Recent content by Ryank1908

I've actually gotten rid of both the Gen I and Gen VI starters in my team. I decided I wanted to EV train a whole fresh team, designed with balance and effectiveness in mind, just before I go to fight the Elite Four, since in all previous Pokemon games I've just picked up Pokemon I like along...

Holy. Fucking. Shit. It is. You nailed it. I cannot thank you enough. Although now I'm a little sad that my favourite childhood game is apparently critically reviled, but, whatever. Thanks a lot man!

Okay, I've got one I've struggled with for a LONG time. It was either in the early days of the PS1 or the later life of the Sega Genesis/Megadrive. It was a robot fighting game, one on one, with awesome robot designs and a cool dark blue kind of colour aesthetic. I wish I could remember more but...

Don't begin a sentence saying 'I don't know what it's like for you' and then say something where you presume to be objective about the topic.

There's nothing wrong with that. I guess there's a bigger degree of subjectivity to it than I thought. Personally, I like the 1-to-1 speed of LoL without the turn animations. For me, it feels a bit more intense, a bit more in-tune with exactly what I want to be doing. As for the graphical...

In Warcraft 3, compared to modern game engines, your units were a fair bit more noticably linked to the terrain, and the animations were considerably less smooth, and you have considerably less control over your units. That's not a gripe, as such - Warcraft 3 is one of my favourite games of all...

I just don't understand why anyone would play DotA 2. Loved the first game, but I loved it 10 years or so ago, now. You can't take a 10 year old mod and not update the way it plays, because then it feels like a 10 year old mod. And it does. DotA 2 feels like shit and hasn't been cleaned up. It's...

A tanky character will have more luck with Capra Demon than any other will. The main thing that needs to be done straight away, is kill those dogs. If you don't they'll stunlock you, poison you, and then Capra will come and one shot you. A good idea would be to go and grab the Elite Knight...

Let me just get this OT section out of the way; it's good that they're aware of it and trying to do better with regards to objectification of female characters. I'm a straight male and a lot of the designs irritate me massively. Oversexualisation =/= quality character design. I'm looking at you...

There are three things I've learnt from my many years as a writer of various forms. The first is that you need to be a voracious reader. If you don't read, you're cutting yourself off from a massive pool of inspiration. I've written entire stories just by seeing one sentence in someone else's...

If you guys like Mark of the Ninja you should try Don't Starve. It's a completely different style of game, a survival/exploration kind of game, but it's also made by Klei Entertainment, who developed MOTN, and it's fantastic. They're a great developer and Don't Starve - although it's currently...

THE ANSWER TO THE PUZZLE IS ON THE DAMN CLAW?! When I first played Skyrim, I was following through the main story missions, and got to the part where I had to open a door using a Golden Dragon Claw. When I got to the door in the depth of a murky ruined cave, I found an obstacle; a door, with...

SimCity is still selling really well, and the reason that these games with all these issues sell well is that a lot of the 'always online' DRM games in recent years have been new instalments in beloved franchises -- Anno 2070, Diablo 3, now SimCity, and I could be wrong, but wasn't SC2...

Death Note and Gurren Lagann. Death Note is a great example of how fantastic storytelling can be in anime sometimes, with a bunch of really engrossing characters and situations. Gurren Lagann on the other hand is an incredible representation of how to do any form of visual entertainment...

I like spending some time in character creators making things that look like they just quite frankly shouldn't exist, but generally after I've had my fun and I want to make the character I'm going to play as a lot I generally prefer them to look cool. I don't know why, it's kind of silly I...