Recent content by Kolyarut

Is the ganking in EVE *that* bad for the careful solo player? I used to float about space a bit in a solo battleship a couple years back, running missions to take out NPC pirates in high sec space, and I don't recall feeling especially threatened (except one time where I undocked and saw an...

"Honey, we went to the city to get you a mage, but you didn't tell us there were so many kinds of mages! They had wizards, they had specialist mages, they had multiclass mages, they had sorcerers, they had psionicists, they had all sorts, so we got you a wild mage who was VERY reasonably priced...

I'm actually finding this conversation thread by far the most interesting discussion point in this thread as a whole. Leaning towards Mechamorph's arguments for the most part though - I definitely remember the Realms as being a ludicrously high magic setting, even in 2nd ed, outdone only by...

Oh, sure, that's not meant to be a slam on recovering heroin addicts at all. I'm sure there are reasons people get hooked and I'm sure it's agonisingly difficult to break an addiction to it - but if every heroin addict had to take heroin every day for the rest of their life I'm sure cutting back...

No, because you can stop taking heroin. I mean, not saying it's easy, if you're addicted to heroin. But if you're trying to cut back on your heroin intake the best thing to do is not take any heroin, because if you take heroin you're probably going to take a lot of it. If you stop taking any...

Completely disagree that this was a misstep. I can see how it would be a problem if you were trying to play "let's pretend it's me in a sci-fi world", but I've watched my character's personality establish itself with nudges in varying directions and I haven't liked a protagonist more since...

Games are usually big expensive purchases, and especially when there are months with multiple releases scheduled it's nice to be able to be able to stagger the cost a little by preordering them during the quieter months. Plus, just like it's nice to have all your Christmas shopping done nice and...

Oh dear, this is so true! I swear I'm forgetting a really really major example of queue-stuff-up-then-unleash, but it's totally slipping my grasp. Aaaaargh.

And Metropolis, Mystic Cave and Oil Ocean don't? (ugh, Metropolis) S2 does have a fair few good zones to balance those out, at least. Sandopolis does go on a while, but both halves are significantly different from each other, which breaks them up a bit. Agreed on Casino Night, though. I...

I'll echo this - I've long thought S3&K was the far better game. The special stages are also better, and the power ups each address a different irritation from Sonic 2 (lightning shield stops the temptation to go back and pick up stray rings, water shield stops drowning, and all three help fix...

Well, I thought it looked pretty nifty! I really don't care enough about hating Activision to hunt for reasons to hate it based on a trailer. If it still looks fun on release then cool, I guess.

What I'm taking from the OP is that I totally need to be paying attention to Kingdom Under Fire 2 - not so much for the character designs, but fantasy Dynasty Warriors? Sign me up. Hope they've tidied up those translations since the 2013 build, though. The spellsword isn't selling me on it...

And this is what I've been saying - kids should be scheduling these in advance with their parents. I agree wholeheartedly. Or hell, play on spur of the moment is fine, so long as you've checked with your parents first. I'm totally on board with the app idea, actually. To be honest, I'd love...

"Random shit" is one thing. "Angry parent spoils 9 strangers evenings" is not "random shit", and of course it's not the fault of the 9 strangers. Telling the entire world that they all need to do their collective best to go out of their way to avoid contact with your child in case you decide...

This is the difference though, that people aren't grasping. LoL isn't a casual drop-in, drop-out activity like Minecraft or a casual kickabout. It's a fixed match activity, like a timed football game with a referee keeping score. Parents don't pull their kids out of those with any regularity...