James Whitbrook's discussions

Had to admit that I had quite a chuckle at people getting banned for their names, and then oh-so-innocently asking 'but how can you see this as offensive!?' with names like Bud Smoka or Ho-Lee Phuk. Damn straight Mr. Fahey - I don't really want to group with people how can't take a minute or two to just think of an… Read more

I usually end up liking the 'elfy' race in Fantasy games, and the Sylvari are the closest thing, but I think they're probably the race that stands out the most to me compared to Humans (boring!), Norn (Nordic Humans! Boring!), Charr (Crazy steampunk cat people... actually pretty cool) and Asura (never been fond of… Read more

Mine are STO, SWTOR, WoW and then this will join them... at least by autumn three quarters of that list will be Free to Play! Read more

I keep hearing enough interesting things about Guild Wars 2 that I'll go and pick up a copy on Tuesday, even if it will bring the slightly horrifying amount of MMOs currently installed on this desktop up to 4! It looks great, and the footage I've been watching seems interesting enough. A Sylvari Engineer should be… Read more

You know, colour me interested. I mean, for the low price of zero it'd have to deeply offend me on some level not to at least try out, but it looks kinda cool - a big, multiplayer clusterfuck of wizards and knights and stuff, kinda like Fat Princess sans the obese royalty! Read more

I love the look of this! Not at all what I was expecting when this was first announced. The jokes weren't too bad, either. I must admit the Ackbar one got me chuckling pretty good though, 'it's a trap' jokes are my weak point! Read more

Christ, that's a name and a half. I almost wish they credited him as that in DS9 before he switched to his stage name. The font they used, it would've taken up multiple panning shots! Read more

At least I can import this whenever I get a Vita (aka, my 'P4G/maybe if S-E release a new Dissidia' machine). If Zen United are behind this in the EU like they are for P4A, it'll probably be a good year and a half before this sees the light of day on European shores! Read more

It's pretty fun! Got bored earlier and inadvertantly spent about 30-40 minutes playing whilst drinking a cuppa - and reached around XP level 230 before I realised how much time I'd sank into it. The 2-way railgun makes you virtually invincible! Read more

Probably a little twee, but Firefly - it wasn't at the time it was on TV, but I ended up watching the DVD on my brother's recommendation, having never heard of it before. By the first scene with Badger in the pilot, I was hooked! Read more

Okay, so you wouldn't have it as your Game of the Year pick. But I would! Because Opinions! Why don't we just agree to disagree and leave it at that, eh? Read more

I loved Portal 2, co-op was especially fantastic. Can't stand The Witcher 2, didn't grab me at all (it is bloody gorgeous though). Never played beyond the opening mission of DE so I can't really comment. Gears of War 3 was pretty fun. I think Arkham Asylum is *way* better than City was - not saying it wasn't bad, but… Read more

Even with all of its major flaws, DAII was probably my personal GOTY 2011. I loved Hawke, I loved the characters, and up until that very last set of fights (Both Orsino and Meredith turned from interesting characters into 'hey we're going to go completely against our established characterisation because DERP… Read more

Well, those last two concepts were both shown at Bioware's last DA PAX panel, so there seems to be some legitimacy to it all I suppose... if it's real, the characters look cool, and I'm super interested to see the Mage/Templar stuff from DA2 on a wider scale than just Kirkwall too. And Orlais! 40 hours of hilariously… Read more

No, they definitely confirmed that the last raid will be Orgrimmar - it was one of their big reveals for the... whatever their last MoP press event was called (the one in spring, I think?). They said Horde and Alliance, but I'm not sure if that means cross-faction raiding, but it's definitely Garrosh as the last boss:… Read more

So wait, there will be no violent crime in the future, because if people had plans to commit violent crime, they would've done it by now? That's a pretty lame line of logic. Read more

Jesus EA, did you really have to try and rub it in with that statement? 'Oh man, we were gonna raise so much money for charity but you fuddy-duddies had to go and spoil it!' Really? Playing the charity card because people called you out on a legitimate concern? Read more

Yup! There's a lot of talk that since Ragefire Chasm has been updated for MoP to hint at some Fel-related nastiness going on right under Orgrimmar that he may end up making Grom's mistake and drinking demon blood, or he ends up possesed by the Sha or something. But yeah, Pandaria's last raid is the Siege of Orgrimmar. Read more

Basically Garrosh escalates the Horde and Alliance to the brink of open war by destroying Theramore (actually the 'pre-expansion event' this time around in-game), and eventually two naval fleets crash land on Pandaria after the mists enshrouding it for the past 10 thousand years have suddenly faded. A race of… Read more

Up there with TBC's opening as my favourite cinematic. Summed up the tone of the cinematic in a way that none of the others have quite managed to - the brutality of the growing Horde/Alliance conflict, the undercurrent of humour, but above all, the beauty of Pandaria itself. Gorgeous animation, fantastic detail...… Read more