Recent content by sighmoan

I really need to echo Bad Company 2, it's really a great multiplayer shooter. But if all of you have Half-Life 2 - which is quite often the case - I've had some great fun in the Source mods. Resistance and Liberation is great "reality"-style fun, then there's Insurgency and similar. A lot of...

Had that a few times, too. Same toe even! Second time I needed sutures. I messed it up and it got infected. Pulling those stitches out was the worst. I mean, think about what an infection feels like, and then imagine having it attached to a piece of string embedded half an inch inside the...

I don't see this at all. I mean, okay if my being alive results in my entire extended family being damned and untouchable - then there's a discussion. But if my being alive simply takes away their savings? There's still work to be done. There's still money to be made. Ultimately, you can...

The New York Times earlier confirmed that the iPad has a constant battery time regardless of what it runs; the reviewer in question attested to 12h video playback.

To be honest, I'm not sure a fight scene is really the way to go in a short story. I'm not the greatest creative writing authority but I've been around short stories enough to know that they occasionally require a couple of hoops to get right. It might be better to not write a fight scene and...

The Swedish chef.

It sounds to me that you prefer to play on your PC. Ultimately, graphics matter little to the enjoyment derived from the countless other small details between the platforms. If you prefer the control grid, prefer to stay hooked up with Skype or Steam or whatever, prefer to quit to desktop rather...

I think EVE Online qualifies in that category. There is a lot of potential, and at times it's awesome. But for the most part, it's an animated spreadsheet. You just have to stare at it for long enough to catch that intermittent interval of awesomeness. The rest of the time, you can, well, chat...

I found the version used in Oblivion by far the more interesting. Not because of the "practice-makes-perfect" principle, and not because of the fuse between attributes and all that stuff. I really liked it because the world levelled up with you. Instead of making you objectively more...

Sure. You can think that all you want. It's just that it is completely irrelevant in the given discussion.

We could just say that "RPGs are RPGs and if you want something else go play something else", lock the thread and establish that everything past ''Rogue'' is just plain silly. That would hardly qualify as a particularly rewarding discussion. Granted that the current iteration of role-playing...

This is coming from a Relic fan with years worth of DoW, HW, and CoH experience, so it might be a tad partisan. But I think you should. The multiplayer, to begin with, isn't great. It's intense, interesting, and at times great fun; but last time I checked, Relic just couldn't do balance...

Yet if another system is able to provide much the same gameplay, much the same ways of thinking with regards to character construction, development, focus etcetera - but lacking such drawbacks as the inevitable grinding, the "out-of-character" missionrunning and all that - can it not be...

I wittingly lost three dwarves and one wardog to a single alligator within the first minute of gameplay in my latest Dwarf Fortress. Losing is fun, and only occasionally an achievement in itself.

This. Many an FPS has moved away from the typical health-point system into something more morphed into the GoW/Halo/CoD-style health regeneration, where the same kind of behaviour is rewarded vs punished, but without the ridiculous side effects of HP and all that follows. Why can't RPGs start to...