Recent content by Prince of Ales

I'd swear fealty to Natalie Dormer in a heartbeat. Wait, what does fealty mean again? Doesn't matter. I'll swear regardless. She could remove my gonads and use them as earrings if she wanted.

I wouldn't call Bastion a Diablo-clone at all. The only real similarity is the top-down interface. They don't even have a similar control method. If I hear "Diablo-clone" then the first thing that springs to mind is a loot-em-up, which Bastion isn't. On the other hand, of those two positions...

Oh man, Xenogears... I'll say it straight, it's not a good game. It does the basics so wrong. But it's one of those games I like talking about from the context of "why do I like this game so much when it's so obviously bad?". And I do like it. It's one of my favourite games from that era. Yes...

I would concentrate predominantly on dps. When your toughness and healing get too low, you'll feel it; beyond that, there's no real point to them. But with dps, more is better. There's a big long formula out there for calculating dps (useful if you're enchanting, for instance) which is actually...

What about modding communities? Surely they're some of the best. Some of the stuff people have made for the Elder Scrolls games is crazy good. I've seen plenty of bad communities. Stuff that's overhyped and turns out to be mediocre tends to attract a lot of toxicity. Say something like Diablo...

I think everybody already knows that non-smokers dislike the smell of smoke. I'm asking whether this is a sensible use of tax-payers money. This coming from an NHS so poor that hospitals have had to privitise parking spaces. Do you think anybody changed their mind due to that video? I don't...

Well... here's one from the UK a few years back. You can judge for yourself:

Ah yeah, if there's people reselling from different regions then it makes perfect sense. It's a consequence of the EU VAT rules change that came into effect at the start of the year. If I took my account to another country I'm betting it will still work.

Strangely written article. Mostly it refers to gift redemptions only, then there's a tiny paragraph saying "The restrictions may also apply to more than just gifts" (note the word "may") citing a single Reddit user. If the regional restrictions apply only to gifts, then that is a slightly...

Nah, can't see it making a blind bit of difference. I'm a proper skeptic when it comes to advertising generally though. I don't think it's anywhere near as effective as people think. Sometimes I see an advert on TV and I'm amazed both at how much money must have gone into making the thing...

Ya, I gotta say, I was surprised the reactions were so positive when it's such a trite character type. I was watching the Blizzard rep giving that obligatory little diversity speech, then I saw the picture, saw the name, and thought "oh, they're just using the east-european performanced enhanced...

Yeah the term is a little silly. But why fight against the tide? Language is made by peoples understandings. If people understand the term "Metroidvania" then it's a good term. It's like if you look up the technical definition of the word "strafe" then it means bugger all to do with what gamers...

So... if you happen to have some... erm... curvature, then there's going to be two different metrics. I mean, like, if you imagine a longbow at rest, then the length of the string is shorter than the length of the *ahem* wood. What's the correct measurement in this case?

It's definitely improved since RoS. I enjoyed the game a lot more since that came out. Can't really talk about the levelling experience because I was at max when the expansion came and I happened to level that character first (and once you've got one character levelled you've got short-cuts for...

Early access, sure. If the price is right, of course. Bought Starbound around December 2013; think it cost about £10. Played around 50 hours through January, which was well worth the money by itself, then forgot about it while I moved onto something else. Skip to a year later, big patch, and I...