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Divine intervention and magic only bugs me when it's used to explain away or bring about events or circumstances that would otherwise require good storytelling and character interaction to pull off. It's a shortcut that too many authors in the genre use and the absence of which is what...

I am one of the few who falls in between I suppose as I played roughly to the halfway mark (its a pretty long game due to time spent in combat) then lost interest completely. I like tactical RPGs enough that it kept me playing longer than it would have otherwise despite its glaring pacing...

Read Blood Song and The Thousand Names recently, neither was anything more than average fantasy fare but Blood Song had a good intro/coming of age in the beginning (very Spartan) before the main characters "Blood Song" ability started to tingle every other paragraph. But as it usually seems to...

In my opinion, no, the system itself and Seedless were the only aspects of the series that held any merit for me. If you are well read in the genre I doubt you will find much else of distinction unless fictional economic situations and irrational yet ultimately pivotal character decisions...

Or when the front of his "mine" comes down bringing at most a few feet of loose earth to block the tunnel mouth and he lays down to die/be rescued for whatever reason.

On your turn you can move your cursor along the grid prior to moving, if that character will be in range to attack an enemy at that position then a little box will appear giving the amount of damage they can do from a direct HP attack near that enemies feet. Unfortunately this only works for...

I've beaten it twice now and can say that it has a lot going for it especially the artwork and general atmosphere crafted by the nature of the story. If you begin the game by role playing the character decisions you will have a lot of fun and will get invested in whats going on, also your...

Nope, until his predictable last minute tantrum discovery they were just a couple of guys digging around in a random dirt heap with nothing at all to show for it. Which made everyone's keen interest towards it throughout the episodes rather goofy.

It's like Deadwood had a somewhat dimwitted, predictable, feminist leaning child that sold its poorly conceived period soap opera to the Discovery channel.

Yes... I understand what they were trying to do with this on an intellectual level but I just could not connect with Phoenix's character well enough to really enjoy the experience. Besides, I found his average dullness vexing.

HAR! He would make a good replacement for the primary PoV at the wall... if only someone were actually dead.

What attracted me initially was the solid depiction of feudal political intrigue and maneuvering along with skillful writing and engagingly believable characters. Mr. Martin laid out a political framework, fleshed out some interesting characters and let the story flow, no bullshit; just...

Pretty much, the last book consisted of a great deal of padding (I'm looking at you especially Jon and Danny) to stall up until the last chapter of each PoV. It got to be a bit ridiculous reading through realizing that yes, nearly every character is going to end the book on a quasi cliffhanger...

I'm about finished with season one and it has been an entertaining show, never really laugh out loud funny but amusing from time to time. My only real gripe with it is that each episode, for the most part, follows the same formula of Frank being a thug and throwing his weight around whenever...

But they need something other than pure spectacle to be worth watching for those to whom a depiction of space for its own sake fails to overawe. To me it just felt like an empty setting that has been established in films and my imagination over the decades and as such not particularly...

It also didn't help that there was no real caper this time and zero flair in carrying out their mission. Both sides were handed a legion of fairly loyal brainwashed zombies to do what amounted to frat house pranks on each other... there is not much fun to be had in a scenario like that...

Yep the little girl plot line is doing alright so far aside from Carol being willing to let her loose on her friends without any warning at all. She was pretty much great in the finale.

This whole thing was just a do over of the first attack but with a tank... they even blew up the same damn watch tower as an opener. Again people can't shoot anything but zombies with any accuracy, that's expected by now, but wtf is the point of having a tank if the schmuck inside it cannot aim...

I couldn't get past the first season of Falling Skies. The writing is just as bad as in TWD but without the novelty of zombies and the potential of hated characters being devoured for our entertainment value. Instead we are treated to naked CGI aliens / their robot buddies + an overabundance...

I wouldn't be surprised if she cuts the tank in half with her sword at this point.

I think that was just an excuse, the real issue is his many recent gambling blunders which were talked about by the FBI guys and his loss to Nucky in an earlier episode.

It was okay, it had that 90's action vibe nostalgia going for it and at least an attempt at a story. But yeah I didn't like that whole: lets turn this level into swiss cheese!! moment (I have no soul I guess) . YMMV

You'll need to skip a lunch I guess. My point was that not a single character was developed in any meaningful way throughout the course of the film which left me feeling detached and somewhat bored towards the whole situation. Lacking any exposition Bullock amounted to a not much more than a...

That showdown was the best scene I have seen in or out of a theater in over a decade, the camera work, pacing and tension leading up to that fight was simply riveting. It truly felt like his fate was in the balance. 10/10

Me and the person I was watching it with wanted to walk out also but we each thought the other was enjoying it so we stuck it out. Neither of us hated it but we were bored after the first explosion due to lack of character connection, story and excess of CGI debris and booms. I couldn't bring...

The really interesting thing is the study made after the book/film came out. He didn't really just starve to death, he was in fact gradually poisoned by a neurotoxin present in the seeds that were one of his main staples. It built up in his body and rapidly began to cripple his limbs to the...

That's my concern as well, everything he showed was basically an increase to player power. The only challenge was that new early game enemy tank unit which seems to be there now only because nothing else can touch the mech suits. I was surprised by the regenerating health also, hopefully they...

That was pretty bad. The goth kids on their own just don't work well for me and the emo angle is pretty played out... maybe Butters could have salvaged it somehow but I doubt it.

It's basically just a limiter to keep players from gathering strong vassals easily. To do it you usually have to take a few provinces away first leaving them with around 3. In my Papal State game I control all of Italy, Venice and most of Iberia + the islands in between giving me a huge tax...

The 3D certainly did serve to highlight the abundance of pens in space. Sometimes it was neat but most of it that I remember were the oh look 3D moments like hand grabs and misc stuff floating over a shoulder as the explosions tend to blur together in my mind, there were a lot of them after...

Well I guess I'm in the minority in not liking this movie at all aside from the initial disaster... the 3-4 subsequent ones were tired for me as far as thrills go. The special effects were alright, nothing mind blowing but that may have been the fault of the theater I went to. My main...

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My most rewarding play through was as Byzantium, figuring out how to play rebels and the strait off against the Turks to gobble up most of Greece in one war was good fun. The historical blurbs that pop up when you retake territory in Anatolia were actually interesting and conquering the various...

Steelheart was fun, it reads like a decent action flick. I'm not sure that I would want to read more about the same characters though.

Does anyone know what it was before all of this? As it is now anyone you share a border with hates you based on the tax base of those provinces. Tax * 5 up to -200 relations that never adjusts unless you somehow get a smaller/poorer border... It's quite horrible even if you don't share a huge...

I could have lived quite happily without learning what kombucha is and that people are stupid enough to drink it... thanks. That article is a hilarious read.

God I hate pocket Felicia. I wish chat could end fights like that with a vote or something.

On my necro I went to oasis for orcs/crocs when I got bored of sk then rathe mountains for undead then I switched to giants when I out leveled those. Giants weren't overly camped when I was grinding on p99, don't know what its like now. Kunark is the best bet for faster leveling though...

Don't forget kick and beg. ><

I still have fond memories of RTW when close to defeat using two or more skirmisher units to kite heavy infantry around the map & ping pong them till they lost enough morale to run/get butchered for a heroic victory. I also remember the moments when I beat the odds using more direct tactics...