Recent content by RatheMcGrath

Cute like the "first!" comment on a ZP video. People want to tell the "feminists" or the "SJW's" or the "White Knights" or whatever else to get off "their" hobby. But here's the simple fact... It doesn't belong to you. Never did. It doesn't belong to me, either. It is older, and bigger...

So I have been working on a rule set to add a zombie dynamic to a standard game of Risk. A couple groups of friends have tried it out and it has resulted in what I am loosely considering to be version 1.5 of the game. I've had two main goals in this game... first, to simulate how a zombie...

I think maybe my point got missed a bit, but yes, they do eventually have to think about how the dungeons fit together, I am just saying they tend to do so later in the design process, and that doing so does not automatically make a game "worse." You're the second to reply this way, with a...

Like I said, if Pre-writing is involved, which tends to be a big chunk of writers in the commercial world. Wandering writing until you find your point does not include pre-writing, and so not applicable to the point. And yes, that can look different depending on who is doing it, but if you...

In the discussion of Yahtzee's review of Uncharted 3, a topic of discussion was raised that I thought was worth looking into a little more closely. Apparently, in their discussion of the game process, the designers of Uncharted 3 said that they first decided what the set pieces would be, and...

I liked Dragons before they went mainstream. Smaug, baby, not this new crap.

Gotta be Majora's Mask. Best storytelling in the series. I kept wishing that Twilight Princess would have its Majora's mask, but sadly, not to be.

So PC gamers will rage. So what? They were gonna rage anyway. It's about all they know. Pretty sure the people who wasted money on betamacs raged, too. They just didn't have the internet.

Bill Clinton. By being the only president to wield the line-item veto, he was the most politically powerful of the Presidents, and he took everything the "Contract with America" people could throw at him and THEY were the ones who took a beating for it.

I gotta go with Varric, though Morrigan is a close second.

I had an answer, but it turns out GlaDOS is still alive, so, no joy. Creeper it is. I forsee the need for heartburn meds.

One word: Science!

All that means is that there wasn't a game cartridge in it... it showed that screen if you turned it on without one.

I gotta disagree with Yahtzee here, but I've done that before, so no biggie. While undeniably a second game (with another to follow) I thought that Dragon Age 2's approach (a rags to riches story) was an interesting place to take the genre. Not a very funny review, either. Other than his...

You know, I gotta say, its sure nice of Sony to ensure that this guy will always get all the money for legal support that he needs. I'm just waiting for Anonymous to weigh in, now.