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Lol Grimlorn, disregarding my own feelings on the theory, I don't think that the accuracy of it is what is so incredible but the fact that the series allowed for such an interpretation to begin with and that the fans worked so hard to look at a video game beyond what was presented to them at face value. That is not something that happens very often with games (are there other examples of such a widespread theory for a game?) but you see it a LOT with literature and film and even TV. Not every analysis of The Sopranos' ending can be correct, for example, but the argument over it is what makes it brilliant (and this will make it sound like I'm calling the ME3 ending brilliant so... I'll stop there).
You know where you can see a lot of that? Reading conspiracy theories. Or TVTropes.
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I voted no because binary choices are stupid. I would like to have some nuance in my games, thank you very much.
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Police Academy Edition.
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Both of you are weird.
Oh man, someone looked at you. KILL HIM!! KILL HIM NOW!!!
It's more like this:
Oh man, someone has been looking at me sleeping for the past 20 years, unseen. Kill him now before he makes a funny hat out of my scalp.
That is called "projecting your fears" and nto paying attention, thus condeming a character beforehand.
First of all she (Elaniee or something like that, wasn't it?) had a job to watch over you. She was your guardian. So keepign an eye on you was her job. And doing it from the shadows to not cause problems is purely logical.
Secondly, just because she looked at the PC while he was sleeping occasionaly doesn't make it creepy. You have some strange mental image of her spending hours just staring at you like a cannibal.
Newsflash for you - people do it all the time. And they do it out out of love or because someone/something is eandearing.
Mothers look at their childern when they sleep.
Lovers often take a minute just looking at their significant other sleeping and feeling glad they are there.
Heck, people can even watch a puppy sleep and go "aaaaaaw...so cute".
It ain't creepy. It's only creepy because you choose to see it as that. The problem is you.
Newsflash for you: people who you do not personally know or even know about watching you sleeping is creepy. And this whole cliché "I fell in love watching my charge from the shadows" storyline needs to die a dog's death, that's how ****ing creepy it is.
Were you voted by your highschool "Most likely to become serial rapist" or something?
And I am not your puppy.
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Nay.
Better things to spend resources on.
with the possible exception of NWN2 with the tacky Elf stalker "romance", which felt completely out of place.
I was expecting her to kill the PC if he rejected her. If anyone told me they watched me sleep from outside my window.....
Both of you are weird.
Oh man, someone looked at you. KILL HIM!! KILL HIM NOW!!!
It's more like this:
Oh man, someone has been looking at me sleeping for the past 20 years, unseen. Kill him now before he makes a funny hat out of my scalp.
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I demand Felicia Day to be in this production. Voicing all the roles.
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The BSN is probably one of the most disgustingly pathetic places on the internet, .
Come now thats a bit dramatic and exaggerated? BSN also has thousands of people who don't talk about Romance\Sex and contribute constructively towards threads
But the BSN is dramatic and exaggerated. The only they're contributing towards over there is decline.
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SIS. IS. NOT. A. GOOD. CHARACTER.
Walking cliché. Mute. Petite. Broken. Has mad skillz. **** you Joss Whedon.
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ITT: trolling overload
As the meme goes, I don't know who's trolling who anymore.
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In the same way that getting a C on an assignment is bad. If you're a straight A student, or have jerks for parents, that C can be nasty.
But you passed.
And the 72 or 7 is an average... meaning there are 90's and 9's in there as well as 1 42 and about 43 below 5's.
Another way to look at those scores - users were 233 positive, 17 mixed, 43 negative. That's pretty good as far as I'm concerned for "people generally liked the game." Far cry from "no one cared."
Hey, I'm only saying what publishers believe about review scores - anything under 8 is a kiss of death. Logic has nothing to do with it.
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Meh. Don't care either way, but I don't play these games to match my sword with my boots.
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No, unless it makes sense. Like in the wilderness you probably won't be able to genocide all the wild life. On the other hand after cleansing an undead infested temple an removing the artifact that mad the dead rise it would be pretty stupid if bloody skeletons kept spawning afterwards.
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I don't think it's trolling, considering how the game bombed on charts, hard.
Not that reviews matter much, but just for the record -
Metacritic: PC
Critics - 72, Users - 7.5
Not steller, but not "bombing hard."
Bombing hard would be closer to at least Game of Thrones Genesis if not Postal III. Those games bombed hard.
It would be more accurate that Alpha Protocol garnered a mixed reception, the median opinions being that it did some things great and some things not well enough for a decent game overall.
Given that in modern gaming press 10 means excellent, 9.5 means good, 9 means OK and 8 means that the bribe money got lost in the mail, 7 is pretty bad.
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Although people didn't really care about Alpha Protocol's women. I wonder why.
People didn't really care about Alpha Protocol, period.
People are stupid, news at 11.
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I don't know, the constant switch of perspective in Albion bugged the hell out of me. Also IIRC the travel will be done a la BG2, so no traveling per se.
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No. Bloodlines did it perfectly.
Agreed. Though I don't see that type of system being done in this game.
I really do wish more cRPG's would follow Bloodlines excellent model.
Bloodlines would have done it perfectly if it would have less combat. Especially near the end when you had to hack'n'slash for hours with no reward what so ever.
Edit: Or at least it felt like hours. It has been years since I've played it.
Obfuscation 5.
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I like how you are attempting to paint the opposition as a bunch of whiners that haven't even pledged any money. Cool story.
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Games have gotten much better at teaching the player how to play; accordingly, today's gamers are expecting to be able to just jump into the game and learn as they go. Good UI, rules and level design goes a long way towards allowing the player to discover the mechanics by himself, and reduce the need for explicit hand-holding. Nobody really wants tool-tips and NPCs that tell you what right-clicking doors does.
people are morons. To wit:
People would just walk around. They didn’t know what to do. They didn’t even go upstairs because a guard told them they couldn’t. They’d say ‘Okay, I can’t go upstairs.’ They wouldn’t do anything,
We try not to lead the player by the nose, but at some point we found that if we don’t give a little information, people just get lost and don’t know what to do. It’s just overwhelming.
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I liked Loghain from Dragon Age: Origins. He had a lot of what nikolokolus and Raithe describes... but more importantly, he was voiced by Simon Templeman! Now THAT is something I love in a villain!
And now I am once again reminded that Tony Jay is dead
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This might be sorta off topic, but any women on here wanna explain how in the HELL this trope allegedy "demeans and exploits women:"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rhH_QGXtgQ
Not saying all women consider this trope offensive, nor am I trying to say "stupid opinion!11" But in all honesty, how a sci-fi trope about pregnancy could be considered exploitation or demeaning? That's beyond me. If someone considers it so, please explain, cause I'm curious to hear what the perspective that agrees with her sounds like.
There's two groups that I think, while their causes are just at their core values, they're polluted with TONS of extremists who release fringe videos like this that only work to alienate the entire group from popular opinion. Those groups? PETA and feminists. PETA with their "hey instead of informing people about the atrocities that occur on test animals for haircare products and perfumes, where the animals will sometimes have some of their legs broken to keep them from resisting too much and then have the perfume sprayed in their eyes and basically every orifice they have to see how sick it makes them, let's attack delicious Kentucky Fried Chicken, complain about a dog being shot in order to save a woman it was attacking and throw paint on fur coats. People will love us." And feminists with....well, vids like the above. All it does is leave the general populace scratching their heads thinking "wtf" as they develop a tendency to NOT listen to those groups because they have a habit of making stupid points and arguments.
But that's also why I ask for a perspective that agrees with the vid: because I've met plenty of respectable PETA members and feminists, just wtf the dramatic end of the spectrum (any spectrum) is generally not pretty, and unfortunately there's lots of extreme feminists.
Feminist Frequency on the fringe of feminism? HAHAHAHA
Friend, I guarantee you that you do no want to see the fringe of feminism. Radfems are a whole different sport.
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RTFM.
A separate tutorial a la Starcraft at the most, but that would still be a waste of resources.
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The bad guy needs to have soul.
Soul and dripping atmosphere that provides that loathing/hatred/respect that digs down and propels you forward to stop his plans.
It's also kind of fun to have the bad guys who really, truly don't think of themselves as bad guys. Sure, there have been some fun "i'm crazy and evil" bad guys, but the ones that felt that what they were doing made them the heroes and you the bad guy in their story.. Those can be memorable.
Absolutely. The Joker doesn't think he's a bad guy at all. He would argue that "He's just ahead of the curve" in this dog eat dog world of survival of the fittest.
Joker does not think he is a good guy either, he just does not care.
He just wants to get into Batman's pants.
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