Recent content by AncientSpark

Speaking about fighting games as a sort-of fighting game player myself, I think a large part of fighting game complaints, especially those talking about lack of feedback or overwhelming AI difficulty or button mashing, largely comes down to one truth that is counter-intuitive to a lot of non...

Fair enough, but that still doesn't necessarily necessitate the usage of "rape" as it is used in videogames. A person might go "O_o" at most for being called out as being murdered in a racing game, but would understand the context. While I think it would be nice for "rape" to be disengaged from...

Well, when you put it in context, saying "rape" is hardly relevant to the subject of whatever it is used in (gaming, specifically when referring to another party as "getting raped" when they are getting owned), has trauma associated with it, and has hateful implications, as it is generally...

That's your prerogative. If anyone hates on you for that, then they rightfully deserve as much spite as you have. But the thing is that not everyone shops this way and not even most people shop this way. Many people do look into design ideas, advertising, business practices, and similar ideas to...

Recoome. Because if the Genesis game is canon, then his posing is so strong that he can become invulnerable.

Here's a perfect example of why I think so many people feel EC is pretentious. English majors are often criticized for their overanalysis of books. Those outside the major are like "There's no way the writer came up with 'this this symbol this motif that'", etc., as they feel English majors...

I jumped onto the Half Life 2 train relatively late, as I entered gaming fairly late, didn't have much money to afford games until late, and was relatively uninterested in FPSes even after gaming until late. But I enjoyed my time with Half Life 2. I'm not going to say that it was the best...

That's semi-wrong. While that was ONE of the reasons, Eve was also tearing up solo queue in higher ELOs too. They just figured that this design was so terrible that they were going to essentially delete the champion until the stealth remake came out, because there was no balancing her correctly...

If you're not doing anything for four turns in Magic, your deck sucks and you're not playing Magic properly. Seriously. There's a reason why the Philosophy of Fire in Magic exists. Any deck, even in low powered formats like most Limited formats or casual "big-spell" formats like Commander have...

If you want really obscure, difficult decisions based on rules and knowledge of the game, Magic has that too. "Oh noes, I'm going to pump my guy in response to this -1/-1 counter. Wait, my guy died at end of turn?! Oh yeah, -1/-1 counters are permanent while this effect only lasts until end of...

You DO realize that in Magic, there is a format called Legacy that is not only fairly popular, but varied enough that you can play decks that are 10 years old and they're STILL relevant AND the fact that Yu-Gi-Oh also had to create new formats called Advanced back in the day because keeping the...