Recent content by Chadling

Training in EVE Online has heavily diminishing returns over time. Every level of training takes an exponentially longer amount of time than the previous level. For example, to train a basic skill up to 80% completion (level 4 out of 5), it might take a day. To train it to 100% completion...

At the same time, a character that seems to communicate solely through grunts is extremely annoying to me. At the end of a game, when you've managed to unlock the True Ending and trigger a boss battle with a fallen god and your buddies are getting completely psyched up for it, it is somewhat...

Same old crud, different marketing. I'll wait to see what the reviewers say, but even still, I'm going to get Enemy Unknown before I even think of this game. Because, you know, that game is actually X-Com.

Slippy.... is so bad, so incompetent, so Scrappy-like that his idiocy actually manages to lock you into the game's false ending if you don't save his ass during one of the boss fights. During the boss fight in Sector X, he decides that it would be a really good idea for him to rush ahead of the...

Good god, this is worse than Jimquisition's start, and that series made me actively hate the man for a while. This video... just made me cringe. The brodude was so thick it positively oozed from the screen. And I was eating breakfast. Gross.

While I can understand the protectiveness that Star Wars fans have towards their Expanded Universe, as I happen to be one of those geeks who really got into the books when I was a kid (I mean, I used to play on a forum post-based Star Wars RPG), there's a real problem with the EU that makes me...

Well, let's take a look at that supposedly peer-reviewed scientific journal that they published their results in: the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.... http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-experimental-social-psychology/ Wow. Look at that Impact Factor: 2.3 for this...

Well, no one can say that Molyneux isn't ambitious. In an era where the AAA releases are mostly designed by metrics and "whatever is selling big right now", it's refreshing to hear about something completely off the wall, ambitious, and creative. I just hope that his ambitions finally are...

Good god, I nearly did I spit take of coffee all over my laptop. I think I'm going to let my wife drag me to this just so I can revel in the terribad. Yes, without a fight. No bargaining. I'm not even going to bring a sign declaring my support for TEAM BUFFY. I'm just going to go and buy...

....and here I was doing so good on not buying new computer games before I finished with the ones I already have sitting in my backlog. Sorry, but I guess you'll have to wait a little longer, Psychonauts, Lone Survivor, Amnesia, Red Read Redemption, Lost Odyssey, Super Meat Boy, Saints...

I'm not going to fund this Kickstarter on account of the fact that I'm going to be pretty much broke for the next few months, but there was something rather depressing in this article. Wait. It's almost impossible for a noted developer of excellent RPGs (oftimes buggy, but generally very...

http://www.reddit.com/r/Eve I'm a little bit hesitant to drop this sort of URL on the forums, but since I have no idea how to post pictures in spoilers (least of all those that would horribly stretch the browser), I'm just going to show that.... yes, EVE Online is populated with borderline...

CS is hard because the game is full of unstoppable genetically-engineered Bourne man-children that have done nothing but play CS for the last ten years of their life. Which is why that whenever I get the urge to play that game, I don't even bother. I play Surf or Zombie-mod.

Jim: "Viva Pinata is awesome!" Viva Pinata: "Hey, you picked me up at free comic book day, remember? Me and the Banjo-Kazooie game?" Me: "But... but.... Mass Effect. I haven't even gotten halfway through two, and I've somehow managed to avoid most of the spoilers for three...." Viva Pinata...

It goes like this: 1) You bought a game. An expensive game, thanks to the fact that EA/Activision somehow managed to con us all into thinking that $60 is the new acceptable baseline. 2) You cannot play it. 3) The developer's bad decisions are responsible for the second item. 4) Your...