Recent content by velcthulhu

Having read some of the Darkover novels, this... actually doesn't surprise me. Sadly enough.

...I can't just buy a bundle of all three, like I did for every other edition that came out during my lifetime? Why?

Obviously, they're planning to go back into their old areas of expertise, from before Yamauchi made them a consumer electronics company. If they go back into making playing cards and running love hotels, just think what kinds of crossovers they could have with their current IPs! /not actually...

Ah yes. Undefined "reasonable" behavior, subject to review... presumably by a panel of regulators hired from the industry in question, with input from lobbyists. I feel like I've seen our government pull that one before...

I'm... pretty sure Nintendo has stated previously that they start development on each gen right after the previous one comes out. Didn't they say, when the Wii U came out, that they'd been working on it since the release of the Wii?

The real reason, of course, is that Depp is the only actor willing to wear Dr. Strange's ridiculous cape.

It SHOULD be about Urza. It won't be, because they'll want to attract movie fans to the game so they'll use their current characters. Meaning most likely the Lorwyn 5, especially for the first movie. ...So basically it's going to be about Jace. With Chandra and Liliana around to look pretty...

I realize the Escapist likes to stretch the definition of "news" these days, but seriously? Someone distributed a virus disguised as a torrent for a popular thing? That happens -literally- every time there is a popular thing for it to happen to. This is as newsworthy as memes getting posted to...

Off the top of my head, in no particular order, and bearing in mind that I haven't played the game since it came out and I hadn't played Uru at the time (a game should stand on its own in any case, and certainly shouldn't require you to play the spinoff game): The game starts with a voiceover...

uhhh... I want to be excited about this, but... the last good Myst game that Cyan made was Riven. They didn't touch Exile or Revelation, which were good; they came back for End of Ages, an atrociously-written, half-finished, buggy pile of garbage. I realize they went pretty much bankrupt before...

So, next year they plan to announce when they might give us a reason to buy their system that came out... last year?

The game's a lot more fun when I pretend the auction hall doesn't exist, so I'd say they're making the right choice.

By combining the oh-so-beloved "pay-to-win" and "press-x-to-not-die" schools of game design, they have found the way of the future: "press X to waste money".

At the moment, going by Amazon prices of non-third party controllers, it's about $25 for a wiimote, $15 for the wii "classic" controller (the one that's basically a gamecube controller), $40 for the Wii U Pro Controller, $40 for a PS3 controller, and $60 for a Xbox 360 controller. If you go...

So can anyone explain to me why Valve felt I needed a 3.2 GB update to a 9 year old game that's barely over 4 GB to begin with? What did they do, replace EVERY texture in the game? /confused