Recent content by tendo82

I suspect that with the next console generation we'll see the beginning of the end of used game sales. So I get his point, but it's a 2007 point not a 2012 one. Between now and 2014 we'll see a huge change in the way console games are purchased. PC games aside, Sony's Vita made the first...

I actually think the Akira animated movie is far better than the manga. Yeah the manga is more expansive, but it starts to lose serious steam after Neo Tokyo's apocalypse. It's best feature is portraying society on the eve of catastrophe, and the anime focuses almost exclusively on that. Once...

I think what might spare D&D and its ilk from the fate of model trains is that its core appeal remains alive across the entire face of gaming and culture more generally. Really it's an apples to oranges comparison. Model Trains represent a fascination with an outmoded technology - the train...

I think partially it was an issue of D&D being new and original, but I also think the answer is in your statement of the fact that the rule book was 64 pages. I didn't know that, and it boggles my mind. Consider this: the combined page count for all three core 4th edition rule books tops...

Great article and I'm looking forward to reading the next installments. The 90's were the best and worst of times for D&D. My friends and I were entering early adolescence when we decided to start playing AD&D. Wiith amazing campaign settings like Darksun and Planescape there was no...

Being immortal would be great because it would, in my interpretation of it, mean freedom from disease, aging and physical ailments. However that's merely the practical level. Metaphysically, the mental effects would be incalculable. Our entire system of thought is based around a finite...

This is why I love Skyrim. They finally axed their mid 90's fantasy trope obsessed art director for someone with a more original vision.

I'm cautiously excited about this game. It looks very cool visually (it's stupid but that does matter to me) and even though it's apparently a direct port of DOTA, DOTA is, I've heard a very different game than LoL. So it will be something new to learn. That said, if the DOTA/HON...

Great list. Can't wait to see the science fiction selections. Personally, I'll throw my recommendation in for Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun series. He definitely took Vance as a starting point, but tossed out the pulp magazine sensibility for something far weirder. Weird extends not...

I blame rape for an increase in video games.

Any game with a competitive online component is going to have to deal with contrarian gamers. Online competition just makes a beast out of people. You want to understand or justify why you aren't the best and someone else is. However we shouldn't confuse people venting competitive...

Love it.

Well, ostensibly she got to play Dragon Quest V, which some might argue is the better of the two games. On another note, thank god cartridge era localization politics have largely vanished. Nintendo Power circa 1995-6 was home to some of the most tantalizing previews that never were. In...

I think Blizzard should just sell gold to players for a real world fee. I really don't think it would upset the balance of the game that much. The game works in such a way that time is the key variable determining power in the PVE game. Whoever has the most time to spend raiding...

I gotta agree with Carmack; the NGP looks incredible. I mean an OLED screen!? They don't even make TV's over 30 inches with OLED screens because of the cost. It's a beast of a machine, but the very fact that I'm tempted to describe it with the word "beast" pretty much explains why only core...