Recent content by UberThetan

A lot of you seem to be missing the point of System Shock's importance (as well as Dune 2 etc.) - their importance is based on the fact that, usually, before they came around there was precious little that did what they did. They were genesis in many ways for game concepts and techniques that...

I never finished the Antrax series, though I got far enough to figure out that much. I should probably borrow those books again. The overall Shannara series is just... huge. I read a lot of the first ones, that are more straight-up fantasy, but some of them also felt somewhat same-ish so I...

Saw this on VHS when it was first released and it's one of those movies that stuck for me forever. My sister was 10 at the time we watched it and it didn't do her sleeping habits any favors, but even today when she sees Dead Space, or me playing Warhammer she'll go "reminds me of Event Horizon"...

Again? I mean, that's basically what's happened over the years. Atari just goes "bankrupt" regularly, gets bought up by someone else who then does whatever the hell they want with the IPs.

That's taking the logistics to ridiculous levels that aren't really necessary. All you need is to show something that makes sense and scale it appropriately. There's no need for the developer to spend time on a huge map that's just a field of corn (unless there's a quest there) when they can...

Fair enough, I guess it's probably down to preference at that point - simulation vs. theme park, basically.

Oh this thread is going to go great. Just great. With that said, Fallout New Vegas blows everything Fallout 3 tried out of the water. For those of you actually interested, Shamus is also doing a run-down of Fallout 3 on his website. The blistering stupidity of Fallout 3...

Here, let me post this missive written just on the previous (first!) page of this thread: But hey, just polish people making polish games, right? No entire series of books and a host of lore and world building to rely on, right?

This reads like someone who hasn't played the games at all and has zero context for the racial dynamics between elves, dwarves and humans in the world of The Withcer. If you have, then you must have missed all the indicators as to why some elves live in cities with humans (the only alternative...

Not to derail this thread when there's probably a perfectly good other place to have this discussion, but forcing the inclusion of a black character when the area of the world this takes place in (and most of the books as well if I remember correctly) doesn't have any, is both patronizing and...

Haven't bought it yet because I'm too damn broke. Haven't pirated it either because I'd feel terrible. GG CDPR.

Great point, well put, as usual. I'd like to mention that there's more than one kind of catharsis to be had here, though. The other being the physical kind, where it's just fun to interact with the game world and have it react in logical ways, both expected and unexpected. GTA might not make...

I would post about how I don't get the excitement about the mutant that shoots fireworks from her hands that never had any effect but it looks like, in the first page already, I'd be beating a dead horse. So I'm not going to. But I guess that's why the vampiric superpowers were introduced.

I remember seeing the first Postal and thinking "Wow! That looks neat!" and, in my defense, it did look neat. Once I played it I got really bored, really quickly, so much so that when Postal 2 came around I mostly ignored it with a gigantic "meh". Turns out that while I liked going on the...

Favorites... and everything else. Yeah, I don't spend a lot of time organizing anything, least of all my game collection.