Recent content by sbb

I just got Lonesome Road and am having some huge problems with it. This has got to be the buggiest console release I've ever seen. And I put up with it because the gameplay is pretty much the best of its type available. But seriously, this is MADDENING.

Planescape:Torment is the king of this. You get experience most often just from making certain dialogue choices. Huge amounts of it, too.

Got to put in my recommendation for NWN2. I've been playing it, its expansions and some of the HUGE library of player-created modules for it for going on 3 years now with no clear end in sight. Truly great game (though buggy and poorly optimized to this day). The first Witcher runs on the same...

I'm tired of leveling up in New Vegas. The only way I can die now is laziness or complacency. I'd really like to play a story where I have a set character who starts with well defined abilities and limitations (that I can then improve upon through leveling) who can speak for him (or her) self...

It looks fantastic. I started out running it on medium-high, ran pretty well. Updated my graphics driver, and fps dropped in the toilet, no matter what settings I had. Rolled back the driver and everything's gravy again. Combat is way tougher than I expected, and I'm kind of considering buying a...

Most NES games. More recently, nothing has kicked my ass but Demon's Souls. I love the gameplay but it's just too unforgiving for me. Perhaps variable difficulty levels would have helped.

Sooo excited, Amazon release date shipping, make it happen.

Wow, I am incredibly shocked that Escapist doesn't have a bunch of people trying to paint Sony as a bunch of inept fucks for getting hacked. I don't really think they owe me anything (I miss PSN but its absence has had zero impact on my life), but I would be glad to accept free goods. It...

I was really excited for Alpha Protocol until it was delayed multiple times and then got middlin' to terrible reviews. I never forgot about it though, because I have a lot of faith in Obsidian's ability to craft some truly compelling gameplay. I bided my time until I could get it for under $20...

Left for Dead for 360, as I'm pretty much a solo gamer and refuse to play for XBL gold.

Does the Witcher count? Choices aren't really black or white, but often made me feel like a huge dick. Siding with the genocidal humans instead of the terrorist elves and dwarves made me feel like a huge racist, but THEY GAVE ME NO CHOICE!

NV was better than 3 in pretty much every way except stability. IT crashed on me an average of once every three hours which comes to a lot of times in a game like this. Otherwise, however, dialogue choices being affected by skill levels was great, factions were great. Hardcore mode was a good...

BG2 is pretty easy to find online. Amazon has it, for one. Great game, though. And it's old enough that pretty much any pc more powerful than a graphing calculator can run it at this point.