Recent content by magma

First of all, as I have not and am not going to play the game (I don't have a Wii) I can't really comment on its merits. It looks fun and if I enjoyed previous 3D Zelda games it would be a buy. I can safely say he isn't being hypocritical in this review because the rather formulaic execution...

Well since Alduin World Eater was the last boss I beat AND I did so while horribly over-leveled... Alduin would quickly be demoted to being the company jet?

You can finish the game but unless you pick a side certain NPCs remain in god-mode, so the Thalmor win and you kill no-one of interest if you stay out of it. A Dragonborn main quest works around the Civil War quest as long as you have completed OR ignored the Civil War (the quest is known to...

*A few seconds of Googling later* Well statistically over 40 percent of gamers are still female and the older female demographic still outnumbers the teenage boy demographic. (Check out ESA's and ESRB's sites if you don't believe.) I haven't really noticed people using playing video games as...

I chose the Imperials for the following reasons. 1. Not choosing a side means both incompetent sides are in a stalemate, which means the Thalmor win. Both sides hate the Thalmor as much as I did and both are corrupted by their influence to some degree BUT what tilts it is if I won it for the...

But when you do that quest when level 55+ those skill levels are HUGE. Plus you can buy/craft/enchant better everything than most of what the Daedra give you (notable exceptions are nifty hats and the Wabbajack which are rewards given for keeping a few Daedra company rather than being their BFFs...

Pre-scripted retreats don't count, the last few of each civil war fort always run. Also every single enemy fake yielding with low health is just stupid. I'm talking about making the AI recognize at any given point if you will kill them all which would make them surrender or run away properly by...

Lowest level mobs like wolves wouldn't know any better with auras is the only thing. But it would be nice if the enemy recognized when you have one-shot most of the fort (doing the the Civil War when very high-leveled feels rightfully godly but would feel more-so if the enemy intelligently ran...

Agreed. Almost every single Pokemon is based off an existing animal/object/myth/etc.... Go on Bulbapedia (http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net) if you don't recognize the sometimes obscure basis for any given Pokemon and it will rightfully ruin your child-like wonder. IF the Pokemon didn't reflect...

I found Black and White had the worst story. 1. They went pointlessly preachy but seemed rather scatterbrained on what to preach. 2. Advancement was CONSTANTLY obstructed by the main story. Previous games at least varied it a bit with smaller quests and allowed advancement to more routes/towns...

I should also add in my experiences in working with mocap data fixing it alone takes a lot of time/pain and what you get often doesn't work until you eliminate a lot of excess noise to just be able to fix what you have. Afterwards you often have to manually add back any small actor quirks the...

No. Motion capture isn't perfect and a lot of what is captured can often be broken and/or feel wrong when directly translated to the characters. A lot of animators are employed just to fix mocap awkwardness alone. Once everything is fixed most animation is changed/emphasized/added to add more...

I was also thinking that the Daedra would destroy your soul in trying to divide it evenly, until I remembered the whole Dragonborn thing. Your dragon soul would revive in the mortal realm like the dragons (unless killed by another Dragonborn in which your soul would be devoured) never allowing...

The ability to mute follower NPCs (the best followers won't SHUT UP) and shopkeeps (pretty much all your stuff is junk and if it isn't I sold you it). But most of all the followers that turn on you easily not nuking the fuck out of you when given (usually fireball) staves.

Your frustration with people who don't actually read the books is why I believe you misinterpreted what I said previously as similar to what toen6 said. The Thalmor may use a Stormcloak but a conclusion to the war for either side is anti-Thalmor. However the Thalmor have presence on both...