Recent content by CountCagliostro

I play FPS and RPG almost exclusively. Somehow this qualifies me as a Pony Lover. Presumably something about picking Mario Kart by virtue of it being the only driving game I play.

I'm playing through BG for the Nth time myself. My advice: Be a two-handed sword fighter. Although the rules themselves don't particularly favour two-handed weapons, the makers made it so that almost all the most powerful weapons are two-handed swords. As a word of general advice, don't...

I'm not so sure these people are evil pirates. I suspect the answer has way, way more to do with the inconvenience of paying 1 cent rather than the actual financial cost of paying 1 cent. Add on security worries, and (as identified) the number of people without credit cards or who just aren't in...

Zaxx. Dizzy. Play through the whole game, get a couple of chances if you're lucky. His weird fireballs move ten times faster than you can. Did it though. We really didn't have much else to do.

Chuckie Egg lvl 1. Eat it up. Or, just maybe, Horace Goes Skiing. But probably Chuckie.

WoW will probably stay around for a long time, but it will lose the top spot. Everybody thought nothing would beat Everquest, but it did. Before that, no-one though anything would ever beat Ultima Online. Cracks are already showing - LOTR Online may not be about to overtake it, but it has shown...

I think it's fair to say that hypnotism can alter the mood of some (not necessarily all) subjects, and consequently suggestible for the short-term. Whether it's therapeutically effective over the long term to a greater than placebo, I'm not sure, and suspect effect would be minimal. One bit...

We really need to get back to the glory days of kobolds all up in the hizzouse until level 3. Haven't seen the little guys since Baldur's Gate 1. Remember the end of the mines? Made you scared for your party while putting them in little real danger, and left you plenty of room to up the threat...

Speaking as a straight Englishman, gay Holmes would RULE. Obviously, a movie about Holmes going cruising would be out of character. But given Holmes' misogyny and attraction (and Conan Doyle's attraction) to the unusual, some kind of dark, brooding, probably self-hating gay performance would...

Breath of Fire 1, SNES. Intending to finally get round to playing them all back to back.

Dizzy. The original, on the ZX Spectrum. Jumping Zaks' fireballs on the last screen was a nightmare, I remember. They were the fastest things I ever saw on a Spectrum.

Ah yes, the Driver tutorial. I remember installing and uninstalling three times before finishing that. When I finally finished it, I remember the game being reasonably OK, in a pre-GTA and ignore-Crazy Taxi kind of way. I have also played ET on the 2600, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde for the NES...

You, sir, are a man of good grace and honour. From this day I shall consider us brothers.

Best be trolling. Trademarks are not a "state inducted" anything. They are a judicial measure which are demanded by businesses. They serve two extremely useful functions; protecting a businesses identity and reputation, and allowing customers to make informed choices on purchasing (see: the...

I particularly enjoy visiting Americans and Australians, both of which groups are wont to put on a posh British accent for laughs, being amazed that Britons do _exactly_ the same thing. I have a fairly posh accent myself, and I still put on an even posher accent to take the piss. Chocks...