Arkham Asylum?! What?!
Guys- that game is twisted. And brutal. The violence is BRUTAL. I mean, you're not slicing people apart, sure, you're just TWISTING THEIR LEG TO SNAP THEIR KNEE ALTOGETHER.
Overlord 2? I guess they totally ignored the foursome...
What the heck are these guys on? Do they even glance over these games before they put these lists up? (Answer: Obviously, no.)
...So does classical literature. So do movies. So what?
Look, I'm a chick and I really don't mind that there are not exactly 50% of games with female protagonists out there. I don't really CARE about the ethnicity/whatever of the character I play. If there's a choice, by all means, make your game allow for the choice of various different ethnicities, but if not... Seriously, I could not care less.
The preset character I became closest to in a game? A nameless, scarred immortal MALE of indeterminate ethnicity. In other words, someone who was most certainly not me. If game designers could just focus on making a fleshed-out, well-dimensioned character, I'd be thrilled. I don't honestly care at all if the character looks like me, as long as I can connect with them. I wouldn't care if a game shipped with a main character that basically WAS me if it wasn't fleshed out well. There is an order to these things. First, fleshed out character. Somewhere around LAST, social diversity.
Oh, and didn't you realize? We can't have kids or even sometimes innocent females or old people in games. Someone might kill them! Think of the goddamn children!
Do away with that piece of nonsense, and maybe you can have more diversity age-wise. Until then, just bloody deal with it.
Blah blah DRM blah blah blah.
Gee, it's not like there's cracks out there or anything. Can we please leave the dead horse alone? It's already been completely pulped, bones crushed, etc. It's soup now. Let it go. Stop splashing it.
Now: Too dense? Too hard to use powers? Did they play the same level I did or did they dumb it down after this incident? If they dumbed it down after that, they should really stop using focus groups.
...I use Avast! Antivirus. It has a nice, piratey name and has never let me down. It also runs on its own and is very customizable. I'm rather happy with it.
And it's free.
That's fine and all, but older versions of Norton did not have this tool. They just screwed over your entire system, requiring you to reformat if you wanted ANY virus protection AT ALL.
I wonder how big Vista would have gotten if it lasted to term. A premie that big... it must have been a baby giant....
*ducks the inevitable rotten fruits and veggies*
Guh. I know it's a perfectly good reason, but it's really crappy work story-wise. I mean, I didn't even care at all about the bugs. I beta test stuff. I'm used to bugs. Bugs, I can handle. Them getting better with the tools will -not- help the story, though.
I DID like the campaign of NWN2. I really did. It was going well. Heck, they even had a likable paladin. I'm always astonished when those pop up. Then the ending... People laugh when I say that I can tell them the ending and not spoil any of the plot. Then I tell them. Then they headdesk. Here, I'll do it now. If you think it'll spoil anyway, look away.
ROCKS FALL, EVERYBODY DIES! Oh, I'm sorry, they're -assumed- dead. That makes it better, you see. Now here's what happened to a bunch of side characters that are mostly just quest-givers, only a few really mattering that much to you.
That's as bad as the old Greek Deus Ex Machina. "And then the gods fixed everything." It's just shoddy writing.
Anyway, I was only watching NWN2, because I figured that maybe they could fix that brain-stoppingly horrid ending. Apparently not. If they're just trashing everything and moving on, all I can say is that those characters better have died in that collapse. Especially the two possible romantic interests. All I can do is hope that they died. That would make sense, at least. They're dead, no way to use them in the campaign.
I'm rather shocked that the people who worked on Planescape: Torment did something that bad. I suppose it WAS a one-shot... maybe they aren't experienced with endings that leave openings for sequels or something. Although there was an opening for a sequel to PS:T...
Sadly, they're fscking trashing all the old characters, from what I've read. TELL me they're changing their minds on that? Seriously, going "O hai, romantic interest- eh, he's gone now. Hey, look, someone new! How YOU doin?" just... doesn't... sigh.
Hated NWN2's ending. But... same people who worked on PS:T... I may be convinced to get it. The trilogy looks cool, though I always headdesk when trilogies never seem to be finished. Few people managed it.
As far as PST goes... I'm glad they referred to it like they did in this article. PS:T was one of the best, if not the best, story I've ever seen a game. The characterization was incredible as well. I don't like playing preset characters, but TNO wasn't JUST some mold you had to try to step into. You could make him your own and experience the story on a deeply personal level.
Pft. I like going with the tactic I used to use to prove I was female online. Threaten castration in new and unusual and increasingly creative ways. See how hard you can make 'em wince. Heehee.
I'm not exactly a "girly" girl anyway, so I tend to fit into the locker-room thing just fine.
I open this topic, thinking I'm gonna get to hear that someone's finally able to shoot eyebeams or read minds and it's just some silly science thing. I demand powers!
See, I tried the beta. And like an apparently large number of people, it completely and totally managed to reboot my PC every time I tried to even log in.
When large numbers of people can't even log in, that is what we call a bad sign.
Well, I doubt it's saying "all people who listen to heavy metal music are gifted." I can only assume it means "some people who are gifted like heavy metal music."
It actually makes a good bit of sense, and has been fairly true in my experience. I'm one of those vaguely annoying people who is too smart for her own good and I like harder music. It helps me concentrate, though. It kinda takes up spare cycles of my brain so I can think about what I'm doing without drifting too much.
At any rate, this could easily be linked to the genius/insanity connection. People who have some variety of genius, whether it be artistic or scientific or mechanical or etc., often also have mental problems. The type of music referred to is the usual "tortured soul" stuff.
At any rate, two cents given.
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Wait, wait. So people will pay me... to play games with them. In this current job market. ...Where can I sign up?
Arkham Asylum?! What?! Guys- that game is twisted. And brutal. The violence is BRUTAL. I mean, you're not slicing people apart, sure, you're just TWISTING THEIR LEG TO SNAP THEIR KNEE ALTOGETHER. Overlord 2? I guess they totally ignored the foursome... What the heck are these guys on? Do they even glance over these games before they put these lists up? (Answer: Obviously, no.)
...So does classical literature. So do movies. So what? Look, I'm a chick and I really don't mind that there are not exactly 50% of games with female protagonists out there. I don't really CARE about the ethnicity/whatever of the character I play. If there's a choice, by all means, make your game allow for the choice of various different ethnicities, but if not... Seriously, I could not care less. The preset character I became closest to in a game? A nameless, scarred immortal MALE of indeterminate ethnicity. In other words, someone who was most certainly not me. If game designers could just focus on making a fleshed-out, well-dimensioned character, I'd be thrilled. I don't honestly care at all if the character looks like me, as long as I can connect with them. I wouldn't care if a game shipped with a main character that basically WAS me if it wasn't fleshed out well. There is an order to these things. First, fleshed out character. Somewhere around LAST, social diversity. Oh, and didn't you realize? We can't have kids or even sometimes innocent females or old people in games. Someone might kill them! Think of the goddamn children! Do away with that piece of nonsense, and maybe you can have more diversity age-wise. Until then, just bloody deal with it.
Wait. Uh, wait, hold on. If they are so worried about CHILD PORN, why are they banning RAPE IN VIDEO GAMES and not that?!
...they don't do their job well. Really, have you ever heard of a RIAA case that was handled well? I haven't. If you have, do point me to it.
Censoring it to PG-13 would be completely impossible.
The place I went was very "Yay, a girl CS!" The place I went to also chased me away from college altogether. Screw that crap. I can learn it on my own
Doesn't stop the horse from being liquid.
Blah blah DRM blah blah blah. Gee, it's not like there's cracks out there or anything. Can we please leave the dead horse alone? It's already been completely pulped, bones crushed, etc. It's soup now. Let it go. Stop splashing it. Now: Too dense? Too hard to use powers? Did they play the same level I did or did they dumb it down after this incident? If they dumbed it down after that, they should really stop using focus groups.
...I use Avast! Antivirus. It has a nice, piratey name and has never let me down. It also runs on its own and is very customizable. I'm rather happy with it. And it's free.
That's fine and all, but older versions of Norton did not have this tool. They just screwed over your entire system, requiring you to reformat if you wanted ANY virus protection AT ALL.
I wonder how big Vista would have gotten if it lasted to term. A premie that big... it must have been a baby giant. ...
*ducks the inevitable rotten fruits and veggies*
"Thou shalt not kill" is also paraphrased. Do read the source material before you whine.
Good. Now go make the damn game for PC, too. *disgruntled*
Guh. I know it's a perfectly good reason, but it's really crappy work story-wise. I mean, I didn't even care at all about the bugs. I beta test stuff. I'm used to bugs. Bugs, I can handle. Them getting better with the tools will -not- help the story, though. I DID like the campaign of NWN2. I really did. It was going well. Heck, they even had a likable paladin. I'm always astonished when those pop up. Then the ending... People laugh when I say that I can tell them the ending and not spoil any of the plot. Then I tell them. Then they headdesk. Here, I'll do it now. If you think it'll spoil anyway, look away. ROCKS FALL, EVERYBODY DIES! Oh, I'm sorry, they're -assumed- dead. That makes it better, you see. Now here's what happened to a bunch of side characters that are mostly just quest-givers, only a few really mattering that much to you. That's as bad as the old Greek Deus Ex Machina. "And then the gods fixed everything." It's just shoddy writing. Anyway, I was only watching NWN2, because I figured that maybe they could fix that brain-stoppingly horrid ending. Apparently not. If they're just trashing everything and moving on, all I can say is that those characters better have died in that collapse. Especially the two possible romantic interests. All I can do is hope that they died. That would make sense, at least. They're dead, no way to use them in the campaign. I'm rather shocked that the people who worked on Planescape: Torment did something that bad. I suppose it WAS a one-shot... maybe they aren't experienced with endings that leave openings for sequels or something. Although there was an opening for a sequel to PS:T...
Sadly, they're fscking trashing all the old characters, from what I've read. TELL me they're changing their minds on that? Seriously, going "O hai, romantic interest- eh, he's gone now. Hey, look, someone new! How YOU doin?" just... doesn't... sigh. Hated NWN2's ending. But... same people who worked on PS:T... I may be convinced to get it. The trilogy looks cool, though I always headdesk when trilogies never seem to be finished. Few people managed it. As far as PST goes... I'm glad they referred to it like they did in this article. PS:T was one of the best, if not the best, story I've ever seen a game. The characterization was incredible as well. I don't like playing preset characters, but TNO wasn't JUST some mold you had to try to step into. You could make him your own and experience the story on a deeply personal level.
Pft. I like going with the tactic I used to use to prove I was female online. Threaten castration in new and unusual and increasingly creative ways. See how hard you can make 'em wince. Heehee. I'm not exactly a "girly" girl anyway, so I tend to fit into the locker-room thing just fine.
It's the Spider-man Clones incident all over again... *headdesk*
I open this topic, thinking I'm gonna get to hear that someone's finally able to shoot eyebeams or read minds and it's just some silly science thing. I demand powers!
See, I tried the beta. And like an apparently large number of people, it completely and totally managed to reboot my PC every time I tried to even log in. When large numbers of people can't even log in, that is what we call a bad sign.
They damn well better at least give a proper ending for the last one in this one.
FFG? No way. Annah.
Heck, put Annah and FFG leaning against the Nameless One with Morte floating behind Annah and getting slapped by her tail. That'd do it.
Well, I doubt it's saying "all people who listen to heavy metal music are gifted." I can only assume it means "some people who are gifted like heavy metal music." It actually makes a good bit of sense, and has been fairly true in my experience. I'm one of those vaguely annoying people who is too smart for her own good and I like harder music. It helps me concentrate, though. It kinda takes up spare cycles of my brain so I can think about what I'm doing without drifting too much. At any rate, this could easily be linked to the genius/insanity connection. People who have some variety of genius, whether it be artistic or scientific or mechanical or etc., often also have mental problems. The type of music referred to is the usual "tortured soul" stuff. At any rate, two cents given.
Was I the only one who saw this headline and the only thing I could even think was "Duuuuh"?