Recent content by jBrereton

I quite enjoyed WiC but it really boiled down to Cold War Whack-A-Mole with the Tactical Aids.

The end of Baldur's Gate 1, because it was so mercilessly difficult and was basically only winnable by spamming literally dozens of monsters / animals / other summoned things in Sarevok et al's face and waiting for the 20s to roll or for you to have to start again. Eugh. That Homeworld...

VtM: Bloodlines - Great game after much patching. Deus Ex-esque, equal to the original and significantly better than the utter abortion that was Invisible War. The end is slightly disappointing but the early and especially middle sections are amazing. Baldur's Gate 2 - The best 'classic...

Metal Fatigue was genius and I'd recommend it highly. A bit like Earth 2150 but eh better in my opinion, and the whole gluing arms off dead opponents to yer bots and then researching them or just kicking about with them was excellent.

He hit puberty.

Not really. "Germans lay down loads of smoke and then shell you a bit before stormtroopers polish you off" for the first bit, "shoot or capture German teenagers" for the next bit. Bleuch. A "proper" Great War game would involve you basically randomly dying now and then after some arsehole...

How is that in any way ironic? Seriously, if you have blobs of gameplay and then a big chunk of story you have little to do with, that is Bad Story Telling. Anyway, if Yahtzee reads this board, I would recommend the Jagged Alliance games if not into faffing about with too much management...