Recent content by Akjosch

I can only dispense those well-meant advice from wise sage Terry Jones: (The remainder was cut short on account of the singer exploding.) ------------------- Seriously though: Life's too short and laughter is often the best immediate answer to its absurdities and tragedies. And that includes...

I'd make them derived from the situation the world is in. And make that situation itself dynamic and ever-evolving, taking random chance as well as player input into account. So if the world sim "lands" some human colonists on a nearby shore, the orc count of a nearby castle will have a few...

Dwarf Fortress' Adventure Mode. It's not a question if you will lose - you will. The game is about the journey, there is no winning condition.

Well ... For comparison, that's what an anime-style Lineage II female dwarf looks like. Or, for another comparison, here's a dwarf from Log Horizon.

Here's an idea: Make it all moddable, both changing the default civilisations, removing them and adding new ones. At least this way I won't have to facepalm that hard when I see that Poland doesn't start with Gniezno as its first capital, or Russia doesn't start with Kiev.

I sometimes refer to my mother and my aunt (her sister) by their maiden names - which aren't their official names for more than four decades now. It's typically in the context of talking about my mother's side of the family.

Dwarf Fortress. Just plan out huge constructions and excavation and watch the little ones scramble and create. No rush, no hurry, just relaxing. On mobile, grinding in Battle Girl High School with its rhythm-based combat is a good time to chill out too. Not when in a high score event or...

The "open world" approach isn't killing RPGs, it's making them go to their roots - to be games where you can be someone else, immersed into a foreign world, doing things the way your chosen character would.

There are two kinds of narratives in games: The plots created by the developers, the "main" and "side" stories built into the game. The stories created by the players as they explore the game's virtual spaces. If it's the former, others wrote at length why they so often suck (to the...

Good luck getting that info for anyone. Hell, I don't even know mine. Nor do I care. It's only something that has any significance for the rare few diseases where having a functioning Y-chromosome means you're either lucky or get shafted (didn't happen to me yet) or when trying to produce...

No, I just don't see how those are connected, for the reasons outlined. Guess. If you guess wrongly and they care enough, they'll correct you. Accept the correction and move on. (Biological) sex isn't and never was binary, by the way. To date, besides the XX-female and XY-male sexes...

The poll doesn't seem any connection to the thread. The poll is talking about someone's sex. If someone has the physical characteristics of a certain sex (as evidenced by their DNA and hormone levels, for example), it's obviously not wrong to call them being an example of that sex. The...

If that means that we get more games where the dialogue isn't limited by the space, time and talent limitations imposed upon it by voicing every little damn thing, as well as more people seriously working on voice synthesis, I'm all for them striking till kingdom come.

Frankly, what Bethesda does nowadays are mostly fantasy walking simulators. Post-apocalyptic fantasy walking simulators in case of Fallout. And I like them that way. Not really for the game systems, certainly not for the quality (heh ...) of their writing, but they are currently one of the...