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Ah the mayday tileset, yeah that's the one I ended up using after trying out a lot of them. It looks good, and it doesn't change the font too much into an unreadable mess or anything. I didn't mind the ASCII, but seeing a cat instead of a c made quite the difference at the beginning. That...

The worst part was that there was stuff out there to 'discover'. So first they give you a buggy that is hell to navigate with, then they give you more or less random planets that defy most geographical knowledge and make navigating even worse, and then they place shit out there in the wastes...

That kind of gameplay luxury will only be available if you buy the upcoming second DLC for around $10. (edit: euh, seems it's already there, but not for PC, I don't own a console and I'd never play a shooter on a console anyway, so I've no way to confirm) I wonder when developers/publishers...

The ending was, pure and simply, an insult to every player that took the time to drudge to this swamp of mediocrity. If one disregards the multiplayer aspect, only the art and style remains as an interesting deviation from the ordinary. The entire game gears up towards this mystic point...

I never liked the way Neverwinter Nights did stuff. The story, especially of the first (never finished the second out of boredom) was so ludicrous and predictable it had me in agony. Pretty much the moment I saw him I knew the paladin-dude was an evil guy, just like all of his paladin cronies...

Just finished the game. All in all, not bad, well, pretty good actually. After some time it becomes highly noticeably though that they've consciously 'spaced' their quest-time and kill-time. Every important mission starts out with a nice amount of conversation. After that, you end up doing...

I've played around a bit with NWN2 a while back and couldn't get into it either. The story, just as with the first game, was just so horrendously slow and badly written. I've never quite liked the engine itself either. Still, it is capable of some quite amazing things, and both NWN1 and 2 are...

Oh dear, game morality. I wrote a lengthy piece on that topic a while back, mainly because I got vastly annoyed at how games handle morality, partly because I wanted to see whether there was any interest on a game 'developer' (meaning, lots of enthusiasts, a few actual dev's) forum for fleshing...

The only sane person in that conversation seems to be Ragnar. They've kinda got the angle on interactivity and story wrong. Games only have one aspect that books and movies don't have, and that is their interactivity. Clint and Chet seem to prefer throwing out the baby with the bathwater...

I'm currently playing Baldur's Gate 1 through Tutu, so that I can play the BG2 classes in it. I've got a wildmage who's currently just prior to going through cloakwood (I just can't bring myself to play through that part), but I have to say, the wildmage is lots of fun. Sure, there's harmful...

The original series is kinda good and worth a viewing. Well, up till the point where McGoohan took full control of the writing and created a terrible pile of dung. Seriously, the later episodes are an absolute pain to watch. And oh, the sequence of the episodes is completely screwed up, which...

Apart from its obvious repetitiveness and quick-time events, I enjoyed the Scarface game a hell of a lot more than most of the GTA games. Well, I haven't played IV or San Adreas yet, but at least Scarface did two things that GTA should've done long before. Namely getting yourselves a driver who...

It took me a while in the previous games to find out that enemies are, in fact, infinite. That kind of took away any strategy or realism the game had. I just don't get the fun of behaving like a complete moron, running towards the enemy while firing grenades in the vain hope that I can explode...

The less thought a game requires, the better it sells.

Euh, actually, I don't work, as such. Everything I do is pretty much study related. Money is a problem, but as long as I can stay alive, buy books, and study, I'm fine. I'm currently an Mphil history student and I'm pretty much planning to get a PhD after that, so I'm putting around 55-65 hours...

I've played around a bit with Titan Quest and its expansion. Games like these make me wonder why I play games, at all. They are almost designed to make you feel useless and thus usher in this inevitable 'oh my god, why am I doing this? There's so much better to do!'-realization moment. Not...

By God, that article is amazing. There's hardly a sentence that makes any sense at all. Most sentences seem to say something deep or interesting but on closer inspection they say nothing at all. Hell, he even manages to contradict himself within two paragraphs. Seriously, if I didn't knew...

I've played it for a few hours. I agree that its good, but... Well I don't know. Back with Samorost 1 & 2 there was this really specific zen-like feeling combined with some nice almost surrealistic art. The music fitted this half-nonsense quite well. I'm not sure yet, but I haven't been...

You could always go for the Gothic Universe pack, it's around $9 over at amazon I think, contains everything from Gothic up to and including part 3. I bought Gothic 2 alone as well at first, only to find out that it doesn't include an expansion (Night of the Raven) which, as far as I've read...

I'm quite positively drunk at the moment, so I might regret posting this in the morning. But let me just state that I don't see the connection between the military industrial complex and private gun ownership. The military industrial complex is an especially dangerous phenomenon regarding the...