The Gaming Den

I don't think that it'll be possible to sell and promote successfully a complete ideology change/shift that a universal basic income would require for politicians to implement it, for either Canada or the US inside the next 20 years. I am not familiar enough with the internal politics and popular id...

Perhaps the issue was somehow inherited from the bb.bbboy message board that the Den was originally hosted on, where this sort of problem was quite common? If when importing, the database had threads with this sort of problem still in them, then importing them would might require either manually fix...

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If it's just a single mod and not a conflict or interaction between mods, you could narrow it pretty fast with a divide and conquer approach to testing.... Turn on the first half of the mods, does it crash? If so, it's within that half, try half of those (1/4 of original), otherwise try half of the ...

Honestly, Hellsing Ultimate is pretty good, but the Hellsing Abridged series produced yearly (1 ep/year, around Halloween) based on it is just hysterically funny.

Psychonauts has great writing, excellent art direction, and a wonderful cast of characters. It's actual gameplay elements are basically just fairly well-implemented platforming stuff. There's nothing really objectionable about the gameplay, but there's nothing really new or interesting about it eith...

On the topic of PC-based FF-style RPGs: I recommend Cthulhu Saves The World. It's fairly short but is otherwise a really well done version of the Final Fantasy experience, and it's something like ~$1 right now. Final Fantasy 7 and 8 for PC (inc. steam versions) have a bunch of issues with having not...

I wonder where the "squad leader uses a sword and pistol, ordinary squaddies use long weapons" trope comes from? I'm not sure; the idea that regular dudes use a rifle or musket while officers get a sword and pistol dates back to at least Napoleonic times ; I don't know how much farther ba...

Daily Lives of High School Boys is indeed pretty great - there's like one episode that was only mediocre, but almost all of them of them had 3+ really amazing skits. No overarching plot, really, but it was quite funny.

Now see, I disagree with this. My reasoning is as follows. If there's a class called "Necromancer", then you'll end up with people who took Necromancer levels to get their class features but aren't actually summoners of the undead; and you'll have people who summon the undead but who don'...

I agree with people recommending Fullmetal Alchemist. I'd recommend Brotherhood over the original, but they're both quite good. Ghost in the Shell is pretty good overall. I liked Stand Alone Complex etc over the first movie. Nanoha had a few bad early episodes in the first season, but the later epis...

The first thing that occurs to me is that setting the elongated time where you have with the end of it pretty much at menopause, means that women would have their fertile period last something like three and a half times as long; also, the productive period of both genders would last much longer, co...

The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments. AndreiChekov, I strongly recommend that you reconsider what you're doing. Unless of course you actually like LoL better than Dota and are a sockpuppet or something. I mean, my favorite game is Do...

AndreiChekov seems to be fundamentally misstating stuff about the Dota 2 Matchmaking system, so I'm going to have a go at explaining some of it: There are two matchmaking 'modes' in the game: Ranked and Unranked. The second one is a misnomer, really, which leads to unfortunate misunderstandings like...

I likewise played about a half hour of Transistor, and I am super impressed so far. I may go back and buy the soundtrack, even.

I play mostly DotA 2, myself. I tried Smite and LoL both for ~10 hours, so I don't consider myself any sort of expert on either of those two games, and can't possibly offer a meaningful opinion on any aspects of either of them other than the art style and graphics which is to my mind the least impor...

I am a big fan of the Civilization games. There's not a whole lot of tactical depth to the combat, but the overall nationbuilding and planning with technologies, diplomacy, multiple avenues to victory, etc is really good. Of all the Civ games I've played, (1-5 and Alpha Centauri), the only one that ...

@NWN2: The basic main quest is really excruciatingly long and drawn out. It's not paced well at all. That said, it has a few cool bits in it. Just... a lot of filler, too. So much filler I can't honestly recommend playing through it to get to the good stuff. The first NWN's expansions are probably b...

I really enjoyed FF9 and FF7 a lot more than FF8. I didn't really like Squall's character, or the entire Orphanage plot, or the Time Compression bit, or some of the first disk's shenanigans with e.g. Edea's failure-filled attempted assassination; Even some of the aesthetic decisions (e.g. gunblades)...

Overlady is a crossover between Overlord (computer game series about being a BBEG) and Zero no Tsukaima/Familiar of Zero (fairly generic fantasy anime series). It eclipses both sets of source material to forge something more interesting - and far funnier - than either. Apparantly Terry Pratchett's ...

I'm re-reading some 1986 John Varley short stories. As a kid, I found this stuff really icky, what with all the sexual content, but now I see it in a completely different light. Some of this shit, especially concerning sexuality and gender, is really visionary. A lot of what Varley envisioned to ta...

The only problem that I could see is that at present there is a huge overlap between the HP totals of low-level meatshield mooks that you want to clear out with one spell without tracking how injured they each get, and high-level monsters who are supposed to be relevant who are supposed to be spellc...

Right, what's exactly keeping us from writing something like: When you damage something that's 6 Challenge Ratings lower than you, you can instakill them / deal N times more damage. That doesn't seem unreasonable in a hypothetical create game from scratch scenario - one where you've eliminated or r...

In general, I don't think I've ever seen any real and concrete benefits from spells referencing a creature's HD in any way. Whether it's polymorphing or otherwise getting abilities from something with low HD for it's CR and abilities, or Turn Undead not scaling properly without massive boosts from i...

If you're up for multiplayer stuff, which absolutely requires keyboard+mouse interface, you could try one of the MOBAs. These are games where you pick a single character to be part of a team of five people, and play against an opposing team of five, ultimately to try to destroy their base before the...