Recent content by vivaxardas2015

With Metacritic it is all about the numbers, you know. Probably, no one takes it seriously when there are less than 500 ratings, but when numbers are big, it sure tracks gamers' perception of the game well enough. They are also not split equally between green and red, as sometimes happens, when...

Yeah, I would trust Van Ord, and Gamespot in general, concerning not-so-mainstream games, but not major franchises. About major titles - I wouldn't trust any professional reviewer at all. There are other ways to form an opinion, YouTube videos is one of them. But, you know, unless the game...

Actually, it is a requirement of many (may be even all) US universities. In California a lot of people opt for learning Spanish. Practically everyone I know who has a degree is proficient in a second language. Given that Sapkowski's saga was translated into German and Spanish, a lot of people...

Well, whoever is interested in Henryk Sienkiewicz, as anyone should be, go watch Quo Vadis?. It has like 3 or 4 remakes, from 1913 to 2001.

The Man on a Donkey, parts 1 and 2. An old, but quite amazing novel about the dissolution of the monasteries in England in 1536, and the Pilgrimage of Grace.

Books: Regis Games: Letho and Philipa

Which one? If to use Roche to wack Radovid, I agree. But the rest of Dijkstra's actions does not make any frigging sense. After Radovid is dead, it is pretty much irrelevant whether Roche and Thaler are dead or alive. Dijkstra should have run like crazy to take over, and to unite people. To...

Yeah. I bought it, played it for an hour, and couldn't take it anymore. May be I am getting too old for this already, but it does feel childish, like some damn cartoon. In essence, a very conventional modern game made for teenagers and very young adults, with nothing to offers me personally...

Well, as long as it affects only lower difficulty levels, I do not mind. Actually, I would prefer to have Easy difficulty really stupid easy, with boss fights being just a very fast affair with no real chance of death for those who just goes through a story and does not want to waste time on...

My personal all-time favorite historical drama is Wolf Hall. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kT2lMkhldc I've read the novels, though (they are on my personal Top Ten Best Historical Novels of All Times), so I don't know how it is to people who did not read Mantel's books. I don't really...

1. I agree with this. I read all the books in every game, so it wasn't a problem for me. Seemed like Dark Souls-type of storytelling - a story is discovered, often through reading, and if not to pay attention - hard to figure out what a hell is going on. I sort of like to discover obscure things...

Actually, if you read books in the world, and hear all dialogues, it makes not just perfect sense, but pretty much explains and adds to Anna's tragedy. 1. In one of the books we learn who this spirit really is, and her relationship with the Ladies. 2. Children always lived in the swamps because...

Well, they just could make the starting armor itself upgradable, as school armors. No need to give it some fancy name and irritate those of us who expected an original design. Now it feels like a petty revenge of a disgruntled teenager - you got what you wanted, bitches, enjoy!

Yeah, it is crazy. I don't get it - either do it properly with a new design, or don't do it at all. To reskin a starter armor, change its stats and get a fancy name - it is not even funny, it is childish. In case you CDPR did not get it, we did not ask for some re-skinned armor BE NAMED "Viper...

You know, I think you are right here. Act 3 feels like a typical Bioware crappy story-telling, with stupid one-dimensional villains and crazy and completely non-sensical situations. Actually, I even want a Bioware trademark star child here. At least he would have explained what a fuck happened...