Recent content by nimrandir

Now that you mention it, I remember something glitchy occurring the round I made it into the Mob. Please tell me I didn't take your spot . . . <TROMBONE STYLE="sad"> Sheesh -- I thought I was Murphy's whipping boy.

I may not have worded the question verbatim, but the word 'not' was definitely capitalized in the onscreen text. I was flabbergasted when I was the only member of my quartet of players to get the thing right; it only got worse when Chris Cashman informed us of the overall failure rate.

Fellow Escapists, Tonight, during a session of the 1 vs. 100 Live beta, one of the early questions read: Over half of the audience believed Mr. Franklin did, in fact, invent lightning. These good people were of the opinion that a natural phenomenon for which several ancient civilizations...

As a follow-up to the article, did you manage to get selected during tonight's show? I made the Mob for a second time, but I had the ill fortune to get chosen on the round the girl ran the table. I did, however, know that Benjamin Franklin did not invent lightning. Oh, how the Vulcans...

I made it into the Mob during the first weekend of the beta, but I haven't been chosen in any of the Live shows since. My accuracy is around yours, which does give me pause to wonder about the whole 'play more, increase your chances' spiel. Have you actually run into many competent players...

When anyone else hears 'everything is looking up from here,' does that not sound like the speaker is in a pretty deep hole?

I really hope you aren't including Dogen in that. Anyway, even if the kids' voices get to you, the Milkman Conspiracy will make up for any and all transgressions. Trust me on this.

I appreciate all the feedback and suggestions on how to get started. Since TF2 only has territory control modes rather than straight-up deathmatches, I had no idea how sophisticated the gameplay might be. I am comforted to hear that general running about and shooting is the norm. I had...

Ever since I ponied up the cash for a Gold Live membership, I have been contemplating giving Team Fortress 2 a spin, since The Orange Box was already sitting on my game shelf. However, the mission-oriented gameplay, combined with the fact that the game is well over a year old, have me worried...

Dagumitblah -- I finally saved up the money to buy SFIV last weekend! I suppose I can take solace in the fact that the blog didn't mention upcoming entries in the franchise like, oh, I don't know, Street Fighter IV Hall of Fame or Street Fighter IV Dee Jay, all in a single calendar year.

For me, this one is easy. The line comes courtesy of HK-47 in the first KotOR when you pick on his use of the non-word 'killee' . . . "Damn it, master, I am an assassination droid, not a dictionary!" A Star Wars character making a Star Trek joke? Priceless!

Assuming we are dealing with more than a case of an old resumé, which genres remain uncovered by BioWare's previous exploits? There is plenty of high fantasy with their D&D games, science fiction courtesy of Mass Effect, and an Asian-flavored fiction with Jade Empire. I would hope for...

I thoroughly enjoyed the Mirror's Edge demo, but I fully intended to buy that game in the hope that EA would continue to do new things. I was on the fence about Too Human, but the demo actually nailed down my purchase. That demo did everything it should -- it even gave the player a heads-up...

And here I had my game of the century [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8F1cOvZ3nS8] already picked. Blast you, ZootFly!

Darn straight -- I remember back in the good old days when game developers needed nothing like almost years to get a title on the shelf. Sorry, man. This typo had me laughing audibly for a good two minutes.