Recent content by moromete

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    Cold Comfort in Operation Anchorage

    Well, the simulation works a bit better if you've not yet level capped at 20, but you can get into the VR at any point in the game. Just follow the radiol signal which pops up somewhere near the factory (Red Racer?) near the Nuka Cola plant. I plan to wait for all the DLC to come out and only...
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    The Escapist Roundtable #2: Zebra Killin' and Penicillin

    The Fox News idea is great. I can't believe that there's no TV Station Manager sim out yet. Developers, go! I'll even take something small and Flash based...
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    A Dirty Little Secret

    High scores and leaderboard competition I can understand. After all you aim to demonstrate that you are better than all those who are placed after you. Achievements I cannot understand. Most of them are easy to get and those who are not often require a gamer to do something they wouldn't...
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    Hearts of Iron II - SimuLord's Bargain Bin Specials #9

    Get the Armageddon variant of the GamersGate and then start looking for good mods. Back when I played it day and night I used Stony Road to War or CORE...
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    Review: Civilization IV: Colonization

    I don't think that there's so much micromanagement in the late game to make a player quit the game. Otherwise good points regarding the game...
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    Smile and Nod: I'm No Rosa Parks

    Hey, I am proud of being a gamer and wear my gaming as a badge of pride. When anyone as much as looks at me funny concerning my gaming passion/obsession/hobby I conjure up the fact that gaming made me interested in philosophy, politics, history, writing; all of these now define me as a person...
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    The Escapist Presents: The Escapist Goes to Epic

    Bah, it's all good, not like they aimed to produce a full lenght documentary on Epic. For the 6 minutes it runs for everything works...
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    The Escapist Wins Webbies

    Hurrah for a well deserved win...
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    How I Spent My Winter Vacation, A 90-Day Retrospective

    Well, It's true that playing with your mind on the graphics, plot and gameplay mechanics ca be a bit of drag and sometimes spending the better galf of a day hunting for news tidbits can also fell like work, but being a game journalist is one of the better things I've done with my life. even if...
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    GDC 2008: The Game Developers' Rant

    As I understand from her blog post on the subject and from the slides she offered the public it is more a matter of games as escapism. She states that games are escapism because the reality is somehow broken (mind you, not entirely, but in all the right places). And games are the premiere means...
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    136: What Happened To The Last Starfighters?

    Hey there's also a very nice Battlestar galactica themed mod in development out there on the open_fs2 engine. Just look out beyond the Red Line... the demo campaign is out and pretty cool although a bit short.
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    A Gamer's Valentine

    The link to the article is dead... and I'd really like to read it.
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    I <3 Fox News

    Come on! There's a guy there that says "I am not gonna let Luke Skywalker meets Debbie does Dallas in my house". That is precious. I think Mass Effect should be marketed with that line... for those damnable seconds of alien nudity...
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    Games are Addicting: Your Mama

    Nice read... but after all I am sure endorfins are somehow released when playing games too.
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    131: Team Butts

    Team Butts For the win... or should I say for the loss?