Recent content by efAston

I tried to come up with "vertiambulator" or something to describe the box you get in which takes you up and down. The problem with "lift", shared by "elevator" and "escalator" is that none of them can go down. The problem with my suggestion is that "verti-" in Latin doesn't mean "on the Y...

I do think there's way too much faux realism in video games. Sun Tzu said that the way to win battles was never to fight on an even playing field, which is exactly what Camperstrike and Tent Combat were all about, when Quake III was pretty much down to your actual ability to play. In single...

Eaten by piranhas. Giants: Citizen Kabuto.

DooM³ is still the only thing that's made me stop and gawp at a wall for minutes, because it such amazing carvings in it. It's animation, rather than modelling, which makes you believe a character is real, and Fred Nillson's movement in that was absolutely brilliant. Seeing an imp climb, crawl...

Blood and Glory, for Android had a sword for AUD$600 in real money. So I could spend $600 on an Android game, and still not have the whole game. An ANDROID game.

Trent Reznor soundpack for DººM³. Turns it from a Nerf match with spud-guns into an eerie, booming, shooter. Also it negates all the social politics which robbed us of the original soundpack in the first place.

There have been, and there are presently. Yours isn't the only country.

Most of them. I could pirate as many games as I liked and still have paid for more than I've played.

Penumbra. Penumbra Penumbra Penumbra.

This http://naurunappula.com/483139/narwhals pins down the flash video and loop song for me. Once I had George Michael's Careless Whisper stuck in my head, although I couldn't remember the name of the song, so I told a guy I was diving with "I've got a George Michael song stuck in my head...

For about 3 days now. I'm always getting songs stuck in my head these days, but if anything offensive gets in there, I can just sing myself Combine Harvester. That will get anything out.

Most ridiculous DLC I've ever seen? A sword which costs $500 in real money, on an Android game. I think there should be a legal requirement that when someone has a game with DLC, the price of all the top-level unlocks needs to be added up and listed alongside the game title, as the total cost...

Gauntlet. My housemate and I used to have gauntlet-only deathmatches, and never got over watching each other get fisted.

Double-enforcer in UT at that spawn-point in a corridor. It was like killing a swarm of flies in a cubicle with fly spray. I don't remember the count, but the "monster kill" etc. announcements were going every few seconds. Don't worry, I don't usually spawn-kill, they might have been partly or...

Saving immediately after something very bad happens. You know that horrible feeling when immediately after you load a game you get killed, or find that you've used something that you really need ten minutes later? I don't need the game to keep all of my quick-saves (like Far Cry 2 did, for some...