Recent content by Rooster Cogburn

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    Jimquisition: Dumbing Down for the Filthy Casuals

    I'm sorry. I thought it was you but maybe it's me. I might jump in again later after I meditate a while.
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    Jimquisition: Dumbing Down for the Filthy Casuals

    Bad argument. I have no doubt Call of Duty has many wonderful features and vistas, but I still bet it would suck without guns.
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    Jimquisition: Dumbing Down for the Filthy Casuals

    You were talking about how the difficulty made you feel. I'm talking about how it makes me feel. You want to dismiss and overlook the artistic statement that can be made by paring the game's mechanics to it's subject matter because it's one of the most obvious rebuttals to your point. Fair...
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    Jimquisition: Dumbing Down for the Filthy Casuals

    Look, please identify what item on that long list I spent so much time writing you had a problem with lol. Dark Souls is the alternative, until the people lobbying for easy mode and "dumbing it down" get their way. Maybe you should be telling THEM to seek an alternative to Dark Souls. Let's...
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    Jimquisition: Dumbing Down for the Filthy Casuals

    Don't bite, this is moving the goal posts. It's just another tactic to set the hook and reel you in.
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    Jimquisition: Dumbing Down for the Filthy Casuals

    You have been beating up that straw man that I want to boss you around since this whole thing started. I could not possibly care less what you do with the game once you have it and never implied that I do. I do however care WHAT THE GAME ITSELF IS LIKE and your opinion on what THE GAME ITSELF...
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    Jimquisition: Dumbing Down for the Filthy Casuals

    When you phrase your opinion on the matter as an assessment of the character of the other "side", it makes it look like you have something against them. I would have felt better about it if you had just said their arguments were unconvincing, or you did not think the benefit they hoped to gain...
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    Jimquisition: Dumbing Down for the Filthy Casuals

    I don't agree that being passionate about a hobby is bad. That's what they're for, as I see it. I try (I said try!) to keep my anger righteous if I really can't keep it to myself. Well, a game you want to play not featuring an easy mode sounds like just as much a first world problem. And...
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    Jimquisition: Dumbing Down for the Filthy Casuals

    I can't figure out what that means in this context. Who is angry and what is their first world problem?
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    Jimquisition: Dumbing Down for the Filthy Casuals

    Exploiting people's hatred and prejudice is the secret to getting a spot at the escapist, apparently. First MovieBob, and now Mr. Sterling. MovieBob tried to mask it, Mr. Sterling doesn't bother. I know this is just video games and not real life, but all the same I really wouldn't want to...
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    Jimquisition: Dumbing Down for the Filthy Casuals

    You view Dark Souls as just another game where the difficulty doesn't really drive the experience or define it in any meaningful way, just like your examples. And that is what you want Dark Souls to turn into. That is the very thing Souls fans fear most. It's just another RPG to you, so of...
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    Jimquisition: Dumbing Down for the Filthy Casuals

    I had no idea it felt this good to not be called an elitist ass-hat. Now I'm worried I'll be struck by lightning or attacked by a shark lol. Emotions run high on this topic on both sides. Many people, myself included, have felt the very real sting of elitism and exclusion during our gaming...
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    Jimquisition: Dumbing Down for the Filthy Casuals

    What would it take for me to convince you the game I just made would be harmed by an easy mode, assuming it is truly well-designed?
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    Jimquisition: Dumbing Down for the Filthy Casuals

    I got a warning. Not the people who called us elitist asshats and all that shit. I think it's Mr. Sterling trolling lol.
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    Jimquisition: Dumbing Down for the Filthy Casuals

    I am not saying that difficulty is a genre (there is an entire challenge gaming genre/community you may be unaware of, but that is beside the point). I am saying difficulty is a defining characteristic of Dark Souls in the same way that shooting from a first person view is a defining...