Recent content by GyroCaptain

Oh lord, it's like Songsmith all over again. Seriously, though, this took a bit more effort. *applause*

I guess what will be the prime motivator at this point is probably whether they plan to sell a specific game online. I'd like to see more backwards compatibility, but with brick-and-mortar pulling original xbox games to an extent it becomes less and less likely. Look at it this way, though...

ME AM SMAWT AND LISTEN 2 METALS Actually, self-deprecation aside, while I'm no Rhodes Scholar I do both like metal and do decently well at a hard engineering school. I also listen to everything bar club music and current gen hip-hop, though. I've seen this conjecture before; proof or no...

The ability to float on water and support any weight doing so, but only while wearing pink water wings. Possibly the ability to shapeshift, but only into a trucker named Melvin or 85 year old woman named Doreen.

I was Paragon all the way, baby. I used a FemShep with a lightly scarred face and classed as infiltrator. (because popping watermelons heads never gets old) I also saved Wrex, the Rachni queen, and got Saren to honor-kill himself, while romancing Kaiden and leaving Ash to die (IIRC). My 2nd...

Dice pools, simply put, are when you take your skill at something+ your stat at something+whatever modifiers are in place and = a given number of dice to roll. Then you have 'successes', which are 5/6 on d6 in Shadowrun, 8/9/10 on d10 in Vampire, Mage, etc., and 7/8/9/10 on d10s in Exalted...

Shadowrun 4th uses initiative order (aka a turn sequence) but does allow for simultaneous actions for people with the same initiative. It's also relatively deep in terms of implementing weapon range penalties, wound penalties, movement and recoil effects, and other things without going to the...

Yep. It's been a while since I've listened to Trilogy or Works Live though, which are the albums I'm most familiar with apart from that Greatest Hits floating around here somewhere. I'm also rather fond of the Moody Blues.

My contribution to this thread is a Scottish band mostly known within Scotland for helping to revitalize folk in the 70's, though they experimented with electronic instrumentation and occasional prog-rock elements: Silly Wizard. Most of their stuff is hard to come by these days. The Queen of...

I didn't like Oghren that much the first time around, but when playing as an asshole I kept him around because he wouldn't complain about anything unless it was NOT PICKING A FIGHT. The more I kept him around, the more awesome he became. If you don't pay attention to the background...

Commander Keen ftw. I also need to play The Neverhood and FF6 again. I was a PC gamer back in the day, so back at my house there's a whole pile of ancient Sierra and EA games I need to Dosbox and play again. As I recall, Red Baron, Aces over Europe and Aegis, Guardian of the Fleet were all boss.

How did this thread go 6 pages without mentioning Sean Connery's awful movie Zardoz? "Do not ... ingest." >_O See if this were just on the internet, I could cope with its existence better. It's when these uppity bits of crazy find their way off the internet that we have a problem. Also what.

Didn't anyone play Knights of the Old Republic II? Most of the Mandalorians on Dxun were Kiwi. Now the reason for that, obviously, was Temuera Morrison's portrayal of Jango Fett; but that's also something that spilled over into Star Wars: Republic Commando. Seriously, that game had a whole...

I'm not a rabid Halo fan, but I enjoy the other series on the system more. Stick with it, figure out what you really do like, and play that. You're not starved for choices, really, as long as you're not fully obsessed with playing exclusives. Stranglehold is a damn entertaining game...

OP did not actually state whether he had a 360 or other console yet. If he does, then I'd recommend picking up a PS3. If not, I don't know how well I'd recommend a PS3 as a first console/replacement for the previous generation. Current generation, I prefer what you can lay your hands on for...