Recent content by Pete Oddly

To me, the ONLY thing that makes gameplay good or bad are the controls and UI. If you have a tight, functional, logical control scheme as well as an intuitive and unobtrusive UI, no matter what gameplay is attached, there will be an audience for your game. You don't have to appeal to everyone...

My vote goes to Tales From the Borderlands, even though the first episode was released in 2014. The main reason for this is that I have played a grand total of four new games this year, due to budgetary concerns, and while I loved TellTale's Game of Thrones, and I am having much more fun with...

Update: 113 hours in, level 48, STILL haven't been to Diamond City. Also; jetpacks are fucking AWESOME.

Just finished Joyland by Stephen King. Great little read, if not his best work. Currently reading The Aeronaut's Windlass by Jim Butcher. Fantastic stuff, and classic Butcher: great action, quirky characters, funny, and set in a very interesting world. Next up is The Great North Road by...

86 hours in and no major complaints, and I haven't even been to Diamond City yet. Love this game.

I've heard The Song of Ice and Fire series is pretty campy and fun... But in all seriousness, if you liked The Dresden Files, you should pick up The Codex Alera, also by Jim Butcher. It's pretty awesome. Also; I think David Farland's the Runelords series was fairly balanced, but it's been...

It would be nice for them to shed some light on more obscure or older IPs. For example: Beetlejuice The game could focus on a newly dead person or people (say, a family that dies all at once from a carbon monoxide leak or something) and their orientation on The Other Side and subsequent...

Don't have much to add, save for this: Devin Townsend is the fucking man. While not strictly metal all the time, his works over the last two decades range from stuff like this: Which is not metal, by any means. To this: Which is metal as fuck. Also, Strapping Young Lad, his...

I do not use aim assist unless playing Rockstar games (and a few other similar third-person shooters). Otherwise, I find aim assist to actually HINDER my aiming, as it always seems to want to pull down toward center mass, when I prefer to always aim for the head. Back when I played CoD 4...

Nice to see some love for Devin Townsend already in this thread. Here's mine:

My main man, Harry Blackstone Copperfield "Stars and Stones" Dresden has been mentioned several times, so good on you guys. Also; this ************ right here: Summon a god parasite and attempt to kill it one-on-one simply to avenge your sister? Badass.

The thing I worry about is this: The entities behind implementing the diversely representative range of characters a growing number of gamers want are big, soulless companies who can only empathize with real humans via committees (and then, usually not very well). As such, continued calls...

I remember those days, but I don't miss them. Sure, it was nice not to be called a fag every ten seconds when attempting to have discussions, and it was nice when anonymity didn't turn everyone and their dog into raving hyperbolic lunatics. However; nowadays it's harder for people to hide...

I'm not excited at all, really. There isn't anything to get excited about, to be honest. The new mission statement seems to be "Be Bland and Inoffensive", so I'm picturing an Escapist that's mostly raw info with little to no in-depth analysis of anything. That's a functional approach to take...

Is asking for group sex out of the question? I think Obama, the Pope and the sliver fox Julie Andrews would make for a wonderful orgy.