I just picked up the new Eddings book this week, Crystal Gorge, the third book in the Dreamers series. The Eddings are two of my favorite authors, because the way they write characters was one of my major influences when I started writing. They are never much for battle scenes and super description,...
Wow.... Glad I can be a regular poster here instead of a mod, so I don't have to stress this. Anywho. Even though I am not the hugest handheld fan out there, I will give the DS time when it's cheaper in the future. Fire Emblem is a really good game that I want to play some day. And I am sure a few m...
Well, everyone has pretty much said what's needed to be said about IV. - traveling sucks - 4 person pty....I want my 6 back - very lacking story/main hero. Plus the supporting cast kinda sucked too. I didn't like anyone, and I am pissed off about certain endgame characters. - too few islands and tow...
Youths might struggle with complex moral questions involving turning a friend in that everyone else calls a slave, but you don't quite see that way? ... I guess that's exactly why you brought Huck Finn up. I'm not quite sure what you mean with the first part of that. I was merely bringing up someth...
No further comments from me. You guys are looking at things in a direction different from mine. If you mean a direction of rational solutions with a humanistic point of view as opposed to flying off in a hysterical panic without any foundation for possible claims... ...then yes, a different directi...
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Thompson says that video games are corrupting young minds-- he dubs some games as murder simulators. Do you think he's wrong? I don't believe games are at the point where one can really be compelled to kill outside the virtual world, but I do agree that most video games...
Rosa, I wasn't attempting to pin-point any specific person as being "brainwashed." I believe I threw the word out correctly, and I had every privalege in doing so. Good to see you've been gaming for some time. First, name's Roas. Second, are you going to throw more than just a one liner at me in de...
Oooh, I've played that game! Mainly with my brother, so I don't need five turns to take over everything, but it's very fun. You also have ocean spaces that connect continents, and different commanders that get a D8 instead of a D6. Try playing it with a full group. It's wild. Especially when you ra...
Well, I meant more like Alpha Centauri. My favorite play-through of that was as Chairman Sheng-ji Yang of the Human Hive. I colonized like mad and introduced cloning to increase the best of my citizens a hundred fold. Of course, I'd weed out those who didn't 'agree' with my police state and focus o...
I actually have never heard of Risk 2210. I'll have to look into it. Sounds like a fun new twist to the game! Oh man, it's great fun. It used to be our default game to play in college when we weren't doing serious gaming. It is only 5 turns, so it only lasts about half an hour, but it is so much fu...
Hey, I tried to get you all to play Risk through the PS2 with me, and ya'll was scaaaared. I play Risk, but I play the physical version of Risk 2210 (I think that's the #. I never remember) where we get to use nukes Ah.....good times. Stockpiling Nuke cards until someone plays Aramagedden on the fi...
I urge people here to think about the matter a little bit more deeper and don't buy in simply to what OTHERS are saying. Think for yourself. Use reason. Don't be brainwashed. Listen man, I've been playing videogames for over 20 years now. So, I've lived through the entire evolution of videogames to...
Wow, I could make some decent cash for my Lunar stuff. Then again, A) I'd never sell them. B) if I wanted to sell my SegaCD versions, I butchered the manuals for an RPG collage I made in highschool.
There were all kinds of stories going around the 'Net about launch PS2's breaking. I'm assuming this is what he was talking about. Yay, the Internet. The greatest tool of mass miss communication. Rule #1: Question everything you ever hear on the Internet. Rule #2: After that, question again for goo...
I don't really have anything personal against either Xbox and PS2, seeing as I don't own either. The Xbox's games just don't interest me, and the PS2 has too many mutters about the hardware breaking down, and whatnot, which compels me to wait until the generation is well over before (probably) pick...
There're reasonable constraints stemming from legitimate concerns, and then there're stupid constraints stemming from knee-jerk reactions. KF Well, that is the specialty of today's media...knee jerk reaction. They are so hot to spam the airwaves, they never take a moment to look at all the possible...
I'm sorry... I hope that my post hasn't angered or annoyed anyone. I just thought since the Bird Flu has been mentioned so often in the news it might've been worthy of a discussion. I certainly did not mean to express that it was more important that other issues. Again, I am sorry if it came across...