Recent content by daveNYC

Make sure that you and the players are on the same page about what sort of game you're looking for. As long as that's the case, then a lot of other stuff becomes less of a problem. Try and make the game revolve around the player's actions, not the dice rolls. If the players do something...

Pretty sure you'd still need to buy the army codex though. Startup costs are pretty killer with WH. Not only is it pretty expensive to get the absolute bare minimum of units for a legal army, the cost of getting the 1000-2000 points that you'd probably want if you're going to play a lot is...

It's a nice bit of theater, but I'd like to hear about what he'll be doing that will help Nintendo turn a profit.

I think there's a difference between liking the ending and thinking the ending was good. As in good in a well written, flowed from themes earlier in the story, foreshadowed in places but not obviously telegraphed, etc... way. Someone could like Plan 9 From Outer Space, but there ain't no way...

Interesting that he decided to keep the Crucible plot. I thought that the 'super anti-Reaper weapon whose plans have been passed on and built on for hundreds of cycles of extermination and that just happened to be discovered in our solar system just as the Reapers show up' was a weak main plot...

It's pretty old, but Jade Empire is a great RPG. Martial arts based combat, solid story, Bioware title. Combat gets pretty easy (like explosive mod on the best shotgun in ME easy), but it's got the second best 'twist' of any Bioware story, and the art, while quite dated, is still very nice.

Sony didn't do so hot with handling their security problem with the PSN and Microsoft did a pretty good job dealing with the RROD. I think both companies are smart enough to realize that customer service is going to be as important as actual gaming performance if they're going to turn this...

Dunno about going handheld only. You do that and you're betting on going up against all the tablet and phone makers. Sure the dedicated hardware will be better for games and have better controls, and the games that they'll put out will also be better, but a dedicated gaming device is a hard...

Their 3DS numbers are dropping off too. They're going to have to do something, waiting a few months and hoping that the next big Link/Mario/Whatever game will drive sales through the roof obviously isn't working.

I prefer its usage in the first Mass Effect. Where your character starts out normal, but then gets a unique set of knowledge that turns them into the chosen one. Anyone could have been the chosen one, but it's more or less happenstance that your become the chosen one.

I hated it. It was well done, good effects, whatnot, but Peter Jackson seriously lost core elements of the story. The Hobbit is not The Lord of the Rings, but unfortunately that's not stopping him from trying to make it into a Lord of the Rings type adventure movie. In this section of the...

The HDD shouldn't be a problem. As long as nobody dropped it, the HDD will probably outlive whatever 360 you end up buying.

Obviously the problem is that software development has become too easy. Nintendo should solve that by designing their next console to only play games written in pure binary. None of this high level programming language crap that has coddled the current crop of developers and let them become...

What are you on about? There's no rule that says a console can't use an x86 or ARM based main processor, or that it has to use a custom GPU. Hell, the PS3's cell architecture, while neat, was a good chunk of why the PS3 had issues last generation. It was a ***** to learn and develop for, and...

A regular blu-ray holds 50GB, so just from a storage space standpoint, there'd probably not be much difference.