Being able to do other stuff is fine. Being able to do it as well as the specialist other-stuff-doer is not. Actually, I think one of the problems is that certain groups of people are so stuck with a… (View Post)

Ah yes, Lars Anderson...he's pretty damn awesome! This kind of thing takes a hell of a lot of practice - just being able to nock an arrow quickly takes a hell of a lot (I can't do it quickly and I've… (View Post)

I don't get this either. While I don't mind rogues having some combat prowess (since combat does, after all, form a massive part of these games, so it'd be horrible if rogues had to sit out the entir… (View Post)

True, but you don't notice that unless you zoom right in on their faces. Besides, where in the gaming industry do you have thousands of men on a screen, and each one looks distinctly different? ;-pp (View Post)

Agreed!! One of the things I really liked about Rome: Total War was this off-setting of animations for individual soldiers, so that it looked like a group of soldiers acting like soldiers. Small, sub… (View Post)