Recent content by SilentScope001

How do I get rid of badges? I hate them, they look rather ugly for me, and they seem fairly pointless. If you could please tell me how I can not have badges displayed on my profile and every post I make, I would be greatful.

You say you have enough money to buy cities, but you never really had the chance to buy cities, do you? You don't really know the correct piece to buy a city, so you may be wrong. Isn't it very possible that the economy is suffering from hyperinflation, so of course items are cheap for...

It's okay. I don't play WoW, but I understand why certain people like MMORPGs, and I played some MMORPGs in the past and enjoyed them (somewhat). They aren't really for me, but neither is the Halo series. I am more interested about how WoW is attempting to tell a storyline, in the hopes of...

I'm thinking about the Phasing gimmick. I'm worried that TOR is going to use this gimmick as a way to pretend that it has a good storyline. So, Mr. FakeTheFunk, explain this to us MMORPG luddites. How does phasing work in terms of interaction with the rest of the playerbase? Do you interact...

Then why didn't you mention that in your article (at least, I believe you didn't)? Phasing could be a way to argue for how MMORPGs are improving in their storyline capacity. But you're talking to people who are ignorant about these things, so of course they don't know about "phasing" and can't...

But the hardcore DO pay money to gain in-game advantages. And since microtranscations are easy to pay, one dollar here, another dollar there, it could all add up...to big profits. And isn't that what MMORPGs are all about?

Guess what? Sometimes, the game prevents us from suspending our ability to disbelieve. We may try hard and hard to immerse, but we can't. We're used to immersing ourselves with an RTS and suspending our disbelief, but there comes a point when we can't even bother to suspend our sense of...

Why can't achievements be useful for something other than bragging rights? Why not let Achievement Points be used to buy Xbox-Live games? Microsoft still get money for selling the games, and it actually provides a good reason to go and buy Avatar and all those other Easy Achievements Games...

It was a fine summer morning, the kind to make a man happy to be alive. And probably the man would have been happier to be alive. He was, in fact, dead. It would be hard to be deader without special training. "Well, now," said Sergeant Colon (Ankh-Morpork City Guard, Night Watch), consulting...

Don't forget the treason and the insanity. Oh the treason and the insanity.

But Saddam Hussian called himself President. Bathaists propaganda called him the President of Iraq. Many dictators call themselves President. Who says Presidents have to be elected in free and democratic elections?

"It is indeed wrong for people to play a video game where you can assassinate Iraqi President Saddam Hussian. This game is in poor taste and needs to be recalled. Presidents should not be assassinated."---Batah Party Press Release

So then why not engage in lucid dreaming? I like books because I don't have to turn the page, and see the message: "WHOOPS, THE HERO DIED, PLEASE GO BACK 50 PAGES BACK TO THE BEGINING OF THE CHAPTER AND READ AGAIN, THIS TIME MORE CAREFULLY!" On second thought, an "Win" button makes books even...

Then why not read the book? Or watch a movie? Or watch someone play the game for you? The more time spent helping out newbies by programming in a "win" button, the less time is dedicated to cuddling the "hardcore", or otherwise adding onto the gameplay by adding extra stuff to make it more...

You just have to out-smart the intelligent supersoldier. Insurgencies do that all the time, otherwise the technologically inferior terrorist groups in Afghanistan and Iraq would have been destroyed by now. Your supersoilder seems to have a disturbing weakness to IEDs. Just don't fight...