Recent content by keptsimple

Diablo I & II - click, click, click, click, teleport back to a store to sell your crap because you have such a small inventory, then click, click, click, click, click. I never understood the appeal. Final Fantasy IX - a lot of people list this as their favorite FF game. My reaction was...

NES in 1988 with Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt. This thread makes me feel really old. The number of people answering Xbox, N64, etc. is disturbing. I was in high school when the N64 was released and well into my college years when the Xbox came out.

Best in terms of gameplay: Shale. She is a terrific tank - far better than Alistair. I would have her going toe-to-toe with ultra bosses, and she would rarely need to be healed. And she can turn into a damage-dealer with the click of a button. I also liked Leliana a lot - give her the...

Human Mage with Spirit Healer and Arcane Warrior Specializations. As an Arcane Warrior, I wore the the medium dragon scale armor that you can have made by armorer in Denerim. This actually allowed me to cast more spells (because of the stamina bonus) than with a robe, while still making me...

Dragon Age At least on the 360, the textures were pitifully low res (I understand it looks better on a good PC). And trees, when drawn at a distance, basically look like cut-and-pasted green triangles. But damn, that game was addictive. Almost as good as Baldur's Gate II, but not quite...

Red dot sights on shotguns in MW1 and MW2. Completely useless.

Generally, I don't have a problem with it. In many games, the disadvantages of camping equal the advantages. In MW2, however, it is a little too easy to camp. I'm not sure why it's so easy, exactly, but I think it has something to do with the fact that so many of the maps are so large. The...

My rage is usually limited to spewing profanity at the TV. Although lately, this also means saying some nasty things into my mic in MW2. I get especially pissed when I get killed by dual shotgunners or run-and-stab guys. That shit is lame.

I give this list points just for putting Final Fantasy XII on there. Best JRPG of the '00s, hands down.

This. Assuming you're talking about the original Konami game for the NES.

Difficult question, but I would say that they aren't too easy. One of the things that made games so difficult 20 years ago was the concept of limited lives and continues. But this sort of difficulty was a stupid holdover from arcade games. It didn't make the games more challenging in a...

Thanks for the info. It's looking less and less likely that I'll be getting Gamefly at this point.

Thanks for your help. Your first post was an effective one. I'm in central North Carolina. Pittsburgh would be my closest shipping center, too. But I'm probably twice as far away from Pittsburgh as you are. Furthermore, since my video game time is limited, it typically takes me at...

Thanks for your help. But again, I'm not asking about shipping times. I'm asking about waiting for new releases because they don't have enough copies available to meet demand. For instance, say I put Forza 3 on my queue. Would you anticipate that it would ship on its release date...

Well, "once they send them" is kinda the issue. I'm not concerned about shipping time. I'm concerned about waiting a long time for a new release to be shipped because they don't have any copies available. Do you find this to be a problem?