Recent content by MagicBullet

I have to second the mentions of Weiss and Hickman, as well as Robert Jordan and Terry Prattchett. Great reads, original and thoroughly entertaining - which is what matters most, right? A little left field here, but allow me to suggest some authors who are better known for their science...

You are right that many genres have become derivative but look at it from a different point of view. The very things that make these genres derivative - the tropes, cliches, formulas (and in the case of fantasy specifically) cliched races - can be used as a platform to launch a truly unique and...

For me, 'That One Boss' was the first boss in FFVIII. Not Ifrit, not Biggs&Wedge - Elvoret, and this bastard takes the prize because he (she? it?) forever scarred my younger psyche. Elvoret wasn't even hard, just totally unexpected. I was breezing through the opening sequence of the game, loving...

Maybe it's because I've been replaying Arcanum (alot) recently, but I think that this would be a really good rule-base for a tech-oriented steampunk game. Setting: A Victorian-esque world, full of high magic and mechanical contrivance - to quote Arcanum's tagline, a world of Steamorks and...

Not counting games I've lost over the years, or the ones that I thought were shit three hours in... Final Fantasy 7, 8 and 9 (save/disk would always corrupt 3/4 through the damn game) and Homeworld 1 and 2 where I'd get halfway through the game and suddenly run out of resources, which equals...