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Heh, the book I'm currently reading has an introduction wherein the author implicitly and explicitly makes quite clear that he didn't like The Da Vinci Code that much either. That same book, and author, I can highly recommend by the way: Mark Gregory Pegg, A most Holy War. The Albigensian...

Project: Snowblind was actually at first intended as a Deus Ex game. At some point they decided against it, but a lot of the ideas from DX and mainly DX:IW seem to have made their way into it. Especially the decend into shittiness I guess. The only game I'm currently playing is the first...

There's some stuff in Atlas Shrugged I really couldn't life with, especially the nonexistence of tax, which would mean pretty much the eradication of the entire state. And after around half-way through I became somewhat annoyed that every conversation pretty much consisted of either an enormous...

Finished Atlas Shrugged. Also, finished this week: - Mary Fulbrook, Historical methodology - Ruth Mazo Karras, Sexuality in medieval Europe - Norman Housley, Religious warfare in Europe 1400-1536 Have to finish by/during next week: - John W. Baldwin, The language of sex - Katherine...

Currently reading Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. As a quote on the backside says, 'she writes brilliantly, beautifully, bitterly'. I've been reading a lot of Nietzsche last semester, and although she didn't admit it, she is heavily influenced by Nietzsche's philosophy, which only makes it all the...

I used to watch it quite frequently, especially since my dad did so. But every time I did, I noticed how much time I was wasting by looking at cars doing absolutely nothing interesting at all. The biggest part of the race, nothing happens. Then there were the few gems of brilliant overtaking...

Ah, there's the lore-rape. http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/cataclysm/features/ Click on 'class combinations'. It seems the Dwarf Mage is back, last time I saw that one was during beta. And now you can even play a dwarf shaman, undead hunter, and night-elf mage. In fact, everything can...

With all the Baldur's Gate talk in the other topic, and with another topic on Baldur's Gate over at Something Awful, I just had to install the trilogy again. Playing the first with Tutu right now, chosen for a wild mage. I was actually expecting more random disasters than I've yet had. Once...

Cool, this actually makes me a happy person for having quit right before I would've gotten TBC, instead I went and got myself a BA in history. I remember the olden days, damn enjoyable stuff that was. Was in a pretty good guild too, one that recognized people with brains and used those people...

A rough translation of the German text in the Greenpeace video would amount to something like: The text is ambiguous though, on whether RWE actually only had 2% of its own production in renewable energy, or whether the production of RWE only amounted to 2% of all renewable energy production...

The funny thing is, in praising an aspect of MZ, the author of the article implicitly, but obviously obliviously to himself, criticizes FO3 and all the other DLC's. If he has played through the game for a 100 hours entirely based on the karma meter, constantly and with ease achieving the...

Well, I wasn't trying to explain the reason for reviewers to have low(er) standards in the first place. Your Rybicki Maneuver explains that by saying they are reluctant to be harsh as long as it impacts sales, and your OP in this topic adds the self-respect factor, where reviewers applaud overly...

It seems that a big part of the story in Braid, or rather of the explanation, only becomes apparent once all the stars are collected. Collecting those though is a humongously idiotic undertaking, requiring youtube walkthroughs and the like, and even then it remains hard. I generally don't like...

The game isn't designed for true replayability. Going evil makes you do all the same quests as when you were playing good, but you'll just end up doing them slightly different and probably while killing more people. No, what the game is about, is how much time it can waste. It's pretty much a...

Creating a start for the war that doesn't originate from humanity's own folly would and does enormously downgrade the entire setting. Instead of actually being able to tout that war never changes, the setting changes into a pitiful and sorry boob of history. Both an AI slip-up or an alien...

God damnit. What kind of design philosophy is that? You create lots of 'pretty cool' bits and then you're supposed to rig them together into something which artificially holds them together? Aren't you supposed to start with the big awesome design theory and then fit all the parts into it...

Large review sites such as IGN and Gamespy still gave DX:IW a score of 90. The user-score at metacritic, based on 91 votes, is a 6 now, but that strikes me as a bit too harsh. The average of 8 they give is fine with me, perhaps I'd lower it to 7.5 though. In a Warren Spector masterclass...

Heh, I become vague when I'm unsure of the validity of my judgement. Some people will probably quite like the story and how its told, but it didn't really hold much suspense, or surprise I think, and was somewhat cheesy at times. It was a story by the book, effective, mostly told in between the...

I've just finished Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood. It's a very decent shooter, but it only took me around 8-10 hours to finish it. During that time you won't be doing that much different things and the gameplay repeats itself quite clearly once you're some hours into it. It feels very Call of...

Nah, double-posting is simply posting two or more consecutive posts under the same name without anyone in between. Since there's an edit function, there's no reason to post twice. Also, on Deus Ex, if anyone ever wants a challenge, go for the realism setting and try not to kill anyone. Some...