Recent content by Shudmeyer

I think it would be good, because it would mean a greater variety in game characters who some people can relate to. I mean, honestly, it's just like saying "Should there be female main characters". More often than not, there isn't solid reason Samus or Lara Croft NEED to be women. The games...

Definitely. I hate that my orientation don't get hardly any representation in games. I know Mass Effect and Dragon Age and Fallout all have options, but they are all very limited compared to what the straight options are. I think it might even be nice if in RPG's you could choose at the start...

I prefer guns in general, because usually gun combat requires a little more thought than just plain strength and reflexes. But stealth melee can be a lot of fun too. I really hate it when people say that guns are "dishonorable", or that stealth is for the cowardly. There is no such thing as...

For me, started with Smallville, then Law & Order shortly followed by CSI, then well, pretty much every other show I ever used to watch. TV just doesn't interest me anymore, since about a year ago. Though I will occasionally tune in to Mythbusters, Simpsons, Daily Show or the Colbert Report if...

I would wish to reborn in a cooler world that had more adventure and less total idiots messing up everything

I love a game that uses the fact that it's a game to its advantage to make a really cool experience. I mean, we play games to escape reality, not simulate it. But that said, I still like it when things react and behave realistically.

I never really believed in any of that stuff, but I guess the general magic and wonder of life died for me when my parents got divorced. On Christmas. After that everything just seems a lot more gray.

Yeah I can relate somewhat. Recently I've all but stopped watching TV, and have been trying to read a lot more, and overall I think I'm better off because of it. I still play games whenever I can though, but they're mostly really old ones because I only have a crappy laptop with an emulator...

I dunno, Halo would be nice, but WoW would save so many people... I just wish I could reduce the popularity of a few games instead of totally deleting one. Like Final Fantasy 7, I mean I liked the game and all, but I just can't stand the idiotic following it has.

If you can't stop procrastinating, then do what my friends Gavin and Alton do, get good at either doing things really fast, or thinking up tons of BS that sounds informed. For example, in English last year we had to read some book, then write a review of it, and a paper explaining it and it's...

The last really text heavy games I played were Fallout 1/2 and Final Fantasy 7 (I have a crap computer so I've been going through all the classics). I honestly spent probably twice as much time going through dialogue in Fallout than I did fighting, but it was worth it because it was all just so...

I made a bunch of sprites for Cortex Command a while back, but never ended up using them. Other than that not a whole lot, but I want to start making some simple games in the near future. It's not really gaming related, but I'm about to make some custom wooden grips for my airsoft pistol if...

I really love totally ridiculous gore effects in games like fallout or Cortex Command, because it's just a great stress reliever. But if I was playing like Call of Duty or something, and my enemies were getting blown literally to chunks before my shotgun, I probably wouldn't be able to play...

There are far too many variables in nearly every conceivable action, including seemingly mundane or terrible actions for there to be any kind of absolute standard to judge by. That is why we have courts and big complicated justice systems, or else there would just be a big book of different...

I wasn't really old enough to appreciate them at the time they came out, but I absolutely love going back and playing old adventure games because of the cool sense of humor most of them had. I honestly can't think of why such clever games aren't made much anymore, but it may be due to the fact...