Recent content by Execudork

I lose at my life Stupid computer beats me Civilization I think "Civilization" is 5 syllables, but I'm not sure. Probably depends on your regional accent. And "fire" is 1 syllable (as far as I can tell, anyways). Drive! Crash! Drive! Crash! Win! Burnout and all the sequels I lose my...

Instead of partaking in the drinking and promiscuous sex that most freshman were, I spent my time in the dorm room alone playing Civilization 2, smoking clove cigarettes and listening to The Cure. Damn, that was me, too. Except no cigarettes (clove or otherwise) and I listened to an...

Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel (PS2). I've finished it at least 3 times, though when I played through it with a friend in co-op mode we couldn't get very far. Perfect Dark (N64). That stupid alien pisses me off to no end, but I like the sentry gun. Shogo (PC). As mentioned above, it's...

I love your ability to think about fractions. Half an hour is 30 minutes, which is one minute less than the 31 minutes required for the end of the world. I've been running Winblows XP since it came out, on a desktop and a laptop. The desktop had a few instances of the blue screen of death...

Regarding anti-grinding: I remember playing a game, long ago (like 10 years ago) that had an inherent anti-grinding mechanism, though I don't know if that was the game designer's intent. It was a fantasy RPG, with the usual experience-points type system to gain levels. The first time you...

Rather than throwing semantics about words like "ape" and "monkey" around, why don't we consider the original poster's point: that while there has been considerable reaction from scientists, science educators, and others to Spore, I've heard nary a peep from the usual frothing-at-the-mouth...

Star Control 3 Because SC 2 was the greatest game (EVAR!) [/fanboy]. And SC 3 was SO. BAD. that when I played it I felt a little part of me inside die screaming in agony. But that's not why I'd shove it into a black hole. SC 3 should be buried because it forever truncated any hope of...

Robyrt's suggestion that missed items appear in the next shop is excellent, in my opinion. I second Susan's "GENIUS" comment. Does anybody with some experience of game development think this would be a difficult feature to implement? Walkthroughs I've met have included detailed lists of...

I have a similar problem, but it's not limited to RPGs. I rarely finish any game of any genre, usually because the difficulty curve rises faster than my skills. To beat, for example, Burnout 2 would require me to grind as a player for hours and hours of easier races before tackling those...