Recent content by TheRaggedQueen

This, pretty much. They could sell the game to EA for all I care if they'd keep it basically the same as it is now and don't dick over the mod developers.

I think one of the bigger issues with Early Access isn't so much that it's immediately bad for the gamer, so much as it could turn into a bad habit for developers. If they can just throw together some half-assed project and work on it at their leisure why the Early Access cash rolls in, there...

Thank god I have to walk to work today, otherwise my co-workers would likely ask why I look like someone just shot my dog. It's a hell of a comic, and thank you to both Mister Carter and Miss Baggs for writing and drawing it, respectively.

I'm not usually a fan of level scaling, but I enjoy how it was handled in Fallout 3 and New Vegas. Rather than having everything just get more and more buff, the area-specific enemies will gain better weapons or stats the more you level, but only up to a point. Bandits might start off with...

Christ, no. I buy video games so I can play the suckers, not so I can just feel included in some kind of gamer crowd. There's a myriad of reasons why I actually enjoy distancing myself from most of the gaming community, but suffice to say that I will quit gaming before I decide to start...

Sanctuary Guardian is a pain for just about everyone the first time around. It's usually a pain the second and third, too. The current build I'm using is a bit of a twink. Wound up getting a BK sword from one of the knights in the Parish, so I've stuck with that and the dark leather armor...

Need for Speed: Most Wanted. The original version, not the revamp. Before it I didn't care one whit about racing games, it made me at least somewhat interested in them. That's still the only one I've played to completion, however.

I came expecting brevity and the pair poking fun at Sonic's degradation (this was my first Rhymedown, if that means anything), only to sigh in exasperation. For too long has the poor blue creature's series labored at death's door, a wonderful creation now reduced to a footnote in gaming lore...

It depends on the genre. If it's something like the Walking Dead, where you can have a clearly self-contained plot that still manages to advance the overall story, sure. Games aren't usually very good at stuff like this, usually because their stories are so short they don't really need sub-plots...

Oh, definitely. I'm a big player of Dust 514, despite CCP still bungling simple stuff like weapon balance and not getting caught on level geometry. It's still a decent game regardless, and I'm hoping that once they finally wrangle all the bugs, imbalanced BS, and otherwise crappy stuff out of it...

Gonna go against the grain and say Mass Effect. Aside from that horrible ending, it was an otherwise well-written series, with relatable, fleshed-out characters and a fairly consistent story. Had 3 actually managed to keep up continuity and show some of the development the characters had gone...

Ah, Nocturne. Ironically, Nocturne was the only main series game in the SMT series to -not- feature the Law, Neutral, Chaos thing. You had three different ideologies, combined with the one that puts everything back the way it was, the demon ending, and the true demon ending. None of which is...

Shadow the Hedgehog. I was young and stu-well, I was younger and more stupid than I am now, and at the time my newly-teenaged mind almost couldn't come to terms of the Sonic world mixed with guns. It was also the first Sonic game after SA2 that I'd picked up (pre-ordered, oh the shame!) and I...

Yeah...I wouldn't hold my breath. While I'm sure that on an individual level the teams that comprise major studios consider the work they put into games artistic, the bottom-line for triple A devs is that they want something that'll sell, and sell well. Which isn't to say that I don't think...

http://penny-arcade.com/report/article/the-most-epic-super-smash-bros.-match-ever-proves-the-game-isnt-just-for-bu This particular article got me reminiscing about my own matches in melee, as well as brawl and the original, but I was also curious about any good stories that you folks might...