Recent content by procyonlotor

Slaughterhouse Five. Wise, funny, irreverent, cautionary, and, of course, superbly written. Particularly suited for Americans, I find, as it jabs everything traditionally held "sacred" in America.

Unfortunately, there is no web-wide corpus of piracy-related data. In order to have a "definitive" study, you would have to scour the Internet, top to bottom, perform interviews, cast polls, and apply a wide range of other methodologies. Of course, I was not proposing any such thing. In fact, I...

Hello.

Intro People talk about piracy all the time on the internet, but most of the time they only produce three sentence long opinion pieces either defending or attacking the practice. I have decided to get some cold hard facts, insofar as it is possible to get them, by analyzing a particular...

I was disappointed once or twice (and DA2 robbed me of 60 euroes, I wish I'd pirated it beforehand ;_;). But it wore off. Now I just feel it is my duty to laugh at those games and recognize the symptoms next time. Personally, seeing E3 is like taking a peek at what's inside Santa's sack. I...

Like many people have pointed out, it's the fanboy syndrome. My main gripe with The Witcher 2 is that it is too short and the more you progress through the game the more the story falls apart. And that it has amnesia as a character development tool. And that the writing and voice acting is still...

DA2's ending was an absolute ripoff. I was quite literally outraged that Bioware of all developers let that one slide.

Gameplay is king. I feel that comparing games like Mass Effect and Kotor to one another is starting out on the wrong foot. You should first endeavor to understand why Bioware set out to make Mass Effect the game it is, and realize that it was not built in perspective to Kotor. Many of the...

I laughed my ass off watching this. So many lulz.

I agree with this person. His predictions will come true.

The single meter was the de facto system in both ME1 and ME2. It was simply not practical to have one half Paragon, one half Renegade, because it didn't help you with anything. The game was designed to make you pick between paragon and renegade, which is a design flaw, in my opinion, because it...

Enough fucking zombies. (Yes, those are italics.) Somebody needs to take a shotgun and perform some face surgery on these devs.

I'm one of those lucky people who experienced next to no problems with Fallout New Vegas. It was a wonderful gaming experience for many reasons that I won't go into right now, but it has a lot to do with how strong the narrative was, and how powerful the payoff was at the end. Didn't really play...

A mix of insecurity, adolescent rage and plain old biggotry? Honestly, it does piss me off when my copy of Fable 3 has "bad console port" written all over the splash screen. You know you're in trouble when menu navigation doesn't support mice and the "select-cancel" keys are mapped to 1 and 2...

English is pretty damn cool. It has the most fucked up relationship between spelling and pronunciation ever, but its flexibility is absolutely wonderful. You can switch word classes, constantly come up with new words and expressions via prepositions, and you can effortlessly steal words from...