Recent content by Corvin

I heard it was more entertaining in German. I wasn't impressed enough to buy it though.

I'm glad I never played Clear Sky now. I seriously dug the original. I hope this is to that level.

I think that as far as setting goes you seem to have done an awesome job. How did you get permission to use all those structures/such a large area?

I liked Stalker (sans bugs) a fair bit better. I began to get bored with The Witcher... there's a lot of walking around quests and some stuff that's almost Diablo-ish. I've been told that the moral impacts are clearer further in but I didn't see much evidence of that and I tried to differentiate...

Yeah... my only real qualm would be the airsoft vs paintball bit.

Yeah... juvenile and weirdly censored 'adult' scenes. Fallout 3 certainly isn't great in that regard... but I tend to be really unimpressed with the 'counter examples' that people tend to crow about around here. This is the second time I've played one and been dissappointed.

It is almost staggeringly linear. The NPCs are not actually all that deep. The 'moral impact' of one's decisions doesn't ultimately matter. Not that this has stood in the way of many of my favorite RPGs before... but all of these things have been said to matter deeply by people around here...

Sounds like it would've been a hoot. I'm not sure what I feel about airsoft vs paintball though.

The Witcher has a number of the issues that have been complained about regarding Fallout 3. There were also people crowing about how great Far Cry 2 was a while back... I tried it and found it epic boring. My question here is this... were all the reviewers that were 'paid off' to like Fallout...

I'd buy it. Luigi exploding Mario's head would be awesome.

A few months back there were folks on here talking about how great Farcry 2 was compared to Fallout. ... I think a lot of the 'greatest RPGs' that people talk about have that same 'fake choices' quality. Personally, RPG of the year for me was Chrono Trigger for DS. :P

World at War and Gears both rather bore me. Then again, I typically only like that kind of thing single player.

Mmm, Cheddarican!

The 'for the most part has been shelved by gamers' is more than a bit off. There was a relatively intense 5 person discussion of it today at the law school... not exactly a bastion of all things gamerly.

Sounds something like the rationalization that people who like the tiniest bit of Fallout 3 frequently get accused of. I thoroughly enjoy The Witcher books. The game's okay. It isn't the icon that people make it (or Deus Ex) out to be. I just don't feel the need to nitpick it.