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    Zero Punctuation: Resident Evil: Revelations 2 - Episodic Zombies

    Egads. Any RE/Biohazard game made after Outbreak File II is trash. Let's move on, and accept that anything after the voice "Hello, strangaaah," or "Oi'll boi it at a `igh proice!!" is trash. Mind you I'm oldschool RE/Biohazard. If I'm not sweating over ammo and ink ribbons I'm playing the...
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    Escapist News Now: Elder Scrolls Anthology Announced

    ...... where is Cyrus ??! Goddamnit. For storyline, I still think Redguard was the best, the Game that Time Forgot.
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    Can you overlook things that aren't flaws, but just things you don't like in a game?

    If anyone out there has ever played the Japanese-language only EvangelionZ, they'll know what I'm talking about. It's basically an RPG where you first off have to play as Ikari Shinji. You interact with everyone from the Evangelion universe, there's little tidbits of Eva trivia n stuff, and...
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    Meet Atlas, The Pentagon's Agile New Robot

    Finally! Someone posing the important questions. I demand Cherry 2000! Although 330 pounds? I'm on top baby!
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    films that are fantastically horrible

    Cherry 2000 - a dude in one of those silly 80s version of the future (where anything that isn't LA is a wasteland - lol they got THAT in reverse), and a dude comes home to a beautiful wife who has made him dinner. Hey presto, can't help himself, they start going for it on the floor. But oh...
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    The worst way to die?

    Speaking as a father, the worst thing I can imagine is dying knowing that my children will go one of these ways. It doesn't matter how I die at that point. But I'd go fighting like the fucking wrath of God.
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    13, 16, 18, Now - what were you like as a teenager?

    Oy vey I feel old now. 13 Hospitalised a day before my 13th birthday because I broke damned near every bone in my body when my homemade rope-swing snapped mid-swing. The rope-swing wasn't that high really ... it was the cliff it was next to that was the problem. Socially no problems. I...
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    Gaming disconnects, instances when reality destroys suspension of disbelief

    Gordon Freeman. He falls off ledges, is smacked around by giant alien thingies, smacked in the face with a crowbar, shot, blown up, whizzes about in various vehicles, and travels through interdimensional rifty things. And his glasses don't fall off. Srsly ... I can't tie my shoelaces...
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    How involved in your Gaming hobby was your dad?

    Involvement? None whatsoever. Although he did like the concept of the old Maxis games like SimEarth (he's a scientist so the life simulation interested him). He also admires the detail in Paradox's Grand Strategy games - but is interested in just looking at who ruled where and when, rather...
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    What Do You Name Your RPG Characters?

    My character name is usually "Rik Wilson" - when I'm playing a guy. I know, it's not particularly heroic. It's a tradition from the first computer RPG I ever played - Temple of Apshai on an Apple ][c in 1985 or so. I made a character (read: blundered through the character creation process...
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    "Vaccines don't save lives"

    These vaccine discussions give me the shits on a scale nothing else does. I mean nothing. Statements about an increase in cancer, or a decrease in fertility, or an increase in impotence as opposed to the previous generation does not equal evidence that vaccines are the spawn of the devil...
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    Poll: Star Wars Battlefront. You know we have to talk about it.

    YOU! Yes YOU! All you Battlefront fans! Ever heard of Bear Force, for Mount & Blade? Chekkit! OT; loved Battlefront I & II but I always found myself making it harder on myself - almost any game I play nowadays I try to up the difficulty to M&B levels. I'd play the galactic conquest...
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    If this is true... Then... Wow...

    I love how everyone reacts to this as "grr bad Microsoft!". Imagine what Apple would do were they involved in the console wars? Good God ... Scorched Earth policy ahoy. I swear Apple is the kind of company that would willingly unleash an unstoppable virus that would obliterate all OS it...
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    The Last of Us Review - A New Apocalypse

    Sounds like I Am Alive; but better executed. I did enjoy I Am Alive though. Didn't get very far though because I was drawn away by my mistress, Crusader Kings II. I'm still waiting, though, for a hardcore survivalist's game. The Sims: Robinson Crusoe. But with something a little more...
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    Baldur's Gate Reloaded Goes For The Eyes

    OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG !!! And to clarify my position OMG Freakin' awesome. Still got my 6 disk copy of BG1&TSOC at home, sitting next to Icewind Dale ... Shadows of Amn ... NWN1 ... NWN2 ... Champions of Krynn .... Gateway to the Savage Frontier ..... Eye of the Beholder ...