TheGuardLlama
TheGuardLlama
TheGuardLlama

I'm kind of finding the whole persecution of geeks to be a little different than what goes down with women in our society. Anyone can be a otaku or be geeky. That's part of why stereotypes like these are so stupid. They're making fun of a nebulous subculture that is now quite mainstream. You can't meet a person under

just one of the reasons Big Bang Theory is one of the most popular shows on television. People love making fun of nerds and that show serves up archaic stereotypes on a silver platter.

No joke that's literally how I played the entire game though lol. I basically hoarded all my spells on junctioned stats and then used the summons. It might have been how FF7 trained me to play. I still had this mindset that summons were the best attack and I was wary of using spells as they didn't regenerate back like

But with an mmo shouldn't they be keeping people on for developing new content and making sure it gets deployed smoothly? I can see laying off lots of folks after a single player game but mmo's need a steady stream of patches and expansions to keep a player base.

Defiance looks pretty mediocre but I was under the impression Rift had a pretty smooth launch and that it actually had more features than WoW. But with WoW numbers declining, can we really still say this genre is doing well? It seems to me that the market is shifting to more shortform action RPG's like league of

I'll never understand why everyone seems so desperate to rush into the mmo market these days. For the last eight years we've seemed to see nothing but games fail out the gate to which they then switch to free to play. And while free to play seems profitable enough, it can't possibly be meeting the initial development

Nerdy confession: I call my girlfriend my "Guardian Force".

I have mixed feelings about this game. On the one hand, it haf some of the most beautiful and creative environments I've seen in a game. But the plot was a mess and the battle system more or less came down to spamming guardian force summons.

Yeah and we'd agree with you that mainstream scifi does feel a bit lazy with their aliens at times. I also think that, at least in Star Trek's case, sex appeal is a factor lol. The people behind that franchise continued to want aliens that the cast could actually hook up with. Not that you can't have sex with a six

I'd disagree with you that's it's necessarily easier in video games especially in an mmo where you need to make sure items look right on all the playable races. I agree that it would be cool if you could play as a thirteen foot tall octopus but how would you wear the boots that dropped during the raid? Doing the art

I felt the critics were pretty harsh on this one but Baz Lurman has a pretty divisive style so it was expected. Most of the reviews I read went straight into ripping him apart. Personally, I loved how batshit crazy and vibrant this movie was but if you don't like that kind of music video style I can seriously see it

Makes sense considering how overpriced their mobile ports have been. Charge 20 bucks for a game you made 15 years ago as opposed to charging 60 for one you've spent two years and hundreds of millions on. Even if you sell vastly fewer copies of the first option, it's going to be more profitable or, in the very least,

Most people I know heavily mod their own UI's anyway. Out of curiosity, if you could make WoW more like a recent mmo which one would you pick? I'm asking because other than GW2, most of the mmo's I've seen come out lately feel pretty similar to WoW's hotkey heavy mechanics. Heck, even Elder Scrolls looks like it's

Eh I'm more behind updated graphics. There's not much they can do to alter the fundamental gameplay mechanics, other than add more content and redesign character systems. I'd much rather see the old character models get updated as they look terrible, especially in comparison to the new items and environments. Half the

Blizzard can probably keep this sub based for a while just as long as they show the stockholders they have other products in the pipeline that will make up for the loss. I expect we'll hear a lot more about their next mmo, codenamed "Titan", at Blizzcon this year. Blizzard's been touting it as their next revolutionary

ABANDON SHIP!!!!!

And the great part about Tolkien's LOTR trilogy is you can honestly pick up Fellowship and easily follow what happens. They're really two stand-alone stories. The problem I had with the movie is it keeps trying to shoehorn more stuff in the with the necromancer, Sauron, and other plot points from LOTR that make the

I feel prequels are often a sign that the franchise needs a break or has been truly mined for all remaining conflict. Often people turn to prequels because the central drama at work in the series has been resolved and they have no way to make a compelling sequel. The Gears won, Kratos has killed every deity in

I'd argue this is a result of how great the casting and costume design is for this show. They really nailed the look of a privileged, mad ruler.

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