Vadrosaul

Happy BDay New Horizon!

I’m not going to dispute he has a way with words, but he’s fallen into a repetitive trap with them. His reviews are becoming horribly predictable, involving the same puns and esoteric movie/pop-culture references, and if he likes the game he’ll only briefly mention that in one line. After so many times bashing the same videogame design philosophies, it really starts to become a ‘no shit, Sherlock’ affair when watching his spiels, and I find myself barely listening to his ranting and having more interest spotting his cultural & media namedrops. He’s essentially turning into Family Guy.

I lost interest after he became repetitive. His reviews fall into a simple template that anyone now could make up a fake Yahtzee review. He's just an English AVGN with an expiry date.

The combat is manageable, but isn't really exciting, and tends to get derivative after awhile. Essentially you click on what kind of attack, ability or item you want to use and wait until the enemy dies. There isn't an extreme amount of fighting when you're in the field, so it doesn't get too annoying like it can in some RPG's.

Yeah, that's very somnambulant of them

Just saw another common error: 'exited' instead of 'excited'. I'm usually indifferent when seeing spelling mistakes, but that one is irritating due to both exited and excited being fairly opposite.

In the past couple years I've experimented a bit with lucid dreaming, so to induce better dreams I've tried Galamantine and Choline chemical subs. Galamantine inhibits the breakdown of Acetylcholine, and Choline promotes its production. ACh promotes R.E.M sleep where we dream most. It's a safer, healthier mindfuck than asswhipping drugs

It's gotten to the point where mediocrity is glorified. Just last night a 'prestigious' award for original material was given to a teen pregnancy script that had all the cleverness of an average soap opera episode.

One I keep seeing is 'loose' being used in place of 'lose'.

I had to laugh at the ridiculousness of one episode of TNG I saw, where in order to protect the Enterprise from a huge asteroid, Wesley figured out that they could reverse the polarity of the tractor beam, making it a repulsor. Apparently the senior staff was astounded by such simple logic.

"Shut up, Wesley!"

1st Lieutenant?!?! That's it, hand over your nerd badge!

Kirk was more the brash action hero. Picard felt more believable as a strong-minded diplomat a space organization would actually let run an expensive flagship.

*Looks at oDDity's over 5K posts* Since you mentioned you were long ago finished contributing your part to the DM, can you make a proper distinction of how your time spent here is not wasted, without being hypocritical?

Looks like MacGuyver: The Dark Years with a sticky tape fetish. I like Carnby’s use of the fluorescent lighttube, and the overcoat is an awesome inventory system, using something contextually appropriate that can believably hold the items in the gameworld.

The cat screech sounds like a sound effect from the public domain. Are Wilhelm screams going to make an appearance when knocking a guard over a cliff?

Happy Birthday

STALKER's not bad. Some of its features work purely to annoy the player, like being encumbered by weight and having to carry excessive supplies for dealing with bodily irritations. Its environment though at least tries to be different from the many generic FPS titles out there.

There's no problem with enthusiasm if it's deep and reasonable and not derived just to fit in, but in this case it sounded so shallow and sheepish that it makes Homer Simpson seem like a cynic.

I think you'll have to downgrade that upon further evidence (see above)

It was a good day robbing all those houses of people who went out to watch this silly contest of acceptable violence

A conversion from a medieval fantasy game to another medieval fantasy game? Thanks, but I'll take the Dark Mod. It takes real skill to change the entire setting from the engine's original inception.

Damn these modern day cyborgs. They're gonna make losing limbs look enticing.

It looks like their designing a post-apocalyptic world to accompany the games continuing fiction. I guess that cult of rage worshippers got a hold of the whole world and turned it into one big smorgasbord of murderous behavior. Thomas and whoever else that chose "compassion" are probably trying to make sense of the world and reign in that cult. One thing I hate about Condemned is the lack of basic physical motion the game was missing. You can't lean, jump, crouch or mantle in any way, and some access points looked ridiculously easy to gain entry to if I could have just stepped over that fallen bookshelf, but I couldn't. As long as his swings come with the accompanying "Fug You" or "You Little shi…" One of the biggest shocks ever = Getting a close-up shot of the gym teacher, Mr. Tibbits face. Reminiscent of the sloth scene in the movie Se7en.

Almost forgot about the spyglass. That was a nice touch, grats to whoever thought of it. Ever consider having it made with folding retractable sections?