Recent content by vaga_koleso

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    191: Penning the Perfect Fanfiction

    Actually, some advice as to the best places to publish your fanfiction would have been handy :) Other than that, cute article, but if anyone is planning to take it seriously, be careful with #3: planning to write a 500 page epic will yield an unfinished 500 page epic 99% of the time. Start...
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    180: When I was a Sex Goddess

    The white elephant in the room is that there are really very few people out there who have both the imagination AND the writing skill to pull off the kind of on-line relationship that Amanda is talking about. And, unfortunately, (and in spite of some of the earlier comments in this thread), I...
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    148: A Wink is as Good as a Pixelated Nipple

    Oh and one more thing - we've got to get more women into game development. Because most of us men have no idea how to reproduce the Monica Belluccis of the world (in digital format or otherwise!) - even if we do spend most of our lives chasing them.
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    148: A Wink is as Good as a Pixelated Nipple

    I find it amazing that in a conversation about video game sex no one has mentioned Leisure Suit Larry games. No, not that Magna Cum Laude abomination from a few years back - I am talking the originals from the 90's. LSL games were perhaps the only games in the history of gaming that remained...
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    136: What Happened To The Last Starfighters?

    that's a great point that was clearly overlooked in the article, though I did enjoy destroying a couple of mice playing X-Wing that way for a while. Still, after Guitar Hero, nothing is impossible :)
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    136: What Happened To The Last Starfighters?

    I think the other important aspect in revitalizing the appeal of star fighters is cross-pollination of the sci-fi theme into sister genres (and particularly Adventure/RPGs) with games like Mass Effect. Sci-fi draws more heavily upon the human imagination that almost any other genre; in the same...
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    Three Days in Arcadia

    same problem here, please fix it!
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    116: Information Complexity and the Downfall of the Adventure Game

    I wish the article did something a little more than just elaborately point out one of many well-known issues with adventure games (and a very simple and rather minor one at that). I found the comments in this thread generally more interesting than the article itself (though the latter does get...
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    91: Jesus Was Not a Gamer

    yes, but even during those 1000 years we still knew that Olympics had existed :) here is one interesting link that suggests that the modern version of the dreidel is actually a Judaicized version of a German game, and that the letters on it actually correspond to the letters that the Germans...
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    91: Jesus Was Not a Gamer

    Can't oblige with respect to a religious right attack (perhaps they are allowed to read the Escapist), but I did think that the conclusion of the article was rather weak. You ask "How could Christianity, a religion that now covers the globe, be devoid of early holy games?", but the answers you...
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    What have you been playing lately?

    Had the same issue, but recently decided to blow $40 and get the cable that lets me hook up my Xbox360 to my PC monitor instead of the TV. Totally worth it, IMHO. I don't have to occupy the TV and the game looks mad sharp running at 1280x1024. If you've got a decent size monitor (17 or 19...
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    What have you been playing lately?

    I just finished Gears of War single player campaign. This might seem like a perfectly regular statement for somebody, except for me it's anything but, since I normally don't play shooters, much less FINISH shooters... I am an adventure gamer at heart. You know, story, depth, plot, that kind of...