Recent content by Commander CC

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    Saw "The Desolation of Smaug", want to share a few thoughts

    They could probably have made the final action scene a bit more consequential and more in keeping with the book by 1. Having Smaug decide much earlier to attack Laketown when Bilbo mentions barrels, and then have Bilbo and Co try to prevent this and have to intimidate Smaug into chasing them...
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    Is there anything you are honor-bound to do or not do?

    My OCD thing tends to involve taking certain party members in party based RPGs, usually either because I really like them and can't leave them behind (i.e., Garrus in Mass Effect, or Minsc in Baldur's Gate, or Iolo, Shamino and Dupre in the Ultima games), or because they feel as though they are...
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    What are some underappreciated Gems?

    I'm not sure if they are under appreciated as they have a sort of cult following, but I was really glad to try out the games by Spiderweb. The Geneforge games in particular was really good, with a cool premise that was kind of like Fallout meets Pokemon. The Avernum series was also cool...
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    Characters you love to play

    Garrett from Thief. It's fun to be snarky, arrogant and misanthropic all at once. Yeah, and sneaking about is good too, I guess. I also like going as the small races in MMOs as the scaling makes their feats of bravery look even more amazing. Most recent example would be the Asura in GW2...
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    What is your favorite video game of all time?

    Baldurs Gate 2 with the expansion, and these days a few mods that I consider essential comprise my favourite gaming experience ever. I enjoy a lot of other games, as I'm sure we all do, but it's always slightly in the back of my mind that "this is good...but its not BG2". Then I re-install.
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    Mass Effect 3 ending SPOILERS!

    Although I think ME3 as a whole was really amazing and emotional, I think it's final sequence, from assaulting Earth onwards, fell short on a few levels and didn't use things that were set up for it to use. Although I am disappointed with the ending, I have to say that I'm even more...
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    Your "FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU" Moments...

    Spoilers for ending of Mass effect 2 ahead, although I assume almost everyone in the universe has played it by this point. Hence *SPOILER ALERT* First playthrough. Things were going well, however a bug in the PC version meant I couldn't do every loyalty mission. We were at the Collector...
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    Most Bad-ass way that a character has died.

    John Marston's epic death when he was having a horseback shootout with some bandits and accidentally shot his own horse and went sailing off a cliff. I'm fairly sure this is the canonical ending.
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    your top 3 games

    1. Baldur's Gate 2 2. Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater 3. Final Fantasy VI If for some reason one of the above was erased from time, then Resident Evil 4, but if that happened my life would have been a lesser experience.
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    50 Worst Videogame Voice Acting Moments

    There has been the odd piece of rubbish voice acting in 2009. The bit in Dragon Age where you come across a "dying soldier" near the start comes to mind. "Who...is...that?" *Shudders* That was so jarring compared to the otherwise very competent (for the most part) voice work in the game...