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    Vanguard Princess - Fan Service is it necessary?

    Wow, all great points on both sides of the argument! I don't think asking the developer would get an acceptable answer. The point is to reflect on the game from a customer perspective. What the dev wanted or claimed to have wanted, means nothing during criticism.
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    Vanguard Princess - Fan Service is it necessary?

    Good point, though I think skullgirls has quite a bit of fan service flair. I guess it's not all the characters though so there is that and that a male is being add to the mix.
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    Vanguard Princess - Fan Service is it necessary?

    Fan service creating creativity and style. There is something I have not thought of, interesting.
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    Vanguard Princess - Fan Service is it necessary?

    Ah yes Love-Ru, the masterpiece of deception and a great example of what this discussion is stating. Exactly this, randoms buying it just for that reason alone. It would be interesting to see the sales figures compared between a fan service and a non-fan service fighter. I bet the results...
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    Risen - "Borrowing" those wares

    Very true and great points. I did like the "tell a joke" spell and then just magically you are buddy buddy, pretty hilarious point of affairs. Risen tried to take from Gothic but I feel they missed a lot of the magic that made Gothic great. Is there a way to do it better that wouldn't...
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    Vanguard Princess - Fan Service is it necessary?

    All great points so far. Hagi - You are right that was the point of this fighting game. Here is some actual gameplay of it to gauge a better understanding of it, the video in the op was meant to show what they went for in obvious fashion. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vn26qY0fPps...
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    Vanguard Princess - Fan Service is it necessary?

    I agree, however does not following the "rules of thus cliche" now make your game even more of a niche market than the genre itself? Would it be self destructive to assume your core audience would be enough to make it "successful" by not adding these things?
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    Vanguard Princess - Fan Service is it necessary?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQ7sbnUI1AI [NSFW - Probably] The game is Vanguard Princess, a fighter with an all female cast. Do you think that this type of fan service is needed to sell it. If they were clothed, no panty shots, no schoolgirl outfits, no swimsuits, no cleavage popping...
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    Risen - "Borrowing" those wares

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4uMmzxzG2I If you haven't played Risen before it is a open world RPG that allows you to make your own choices. When you steal from someone (or someone or people is watching you do it) they hate you and if they hate you and are any part of a quest (start or...
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    Man Claims He's Made $10,000 Off Diablo III

    http://us.battle.net/d3/en/game/guide/items/auction-house#selling #4 End story you can't transfer your cash if you already sent it to the your wallet only can trade it for digital items. So the story about keeping the balance down on the wallet to make transfers is complete and utter...
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    Man Claims He's Made $10,000 Off Diablo III

    Well that's funny since you can't transfer funds from a battlenet wallet to real cash, only the option straight to paypal with a 15% fee. The people that use the RMAH are rich. Think of it as a way of making the richer poorer and the poorer richer. I'm sure they are laughing at the fact they...
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    Forum Upgrades

    I think it looks cleaner and rearranged to help rather than hurt. You are going to have a lot of butt hurt people just like those that call in and complain about their cable software being upgraded even though it realistically is better than what they had. You guys are doing good work don't...
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    Giving up MTG: Magic the Gathering

    It seems the mass majority of the card sellers online have undervalued rares for quite some time enough to make the market not really worth anything. I don't really have the time to sell the rares individually so that's why I just threw up a lot for a decent price. Not really worried about...
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    Giving up MTG: Magic the Gathering

    I started playing when I was in grade school around the time visions was already out. I remember my first real set that I actually bought a lot of was Tempest. From there it snowballed to many many years til after highschool in which I took a long break and then came back shortly after...
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    Check out The Escapist's Updated Layout!

    This is much much much better, I'm not fond of the huge header or the weird layout look like its a pointy diamond from the top but it's different looking than any other site so plus for originality and I'm sure it will grow on me. As long as you don't slide it up and down after an advertisement...