Epinions Recent Reviews for Polydwarf

I wish I had one again

Mon, 13 Mar 2000 04:27:09 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Polydwarf - Nissan Maximas will always have a place in my heart, because I learned to drive on one. Yes, some call me spoiled, but hey, I liked it. :)

Anyways, my dad had a 92 Maxima. He was continually trying to tell me to watch my speed, because I would...

A Money Pit

Mon, 13 Mar 2000 04:20:19 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Polydwarf - Toyota Cressidas are really nice cars.. They were Toyota's top of the line model. I got an 87 Cressida at ~80,000 miles (the first 80,000 miles were put on it by my mother), and it gave me no problems for a few years... After it hit 100k, the problems...

Better than NT4 for home use by far

Mon, 13 Mar 2000 04:07:45 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Polydwarf - The world has waited with its breath held for some amount of time... Whether it's held because of anticipation, or fright, is a good question.

As a person who uses NT primarily for programming in an office environment, NT4 was perfectly adequate for...

I want more!

Wed, 8 Mar 2000 23:22:13 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Polydwarf - The title says it all... Metallica comes back, once again, after a somewhat disappointing two album stretch with Load and Re-Load with what could be called a compilation piece by some, a new work by others.

It's Metallica playing mostly their really...

Where's my copy of Xcom1?

Wed, 8 Mar 2000 14:36:34 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author Polydwarf - I was waiting in anticipation for this game, replaying my old copy of XCom 1 over and over. I picked it up at the store the first day that it was out, and brought it home...

However, when I installed it on my computer, what I got was a campy...

So many hopes, so few realities

Wed, 8 Mar 2000 05:14:24 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author Polydwarf - This game, for being the ultimate Ultima, falls flat on it's face... I'd almost say it falls more than Ultima 8 (Largely considered the worst of the series, including games that were released in the early 80's). After the hype about it, I thought it...

I really liked this game

Wed, 8 Mar 2000 05:08:12 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Polydwarf - I picked up this game at the store, hoping to tide myself over until Planescape:Torment hit the shelves... But, I was pleasantly surprised to find myself sucked in.

The game is very reminiscent of a lot of console games, in terms of it's style of...

Privateer2 The Darkening: Awesome game

Wed, 8 Mar 2000 05:02:06 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Polydwarf - I remember when I first installed this game, I expected it to be just like Privateer 1, with maybe a bit of improvement... No one told me they totally redid the flight engine. The new engine is quite snazzy, and makes combat a lot more intense and...

Might and Magic VI The Mandate of Heaven: Wow, what a change

Wed, 8 Mar 2000 04:57:05 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Polydwarf - This game took a while to get used to for me, a long time M&M veteran. Gone were the convenient one key press/one square movement. Gone was the turn based movement, where you could plan stratagy easily.

It was replaced with a quake-esque...

Might & Magic VII: For Blood and Honor: Same thing, over and over

Wed, 8 Mar 2000 04:51:47 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Polydwarf - The Might and Magic series seems to go in evolutions.. The first ones used the same basic premise (Think Bard's Tale/Wizardry interface), even though it got considerably prettier as the series progressed. Then they switched to a more 3-D interface, with...

Yet again, the same thing

Wed, 8 Mar 2000 04:50:03 GMT

Finally, a real RPG

Wed, 8 Mar 2000 04:42:59 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Polydwarf - hard core RPG fans have been aching for something real for a long time. Fallout was a good sop for a genre that was lacking anything. And then Baldur's Gate came out. It had all the things a hard core RPG fan wanted, stats, gold, lots of weapons, lots...

This is good, the original was better

Wed, 8 Mar 2000 04:35:07 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Polydwarf - For people that haven't played the original Total Annihilation, this game will seem like the best there is. It beats StarCraft hands down for actual strategy, owing to the number of original units, and the open-ness of the system, allowing homebrew...

Cute FTP: CuteFTP - Why did it have to change?

Wed, 8 Mar 2000 04:23:44 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Polydwarf - IF you were to download a current version of CuteFTP, and compare it to an older version, you'd be shocked by how much it has changed.

The last "real" release of CuteFTP, in my mind, is version 2.8... This version was feature complete,...

ICQ: The best, hands down

Wed, 8 Mar 2000 04:17:04 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Polydwarf - If you've heard of instant messaging, then you almost certainly have heard of ICQ... It's the largest out there (Discard AOL's figures, because they consider all of their subscribers as users as well).

ICQ has, last I checked, over 60,000,000 user...

AOL Instant Messenger: This works, but it needs some help

Wed, 8 Mar 2000 04:10:22 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Polydwarf - If the world weren't what it was, and the only messaging client out there was AOL's Instant Messenger, then AOL would have millions of people downloading this.. As it stands, however, AIM doesn't shine out.. It just sits dully, on the shelf, with the...

Pitch Black - blah

Wed, 8 Mar 2000 03:57:39 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author Polydwarf - Pitch Black was an attempt to capture the breathless, on-the-edge-of-the-seat feeling that the Alien movies enjoy... Attempts, and fails.

The basic premise is that a passenger ship crash lands on a planet somewhere with three suns. The inhabitants...

Hubbard, L Ron: Battlefied - Earth

Wed, 8 Mar 2000 03:49:05 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Polydwarf - This is abook that a person picks up with a little bit of trepidtion... Over a thousand pages, of pretty dense text.

But, after you've been reading it for a day or two, you wonder where the pages went.

It is a story about humans 1000 years...

Jordan Robert: Wheel of Time is great!

Wed, 8 Mar 2000 03:41:23 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Polydwarf - Robert Jordan is one author who's place is secured in terms of Fantasy history... Along with people like Tolkein, Jordan's series, The Wheel of Time, shows a depth of character. I read the first book, and didn't realize that it was a series until I was...

Diablo, but better!

Wed, 8 Mar 2000 02:21:31 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Polydwarf - This game reminds me a lot of Diablo.. Diablo may be a few years old, but this isn't necessarily a bad thing. Diablo was one of those games that spawned a genre (Action RPG), and as long as it's emulated well, titles can't help but do well.

The...