Recent content by jmpatt

Very well said, I completely agree. If you go to a coffee shop and order a coffee, and they bring you out a plate with a truly outstanding coffee with a side of dog feces on toast, it's really OK to complain about that. "If you didn't want a crap sandwich, you should have gone to a sandwich...

So, to add insult to injury, but I wonder (not having played LOTRO) if the deer there act like the deer in WOW, which is to say completely unlike real deer. You see, in real life deer are cautious, nervous, skittish, and will flee if they detect the slightest hint of anything that might be...

So, here's a thought, not completely fleshed out, but maybe workable, using the WoW nomenclature: Every 10 levels or so, you get the chance to choose the next realm server you want to go to. So, launch day you have 20 realm servers, each with a big population. As the initial crowd moves on...

Well... You're going to need to start with a whole lot of coffee....

First, strangely it sounds like the perfect sort of sequel has been mastered by EA's Madden series... Second, episodic gaming is a completely different beast, primarily because you know what you're getting into when you buy it. It's episodic. Don't expect everything to be resolved when...

First, I'm curious if there are in-game ways of detecting directionality... Does the time of day change? Is the sun visible in the sky? If it's morning, could you infer that the city to the East is towards the sun? Or is the overlord world set in a perpetually overcast noon, like the Pacific...

I want to see if it actually works before I buy it. Against this excuse I can offer no counter-argument. The really interesting thing about this is that for console games (which you can bet fairly heavily will at least work consistently), there's more recourse than for PC games. I seem...

D'oh! I just got that one. My initial thought was that it was a joke on pwn, and that those were tags that somehow denoted pwnership. Maybe if anyone ever actually wants to print some up they should have "earl gray" on the tags... For humor n00bs like me. :)