Recent content by mattag08

Well said. This is something I've been trying to tell people for years. I would translate "trying too hard to be cool" into "childish or immature." If you listen to a youngish (<14) kid swearing, it's humorous how poor their understanding of what they're saying is. In a way, it's almost like...

Accessibility and hardware are not issues. The problem is the game companies don't understand what makes a game objectively entertaining. Space game devs continue to shove the same core concepts down our throats with only minor graphical enhancements and new "features" that are typically nothing...

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Reading a little too far into these games. Certainly they can be a lens into how developers think about human nature, but it seems silly to think they were designed that way to specifically evoke those thoughts. That's a level of reading I doubt they ever intended. More likely these...

Because men are far more believable characters than women by and large. Making a believable female character that is useful as a video game character in normal video game settings (mostly military or violent) is pretty difficult. It's also something that's not good business sense for the target...

Did you ever wonder why? And if your answer is "the patriarchy" then you've missed the mark.

I assume you're making the point that there should be more situations where women interact with each other? Why is that important?

Generalizations are useful if they describe something to a significant degree to be useful (in this case the economics of game making). Publishers are not ignorant people. They've studied sales figures, focus groups, etc. to come up with what they believe their customers want. And by and large...

Garbage. No methodology, no raw data, no explanation of variables.

Oh poor, benighted betas and omegas...(I include you Shamus.) You simply don't understand (or refuse to accept the power of) economics or sexual politics. There are only three things you need to know: 1. Supply and demand. 2. What women say they want is rarely what they really want...

It would've been easier just to create more content at the same level and have even more tiers of armor. Everything they added could've been implemented without a level cap increase. People like Senaro are the only people who enjoyed the increased level cap. Everyone else just quested to the new...

While leveling is always a pain, I never found it boring until the second or even third character that I leveled up. The sense of exploration and newness was very profound and one of the things I enjoyed most about the game. Even though the last 20 levels were much more difficult than the first...

I guess the moderators didn't like my bluntness. I thought it was a great way to make the point. I was only approaching sex from his angle. What's the harm in a word like "fuck" if sex has no more meaning? Heck, we hear the word "fuck" so often in movies and on TV its almost lost its taboo...

A lot of it revolves around making an already easy game incredibly easy. Other stuff included the way that Blizzard decided to invalidate thousands of man-hours of hard work by making epic lvl-60 gear worthless post-BC.

You obviously missed the earlier part where I responded to someone saying that sex was no big deal and Americans needed to "grow up." I figure if sex is no big deal--just a biological function--then perhaps the poster would be willing to let me sate some of my urges with his partner. Resistance...