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I feel like Borderlands did a pretty fair job with balancing the two - there was a regenerating shield, but if you wanted to regenerate health, that often required putting points into a particular class skill, but otherwise, you needed to eat some health packs if you didn't want things to go...

Oh man, you're right. I never even noticed that. Besides AA and Spawn...geez. At least I can blame it on being Asian, right? Right? (crickets)

In no particular order either: NiGHTS Into Dreams Final Fantasy VIII That Spawn arcade game (nostalgia!) Super Mario RPG Devil May Cry 3 Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow Resident Evil 4 Batman: Arkham Asylum Metal Gear Solid Harvest Moon. I'm bizarre, I know it.

The first time I ever played the original Clock Tower, that was definitely a pants-changer. I'd be interested in giving it a whirl now that I'm a little older, but I wholeheartedly support this recommendation.

I'm gonna go with BioHazardMan on one point: a lot of times, at least in my experience, when people say they don't like the Beatles, it's simply to get a rise out of ? well, everyone. Saying you don't like the Beatles is practically asking for everyone in the room/coffee shop/delivery room to...

One of my aunts has been a vegan for years and she took me to a vegan cooking conference one summer since she knows I enjoy cooking. I was actually surprised at the wide variety of foods and recipes they had! As to whether or not I'd actually become one, I don't know, but I can at least say that...

EmeraldRafael's Gamer Tell quote and Azure-Supernova's first quote pretty much sums up the argument for me. I've loved the Devil May Cry series for quite a bit now, and seen it go through enough stuff to make me want to put my controller through a wall that actually turned out okay in the end...

No one ever claimed it was funny or was intended to be. What it did do was tug the heartstrings though, and make the scene a lot more haunting than it could have otherwise been. As a whole though, being a fan of zombie games, I'm looking forward to how this game will end up.

United We Stand The difference between Japanese and Western-style RPGs may be as simple as the pronoun associated with the hero - I or We. Read Full Article

If you're into hardboiled neo-noir with a touch of the paranormal, I'd pick up the Joe Pitt Casebooks by Charlie Huston. Definitely worth it.

Yeah, what he said! :D

Some friends and I used to do Free Hugs Day here at the university and results were pretty mixed. We had some people who'd be really into it and hug you, but most everyone else seemed to ignore us and then scurry away to post mean things about us on the internet. (Don't ask me what they sought...

The Scott Pilgrim vs. the World game kept me hooked for days...talk about near-perfect. I really enjoyed DeathSpank and Limbo also, but have yet to finish either of those, sadly. :(

I've been doing NaNoWriMo every year since I was 17. Hopefully one of these years I'll actually get one of those novels published.

Prequels are good depending on what sort of genre it is. Horror franchises that try to make a prequel seem to forget that part of the magic of horror is not knowing where it comes from. Sci-fi things, like Star Wars? The prequels were a good idea in theory, because there was a lot of stuff to...