Recent content by Trevel

It depends on what you're looking for in the game. I describe RPGs as generally being two games. Because they are, IMHO; there's the Talking game and the Fighting game. Sometimes they're very well integrated together -- sometimes they're not. For the Talking game part of jRPGs, it tends...

Amusingly, Star Trek Online would seem to fit what you're after, at least in theory. The actual quality and pacing of it may be arguable, but ... space game. With ground combat levels. No insta-switch between them, as far as I'm aware, although it's not inconceivable...

The ESRB does what it claims to do: Gives you an idea of what to expect from a game when purchasing it from a retail outlet. By the very fact that we have heard of the Escapist, we are not the target audience for it -- we have ways of finding out about the games that do not exist when...

I'm surprised Jade Empire didn't get a mention, as a fairly mainstream game that gave you fairly free choice of who you romance in what aspect. Possibly because it had the best way of dealing with things that I've seen: You get to decide who you want your character to romance, and your options...

I'm confused -- was that an article or an advertisement?

Me, I've got nothing against the concept of booth babes. It's voluntary, the women are allegedly paid decently, and I hope they mostly enjoy it despite the creeps and stalkers that will show up. They signed up for it, they know what they're getting in to, and I really can't be bothered to be...

Honestly -- nearly everyone *begins* casual and becomes more and more hardcore as things go on. You master the basics and move on to bigger and better. Or bigger and harder. No one starts gaming with Dwarf Fortress.

Well, in some parts of the country it's Shaw and Bell instead of Rogers and Bell. Thankfully, the Government seems to be catching on that Canada is a third-rate nation, telecomwise. Don't know if they'll do anything good about it, mind, but it's a nice thought.

I don't mind amnesia when done right. PS:T was done right. Often it's not... I can't actually think of a recent game that's used it, though, so there's not much to annoy there. Are there a bunch of recent games that have used amnesia, then, or are we all still annoyed at the SNES Final...

I, too, believe that eating babies is the best way to solve the DRM problems.

Abandonware will still be up, I should think. A good number of game companies have closed down, after all -- I'm really not sure who would still hold the rights to some of those games. I also can't imagine some of the games that I'd only play for nostalgia purposes to be released for a cash fee...

As it mentions at the end, Abandonware isn't about piracy -- we're talking about things that are no longer sold. Sure we could find the games at flea markets or garage sales, but that's hit-or-miss and won't give any money to the game producers anyways. The actual people who created the game...

-- Scrubs works hard to be accurate on its medical details? We're talking about the same show that puts an x-ray up backwards in its title sequence? The one that thinks that veterinarians are simply doctors who need a second job? If you think that Scrubs is accurate on medical details...