Eh—I still think the ending could have really made it into something amazing. They could have linked the "dream" worlds to actual alternate realities (which was implied in the PR blitz before hand, showing one of the Steampunk Zombie Nazi's getting "made" before the "dream" even started). They could have really done…

Okay, disregarding the whole "there are no genres" essay you just wrote, I still believe that defending breakable weapons as "realistic" when nothing else is—magic, powers, no sleep/food/excretion, injuries that heal by inserting a medpack—is dishonest.

Ah: that explains it. In English, "priest" is just a general term for ranking clergy/spiritual leader: druid priest, wiccan priest, voodoo priest, and it's held as an official rank in several religions (Catholic, Anglican, and a few other christian faiths as well). So in English, Priest in no way implies "Catholic".

Also in 5 years: we will be immortal, we will all have hover-cars, we will have developed telepathy, true cybernetic implantation, re-discovered magic, invented time travel, and learned to speak with all the animals and plants of the world.

Man—I got to the last area, the last battle in Torment, and couldn't figure it out. Then my PC HDD died the next day, and I lost the save. I never re-started. I'm looking at the game on my shelf right now actually.

Sigh.

You can hold a rank in the Catholic church, and not be a priest. And many religions have the rank of Priest that are not Catholic. So no, it's not redundant.

So according to your logic, all RPG-type games should also include the need to piss or crap every few hours? Should you have to shut down the game for eight hours at a stretch every day? Should you have to log in to have you characters eat a few times a day or have them starve? What level of immersion becomes…

I have IBS. The day I can remove all that painful malfunctioning tubing gook in my torso and instead insert nutrient wafers or power cells into a mechanical abdomen, you bet your ass I'll be the first in line.

Props for a link to an absolutely fantastic webcomic.

Hell, I'll take it over what modern radio calls "rock". You seem like you know what you're on about, but to my ears, it's at least listenable.

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That is truly, truly amazing. Thanks for the link! If that guy released this for purchase, I think I'd put cash down on it. Wow!

The difference is Bioware listens, and seems to care that customers are upset.

LOL, too true! That's fantastic observation!

Except that this "realistic touch" comes most often in games where you shoot fire from your fingers and other ridiculously non-mundane stuff.

Seems a good place to ask this, since so many commentors are knowledgeable about cameras:

You're assuming I buy a console the day, or year, of release—I won't. But that's kind of my point—a console that's 2 years old will play a game that comes out today. A phone that's 2 years old won't. You need to keep your phones up-to-date, and they release/become obsolete much, much faster.

Here's a problem though: Smart phones are GODDAMN EXPENSIVE. Phones period are stupid pricey, glitchy pieces of shit that hardly do their primary job, much less all the other crap thrown at them. Add in that most carriers require a data package to even have a smart phone activated, and the cost of a phone capable of…

A single-player tactical shooter, where the events aren't scripted, and tactics, placement, and choices matter? Where people on your team can die? Hell, I'd be interested in that.