Recent content by alfrodul

Pass. No matter how good a game is, I will never again buy something that requires Uplay. ACIV is a gorgeous game. I bought it for my wife this past winter to help her with her winter depression. We've jumped through every hoop that Ubisoft demands for connecting to Uplay on their forums...

Another Fable game that I *would* play but can't and won't. I haven't owned a gaming console since the original 8-Bit Nintendo. I need a PC for communication, media, and business. My 2 year old PC plays games better than any console on the market, including the PS4 and Xbone. I don't need a...

I'm from the "I enjoy Fable and would like to play [Fable II] as much as everyone else" position... but I'm not holding my breath. The next game I buy from Lionhead will be Fable II, the game after that will be Fable III. If there is no PC Fable II, I'm just not supporting Lionhead anymore...

LOTRO's been my main MMO since I started playing it a few months after it went live. I still go back to WoW, AO, DDO, and a few others occasionally but LOTRO has been my main for about 3.5 years now. This is what I posted in response to the Dev Diary: --------:--------:-------- Looking at...

One of my perennial favourites is the somewhat old-fashioned "gelding."

Justified, 100%. And dear sweet gods... apparently there's a lot of people who forget that most of what comes out of Hollyweird is neither a documentary nor particularly educational. As others have said: 1) Hollow-points aren't for maximum damage, they're actually BAD FOR YOUR GUN...

I think that line has always been a best a grey and murky area. The idea that sexuality (and related issues like hetero-bi-homo- sexuality and/or marriage and family) has ever been standard is a modern myth constructed largely in our own lifetime. One of my favorite examples, transvestite...

I'm from Minneapolis, Minnesota but I live mostly in Europe (currently Russia but I've been all over). I spent the nine years I lived in Minneapolis working for one of the local police departments (as a civilian security supervisor, I'm not entirely comfortable with the modern police's focus on...

My NES and Atari 2600 are nine time-zones away, probably somewhere in my mom's basement. I've been a PC-only gamer since 1994.

Hah! Considering it's Susan... if the Escapist interviews Molyneux in the near future, I want it on video.

Arminius, Chieftain of the Cherusci and leader of the confederation of German tribes which defeated three of Romes thirty legions at the Battle of Teutoberg forest. He's why we're discussing this in English and not a Saxon-dialect of Latin. Songs of his victory are also a likely source of...

I saw this and thought of Shamus: "Who has been Red Shirted?" http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.php?p=4814434#post4814434

It didn't? Really? No frakin' duh. Exclusives are idiotic. (With the possible exception of PC games, I don't know anyone who has a console but doesn't also have a PC or Mac). I'm an adult and travel for business. Every year I'm living in a new country. I haven't owned a console since 8bit NES. I...

Currently playing LOTRO and awaiting SWTOR. Might try DDO with my wife in the interim. We were introduced to MMOs through Everquest and SWG but they never took. We then played Anarchy Online for a while before our WoW-playing friends gave us copies to entice us to try it. Played it for a few...

Never. If I'm playing a PC game, it's *because* my internet connection has failed and won't likely be fixed by my ISP (sub-contractor) until the next week-day morning. So, even if I buy AC2 (and I was quite tempted), the only way I could play it would be to download a cracked copy... But if I...