Recent content by Traigus

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    What?s Wrong with Mass Effect 2?

    I can understand in the abstract, but feel that it falls flat and doesn't manage those things. 1. is true, but usually ignored. Shep has trucked a team inside a reaper before, why wouldn't he again? He brings his team all over the place, what is one more suicide mission? 2. The AI in ME...
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    What?s Wrong with Mass Effect 2?

    I agree the secondary character stories seem better written than the man plot (same for Dragon Age II, which I haven't finished yet). I'm also worried about ME3, especially with the recent announcement. There was a lot of sloppiness in ME 2. The fiction and the mechanics clashed a lot...
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    Review: Castlevania: Lords of Shadow

    I'm ok with it. I was doing really well, until I got to the big stone guy at the end of Chapter 1. Haven't gone back for a few days. A lot of the timing windows (as said before) are not very wide. A friend of mine had enough trouble dodging the worg charged attacks that he quit even...
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    So, Borderlands. Where did my new level cap go?

    It was supposed to be roughly around today (not DLC4) the release of the GOTY edition. That being said.. it is now today, and I want it too. Apparently it is in the last phases of QA testing... http://gbxforums.gearboxsoftware.com/showthread.php?t=111831 I'm guessing this week, maybe...
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    Doctor Who Nearly Became a Time Mistress

    Why not? She could die 1000 years in the future... Doctor time. She could regenerate 15 other times then come back and die. That's the thing about time travel, being dead doesn't mean you can't do years of other stuff in between events (including your death). As for the quote, she could lie...
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    Doctor Who Nearly Became a Time Mistress

    For a long time I thought River Song was actually a future Doctor hiding her identity while stuck without a TARDIS, much as one of the previous Doctors was pretty much stuck on Earth and was forced to be a UNIT lackey for a long time.. Her eventual out-of-order presented fate doesn't really...
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    Stolen Pixels #233: The Wonders!

    You do know that there is more than one weinermobile. It isn't a singular wonder... They have a small fleet of them It's a TRAP!
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    Sanity Meters

    I swear Alice wasn't a shooter at all. Loved the Atmosphere, but the damn thing was a jumping platformer lol. Spent more time falling off stuff than busting heads.
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    Enslaved Writer Thinks Games Industry Has Grown Too Fast

    I can't say that I can for the current Gen of consoles. PS3 and 360 have pretty much been AAA from the start. I still own every 360 game I have ever bought. Looked in the box just now and anything I saw that was really good was a AAA... but many were made by companies that were not that big in...
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    Most annoying enemy.

    Unlimited grenade, unlimited spawn count spamming lunatic rain of hell soldiers in the older Call of Duty games on harder levels. Stop moving for 2 seconds and grenades fly in like rice at a wedding. Chrysalids from old school X-com. 40 bajillion movement points to mug your guys with in...
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    Absolute Favorite Game Soundtrack

    I am re-enjoying Mercenaries II at the moment. I enjoy the music in it a lot. There is really a lot of good stuff out there these days. I'm not sure I have heard a really poor soundtrack for a large number of years.
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    Enslaved Writer Thinks Games Industry Has Grown Too Fast

    No, he isn't talking about now, he's talking about the history of the industry never having several phases of development. They did. Games may have had those stages a lot faster than the movie industry but they didn't jump over them completely. I agree the indies don't expect a lot of...
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    Enslaved Writer Thinks Games Industry Has Grown Too Fast

    I dunno. I think he may be wrong. We did have a lot of those "mid level" games in the 90's. A lot of them were good too. I agree that today we have AAA or small indy productions that are like that college kid making Black and While footage of creepy kids in hallways... ok maybe that's...
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    Stolen Pixels #232: The History of Civilization, Part 3

    "Unga bunga" being Captain Caveman speak... oh the indignity. Civ has always had this weird combo of things that scale well and things that don't scale at all. There is no reason for the wooden fort of barbarians. 1 more graphic and the same flag for weapon upgrades. "Dude your city is on...
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    Sanity Meters

    For decent Lovecraftian reading in the modern era, I recommend "The Laundry" series by Charles Stross. Though they are also pretty funny as well. Basically it is about how the UK cicil service (and to some extent the CIA etc.) would handle Lovecraftian horrors... by counting paper clips and...