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This statement refutes 65% of what has been written in this thread. So much of the butthurt would just evaporate if this one simple truth were acknowledged. Really, if a game is truly well-designed, easy mode CANNOT POSSIBLY harm it. Chess is hard for me and Gary Kasparov in two completely...

The assumption on the part of the publishers is this: most, if not all pirates are (theoretically) gamers, but not all gamers are pirates. Statistically, means that all the publishers have to do is police gamers, since they'll be sure to be policing the vast majority of potential pirates in the...

First, whoever said that a female option for more games should exist, is dead on. Even in most FPS games it really wouldn't make a difference if you think about the situations the lead is in and the relative scarcity of romantic plot lines in the genre. The only real cost is the animation and...

Valve is one of least "racist" developers I've ever seen, and their characters some of the most diverse. Hell, the Orange Box should've been called the "Black Box" (I am being facetious). The main heroine in Half-Life 2 is biracial, her father - the old mentor character - is black, several of...

Ironically, that's probably how a traditional comic-book superhero would be treated if one existed in the real world. His powers would be construed as "cheating" by others, his rigid moral code would make him a social outcast and would justify doing "unfair" things with his powers to achieve his...

@orangebandguy: I'm not a Brit, but you've got a point for more reason than one. For instance, I know Liam Neeson's a great actor with an awesome voice and they must've paid a wad to get him, but 200 years after England has probably ceased to exist, and with no trans-Atlantic flights going on as...

This is what razor blades have to do with it: There's a saying "Give 'em the razor, sell 'em the blades", which alludes to the invention of the safety razor (the blade on a stick we use nowadays). The stick the blade was attached to was inexpensive for the consumer, and was often sold at a...

At least I'm not the first person to say Chrono Trigger! If anyone's played the translated Bahamut Lagoon (SNES), that'd have to be on my list, too. Some that haven't been mentioned (from GBA): Final Fantasy Tactics Advance -- not so convoluted as some other Final Fantasies, and more...

You can keep the death penalty if you also enact this law: If a person is convicted, sentenced to death, executed, and later exonerated, kill the witnesses who testified against him, the judge who sentenced him, the jury who found him guilty, and the prosecution team. That will either...

Well, with the anti-literal-genie prerequisites of eternal youth and health, I'd take amortality. That's where you pretty much live forever, but can die whenever you want to. I think if presented with that option, there'd be no holdouts. If you don't have the balls to end it yourself then you...