Recent content by Karl Gopnik

YES! I love Dark Cloud! Or anything by Level 5, really. Their work just always hits the right notes for me. Other games? Legend of Mana, Robot Alchemic Drive, Mark of Kri...

Robot Alchemic Drive on PS2. It was a miasma of shitty plot, script, loading screens, and voice-acting sitting between you and city-destroying giant robot punch-ups.

Saying 'GG' after getting steamrolled. Sorry, it wasn't a good game in the least if we couldn't get out of spawn, or got locked out of the objective, or just couldn't do whatever we had to do to, y'know, play the damn game. I actually apologize if I'm on the team doing the steamrolling. But, I...

Oh, people who refuse to pick you up in Firefall if you're bleeding out. They're few and far between, but there. For them what don't play Firefall: A recent gear revamp makes items lose durability if you die, and both repairs and buying new items are expensive. Any frame type can pick you back...

Just remembered two! First one is blatant abuse of power. Another anecdote: A while back, I played S4 League. I got into an argument with another player who had a huge, throbbing, tumorous ego, and she wouldn't shut up. Round ends, she's crowing about having a higher score than I did and how...

Let's see... People who 'help' me with kills in MMOs. It doesn't hurt anything, but honestly, if I needed help, you'd see me running away from whatever's trying to spread me across a square mile of local terrain. The random social requests mentioned above. Getting propositioned. I get...

Zera Valmar in Grandia 2. Every Piece of Valmar before it was an absolute joy to fight, and looked like the piece of the god it was supposed to represent. Then we get to Zera with the Will of Valmar, and find out that no, he wasn't fat, he was just a cocoon for a beautiful moth with a bloated...