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ahoodedfigure posted a message in the forum topic Armored Core, or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the robot building. on the Armored Core board Aug 27, 12:56am

I played the first, and it's my go-to memory illustrating why people dislike escort missions. I played it on a friend's save, so I already had access to a rather powerful main weapon, and possibly th...
ahoodedfigure posted a message on the post 3436695-20221225233650_1.jpg. Dec 31, 11:11am
ahoodedfigure posted a message in the forum topic Oops All Tactics Games 2022 Turn 1: "I can't believe it's not an XCOM". on the Marvel's Midnight Suns board Dec 31, 11:10am

@sethmode: Isaac Childres's system is pretty compelling if done right, yeah. Interesting that the Marvel game reminds you of it, maybe it was one of their inspirations.
ahoodedfigure posted a message in the forum topic Oops All Tactics Games 2022 Turn 1: "I can't believe it's not an XCOM". on the Marvel's Midnight Suns board Dec 31, 3:31am

@bigsocrates: There are some tactical games that use cards but maybe this is one in a big, well-known setting. I've played a lot of a digital version of the game Gloomhaven and the tactical cardplay i...
ahoodedfigure posted a message in the forum topic Oops All Tactics Games 2022 Turn 1: "I can't believe it's not an XCOM". on the Marvel's Midnight Suns board Dec 30, 2:46pm

Good writeup! Always enjoy your stuff.Did either of these games try to push the formula forward, or have interesting wrinkles to game mechanisms? I've found it's just some little thing I wind up havin...
ahoodedfigure posted a message in the forum topic The Wheel of Dubious FPSes Episode 15-18: The Hits of 1998. on the SiN board Jan 25, 1:50am

Entertaining as always. I think I have Undying so it's somewhere down on my list. Been playing Doom through a source port lately, including finally getting around to trying Sigil. All these attempts ...
ahoodedfigure posted a new blog. May 14, 2:41am

It's Been a Few Years
Giant Bomb started around the time I'd begun a new stage of my life. It's hard to put it any other way, since my change in surroundings were pretty dramatic, and the last time I wrote on here was sort...
ahoodedfigure posted a message in the forum topic The Outer Worlds, or: "How I managed to disappoint myself for only a dollar". on the The Outer Worlds board Nov 29, 11:53pm

Ah, that's disappointing... And I don't think I got anything close to that impression from any of the other reviews I'd happened to watch before, but this makes total sense. It sounds like part of it...

About Me

I guess you can read my first blog entry for some sorta basic idea of where I'm coming from. At least with regard to video games.

I will say, though, that I look at games like I look at films and books; a good game is like a conversation between the designer and the player, and the designer shouldn't pander to what he or she thinks the audience will like, but makes something with internal integrity, and assumes that there's an intelligent person on the other end. This holds true for lumbering RPGs down to mindless hack and slash; even the latter needs to be laid out intelligently, have fun mechanics and good controls. All of it adds up.

Just keep away from them and you'll do fine; they're not as bad as that lake of acid way over there.

As an aside, the following is what I tried to enter into my "city" slot, but I guess it was a bit too long (so implied

Luchadeer

"I wouldn't really call where I live a city, so much as a suburb, but not your typical sort of suburb that you see in Steven Spielberg movies. Just a collection of houses that doesn't feel URBAN. I mean, it doesn't take long and you can be climbing mountains. Although I guess that's not really a criterion as to whether or not a thing's a city, since you can have big cities next to mountains. It doesn't FEEL like a city... what? Yes, I know I'm avoiding the question."

So, like Kain in Phantasy Star II, I apparently tend to break things. Since I consider myself good at playtesting, I guess that fits.

ETERNABLOG, GO!

Tried my hand at the fringes of another database:

Anime Vice

Giant Bomb commenters tend to be a well-informed bunch. You all should be proud of yourselves :)

Ah, but this new site may put me out to pasture (I guess I can leave this to continually stand for my bewilderment at new features).

2011:

Even if I can't take advantage of the high bandwidth stuff, I wanted to give my thanks to the anonymous donor or donors who gave me a year's membership. Wanted to make sure there was a more permanent acknowledgment to their generosity in case they didn't see the thanks I gave before!

Also, it seems like there are a few other ahoodedfigures out there; I've had this moniker for more than a decade and a half, so I'm not about to start spelling it with zeroes, but far be it from me to tell you to accept no substitutes. Accept them, if you want.

The true power of gaming (so awesome, decided to make it a permanent link):

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/09/19/pc-gamers-save-the-world-a-bit/

2012:

Been working for an actual game company for months, now. Since I never saw myself being lucky enough to work for one, at the very least that allows me to say I had absolutely no expectations coming into it, though a lot of what I've seen others say has been confirmed by personal experience! :)

SHORTLY AFTER: EA FOLDED THE FUCKING COMPANY :P

2018: GEEEEEEZ