Recent content by Xodion

The problem with this entire article is that he is basically saying people who are good at action games should be allowed to have more fun, at the expense of everyone who isn't. I like action games, but I never play them for very long because I'm not very good at them, and I don't have nearly...

I have to correct you here, because I'm not sure where you heard that, but Holocaust denial is not illegal here in the UK. We have pretty good freedom of speech laws here, and at the same time our game stores thrive despite laws fining people who sell games to minors. Nobody cares about adults...

According to this article, [http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/news/41586/World-of-WarCraft-Costs-200-Million-to-Maintain] Blizzard spent $200 million maintaing WoW for just under 4 years up to the end of 2008, which includes everything you just mentioned (i.e. not initial development costs, but...

TV Tropes, so humanity can continue to waste hours a day reading through it after the rest of society collapses around them. Without it, what else would I do at work?

Some good choices here, and I'll have to borrow a few: 1. Minsc and Boo - comedy value, as well as melee prowess and a good heart. 2. The Waco Kid (Gene Wilder) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blazing_Saddles] - nobody can shoot as fast as the Waco Kid, give him a modern gun and he's set, and...

This is the reason I don't like 4e. I'm not going to stop other people playing it if they want, that would just be stupid, but our group won't be playing it because it's so very limiting in what you can do compared to 3.5e (although I can't compare it to the earlier rules, I only started playing...

Hmm, reminds me of the KKND games, but I just checked the unit lists and can't see any units like that...

I think using Pause is reasonable, as the AI can make decisions a million times faster than you can, to it the game is almost always on Pause. Saving and reloading was a habit I used to have with Civ, but I've managed to shake it off now after playing a bunch of the GotM games. It can be...

I've not heard of the Patrician games, but that does sound like the most awesome game ever. If only I could do graphics programming, I don't think I could make that just using Flash and AS3... :(

Banana bombs were awesome, when I got bored I'd throw them as hard as I could directly upwards. Seeing them rain down all across the map, not knowing where they would land, was hilarious unpredictable fun.

That is pretty impractical, especially when you consider that you cannot have a portable minigun. I liked it as an early backup weapon, before I managed to aquire more Chinese Assault Rifle ammo than I would ever need. The .32 pistol was pretty useless, and because they were always carried...

I rarely spend much time on one game any more, I maybe have a dozen RPGs with 50-100 hours each on them, but doing some rough calculations I reckon I spent between 1 and 2 years playing Civilization as a kid. All day, every day, every school holiday for about 10 years. The fact that it was on my...

That's impressive, to rip off a game made 3 and a half years after it was. I played Runescape on and off whilst at university, and even though I find grind games really boring I actually really enjoyed it. I liked the interesting quests, especially the ones following a storyline, and I...

I usually end up being Good, because most Evil choices are always so ludicrously over the top: "Hey, let's burn down this hospital full of poor people!" "Really? Why? What do we gain from it?" "Well, everyone in the world will automatically know and hate us, and guards will attack us on site...

How odd... Anyway, I've updated the OP to say thanks to everyone for responding, and that I've ordered the game on Amazon for a bargain £10, although delivery time is listed as between 1 week and 2 months, which seems quite vague. I'll see if I can find a decent mouse too, my current one is a...