Recent content by Virgilthepagan

Male, 22, mostly straight (the "I like cake, but occasionally I see a delicious pie" line) I had a phase of about a year in High School where I took a dull knife to my arm every time I broke my own loopy moral code. As a result I've got a cross on my upper right arm, and a few straight lines...

I'll admit I'm a little more interested in the series after hearing they had updated the setting. Since we're no longer in "Attack of the British Space Nazis", and now in the "Cold War parable" phase of things. If they actually made the Helghast act less like red eyed demons then that's a very...

Behold, the reason I didn't buy Diablo III. Strangely enough I'm a huge fan of Dark Souls, but I went through most of the game hollowed. I liked having the online component, but when I got invaded I usually found my character horribly outmatched by someone dedicated to scalping guppies like...

I think this might be a poor choice for this little thought diddy. Have I ever aspired to straight up murder the sun? And not metaphorically, but physically, with my bare hands. Then no, I'm not really the kind of guy who looks at Kratos in a positive light. As others have pointed out, he's...

Dark Souls fan here, as with so many others in the thread, I think it depends heavily on the game is, and what kind of experience they want to create. Personally I'm much happier when a game like Dark Souls or XCOM challenges me to improve and adapt to its world, rather than holding my hand for...

I...where do we start with this one? Just taking the mere examples set by "pray the gay away" treatment centers, tampering with a person's sexuality has a host of mental consequences behind it. Even if a child under 18 was more or less ok with who they were, their parents could then force this...

Frankly I think that should actually make you just as suspicious of the denialist arguments. http://www.opensecrets.org/ and some other sites do a good job of highlighting the direct link between donations from oil firms and climate denial. And yup, climate change has been a working theory among...

Seriously, why do people listen to Cliffy B? Just like he has in the past he essentially just stirs up the hornet's nest. Every one of his answers to gamer complaints are simply "suck it up".

I'm sorry to phrase it this way, but was the point to this thread just to yank the GoT fantiger by the tail? "The only reason I watched the show after that was because I held out hope that maybe they'd handle that part of the story in a way that didn't anger me as much as the book did."...

I can see where she's coming from here. As a writer it must be frustrating to do work on a project like Far Cry 2 or Tomb Raider. Every time you build a solid character arc, you have to find room to justify the town's worth of people the gamer will end up murdering over the course of the game...

Think you've got it mostly on the nose. The one detail I'd add is how dependent the whole Legion model is on Caesar. While he's a perfectly competent general and a fantastic leader of men, he has few contingencies in place for keeping the legion going. Think of him as a Luddite Augustus, then...

I mean, it's a little disappointing that we aren't getting the episode...ok it's very disappointing, but as others have pointed out they aren't exactly setting release dates then ignoring them. They just aren't bothering to set them at all. I think the notion of Valve time is a little...

Throw me in the camp with many others who think EA is hardly the worst company around these days. Either Ticketmaster of BoA should beat them, though given the hilarious response their marketing guy put out when they made it to the finals, maybe it's a little justified.

While I can understand what Microsoft was going for here, I'm just as certain it was something the world didn't need. This whole notion of creating one OS for every single device and platform they sold to link the whole mess together really wasn't appealing to me. Especially on a laptop it feels...

It's fun to see this debate wander back and forth, props for the thread! Honestly I'm a huge fan of the original Origins. While the main story was pretty generic, each chapter of the story had plenty to offer, it was a great journey on the way. My problem was that so much of my immersion came...