime: think of any literary icon throughout history and it's sure to have an adaptation of some sort by now. Seeing it happen to the Wizard of Oz hurts so much not because it is...

I very much agree with this choice, though I understand why many other gamers would not. To me, Alan Wake has one of the best (if not THE best) stories I've ever seen in a video game, but I think that would be hard to comprehend if the person playing it is not a creator of art. See, more...

Not to be petty, but the narration on that trailer has me concerned for a repeat of the presentation problems of TES IV. I loved Oblivion's exploratory sections and its combat was decent enough, but every time I encountered an NPC, I was taken right out of the experience. From my experience...

I was honestly a bit disappointed with the way the new races were added in Cataclysm. I really wanted goblins to be added as a third, neutral faction, outside the Horde/Alliance framework. I think the Pandarens would be another race that would be unfortunate to shoehorn into the existing...

The thing that rubs me the wrong way about this is his tone. He seems to convey that people who associate the swastika with things other than Nazism are pretentious jackasses. That seems condescending and culture-centric to me. For context, imagine yourself in Revolutionary France, where...

Man, this really must have flown under the radar (no pun intended, judging from the screenshot) because this is literally the first I've ever heard of this game. Good on R.U.S.E. owners, I should suppose.

Well, doesn't the Zune apparatus serve roughly the same function for the 360? If that's the case, I find the notion of VUDU a bit on-the-nose to what Microsoft's endeavour was born out of: Apple had iTunes and the iPod, so Microsoft created the Zune, which was cool (sorta) but far less...

I went into this article thinking the tone was sarcastic. I went away with the sinking feeling that the phrase "In a move that's sure to bother no-one" was spoken in earnest. I'm not even that big a fan of the Wizard of Oz, but I can recognize this as perhaps one of the most terrible ideas...

If one is willing to accept religious doctrine and parables as being philosophical notions as well, then Christ. If not, then I shall throw my lot in for Kierkegaard as well, as he is one of the few mortal men whose worldview seems to align more or less with my own.