Recent content by Dorian Cornelius Jasper

Isn't it a little on the nose for someone to name their Kickstarter project "Grifter?"

Judging by reports of overall PS4 failure rates, and the conspicuous lack of uproar about them, it looks like the PS4 hardware failure issue might really be as minor as Sony claims it to be. They gave the edge to the X1 as far as UI's concerned, though watching various live streams and uncut...

This is so true, it hurts. Bravo, Rob. Rab? Mr. Rath.

Thing is, normal people have to deal with the consequences of their words and actions, without the shield of "PR blandspeak" to protect them. We really do. It's why we try not to be terrible to other people, we'll usually get flack for it, at the very least. It's entirely possible to be a...

It's kind of amusing how the proper Escapist comment threads, which are usually hidden from the frontpage, is filled with rather reasonable opinions. While the Facebook plugin comments tend to gather people with noticeably stronger biases in whatever direction you care to look. I'm not sad...

Before I get to your question, games are pretty shit for representing anything in general, be it race, gender, sexuality, whathaveyou. It's even worse than Hollywood because at least chick flicks can actually get made and we're not inundated with movies that only star a 30-something brunet...

I realize point-by-point rebuttals are always awkward to read, but unlike most we don't have that many points On relationships and the like, talking purely outside of the realm of games, there's a large wealth of media with female protagonists engaging in romance. If you really have a...

See, when some strawman feminist figure comes and says something outrageous, you're not supposed to lower yourself to the strawman's level. No, that just leads to idiocy on the internet, which we've all got rather too much of thank you. You're supposed to rise above and point out the hypocrisy...

It's very difficult to come to the conclusion that Red is a man if you watch the actual trailer. Unless this theoretical male Red were a very effeminate crossdresser, at which point all bets are off.

They're making a gamble and hoping the Brit-punk-ized Dante and DMC along with him will be a hit with Westerners since that's where all the money is. It's not at all the most favorable result but they've always been terribly pragmatic and ruthless as far as the bottom line goes. I've been...

FF14 is possibly the first MMO I've seen to go from subscription to free in under a month. It's amazingly pathetic and all due to Square Enix being unable and unwilling to take fair criticism of idiotic design decisions or to listen to opinions and ideas outside their own corporate environment...

I know Brink was having a rough start but I didn't think their sales were that low. (Ba-dum-tssh!)

While I admit the things that set me off are, by all rights, completely bonkers from an objective standpoint, my sentiments come from the fact that the "generic fantasy aesthetic" I was railing against happens to be endemic to the entire genre. It's hard to take a world on its own terms when...

Fair enough, but most art and costumes depicting the characters certainly don't look the part. I distinctly recall paintings of 15th century England involving a lot of silly cloth-wrap hat things, and I think Blackadder had a few silly hats in that timeframe, too. And I saw one piece of art...

That's a good point. Come to think of it this would also explain where DA got the "Ser" from.