Recent content by dWintermut3

The main problem with seperating "real critics" from the laymen is a lot of the time they love totally different things. Look at movie reviews, Citizen Kane probably wouldn't sell that well today, there's no CGI robots and nothing blows up, there's only one action scene (even if it is the...

KotOR 2, the telos polar bug that put your NPC companions into the developer debug mode. They would offer the option to view various endings but all the NPCs were despawned and you couldn't continue. It happened to random games but once affected following the pure-lightside path through the...

In fact if I understand the law properly I don't think the developer would have much legal recourse if you jailbreak the game. The law has typically taken a dim view of companies disabling functionality of a product while fishing for upgrade fees. In fact in the case of hardware it's been found...

There are two kinds of games, roughly: those that are farming what's been successful over and over, and those that are trying something new. The thing is, you need BOTH to run a successful company. You need a stable source of income so one ill-received release won't end with layoffs, but...

I think it's undoubtedly the case that climate change (NOT global warming, "warming" is a gross oversimplification") is happening. What I dispute is the hubris that insists that brief mayfly creatures like humans can cause climate change when a single volcanic eruption emits more greenhouse...

Treyarch for sure. Though the "when is release day coming again?" award for the most times having to cut content and release a game without even cursory Quality Assurance goes to Obsidian. The fact their games STILL are some of the best in genre despite having been rushed to market...

Lair of the Shadow Broker is well worth it in my opinion, but Mass Effect (the original) is probably one of the top 5 games in the history of the genre.

I don't think that's it at all. we live in a global age, it's more or less necessary to not care about a lot of tragedy. If you genuinely cared about everything, without the ability to detach and be indifferent you'd end up like that scene in The Fifth Element where Lelu reads back...

I don't have a problem with modern RPGs, nor do I over-idealize old games, they had their problems too. Let me start off saying I started my RPG odyssey playing Wizardry: Bane of the Cosmic Forge on an x8088. I played a lot of the best of the old games. I can sum up the problem with...

Thankfully at that point I had a bunch of land mines in my inventory I was saving them up to sell them. That makes it a whole lot easier. But yeah, the whole "no going back, oh and it's a heavily inventory-based game" thing was crappy.

I've played Nethack, that's the only mode you get in a roguelike. Old-school for the win.

Twin Sector (ugh, graphics fairly terrible but the voice acting is just awful. An adventure game with no adventure)

I prefer download. I can't play Fallout 3 anymore because my dog got ahold of the disk, no such risk with Fallout: New Vegas thanks to Steam! Also, automatic patching, DLC delivery much nicer than having to buy it on CD or *shudder* Windows Live Marketplace *shudder shudder* and some...

What's it really take to implement two keybind setups one using WASD and another using IJKL? Heck IJKL actually looks like it would be nicer to use because rather than having to bind the other nearby keys to important system keys like tab or caps lock you would be binding them to semicolon and...

I think he probably is a little evil. But that's the point. I took the Just Cause series as a *VERY* subtle parody on US military policy, especially through the 1980s. Don't like what a south american leader is doing? why not oust them and install a pro-west anti-communist pro-american...