Recent content by Arothel

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    Is The Lord of the Rings still relevant?

    Not gonna lie, this post took me aback. While I did enjoy Jordan's world, the beginning of his story, and certain characters, he is woefully deficient as a writer. His characters are flat and basically all the same, with precious few exceptions, which is only compounded by the prodigious...
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    Escapist Podcast: 082: Microtransactions and Tomb Raider

    King's Quest puzzles had tenuous relationships with logic, as I recall. Hold on to that pie to throw at the monster 3 hours after you pick it up...
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    The Escapist Presents: Dungeons & Dragons: Opening the Monster Vault

    Rust monster...*shivers* Looks good, though.
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    Most annoying enemy.

    My response to cliff racers was an enchanted amulet called Buzzkiller with 100 fire over a 50 yard radius on target. The same amulet I accidentally cast while indoors in Vivic...
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    274: Spoiled Rotten

    While I agree with many of your points, I do not completely agree with your premise. Your analogy of the little girl and her perpetually wrapped gifts ignores the deep and captivating emotions of anticipation and wonder. It is part of the experience of the gift. That is what makes it a gift...
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    Stolen Pixels #219: Mythbombers

    This is why I love Shamus.
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    Starcraft 2: Will you pay full price for 1/3 of a game?

    Wait, what? You are faulting a real time strategy game for requiring strategy? If you think the zerg was just mass units and go then you never played against good players. Starcraft is one of the most balanced RTS' on the market, that is why it has withstood the test of time. You are right...
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    High School Student Uses GameBoy to Create Fake Bomb

    How, precisely, was this smart?
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    Games you want made.

    Think of it this way: if Blizzard started that project today, your grandchildren might get to play it.
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    Games you want made.

    So, Starcraft 2?
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    New Splinter Cell: Less Stealth, More Accessible

    I played Splinter Cells 1 - Chaos Theory, and I completed them with the leave-no-trace mentality, including the self-imposed kill no-one mandate. I would wait patiently in the darkness memorizing patrol patterns and using my sticky cameras to knock out guys by hitting them on the crown of the...
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    "Fuck this" moments

    Ninja Gaiden is ripe with those moments. NG Black had the ghost fish, which on Hard and Very Hard liked to hide them in chests. "Congratulations on beating that boss after 2 hours of trying, here is a nice chest as a reward for all those potions you used." *kicks open chest*...
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    Zynga and the Rise of the New Gamer

    Insightful, as always.
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    Hero's you cant stand

    Dude, that was the point of the cartoon's entire existence. I'm not saying he wasn't irritating, but preachy educational speeches were his purpose in life.
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    The Playground Model

    MMORPG's suffer from an interesting case of schizophrenia. They try to cover all the major bases of gameplay that don't always mix well. For instance, the leveling system combined with player verses player combat is inherently unbalanced, which is why games like WoW implimented systems such as...