Hahaha YEAH, weird pet names are the best! My friend once owned a cat named Napkin, and another had a pot belly pig named Scumble.

A movie can be in theaters the year it's formally announced. A game, especially a huge budget title, can take half a decade if development is slow. It can absolutely be a way of managing market expectations.

Ok this makes more sense and I can agree with you on most of it. Personally I would rather Bethesda balanced some of their focus. The plot of Skyrim was so bad, and the characters involved so one dimensional that I had to INVENT my own story to keep playing. Admittedly that was very fun, but Bethesda doesn't deserve…

I can follow that, and those are good points, but there's the intent behind what the developer was shooting form, and the game needs to be judged on that rubric. Ken Levine creates believable worlds, filled with life, but illustrated along fantastic lines. That creative stylization can be judged on how successful it…

Sorry but plastic people, especially in a world that's focusing on such realism, are a last gen problem and kind of spoil the view. They create massive uncanny valley problems if nothing else.

Howabout they fix the skin shaders they use so people dont look like shiny plastic monsters while they're at it?

The biological web shooters were actually lifted from Spider-Man 2099, where Miguel O'Hara had a combined spider/human genetic print layered over his own. He had the spinnerets in his forearms (which beats shooting webs out of your butt) along with tiny claws on his fingers/toes and fangs that could actually inject a…

That this is being considered by anyone at all is awesome.

Easy Money?

Oh it's WAY shopped. The lighting is off, the dog has no shadow or impact on the snow, and as far as I'm aware Lovecraft never left New York (state, not the city).

The lore in 40k isn't smarter than Starcraft, but then Starcraft isn't necessarily smarter than 40K, especially in light of the fact that Blizzard actually approached Games Workshop to try and get the licenses for both Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000. They were turned down due to the belief that if you could just play…

Facebook game. Build a castle. It generates people. If you dont build homes for your people they will be unhappy. To build a house you tap your people and harvest .5 stars every three hours or pay $30 for nine stars right now. Spend your stars on tchotchkes and place them around your kingdom. They generate motes which…

Anyone asking a question about Lovecraft is an opportunity to get them to read Lovecraft.

It is Lovecraft, in fact that guy's head is Lovecraft's if I dont miss my guess. The creature on the tablet is an Elder Thing, the creators of the Shoggoths. You'll find them both in 'At the Mountains of Madness'.

Here we go, now we're talking about legitimate solutions. Your first suggestion is actually a pretty good one too! There are plenty of games out there that have done the attachment system to show both character variety and visibly display the difficulty ramp without a huge cost increase. Downside: Not many in the…

Did anyone else see this and think meatiest mega boner ever?

I know people who have been left choking and nearly unable to breath when they inhaled even a small amount of dihydrogen monoxide! That shit is seriously scary and it's just EVERYWHERE, why aren't we regulating it to keep people safe?

It's not a matter of realistic animations, it's a matter of the way animations are actually produced, realistic or exaggerated. When you make a new model that does not conform to the body shape of the original you have to create a new animation rig and redo the animations. One character model that the player chooses…

Cool. Thanks for that!

Cool, thanks for the tip. I've got a distant friend who played the first but was turned off by that very power management. Should I recommend the 2nd game to him?