Recent content by Del-Toro

What's just as bad is that people, at least in my part of the world, don't seem to get how goofy the whole 'verse is. People go on about how cool the chaos space marines are because they have the aesthetic tastes of an 11 year old internet tough guy and don't see why the Robot-Zombie necrons are...

You do realize that, in general, first world countries are only seeing population growth where there has been a high influx of immigrants, coming from parts of the world spared your conditions and therefore making your idea pointless, right? Besides, Europe and North America have been letting...

Rome: Total War, or TIE Fighter. Nao.

Read it, still picked Tyranny. There are a great many case studies from which can be derived the opposite conclusion. 1984 I think demonstrated the greatest possible extreme of Tyranny, and more than likely does not actually reflect daily life in the Nazi and Soviet regimes, although it...

If you pick 'Chaos', it's because you think you'd be one of the strongmen/women who eventually rise to form the new informal power elite. In reality, you might be one of their troops, but since you're on an internet videogames forum, it's far more likely you're a slave/ vassal of some...

Mobile Suit Gundam CrossFire is, actually, a fuckton better than everyone has heard. I'd actually argue that the Newtype Magazine's rating of it, which was highly positive, was quite accurate. Although the western press shitting on it did mean I got it nice and cheap, so there's that.

Plus, to me, Halo has always seemed to be the kind of game intended for one to be able to simply pick up and play. As a result, designing the game so that someone can do fairly well right out of the gate is a much better choice than making it so that more experienced players get to frustrate...

If you don't believe in an afterlife, then the idea of completely erasing someone from existance (for all intents and purposes) makes the death penalty tempting.It also makes it appear that the more heinous criminals, the ones who took some sweet time with their victims, are getting off quite...

Why yes, I do recall one instance of the entire enemy team converging on me in Gears of War 1, after having lost all my comrades, and defeating them single handedly. That was quite a day.

I'd say my analogy actually holds up pretty well. The point I think you missed is that any choice you have, and what those choices are, is all within the framework and from among the selection that was made by the developers, or author, as the case may be. That doesn't change because you get to...

Wrong. None of that aspect of the game is unprecedented. Nothing about the game itself changes drastically based on your choices, instead, all that changes is the specific combination you see of pre-made story points the developers put into the game. Literature had something like this before the...

Yes, because ugly people are universally beloved and worshipped and have all the advantages. She's not that attractive. I don't know what it's like in the UK, but where I live (Montreal), she's a mid to low 6, even among women of her age bracket. It could be that women hate her for thinking...

Basically this. I haven't played ME3 (please don't burn me for heresy) but it seems, from the first two games, that the victory against the reapers being anything but pyrrhic would be even worse writing. More inspirational, perhaps, but if the combined might of a single galaxy's life was enough...

"We're tired of barely breaking even"

Weapons are tools. The distinction is that weapons are a specific variety of tools. I personally like the tazer: it's an alternative to the firearm, so in, say, a hostage situation, you can knock the fucker out, rescue the hostage and probably put him in front of a judge for his crime. I think...