Recent content by toliman

It can be that. The idea of a Mary Sue character is "Wish fulfillment". It's just a symbolism for "shitty" writing in most cases, because a poorly created character is one that you feel nothing for when they win or lose, or more commonly, they break your suspension of disbelief by doing...

That's the reason why she's a Mary Sue character in a nutshell. Rey, as shown through the story can't be a Jedi. Except she is, because reasons. Other things might come along, but that's the one thing that the movie, or the books / new EU fails to address in any fashion. By giving her...

oh, like this one ? http://www.ebay.com/itm/10th-Anniversary-World-of-Warcraft-Orc-Statue-Unopened-Ten-Year-Anniversary-/181642120341 the previous one was sold for a lot more than this. Edit: there's 53 up for sale at the moment ... more than i thought there would be...

Retirees, mostly retirees that have an entrenched line in the sand that says that their party "knows what it is doing" and the other guy/girl has no idea. retirees that have entrenched confirmation bias, and can't think for themselves. which is a strange dichotomy for politicians to have to...

Oh, EA. Cash Addicted, Sociopathic EA. if it were a person, it would be a geniune megalomaniac, that special shining example of NPD, that would sell your own furniture to you while you were in your house, and succeed. It never seemed that EA was a small business that could turn around...

Act 1 and 2, to a great extent is the fun part of the game. none of the evident problems are seriously constraining, the dungeons you visit outside of town are the simple caverns, and i don't think you notice it repeating too much after the first 6 quests, and they are semi-optional, plus the...

it is *Likely* (and by that i mean definitively, but politically speaking, only Likely) the writer that shall remain nameless ... and never mentioned on the internet. yes. that one. http://dragonage.wikia.com/wiki/Anders#Trivia lest ye forget the horror ...

So i figure this is Dragon Age 3, in a nutshell. You start off in a 7 minute interactive cutscene that reminisces with 3 people drinking and playing poker, while cheating in the hanged man, 7 minutes later, you are introduced as the Guy who cleans the Hanged Man Inn, after those 3 people are...

*sigh* i think he's making fun of the JRPG/WRPG counter-conventions, more than pointing racist fingers at any one thing, both schools have evolved differently since the 70s and 80s/90s from D&D rulesets to FF & Zelda, and that's evident when you see what the 21st century console versions of...

having EA Store/Origins be the "first" promotional conduit for TOR, is a bad precedent. if we're lucky, it's just a EA promotional boon, much like they shit on Steam buyers for Dragon Age 2 signature edition with advanced preorders, right up to handing out 5 different branded pre-order DLC...

i bought mass effect twice. just having a DL version that won't get scratched up, makes it worth $10. though for other games, $10 is pushing it, i.e. popcap games, and really, crysis is still overpriced at $20 or $30 or $40, etc. well, maybe $20

Some of these movies have even been broadcast on late night TV, before the ratings were shifted over from M15 to MA15+. SBS (foreign content/movies) still airs a few every so often, the movies that have been created in australia, ie mad max, et.al. would be more violent now out of context...

the "metagame" of buying from steam becomes more of an issue than trying to beat down on a few dollars from the release price. it becomes more of an issue when you don't live in the US, and the pricing metagame that foreign publishers d**k around with, makes it necessary. i.e. i live in...

to be honest, there's very, very little to the game itself. it's almost JRPG in it's climb to level, collect infinite amounts of detritus, and objects become trivialised by continual upgrade paths. there are better JRPG's, and there are better games as well. personally, the greater issue is...

my only lingering doubt is in the mechanics of the game itself, which is probably important given that you usually can't patch those after the game has been released. as a game, its already fantastic, but an an MMO, it's very quiet on details, and that's troubling. the...