Recent content by clericsdaughter

What about Team Fortress 2? Never before have I seen such glee on the faces of people doing so much killing (and dying). Who cares if you become one of the fallen? The very next moment, you'll be spinning up your minigun again and yelling "CRY COWARDS! BOO HOO HOO!" And don't tell me that...

While I think this theory seems sound in and of itself, I don't think it applies well to the gaming community as a whole. The hobby is moving towards the mainstream, not away from it. For individual games (like Fallout), it could apply; but WOW and Halo are some of the most popular games out...

All true. But the main issue at stake here is that so many gamers feel the need "to hurt and shock" others in the first place. Sure, we all dealt with this crap in school, but I'd like to think that as adults we've learned a little more emotional maturity. And it would be easy to blame all the...

I think the article makes an important point in that it's not only our own fun and enjoyment that's at stake here, but the public perception of our entire demographic (the gamer subculture). Most of us have found ways to deal with trolls online because we encounter them all the time--we ignore...

Funnily enough, the sex in Mass Effect isn't even playable. Fox News got their panties in a twist over a couple seconds of cutscene, that showed nothing more graphic than a nude profile. That said, their approach to the sex was quite adult, I feel--you had to spend the entire game building up a...

One of my (male) friends once told me something that reminded me of how gender inclusion can reflect on the quality of the game itself. Whenever he plays a single-player RPG, he likes to do at least one playthrough with a female avatar, because it tends to reveal how invested the gamemakers were...

The way I see it, players should indeed have free reign over their character's actions and personalities--that is, after all, one of the main reasons why people enjoy playing RPGs, to create a hero that fits their own unique idea of what a hero should be like (or just whatever is most fun for...

The major flaw I see in this game is that it is entirely male-centric. Most of the female gamers I've known, myself included, get more out of the characters and narrative in a role-playing experience than anything else. A game that actively excludes female players doesn't seem like it will help...

It's true that the Mario games, such an icon of childhood, had some darker undertones (the whole mushroom obsession, for instance). This is not new. Anyone who has read a Roald Dahl novel knows that the finest of children's fare is often dark. Even Disney can be added to the mix, with movies...