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The immediate problem there is making such a game reasonable to develop. If you were to develop that kind of system for GTA, the possibilities are infinite, thus impossible to develop. That said, I thought that the Mass Effect system (basically choose 1 of 3 paths) failed because A) The...

So let me ask this. Looking back, what characters did you form emotional attachments to? For me, it's always been a game's love interest but never the POV main character. This makes sense to me, as the player is usually supposed to be filling the role of the main character. But I also think...

Clever dialogue is fine, but I feel that emphasizing it by sacrificing plot is two-dimensional. GTA and Borderlands absolutely did have great dialogue, but I never felt any sort of connection with any characters from either game. Dialogue alone isn't enough to elevate a game beyond what the...

That's fair, and I would include characters in the realm of story elements that need to be improved in games, while setting is often done very well nowadays.

If any of you played Tomb Raider, how do you feel about how they implemented the story? I personally found the plot to be shit, but that one thing they really managed to pull off was masking the on-rails aspect by adding sort of visceral survival-struggle gameplay throughout. I hate QTE's with...

I agree that this is the case. But does the current lack of good stories in good games necessarily mean that video games are a bad medium for them, or that they're simply poorly implemented?

I'm just about to begin my master's program in video game production and one of the things a department counselor told me was that stories are one of the least important aspects of modern games. RPG's in generalcanbe an exception, but stories are largely just a vehicle for gameplay and...

Those national park websites like to exaggerate somewhat. You might have trouble finding a place to stay during holidays, but typically not otherwise. In terms of driving, once you get out of California everything will be flat and straight. Keep to the interstates, however, as many of the...

Basically, you can host any TV/movie/music on your PC using an online service called Plex. Chromecast just added support for Plex, so you can now access your media from any tablet/smartphone/pc that's connected to your home network and cast it to the chromecast. I've got a chromecast and a...

I've become a little meh toward this game since the stress test. Hoped that I would log in and find myself really interested in everything, but I wasn't. It's not that it's a bad mmo... it's a good mmo. But mmo's are the most stagnant genre in the industry nowadays and this game's just more...

Have not read any of those threads.

On a related note, I've been looking for console/PC games to play with my wife, co-op like, if anyone has suggestions on those.

There are a lot of restrictions to giving plasma. Can't have gotten a tattoo within a year, can't have visited Europe in the past 20 years, can't have had sex with a man whose had sex with another man since the 70's, and so forth.

Harry Potter series, meh.

As long as we're mentioning some literature up in this bitch: Salman Rushdie-Satanic Verses Rulyard Kipling-Kim Maybe some Cryptonomicron by Neil Stephenson.

The trick to naval battles is the RB button, or whatever it is for PS4.

Blue balls are to be had.

The needle isn't nearly as thick as it used to be, as recently as a few years ago. Not really any more pinch than a normal needle now. I donated for 2 years, and you do develop scar tissue, but a year later they're almost gone. My skin heals well though.

Weren't angels in their second episode (earlier Amy episode) able to exist in the optical image of an eye, thereby turning that person into a host? Could extend that to the hive mind perhaps.

Technically, you can use plex on it. You just have to watch plex from a casted web browser.

It would be interesting to know the actual numbers, because it's implicit that people that don't reach the level cap are only buying the box and a few limited months of subscription, while end-game players have ongoing, recurring subscriptions. At what point does it become more profitable to...

I haven't loved TV this much since... I don't know, Top Gear Vietnam? Not even that? One point of interest though. When they were freezing Gallifrey they said, "All twelve. No. All thirteen." That "all" implies a lot to me, along with the inclusion of the 13th in the act of the freezing...

As much as I love David Tennant, he was actually not great in this. The supporting cast was really good though, and I ended up liking the season.

Well, it depends really. Our solar system is surrounded by the Oort Cloud, a sphere of asteroids left over from the solar system's formation. Every once in a while it'll chuck a giant rock deeper toward the Sun. So while we've cataloged everything near us, that doesn't account for the vast...

Getting hit by a species-ending asteroid is a statistical certainty at some point. Not 50 years from now, but likely not as far out as we'd like to think either. That doesn't mean we'll see it coming though. Thus far in Earth's history, we've discovered a single object that ended up entering...

OP asked about historical fiction as well, so I'll mention The Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson. Read it.

He teaches a large lecture class at BYU in Provo. Think I heard they were open to visitors although I never pushed myself to go to one when I lived down there.

Roiling water is also supposed to jog your creativity, so taking showers/baths can help. There's an exorbitant number of old wives tales for writers though, and that could very well be one.

I remember reading a study that showed that while the typical memory of people has been decreasing by a significant amount in recent centuries, the part of their memory that tells you how to remember where to find information has significantly increased. So we are actually getting worse at...

I'm becoming a mild fanboy of Wildstar, but I have to agree with you. The controls' responsiveness and fluidity of movement/combat will very likely be the determining factor in me either staying for a long time or getting bored after a couple months.

Cause who doesn't like an MMO with 9 hours of gameplay?

Cutting-edge realistic graphics have never been a good design decision in MMO's, imo, as they're the single easiest way to date your game. Saying these graphics come from 2004 isn't really accurate when all they are is more stylized than realistic. The "cartoony" stylized direction Wildstar...

Bit out of context. That scan is from All-Star Superman in which Lex Luther tricks him into essentially flying into the sun. Thus his power is ultra-boosted along with him being poisoned to death. Not even remotely representative of his normal strength.

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Hard to say. Kinda just depends on what elements you like/dislike. I personally never really cared for River(might've just been that she wasn't attractive, but I never felt the romantic connection they were supposed to have, idk), and was tepid toward Amy, so I disliked a fair portion of...

I agree with whoever said it earlier that Benedict Cumberbatch should be the next doctor. About as perfect a match as I could ever think of. Who knows, maybe he's got a great report with Moffat from Sherlock and wants to add onto the 7 projects he's already got going in 2013

I don't have a ton of interaction with asians, but in my experience it's latinos. Fuckers hate minorities like it's 1870.

Not necessarily the best games, but the ones that will always stick out to me as memorable in my life and best define me as a gamer: 1. Everquest 2. WoW 3. Final Fantasy X 4. Medievia (MUD) 5. Team Fortress 2

Of the actual early-zone gameplay videos I've seen, I thought the mob balance was pretty interesting simply in the sense that people were having a moderate amount of difficulty killing same-level mobs right out of the gate. Get an add or 2 and you run the risk of dying. Played Neverwinter up...

Everything I've said in this thread is firmly backed up by the drake equation and technology that is either existing or well-founded theory. The Drake equation does not necessitate that a civilization travel faster than the speed of light.