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    Do horror games actually scare you?

    EDIT: No idea why this was posted twice.
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    Do horror games actually scare you?

    Pretty much ALL horror games scare me. For the only ones I've managed to play through I've kept a flashlight nearby, so that I could turn on the light any time. (Naturally, I play horror games in darkness at night) I've never had nightmares from horror games, but I had a continuous feeling...
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    Best survival games with female protagonists?

    Dictating people what to want comes off pretty rude, indeed. That's my wish and that's it. Now I remember that among suggestions above, I did stumble into Lost in Blue very long ago! There was only an option to play as a boy. According to wiki, in sequels you can start out as a girl. I didn't...
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    Best survival games with female protagonists?

    Thanks, guys, I'll check your suggestions out! (For those asking, Skyrim and Silent Hill 3 are no match, I've played those and they're RPG and horror respectively, rather than strictly "survival" games. I know I'm making an arbitrary distinction, especially between horror and survival, which...
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    Best survival games with female protagonists?

    By survival games I do not mean classic survival horror games, like Silent Hill. There's a flood of other survival games, mostly about zombie-infested areas and people having to survive in post-apocalyptic environment. Left 4 Dead, State of Decay, The War of Mine, etc. I missed out on the...
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    Games that are so good they've ruined every other game in their genre for you

    FPS - Deus Ex, the old original one. I literally stopped playing FPS games after playing it, because I realized how limited they are! Right now it's not such an issue, but back then FPS games were about shooting only: no talking, no characters of interest, no choices. I'm not kidding, because of...
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    What should gaming developers do in terms of feminism and self-censorship?

    Over the years I've learnt one important thing. You should like your own characters. A lot. Then writing works. For that to happen, you must flesh your characters out, imagine yourself to be them realistically, and live their lives until they come alive. Only in that case they stop being random...
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    Poll: A question only for long-time, hardcore Deus Ex fans...

    I played first two games in the raging mod, and HR in stealth mode, so it's hard to evaluate how faithful it was to the original. I'm sure that by faithful people are talking about stealth. But I loved all three games equally. The second one was probably most shallow, but it gave me an option to...
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    Which video game villain would you date?

    Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines: - The blond dude who was your boss, LaCroix. My most favorite type IRL, as simple as that! - A werewolf... Burnet? I fail to remember his name correctly, but he was quiet intriguing and likable. An architect or something. Amusing and conniving. They...
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    L.A. Noire - Rigidity

    Maybe it's not your type of game. I'm totally fine with all points that you consider bad. L.A. Noire is like a diamond in the dirt. Such a gem among games catering to public tastes. It lacks some aspects of freedom from these popular titles, but it doesn't need them. It has a unique story, a...
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    L.A. Noire - Rigidity

    Maybe it's not your type of game. I'm totally fine with all points that you consider bad. L.A. Noire is like a diamond in the dirt. Such a gem among games catering to public tastes. It lacks some aspects of freedom from these popular titles, but it doesn't need them. It has a unique story, a...
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    Chris Avellone Let's Plays Arcanum

    I went to a youtube page and saw people asking him to make better quality videos, so hopefully that's going to happen. As for this one, no there's no other version unless he uploads it.
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    Women's experiences of video games.

    Thanx for welcoming me! It looks like a nice forum. Yeah I'm also sick of people who say "there's no problem, get over it". Of course, there is no problem. FOR THEM. In pretty much all games you play as powerful males and ogle scantily clad female bodies, why would it be a problem for a male...
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    Women's experiences of video games.

    Please, clarify what you mean by that. I was planning to get Dead Island, but it sounds like it might not be worth it. Yes, Rikku. I had a hope that she was wearing an outfit as well, but no matter how I squinted it looked like bare skin to me. I'm sure it was intentional fanservice...
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    Women's experiences of video games.

    Damn I registered to post in a Deus Ex thread... until I noticed that it's half a year old, that is. Let it rest peacefully, now this thread gets my first post instead. I started out as a fan of first person shooters. A guy who sold us my first PC handed me two CDs along with it: Quake and...