Recent content by GabeZhul

To put it bluntly, they lost their memory of losing their memory. That's kind of the dramatic hook of the game; the main characters losing parts of their memories and not being able to recognize that they lost them. This is the reason why Squall is a depressed loner (he remembers that he lost...

*sigh* Okay, let's go through this again: -"A lot of VNs suck" is a true statement. Saying "all VNs suck" or "VNs are terrible games" (let alone "VNs are terrible VNS") is not. Don't shift your goalpost. -What VN developers refer to the VNs as games? And what kind of "games" they are...

Actually, no. The gunblade is a plot-point in the game. It is a rare and iconic weapon. Edea saw Squall wielding it when Ultimecia showed up at her doorstep at the end of the game and she was the one that came up with the idea of SeeD as an anti-sorceress force because of what Squall told her...

I could say that practically every single sentence in this quote of yours is empirically wrong, and it makes me question just what visual novels you have read to get such a skewed view of the medium. No, visual novels are not games. They are their own thing, and any gameplay elements they...

This, and I especially hate it in JRPGs. Even the best, most widely lauded JRPGs suffer from this to the point where it could be called a (very annoying) staple of the genre. You know what I'm talking about. The unwinnable fight that you could totally win but the opponent then pulls out a...

You forgot the most important part: He didn't even speak English. Hell, practically none of the "actors" spoke the language, they were told how to spell their lines phonetically and that's it. Under those circumstances his acting was actually surprisingly good.

I mostly agree, though I think it is not impossible to make a good movie adaptation just because of the lack of interactivity. There are enough let's-players who don't really talk and just show you the game as it is to prove that there are at least some games that can be enjoyed even if you...

Silverstag already has this for M&B:W in the form of character abilities you can select every five levels. They are practically perks and they even have synergies with each other. In a matter of fact, Silverstag in general is probably the best mechanical gameplay overhaul mod for M&B, its...

I can do some basic stuff, but I usually consider it too much effort, especially since my mother cooks for the entire household anyways. It is much cheaper to make one big dish for four people than to mess around with everyone cooking their own stuff anyway.

Wow, let's hope no-one introduces that reviewer to the vast genre of cyberpunk, or their brains might spontaneously combust. Or they might just dismiss it as part of some kind of giant conspiracy by the occupy-wall-streeters who set the entire genre in motion decades ago. One or the other.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0042698913000539 Bow before my Google-fu, plebeian! :P Seriously thought, it is actually pretty interesting. Apparently it polarizes the light that enters the eye and reduces glare, thus providing better contrast underwater during the day...

You actually hit on the crux word there: They might be equals, but they are not the same. JRPGs and WRPGs are RPGs, but they also use distinctly different tropes, gameplay conventions, etc.

It's probably because it's kind of obvious, but this was the first time someone wrote a formalized paper on it. Also, to the chinchilla thing in the article... Evolution? Duh? I mean, this is actually really basic and I wonder if there was more to the objection that what the article shows...

Okay, how? Seriously, we have seen them getting literally beaten out of Korra and it was categorically stated that the line of Avatars was broken and Korra is starting a new line. How the hell could that be reverted outside of either some aggressive retcon or even more aggressive fan-wank...

Oh please! That's not even the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the self-defeating weirdness of the Equalists' methods. I mean, they don't actually know since Amon is keeping it a secret, but taking away bending powers is dependent on blood-bending. Not only that, but taking away bending with...