Recent content by Korhal

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    Poll: A-Team or The Losers or The Expendables?

    The Losers was meh, the A-Team is amazing... and The Expendables isn't out for a few weeks but I'll be there day one for that too, dammit.
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    Why (as a guitarist) I hate Guitar Hero or: How I learned to stop shredding and love the plastic axe

    Well +1 for defying expectations. I expected a "it's not the real thing" diatribe, which as a guitarist of almost 14 years, is silly. So good on you for that. Personally, I play some stuff at expert, and some stuff at hard. I like the game the best when it's hard enough that I have to pay...
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    Fantasy Cliches Are Both Good and Bad

    Greg: The entire Primal Power set in 4th edition is based around playing "Barbarian" types, while the class that actually got the namesake is essentially a frothing berserker. Fighter implies some kind of formal weapon style. Playing an uncivilized Fighter is to not be a member of the Fighter...
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    Weird Sony Viral Video Teasing PS4?

    All the proof I need. ;)
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    Funniest RPG characters?

    Vashyron (voiced by Nolan North) in Resonance of Fate. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owAoZzYgKec Not exactly safe for work, but it's pretty funny. Kang the Mad from Jade Empire. "If you stage a combat related accident for Gao, like say, falling down a flight of punches, I'll replace the...
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    The New Oral Tradition

    It was more that you seemed to totally miss my previous post wherein I described why it's not a powergamer supplement, and you proceeded to call it as such. In retrospect that was more condescending than it sounded in my head, so I apologize. Still, look through my other posts, you'll see the...
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    The New Oral Tradition

    Well the MMO analogy is complete garbage. Take WoW, everyone's favorite bash target. WoW is extremely complex. There's tons of numbers and rolls going on behind the scenes, there's oodles of talent points to distribute, mostly among really mundane things like "1% extra critical strike on one...
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    Review: Alpha Protocol

    The plot thickens.... Maybe there's something to you theory, Ms. Arendt. *headdesk* Yes, Mass Effect is clearly AP's primary influence, but it's much more different in practice than it sounds in a bulletpointed (and somewhat silly) list like that. Picking history? Being nice or being a...
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    The New Oral Tradition

    Yeah well it's not lowest common denominator, there's just less annoying bullshit in the game. And I wouldn't say it caters to newbies, but merely that it makes the first steps easier. It's also a more consistent product, and more focused, which somehow is considered bad. As per my comments...
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    The New Oral Tradition

    Your ignorance is showing. That's ok though, so is the author's. I've never understood the "4E is an MMO" line, so I'm going to ignore it, because it's patently stupid. The Player's Strategy Guide is not a "guide to powergaming". Sure, it has useful information, but nothing a player...
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    Review: Alpha Protocol

    I don't know. I had a friend who got all kinds of game-crashing bugs in Red Dead Redemption that I didn't get, and when he called Rockstar they said he probably got a bad disk, so maybe there's a little bit of that going on. Though if it provides any evidence for your theory I have one of the...
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    Review: Alpha Protocol

    I love the game, to be honest. I'm about 80% of the way through it on the PS3, and I don't understand how my experience is so different from most other peoples. Yes, the graphics are bad, but that doesn't bother me. The texture pop is, for the most part, minimal, the lip syncing isn't...
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    Prince of Persia Opening Weekend Stumbles

    I loved PoP, I thought it was a blast. I may have to go see it again just to make up for someone who's refusing to go see it.
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    So...D&D be awesome

    In my current game, I play a Goliath Wrathful Hammer Runepriest, which is, in a lot of ways, something like your Warlord. I wear scale armor, my primary weapon is a maul, I dish out and take a lot of hits, and I have some healing powers. So I know where you're coming from. And I don't mean...
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    So...D&D be awesome

    He said Bravura Warlord, that'd be 4th edition. A Bravura warlord does that. You charge in, set up some things like combat advantage for your allies, shift some allies into better positions, then takes up a support role, though you should still be able to do so from the front lines...