Recent content by StompinPaul

I think I get the point of the article, and it is something of an issue though I feel like the Half-life series in particular was always kinda clever about addressing the protagonist's lack of speaking. However, I think that the opposite approach has its share of potential pitfalls as well. If...

I think where it's a crime, it's a crime in the following sense: it's something people agree is something one shouldn't be doing, to such a degree that state institutions are allowed or even forced sometimes to take action to stop the person attempting. I would imagine that the 'punishment' in...

I find gameplay to be more important, agreeing with the point that a game with gameplay without story is still a game but a game with story and no gameplay ceases to be a game. In particular, I'd like to respond to the idea that story can save an otherwise poor quality game with this: it may...

Several times since that update I've had spiders try to jump on my head without warning, and you know what I've discovered? Even more terrifying than ninja spiders is ninja spiders on fire. Sure they're a little easier to kill having taken some damage already, but the psychological effect more...

Anything's possible, but I suspect you've just been seeing a lot of zombie related things in the last indeterminate amount of time. Also, problem? Buddy, take it from me: insanity is a feature.

Talk to the aliens, and see what their thoughts on the matter are. Maybe they can agree to/come up with a compromise, e.g. I could eat condemned criminals or fresh corpses or something. Barring that, screw starvation: find a nice, high cliff with rocks at the bottom and jump.

Sometimes, but I don't think I want that changed. With infinite respawns, the things that cause that sort of frustration is needed to add real consequences to decisions/mistakes. Consider: one time I lost my diamond pick trying to mine obsidian. It really annoying to lose it and the other...

I grabbed my hammer. Assuming no one finds me in the next 30 seconds I'm done for...just like if I'd grabbed anything else here. Now, on the off chance I am saved, I have a hammer: a useful if crude close combat weapon, as well as a tool. With any luck, I can make myself helpful enough to...

I don't know for certain, but I imagine that part of it is simply the fact that it's there. The very fact that it's an activity largely independent of the main game provides the feeling that there's more to the world than just player actions, as well as letting the player explore and experience...

I see no reason why they can't, once one adds the condition that games which cannot be adapted are ruled out. I would guess that the reason most game based movies and movie based games are bad (and hence most people's dislike of even the concept) is that the majority of them are made to...

The Zero Point Energy Manipulator (Gravity Gun) Not only is the gravity gun a very creative an unusual weapon, it's pretty powerful against most things you use it against (one barrel/chair/toilet to the face will kill most enemies in the game), and it can still be useful even when it doesn't...

From what I've seen gun names tend to be pretty straight forward, often just a sort of detached description of the gun. The formula I use often goes something like this: And looks something like this when in use: Raptor P315 Precision Rifle can be pretty much anything, it represents a...

Maybe someone has used this approach earlier in the thread and I missed it, but here goes. One case where 0 =/= null is where distance is involved. Specifically, consider the relationship between an object (e.g. me) and an origin point (e.g. the location where I am sitting in my chair)...