Recent content by silverburst

I think there's an extra dash of creepiness at theme parks compared to your average abandoned building. Such emptiness and stillness in a place that was once filled with commotion and excitement. My favorites of these were the Disney water park in Florida due to it's overgrown swamp vibe and...

I found this on the Weather Channel's page, and figured it might be of interest to some of you. There's definitely a hint of post-apoc essence in some of these photos: http://www.weather.com/travel/creepy-abandoned-theme-parks-20130320?pageno=1

I'm reading Stephen King's "Wastelands" book right now, and it has one of the best writtien depictions of this kind of setting that I've ever experienced. The city of Lud is an amazing place in that book. A problem with the setting in the two newest Fallout games, for me anyway, is how much...

Oh, I'm not bragging at all. I got no action then, and I've never gotten any action. I'm a complete loser with women, but... I'm just saying that If there is any statistical truth to women disliking beards, then it is only a regional thing. If you wanted women to like your beard, there are...

I would just like to add this about the "women prefer men without beards" theme: I have sported a couple of really long, unruly, unkempt beards in my life, and I took a trip to dirtbike across Cambodia while I had one of these. The women over there went crazy for my beard. I constantly had...

I think he kind of looks like Les Claypool from Primus.

The best I've found so far is Doom 2 RPG. It's an iphone game, but it blows up to full size and looks just fine. It's turn based, funny, has some strategic combat, uses the doom assets, and is rather cheap. For a decent hack n' slash try Dungeon Hunter 2. The skills are all really fun with...

I'm mostly a lurker here, but I've got an idea that might bring in some interesting opinions. List some games that you feel have the best/your favorite of something. This something could be anything from best dialogue to something far more particular like best clown character. Also, give a...

i just want to say that I really enjoyed this review. I read it the first day it was put on GameBanshee. BN, I think you really address the game thouroughly, pointing out the good and bad with equal precision. Good stuff.

Direct2Drive has the digital collectors editoin of New Vegas (it has the All Roads Novel) for sale for 34.95. You can put in a code to get an additional 15% off. http://www.direct2drive.com/9815/product/Buy-Fallout-New-Vegas-Digital-Collector%27s-Edition-Download My question is this, for...

I do believe that I'll go with the GOG version. I recently played through the director's cut of The Witcher, and I thought the game was really great. It's the best new RPG I've played since Bloodlines. I've seen all the talk about making things a bit more accesible in the new game, and this...

I guess my problem with the quest situation is more of a feeling issure rather than a structural one. In Fallout or Planescape, I never felt like I was doing "quests," where as the blatant labeling in modern games force feeds the quest idea to me. Part of the problem is in quest design...

I'm a long-time NMA lurker, and I rarely post, but I just started thinking about how quests are organized/named in modern RPGs I want to know what some of you guys think. It seems that most modern RPGs have this tendency to give all quests a cutesy/cool name and then dump them in a quest list...

The craziest thing I've ever done was get 100 super jumps in a row on Mario RPG for the SNES. You are rewarded with one of the best items in the game for doing so--the super suit. I've played this game a whole lot of times in the fourteen years since it was released, and I always sort of...