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There was an old King Arthur style game (probably Chivalry and Sorcery but I'm not sure) which had characters have a set of traits ranked 1-10 between certain virtues and vices. Eg Honour, Chivalry, Charity, Love, Faith, Bravery, Honesty, Loyalty. It was an excellent way to get an instant...

That's a chrys? I am so not getting off the damn VTOL now :-)

It could be my old favourite, Clone Soldier 37. I just gave my troops numbers one game. 37 survived to the end by virtue of being wounded, being in psi-training and lucking out on a high Psi Str score so he never again left the ship. Apart from good ol 37 everyone else at the end was in the...

Better advice is to know how the relationships work. 1. Everyone hates the leader. Every AI is looking for a way to have the top score. They dislike no 1 inherently. 2. No 1 hates No 2. The AI dislikes the next player (human or AI) on the points table. 3. Agressive (eg the Aztecs) Civs...

I'm mainly a 4x gamer. I ponder over maps, check charts and carefully plan each detail and move. Every once and a while however I just want to make things go splat. Space marine is doing that nicely. As for the universe's most angry smurfs? They grow on you. There's something endearing about...

The shooter has now come full circle. In Space Marine you will play, well, a space marine. He's gruff, indomitable, brave and capable of storming hell and punching Ol' Scratch himself in the balls. Unlike all his relatives from other shooters starring space marines which are gruff...

Fast travel is a convenience. There are times you want to explore every last square metre of Cyrodil, Azeroth, Wasteland or wherever. That's pretty much the game. Wander through our world and half the daft NPCs will ask for you to do something so you can, er do things. Other times you want to...

One of the better reasons for not putting jedi on the form is that you're marginalising some poor SOB who really does belong to a small religion or a big one that doesn't have many believers locally. For example, in New Zealand there are more 'Jedi' than pagans, wicca, sihks, mormons amd hindus...

Yep, the 80's were weird. Some of it was the entire impending WWIII thing. That was a real, subliminal fear that just underwrote everything. The other was the hijacking of Christianity by political conservatives. It was creepy watching it become a religion of fear. In both cases the fear needed...

Last week I bought STO off Impulse for $8, NZ dollars, about the same as a BigMac Combo. Figuring a 30 day trial will give at least as much happiness as said BigMac (not a big ask) I decided to give it a go. The intro mission has the rest of the ship officer contingent killed by Borg. It...

You are clearly in error. Paranoia* was the perfect system. The Computer said so. Turn yourself in for a vigorous mind-scrub. *2nd Edition. While the 1st Edition was itself perfect, the 2nd edition was even more perfect.

Life's worse if you're an old school gamer. People know what board games are but there are several light years between Monopoly and Shadows over Camelot. Since my wife and I both play board games every few years our well meaning relatives give us some dreadful, keep the kids from destroying the...

GFWL is one of the stronger proofs that Satan exists and has a hand in the affairs of men :-)

I play good because I'm a social being and I like being a 'hero' in my games. That and the evil option doesn't open up any real game-play options in my experience. The game should 'reward' your choices with actual fun options. Take for example Civilization IV. You can play nice and run a...

The morality system in RPGs like KOTOR, Oblivion, Fallout3. The choice to be virtuous and poor as opposed to mercenary and rich doesn't work since you end up drowning in loot and enough dollars (or credits, caps, etc) to buy Australia anyway. The pittance the mercenary option grants just isn't...