Recent content by DoctorDisaster

I want this game to work, on many fronts. Thematically, I'll root for anything that breaks free of the scifi/fantast/WWII rut. Mechanically, real innovation in MMO combat has been overdue for something like a decade. I've pinned some hope on this game as a consequence, but the combat in that...

Everyone seems to have missed the one thing that is always guaranteed to kill the feeling of grind: The unexpected. Shooters very rarely feel like a grind, because something unexpected is happening almost every second. To run with the TF2 example: when I come around this corner, am I going...

The theme doesn't discourage a male audience, it discourages a sexist audience. If someone "roll[s] their eyes when a woman mentions ... discrimination" without even bothering to hear them out, that person is a sexist, and frankly doesn't have anything valuable to add to the discussion. Which...

Note for morons: a "women in gaming" conference would not only be open to women. Women in gaming would be the theme of the conference. If you can't figure that out, please do not expect me to take your opinion seriously. And one other thing... You should look up the word "segregation"...

There's a good point made in this article, but I think it went a little far in its conclusion. The headline especially seems to be suggesting that there's no excuse not to know about AC2's DRM, and that's just not true. Plenty of people play games but don't follow gamer-oriented specialist...

It's an anagram for "End Month Arena." I hope this means it will be released April 1st because that would be the best April Fools EVER.

Anime certainly does contain different storytelling styles! But give genres some credit; many are quite broad. "Action" is a genre which encompasses everything from bare-knuckle beat-em-ups to balletic wire choreography. I'd go so far as to say that the nice thing about the word "genre" is that...

Sadly, western character designs are largely generic macho space marines. These days it seems to be either that or custom characters a la Mass Effect. (I know which one I prefer.) The only fallout I think you'll get there would be of the "but I like generic macho space marines!!" variety. I...

Yay, more Watchmen! Wait, that's retarded.

My daddy put me on the board of directors! Now I am real special and important! Wheeeeee!

This whole thread is quickly going down the rhetorical toilet, but this little screed was particularly bizarre. "Arguing" is something unique to the MCWM experience, that women and minorities can't relate to? "Stress"? "CLOTHING"!? If I thought poor people never argued, women were immune...

Er, Wombat, in order to definitively state that those groups are NOT white, you have to have a working definition of "white." If you're going to dismiss the generally accepted definition, "of European descent," (as well as the less precise but still current "light skinned") you should probably...

Whoa, whoa, wait, what? Italians and Greeks have been broadly accepted as whites since the 40s or so. Even before that they were only lumped into the catchall racist-bait "colored" group because they were recent immigrants. Not to flame but... sorry, they're European. It's a fact of...

Suggesting that white men can't talk about issues like gender and race in games is stupid. You're free to talk about whatever you wish. What bothers you is that your audience is just as free to disagree with, mock, or dismiss what you have to say. Unfortunately for you, your point here -- "there...

Not exactly an unusual composition there -- and not really all that similar, to be honest. Neither the PoP cover nor the poster is going to win any awards for groundbreaking visual design. Barely even qualifies as a coincidence, to my eyes.