I received FFT and Xenogears one Christmas. That was the best Christmas.

I was practically raised by those old Sierra adventure games, which were notorious for having numerous ways to dead end because you missed an item or event, sometimes considerably earlier in the game, with no warning. Managing save games was practically part of the game’s puzzles.

Ah, that I’m familiar with. I’m guessing that’s an anti-save scumming tactic. They generate the random numbers they’re going to use before the battle starts. For a single run, this is statistically identical to just generating the numbers as you need them. But it also means if you save and reload, you’ve got the same…

Well, for this I was thinking just superficial would be fine, but I do disagree in general. I played the last XCOM but don’t quite remember, but I think behind the scenes it functions like most any RPG combat system. The enemy has some defense, by virtue of its position, attributes, and equipment, and your weapon and…

Out of curiosity (I haven’t flown in years) I dug out an Archer II manual (like yours) and an Arrow (PA-28R) manual. The Arrow prohibits them outright, but the Archer allows them if loaded within certain limitations (the “utility category” - no aft passengers or cargo, etc.)

The classic Piper Cherokee is certified for intentional spins, as is the low-wing piper tomahawk. The Piper Warrior (which very frequently may be called a cherokee) is not.

Ah, it could just be superficial. I’m just thinking for immersion purposes. Your badass sniper ambushes a baddy at point blank range and....whiffs. That’s no fun! If it wasn’t superficial and you were affected like in D&D, you’d probably need the opposite with a critical hit when you had >= 95% chance of failure, and…

I think people would feel better about missing at 95% accuracy if they took a D&D approach and called it something like a critical miss if you miss with less than 5% chance of failure (5% being your odds of rolling a 1 on a 20-sided die coincidentally). Then it’s not Shooter McNevermisses missing the space whale, it’s…

If you’re in a living situation where 30-60$ is unaffordable, what are the odds you have an up to date pc that can even play these games? Some, sure, but significant? And as always, time takes care of high prices. You can practically pay any price you want for a game, down to about 4.99, if you just wait long enough.…

Yes, I was thinking the same thing. I think improvements in lighting do more for graphics than any single other graphical improvement. Even if the other graphics assets are otherwise lacking, good lighting can still make things wonderful. 2d, 3d, photorealistic, cartoony, dark, bright, good lighting improves…

To be fair, I think this is a step up from traditional celebrity sponsors. I know a star sportskaballer hasn’t bought a used car in years, and certainly not from the local dealership they’re sponsoring. At least here the person has to actually play the game, real and unadulterated, and let people see. An underhanded…

I can imagine the uk version. “I’ve been driving for 16 hours straight. I am in the ocean.”

While true, the general movie going public aren’t the ones watching this.

Sponsorship, but also the reality of how these engines get made. AMD and NVIDIA chipsets aren’t the same, their drivers aren’t the same, and games that really push on graphics like this need to work hand in hand with the people that actually write the drivers and design the chips. The world would only have to be…

Yes. Your average dc metro driver probably drives in TRUE winter snow conditions a couple of times a year or so. Driving on pre-treated, rapidly plowed roads doesn’t count . Driving in snow that isn’t accumulating doesn’t count. People aren’t going to get good at it with that frequency and they aren’t going to go buy…

I love pillars but I also know the game was practically custom-made to appeal to me and my cohort. I actually played about an hour of D:OS, decided I’d made a mistake buying it, and went on my way. It sounds like I should give it another chance.

I think the big problem here is that the space combat simulator genre dried right up. We’ll be lucky to get Star Citizen finished.

You like to press buttons on an input device to make a display and audio device provide favorable feedback.

Yah, in games where a lot of time can pass in game, even just a sinple graphical skin to denote the season adds a little something. That’s why I like things like geralt’s beard growing in W3. You leave the big city and spend a week in the field, and come back grizzled. Or you return to a city for the first time in a…

The obvious answer to that is she is Luke and Leia’s daughter ;)