Recent content by Wombat of Doom

Male and no, not as a rule. Maybe the occasional song, but I would say I don't care much for the genre.

I'm not sure they should win the "most cool" award, but I feel there needs to be a shout-out to the carbosilicate amorphs from Schlock Mercenary. Nigh-invincible, store memories throughout their bodies, can digest just about anything, and usually have a very entertaining sense of humor.

Lots of good articles have been written on this topic, and if you want to read something a little thick and philosophy-heavy, maybe check out this one I wrote for The Ontological Geek: http://ontologicalgeek.blogspot.com/2010/08/big-question.html I'd provide a TL/DR, but that's against the...

I would love to write for games-- I can't code to save my soul, and have little-to-no talent in visual arts or anything, so, "other," because while I would love a chance to write for a company, I'm not going to try to get into the "game design" field any time soon.

Oh, you're definitely right that Torment has probably the best characters/writing/everything-but-combat of any video game ever. It's probably my favorite video game. But two things: 1. I didn't say there weren't any games in the whole world with better characters, I just said there weren't...

If the game runs for 30-60 hours, like DA:O and most other non-Mass Effect BioWare games, less than 2 hours is, at most, less than 10% of the game. That's not very much compared to many JRPGs and the like. Also, "not... the most original out there when it comes to story and characters"? You...

"An" roboticist?

I don't know what Yahtzee's contract says, but I don't think ZP is primarily a reviewing feature-- ZP seems to be primarily a comedic venture that also says real things about games, not a review series that is also funny.

...I apparently saw a different movie than everyone else. While I certainly applaud the decision to try to deal with the characters and whatnot, as you said, I don't feel like the movie worked at all, really. I know that's really just part 1 of a two-part movie, and am open to the possibly...

I feel like you got a little scared of going in-depth here, Bob. Captain America's a complicated question, and trying to balance an appropriate amount of patriotism with not being propaganda is a difficult balance. I'm not sure why you did three minutes of actually talking about Captain...

There's likely some truth to the claim, though it's not going to be universally true. The series changes enough between each iteration that people are likely to mostly like the one that they started with. Personally, my first was VII, but my favorite is Tactics, 'cause, you know. Tactics.

Boomer in Gears 2 in Horde. Jerk.

Cait Sith is probably the most actually useless on this list, but I voted Quina 'cause s/he's confusing to figure out, and you get forced to fight with him/her during the four fiends section, such that if you weren't using him/her much, you are kind of teh hozed. (auto level-up doesn't help if...