Recent content by Clarste

Focusing on the 1st war actually makes the movie tie into the upcoming WoW expansion pack which features time travel (sort of). In other words the movie will make people who didn't play the older games care a bit more about the expansion. It's pretty well planned in that sense, much more logical...

I think a number of people are misinterpreting the point of this. It's not supposed to be remembered or searched for for 2000 years, and certainly not to be hyped to point of myth or legend. It's supposed to be completely forgotten and stumbled across by a random person future who hopefully...

I have to disagree that you can't make a comeback in XCOM. There are certainly downward spirals you can find yourself in, but even if you lose your whole team you've still got the new tech you've researched, and if you fall behind on tech you've still got your high level soldiers. The fact that...

The lead game designer for Xcom (the new one) has repeatedly said that he designed the game around Classic difficulty and just lowered the numbers for Normal and Easy. So... there you go. You're simply wrong. In my experience with reading interviews with game designers, that's usually how it...

Surprised the article didn't mention that Pikachu itself, or rather its evolutionary line, is based on a yokai called raijuu. Even the name itself is just a pun, with "chu" being the onomatopoeia for the sound a mouse makes. Although I guess it's not a very interesting yokai. Touhou...

I don't doubt that WoW's in decline, and has been for years, but excluding the digital sales is completely nonsensical. As far as Blizzard is concerned, they're not even selling a game, they're selling an "account upgrade". The simplest and most convenient way for a player to do this is through...

The lead writer still does. Although he seems a bit more like an ascended fanfic writer than a professional. Makes sense though, since he was there back when the company was still small.

I'm not sure I want to know what "that Clarste" means. Honestly, I've had laughs at his expense in the past, and it's not like I was trying to get him banned, I'm just not surprised that he was. Seems like reasonably bannable behavior. Not exactly the work of fascist moderation. It does...

...just go to the Trope Repair Shop. They're constantly revamping tropes, cutting examples. Many would argue too often. Frankly, there seem to be contradictory stereotypes of TvTropes in play at the same time. Are they censoring too much or are they tacitly encouraging toxic editors? It can't be...

I don't support the removal of Rape tropes, however I can completely understand why this is being done. This isn't anything new either, since there's been a systematic removal of things like this for a while now. It needn't be said that all the arguments here, on both sides, have been made ad...

The dialog at the beginning is just a transcript of their game dialog from Subterranean Animism. You can find a translation at the Touhou wiki (Reimu-Yukari route, stage 6, starts with "(Reimu, you should be able to see it. Which god did that bird eat up?)"), but honestly it's not very interesting.

Most players of WoW don't go shopping for other games. That's not even on their radar. Lots of people quit WoW but I have never seen someone give "there was a better game" as a reason. People who quit WoW do so because they're completely burnt out on MMOs or need to get their life back in order...