Cats are also procedurally generated with little to distinguish them beyond changes in texture; however, if someone were to look at your cat, they would not get a readout of its name appearing on their HUD.

Edit: I've actually never been drunk or taken taken any mind altering substances outside that one time I got my wisdom teeth pulled

I agree. I'm pretty sure that if there was any player-to-player interaction planned for the game it was along the lines of a brief glimpse of another player from afar as they warped into the infinite rather than having people meet up and kill each other. Unfortunately there was a bit of a Internet Rage Event when two…

Yes- I've only seen one system that had been found by someone else, and they'd decided to call it 'Farming' and name none of the planets, but once you've named something it stays named.

Flattery will get you nowhere

Honestly, this stuff just writes itself (still more effort than writing the garbage in the Elder Scrolls games)

You can make your own Elder Scrolls lore very easily! Here's a recipe:

It's flawed but still very special. The part that still excites is the idea that when you see a new, undiscovered system, you are the first person to see it. The consistency of the algorithm means that despite being randomly generated in a computer, it is still 'there' in a meaningful sense- anyone who comes along…

Given he's partially sighted that's a bit too on the nose. I want a pleasantly satirical universe, not Mock the Week

I'll be playing it this evening once it unlocks on PC. Has anyone got a planet naming strategy? I'm currently considering

Ah, Tristram- eerie folk with eerie folk music, stocking up on potions and selling Jagged Useless Junk of the Bat (https://www.youtube.com/wat…

Holy accumulation Batman, nice work!

The caverns claim yet another victim. Have you got the hang of clearing the Black Market yet? I only ever made it through to the real ending with a shotgun, a jetpack, and a lot of bombs

After Socrates was forced to drink hemlock, the Athenians gained the ability to pick up and throw certain flashing blocks.

I finally wrapped up the main quest of The Witcher 3 last week, after more than a year- although a lot of that time was spent saving up for new graphics card so I could actually play the game without my computer melting. After finally getting done and enjoying the somewhat bittersweet ending (I understand there are…

Half Life 2: Episode 2 is one of the best FPS games ever put together, although it does have a slow start with all the mucking around in the caves looking for bug juice. Get past the first 40 minutes and you’ll get another four hours of tense, intelligent, and varied mute highly-armed scientist action.

Installed it yesterday in the office over lunch for a laugh, found a Squirtle next to the bananas, spent 10 minutes with colleagues noting how inappropriate the locations for the gyms were, gave up- I think that's all I'll want from the game.

Funnily enough I took a screenshot of an in-game discussion of scenery in the Witcher 3 just the other day: http://steamcommunity.com/s…

This weekend I'll be playing Coming to Terms with The Rise of Nationalism in the UK and Watching People Insult Each Other Via Cherry-Picked Newsclips on Facebook Whilst the World Slides Back Into Recession and Hatred.

The length, surprisingly, isn't an issue- I'm not playing on the higher difficulties so I could easily just knuckle down and blast straight along the main questline and get it done in… well, under twenty hours probably. Yet the writing for the sidequests is so good that I don't want to miss any. It’s all so…