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There's a big difference between what FFVII tries to be, and what it delivers. Whatever ham-fisted philosophy there might be underlying it is completely lost in a story that's disjointed and populated with stilted characters that act childish and speak in nothing but cliches. Knowing when to...

Anime doesn't resonate with me at all. Someone on these boards once put it very well - "It's on the wrong cultural frequency." It seems as if it was made by aliens - the characters look human, but everything is subtly wrong and makes no sense. Sometimes it's simply impenetrable, other times...

I'm fully confident that they'll screw TWF up - simply because the odds are against them. Most systems in which characters normally get only one attack per round either make TWF extremely powerful, or overcompensate and make it useless. Generally, if they allow TWF to make a second normal...

Well, The Witcher might not be quite as long as the 80 hours I've seen claimed, but it's definitely a solid 40-50 hour game, so some people are still making long RPGs. Mass Effect is damn short, though - I've intentionally done as many of the side quests as possible to drag it out, and it still...

I don't mind the change, but I honestly don't see how it makes any difference... or why someone would consider falling back on something as hoary as being demon or devil-tainted ambitious. I don't really remember the last time I saw an original explanation for why some D&D race or nation was...

If we're talking about how things should be, then movement and fighting ability also ought to be very closely connected, since footwork is key to (as far as I know) virtually every style of melee combat there is, and getting knocked prone is usually followed by death if the other guy knows what...

Unfortunately, I can't relate to your unfounded optimism. ;) Seriously, though... While I find a lot of systems to be interesting, I only have a limited amount of time to spend on gaming. The same goes for the friends I game with - so while there are times when we'd like to try something else...

No, my suggestion was that the Warlord would have a generic pool of immediate actions, and would then choose how to apply it and what kind of immediate action to grant to the party. (extra ranged attacks, extra melee attacks, extra movement, set up a flank, stand up from prone, whatever) That...

I'll probably get jumped on for this, but that Warlord ability feels awfully "video-gamey" to me. I'm not crazy about the Warlord class in general, but I think it'd be much better if it simply had an ability to grant a certain number of immediate actions to allies a certain number of times per...

I'm not sure that it's necessarily an indication that someone needs a better job - there can be a lot of reasons, aside from bad career choices, why people are broke. However, I do agree that (minors and students aside) topics like these seem a little ridiculous. If putting together $100 for...

The boos were far from constant, of course (and there was applause as well - in some cases outright, at others mixed with jeers) but they were loud enough that Chris Perkins got drowned out several times, and persistent enough that whatever WotC honcho was up there as well got visibly pissed off...

My stance on 4E has evolved through three stages so far. I was at Gencon when they announced it, and it pissed me off - here I was, shelling out a lot of money to play 3.5 for four days, and they felt the need to get on a stage and tell me how the game I was playing sucked? That's how it seemed...

I really do NOT like their idea of how to "simplify" gameplay. In this case, they give the Paladin the ability to cause all kinds of effects - increasing AC, healing, an ability that you can click to interrupt spellcasting ;) - but in order to keep things manageable, they appear to be strictly...

If the quest says you need an entry in the bestiary, it does mean that you need to buy and read a book in order to be able to harvest the particular monster organ / trophy / squishy bit the quest asks for. And yeah, they're expensive, but it's generally worth buckling down and buying as many...

Actually, they're not even close. Chimps vary in size a lot, but on average they clock in at around 100lbs (and top out at around 130lbs, heavier than a lot of humans) compared to just 35lbs for a typical 3E halfling. As far as realistic strength goes, I think the numbers tend to be a bit...

Weird. I've seen this complaint repeatedly, and I actually didn't manage to roll the Mako once - despite being intentionally careless a number of times. (Hey, let me fire the thrusters as I come off the edge of this 50' drop, to see what happens. Whee!) Mind you, I never actually sat down for a...

I've played for a couple of hours so far, and I'd call some of the issues mildly furstrating, at most. (keep in mind that they often exaggerate for comedic value, and Gabe apparently has the attention span of a mayfly, so just because something is frustrating to him...) The menu system could do...

I've seen a couple of people on the official boards claim that they were able to solve their Vista crashing problems by running it windowed. Don't know if it's true or just wishful thinking on their part, but...

Load times are on the long side on my PC, but not so bad as to be a problem. (NWN2 has noticeably longer ones, for example, even if they're usually - though not always - a lot less frequent) I deal with it the way I deal with long-ish load times in all games I play - I keep a book or a magazine...

IIRC computer games are region-free. You can also download the Euro version from Atari UK. It's what I did, though it was because I was in a hurry to get my hands on it and not because I cared about what got censored - and to be honest with you, after seeing some of it I really don't think...