Orogun01

The best way out of mental blocks is self flagellating, it won't make you more creative but it will make you more productive.

I don't get the prudish tone, they talk about sex games as if they are meant to be taboo or just for nerds who live on their mother's basements. You think that after the pornography industry coming out of the shadows and the common knowledge that everyone with an internet connection has likely watched porn, they would have a more accepting view. Also, Live and let live and whatnot; dagnabit femanizi game journos.

See if you can find a girl with an AA-12.

Skyrim is an RPG and Morrowind was a terrible game.

Love knows no boundaries?

I hate that RPG nerds always bring up a complex series of numbers and stats whenever they are arguing. It's called the "blasphemous opinions" thread not the "blasphemous stats and mechanics" thead

The Stalker series is an RPG and there should be more games like it.

This is the song I posted just for Keyrock, this is the song from MST3K. He tried to kill me with a forklift, Ole!

Fan of all those shows, though Continuum isn't starting in the states until next week. One of Defiance's creators was a guy behind Farscape, so I'm hoping it gets up to that level, despite the small scope it is starting with. I like Continuum, the second season was killer.

I don't know why they felt the need to say it was a Michael Bay film, the falling building was dead giveaway.

Hello chap, how's the weather? Now, let me introduce myself: I'm an emeny of man. You too? Sure are a lot of us these days. I don't suppose you happen to have wealth and taste? I don't think the devil would make grammar errors, he is in the details after all.

Not to mention they get to keep customers.

FEAR has had the best enemy AI I've encountered to date, later gen games had gimmicks that just copied what FEAR did. Sadly the sequels were "consolized" and "CODed".

That's not really Sci-Fi, but it is most excellent That depends on whether you believe that history is a science. I can also recommend RedShirts if you're looking for a lighthearted, sci fi comedy.

Yep, anyone who didn't like the cute girl with psychotic tendencies is an enemy of man. I mean who in their right mind would not like the crazy girl that kept ****ing around with that damn mirror even when you told her not to. DA2: "How to babysit and care for the mentally deficient and the criminally insane" You either take posts too seriously or video games too seriously. I'm not quite sure which yet. Right back at ya

I can recommend every Philip K. **** book, specially "The Man in the High Castle".

So the descent into degeneracy begins http://www.computerandvideogames.com/455722/oculus-will-undergo-facebook-rebrand-report-claims/

Yep, anyone who didn't like the cute girl with psychotic tendencies is an enemy of man. I mean who in their right mind would not like the crazy girl that kept ****ing around with that damn mirror even when you told her not to. DA2: "How to babysit and care for the mentally deficient and the criminally insane"

But it is in some ways a betrayal of the public's trust, this project was financed by the public in large part to ensure that there wasn't any compromise in the maker's vision. Kickstarter backing has an anti-corporate subtext where people who don't trust big companies back the little guy allowing them to remain independent. Is hard for the public to see how this benefits the product and not just the makers and there is a justified concern of whether goals have been shifted. The Oculus was meant to be primarily a gaming device, now that Facebook is in the mix one has to be concerned about them pushing for their interest of making it a multimedia device. Since they have more pull (money) than the public there is a fear that priorities have changed.

Well, i'm in the clear.

What did I say about that strawman? Apology please. You need to understand that tolerance works in different ways. Your Khmer Rouge education camp variety (doomed to failure) and a more easy-going version like mine (coming from what I like to call 'The Reality-Based Community). I don't understand your point, you seem to contridict yourself around issues of social justice. Lets keep this simple, the relevant and reasonable speech by Manveer Heir basically challanged Developers to start to looking at ways to make games more inclusive of minority groups. He also wants to break stereotypes when these minority grous are represented in games. He believes "There are numerous studies to suggest that repeated exposure to stereotypes through media can change an individual's perception of their identity, Heir argued. By perpetuating stereotypes, designers play a small part in sustaining damaging ideas. Heir admits that games are but one aspect of this hugely complex social problem, but said the problem should be tackled wherever possible. We can change this today." I agree 100 % with him, what do you not agree with based on his opinion and what he said? There are two things about stereotypes; the first is whether a stereotype is a myth or well funded observation of idiosyncratic behavior. That African Americans have assimilated gangbanging and crime into their culture is not a stereotype. That's not all they are but for some it is entirely how they know them, if a writer cares about fair representation they cannot substitute one for the other. Even worse, they cannot sweep the real world issue under the rug just cause they have changed their perception. Secondly, I believe in artistic freedom and no good game should suffer a bad review just because the reviewer was a feminist who couldn't separate themselves from their biased worldview enough to see if what the game did was good or not. Writers and game designers should not have to thread as if they were in a glass floor for fear that they might be accused of misogyny, blacklisted, or their game suffer a lower score because of the aforementioned reasons.

I think people feel the need to fight for/against something, because it makes them feel like they are doing something that matters, but the problem is that the only thing they are able to do is try and enact change in the pathetically insignificant problems that in the grand ****-hole of things that are wrong in this world, don't even matter. I mean they are not Bill Gates who is trying to exterminate malaria, so they settle for making minorities not feel left out when playing games. Which is not a bad thing, but it irks me to no end when they make it out to be a grand crusade that will save the world. You don't need to be Bill Gates in order to do something good, if you care enough about an issue you devote your life to it not just your money. That's why there are relief workers and people who work in animal rescue. Anyways, we now resume your scheduled game newscast.

I don't get this industry sometimes, he says that we need more diversity because games are role models for children but whenever there is a shooting then games are for adults. They criticize a game as being misogynistic just because of a semi naked woman and completely disregard all the violence within it and worse, at times they pass an opportunity to deal with real negative issues because they rather whine about how fictional characters make them feel inadequate. I keep hoping that it will die down and people will realize this insanity for what it is but I'm beginning to lose hope.

I guess that in DA:A he came off as more of a man-child, substituting for Alistair (they even look alike) whereas in DA2 he became....er, I'm looking for a softer word for hysteric.