That's not the only way. Typically, companions kneel and the baddie will then ignore them and focus on someone else (typically you). If the baddie blasts an area-of-effect spell at you and your...
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That's not the only way. Typically, companions kneel and the baddie will then ignore them and focus on someone else (typically you). If the baddie blasts an area-of-effect spell at you and your...
Of course they do. I hate characters who change at the drop of a hat just because, you know, the writer can't hack it. This is why I despise Jane Austen.
I think the gift and curse of gaming at...
This is also strange to me. My companions have usually proven resilient, but then again I'm playing a sneaky, destructo-healy mage (will blacksmith for food) and sometimes like to simply stand behind...
It seems like it at first, but the levels become pretty fiendish about halfway through, and then it really turns into a brain-scorcher of a game. It's probably my favorite puzzle game of all-time.
This just made my day:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byuiOs2iqxE&feature=topvideos_entertainment
It's not Steam, but if anyone's got Impulse, the month-and-a-half old Rage is on sale for $30 today. That may also indicate an upcoming Steam sale. The big publisher deals often mirror each other...
A Friendship in 4 Colours
It's a gem hiding out in the free Indie Pirate Kart:
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/10/19/this-is-indie-the-300-game-pirate-kart/
(Not actually pirated games,...
Wow, 30 hours in, I never fast-travel (though I will take carts when it only costs 20 gold) and I haven't seen any of these. I play superduperslow, though. I'm only level 13, and I'm putting off the...
Most played is Dragon Age: Origins. Revisited it for a second playthrough, since I now have the DLC and Awakenings and wanted to see if I could become the regent instead of, you know, a dead mage....
This. A thousand times, this.
I've got a lot of patience for redundant gameplay, but even I just don't feel the UBERTRADE route of X3. I prefer to hop in, do some space tourism, enjoy the sights...
What a jackass. I can't believe Richard Garriott was so hateful of the environment. Oh, and he shipped with paper boxes, too?!? I'm getting my Skyrim digitally. Why did Richard Garriott hate the...
I think those of us looking forward to Skyrim are taking Bethesda's greater history into account.
No, Oblivion didn't meet the standard set by Morrowind. I still got a stupid amount of playtime...
I agree. Never had a game make me laugh so hard, and I loved the tonal shifts. The puzzles bent my mind in the right way, though I could've done with a few more harder ones toward the end (isn't that...
The Witcher's meticulous research, crafting, and pre-encounter game-planning is the same as Dragon Age's pause-based rock-paper-scissors, dive-right-in combat? Is the same as Drakensang's OCD...
Let me fix this.
EVERYONE!!!
Start every post with: "You're absolutely right, Wizardry, but I am looking forward to Skyrim nonetheless because:"
And then just continue talking. And ignore...
The Polynomial
Might be the best game I can recommend for staving off the blues. I had a tough year last year and there were some nights when simply zenning out to this saved a little bit of my...
King's Bounty. Actually, I loved it. When it was working. Six hours of gameplay, five different bugs cropped up, each one repeatedly. I was troubleshooting more than I was playing, and I could only...
Bioshock 2. A lot of folks like to complain about it as a cash-in, but having played System Shock 2, I felt ripped off when I could predict the plot beat-for-beat through the first half of Bioshock...
As someone who came to the Crystal Dynamics trilogy with no prior Tomb Raider experience:
Legend is the briefest experience, but tells a great (& beautifully ridiculous) story. It really gets the...
Danny252, that was the Shalebridge Cradle level. Good call. Rarely has a single level stood so head-and-shoulders above its surrounding game, and Thief 3 was a fairly solid game to start (if somewhat...
It's late, so all I'll say is Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl. It's the only game I've ever described repeatedly as "oppressive," to the point where I couldn't play for long stretches of time. The thing...
After reading Jim's Wot I Think on Red Orchestra 2, I couldn't help but feel many of the points he was making applied to Valve's old plugger Day of Defeat: Source as well.
One- and two-shot...
Huh, I would've expected more love for Tarsem. The Fall was one of the greatest films of the previous decade, as far as I'm concerned, and I loved The Cell before it. Tarsem's already at an aesthetic...
On 11-11-11, I shall first see this at a theater of movies:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=h8F4GfFbZac
Then, I shall go play Skyrim. Shall it not be the best day...
Yes, but all at once? (FC2 did not have locational damage. Since you wouldn't be conscious long enough for it to matter if you didn't immediately treat it, it would've been a waste of programming.)
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