Recent content by Rariow

I recently played Bulletstorm, and had a surprising amount of fun with it. If you do pick it up, give it a little while. The start is pretty bad, to the point where I almost gave up, but about two or three levels in it starts getting fun, and becomes an absolute joy to play toward the end-game...

I really liked the class system in Kingdoms of Amalur. Rather than your class limiting what skills you had, the skills you chose limited what class you could pick, with classes providing a few nifty bonuses. Picking a particular class would require you to get a certain number of points in a...

-"Autistic" referring to someone you disagree with, in particular in YouTube comments. -"Cis", in regards to gender. I realize there has to be an opposite of "Trans", but I just don't like the word. It makes me think of molecular structure and not humans. -"Lad", especially from a teen/young...

I see the answer to what you're saying in two ways: First, you argue that the game is more like what the developers imagined in their heads because of the new combat system, but that's been true of every new Final Fantasy. As technology advanced, the devs got more power to make their games more...

Shadowrun Returns punishes you pretty hard for playing as a Decker - read hacker. Deckers gain abilities that they can only use in the virtual world, on a hack. Problem is, you can only effectively hack on really rare occasions, most of them plot-centered, which means you'll almost always...

I stay as safe as possible and try to avoid coming to physical harm. Why? Because, if I die, my consciousness dies. That is to say, the mind that's writing this message right now disappears. Sure, the cloning process ensures that an identical copy of my mind exists, it thinks exactly how I would...

I used to be a TF2 regular myself, and used to have tonnes of fun. My friends and me played it together every weekend, and it was absolutely fantastic. Then, one of my friends became that guy. First he just got really good at the game. Fair enough, we'd played over 500 hours by that point, and...

I'm a huge fan of The Walking Dead Season 1, by TellTale. Haven't gotten around to play Season 2 yet. Now, a great part of why I think that game was as successful as it was (becoming a critical darling, as well as very well liked by the general public) is the episodic model it took. This has a...

I've played all three games multiple times as each gender, though I tend to lean towards FemShep (despite being male myself), the reason for this being a combination of me slightly preferring her voice acting (MaleShep has a great voice actor too, but Jeniffer Hale just slightly edges him out...

To put it in video game terms, I see fanfiction in kind of the same light as a mod or a romhack. Sure, you've done your thing, and you've been creative, but I'm still hard-pressed to see it as your work. You're using the building blocks set up by another person to make something. Let's take the...

Catherine: Vincent gets involved in the plot by virtue of drunkenly cheating on Katherine with Catherine. He then neglects to tell Catherine he's basically in the process of getting engaged with his long-time girlfriend until after the point where she's become emotionally attached to him...

Well, the visual novel I will apparently never stop talking about, Katawa Shoujo had sex scenes that really added to the plot and evolved the characters, even beyond the romance story that was going on. There were a couple exceptions, including one that was played for laughs and a few that were...

I was always a huge Star Wars nerd, read a huge amount of the books, loved great part of them... but the canon a mess, and there was a lock of shlock there. I'm not sad about it going, because all of the good stuff still exists, I can still read it, but as the EU got bigger, it got harder to...

I don't think you can really do what you're suggesting, not without making the show impenetrable to large chunks of the audience. A "geek" can have many, many interests, and by making it reference stuff that isn't baseline level, like Star Trek, you'll not only be excluding the general, non-geek...

Daenerys Targaryen from Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones. Petulant, entitled piece of crap. The only reason she seems to want the Iron Throne is because Robert took it from her dad... who was the worst king Westeros has had since the original Targaryen invasion. Stuff in the following...