Recent content by Shamanic Rhythm

True story: I have been going to RPS for gaming news lately. While there today, I thought "haven't been to the Escapist for a while, I wonder what I've missed". This article was the first thing I saw.

CDPR really need more Hellhounds on their server to deter this kind of netrunner.

Purple Monkey Dishwasher? This outcome is inevitable but nonetheless I'm still sad because I was craving some John Marsden action the other day.

Thanks for the reply. I actually don't dislike The Phantom Menace, I loved it as a 12 year old. It's more that some of the elements - particularly the midichlorians - put me off when I was older. I don't think what they do to Han, Luke and Leia can be considered 'taking chances' because as I...

I went from being skeptical to excited when the trailers came out. It seemed like there was a great film on offer with a mix of new characters and classic Star Wars tropes. Then I saw the film, and I was thoroughly unimpressed. I never thought I'd say this, but there is a whole heap of...

They didn't even 'overbook' it in the usual sense of that term. They needed to resolve a critical staffing issue by putting 4 pilots on that flight and somehow didn't discover they were over capacity until AFTER everyone was on the plane. That's mega incompetence and resolving it by calling...

I was unaware Alexander the Great was into protein shakes but how else did he get delts like that?

Of course, a blimp is literally the first thing that comes to mind when I think of Mass Transit. I'd be more keen if they were adding more rail options and medium density zones.

Yeah, okay. Someone doesn't get ironic banter when they see it. This is why I could never be a spokesperson for anything, I would have to constrain my natural urge to sass everyone.

This isn't really exciting if Bethesda continue to apply their same philosophy of "populate world with content designed around levels 1-10 in difficulty, then run algorithm to scale everything up a level". Because then you just end up with a game that you either replay endlessly at low levels or...

Why would a guy who is bankrolled by Disney need or want to pay a couple of randoms to hold up an anti Semitic sign? You can spin the rest of it any way you want but he clearly went asking for trouble with that one.

Not Leonard Cohen as well??!! This is a really shitty year.

It was definitely Civ that updated for me, not Windows. It also caused some problem where it insisted on selecting Intel Graphics rather than NVidia as the GPU, causing my framerate to plummet.

Good list, particularly Shadowfang Keep as I always thought it had the most engrossing lore. Also Scarlet Monastery for all its different instances, and I have these fond memories of Deadmines even though that might be just blinded by how many freaking Alliance toons I ran through there...

No, but Blizzard has always had very good production values that make you care about the story. In the first two Warcrafts, it was through CGI cutscenes and detail in the manual. In Starcraft and Warcraft III it was through scripted events that kept the story rolling while you were on a mission...