Recent content by Mortuorum

Nothing releasing this week really excites me. However, I've been meaning to pick up Tales from the Borderlands and I see it's free on Xbox Games for Gold right now. Solves that problem!

"DOTA 2", "Card Game", "Random Packs." There is literally nothing that interests me about those three concepts. Valve is dead to me now.

Honestly, I can't think of a whole lot of video game cities I would want to visit. City 17 (Half-Life 2): dystopian hellhole. Midgar (Final Fantasy VII): polluted and mostly destroyed. Empire City (Infamous): trashed. Rapture (Bioshock series): yeah, no. It was nice to see a shout-out to...

Champions Online is actually pretty good and I would recommend it for anyone who liked City of Heroes. While the content gets old after reaching cap a couple of times, the free content is plentiful and should be enough to keep any fan of the genre happy for a month or two.

There were guides to it, but even then it required split-second timing to win (if that was even possible). No saves, and you lost if you missed one event.

I for one am eagerly awaiting the inevitable crossover with The Specials [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Specials_(film)].

On the plus side, you could now be a major Mad Catz shareholder for about the cost of a Happy Meal.

Maybe that's the actual purpose of the Matrix, but not what they told the agent programs. For... reasons? Viewed in that light, the resistance really are terrorists and Zion is a cancer that threatens the future of the human race. What would happen if Neo found that out and believed it, but...

FWIW, in the Jurassic Park book, it was a command prompt-based system and the way she struggled to get it to work seemed reasonably realistic (for a movie about cloned dinosaurs, anyways). Not that that excuses the movie in any way. Otherwise, pretty much spot on. In fact, I'm not sure I've...

Well, when you spread 6 hours of meaningful dialog over that many characters - yeah, most of them aren't going to be saying anything meaningful. What really caught my eye was the stat Walters provided for ME3... the 670 (approximately) characters who would speak to you. Really? How many of...

The Matrix Regurgitated. Thank you for asking, Marter! I think The Matrix (the original) holds up pretty well. The sequels were terrible when they were released and have aged badly. I agree that a reboot isn't necessary, but a retcon is. Let's collectively agree that Reloaded and...

I'm not sure why you don't believe it. To be clear, they're still going to nickel and dime you. The multiplayer maps and characters will be free. The lootboxes will need to be purchased with tokens you will be able to slooooowly get over time by grinding away or by paying real world $$...

Good point. That could be what they meant. We'll know for sure soon enough!

The ones that aren't handcrafted are probably procedurally generated.

Mass Effect 1 was very much Star Trek. (It also had the best writing, IMO, even if a lot of the game aspects were lacking.) It lost its way with ME2 and ME3 when logic, consistency and lore became largely irrelevant to the writing team. (NPC characterization improved, though, so there's that.)