Recent content by pnonma

I was a fundamentalist Baptist for many years, until I started actually paying attention to the parts of the Bible that most people don't notice. I'm happy to say that the Bible is the reason I dropped religion from my life. Seeing Christian and Judaic dogma from an outsider's perspective...

What's the difference? Chess with checkmates ends if you are in position to kill the king, doesn't it? How could you play chess just to kill the king without the checkmate system?

'Hide the sausage' is always a favorite. As for 'non-euphemistic' games, I used to play DnD, but I feel a little silly playing anymore. I play with people who aren't real sharp, and it's tough to take things seriously when someone honestly thinks that a telescope is going to help them examine...

What have the Arabs done? How about the mathematical concept of zero, modern astronomy, and the groundwork for higher math, including geometry..

I'm in a stable-ish relationship, have been for years, and we both like games...hell, all of our Valentine's presents to each other were Portal-related (The Orange Box, fuzzy companion cube dice, an Aperture coffee mug, a t-shirt, and two posters). When it comes down to it though, neither of us...

As said before, best power has to be the manipulation of matter. If you became skilled enough, you could rewire your brain so you have a photographic memory, change shape, fly, create fire/ice/whatever, make gold out of any material...If it were long-range as well, you could literally have any...

Starcraft, all the way. Age of Empires was good though, and SW:EaW was decent...I only played that for the space battles though, I didn't care much for the land combat.

There were a lot of really decent games for the GBA...I felt that the GBA metroid games were the most enjoyable of the entire franchise. However, I feel that Nintendo systems-handhelds especially- are prone to shovelware, and the GBA was no exception. No matter how good some of the games were...

I'll put in a second recommendation for Earthbound. Any game where you fight hippies, exploding trees with happy faces on them, and bizarre cultists obsessed with the color blue is worth a nomination here. Not to mention that you have to use 'zombie paper' (fly paper that sticks to zombies...

Megaman: Powered Up. It was almost the only reason I got a PSP, but after only a few minutes of playing it, I realized that I got far more enjoyment out of the originals. It's okay though, Maverick Hunter X was amazing.

I have a few contenders... Sonic The Hedgehog (Xbox360). A piece of my childhood died when I popped this 'gem' into my Xbox. Some of the most beautiful cutscenes I had seen in recent memory, then some seriously ugly real graphics. Needless 'find out information about Dr. Eggman' segments...