kwanzabot
Cipher
- Joined
- Aug 29, 2009
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Superior? I was on the losing side of a war that you'all power-gamers won more than 20 years ago. That's not being superior; that's just being old. If you want to read about the war, it's still out there, on the pages of Dragon Magazine and dead forums. From a time when "power creep" was as hated as streamlined is today.Well someone created it. I don't care who.
Too much edginess without any effort put into making convinceable arguments. But I guess that's not necessary is you feel so superior.
A picture can tell a thousand words, but only in an emotional manner, not a logical. It's the female way to fight. I fight like a man.But then again, why not just use a simple retard meme instead?
True.Would have achieved the same with a fraction of the effort.
People really should play ancient rpgs, where there are absolutely no character sheet choice at all, before they make comments like that. Games of old had only choice of tactics and strategy. Now all that's left is character sheet choices and story choices. Which DA:O provides more of than old D&D ever did.Also ignoring posters who tell you that nothing you rant about has any of the effects you claim it has, making up stories about dumbing down by creating more choices when the opposite is happening everywhere right now, dumbing down by making games more "accessible" and movie-like, meaning removing choices.
The people who declared BG to be a streamlined, simple version of D&D were - shocker - Bioware itself in their advertising. And the reviewers of the day picked it up and repeated it ad nauseum. Many of which quotes can still be found today. And since I have even quoted them all on the Codex before, easily more easily findable now. The Biowhore made a streamlined game, and happily cashed a check from 2 million in moved product.Games like BG2 are not dumb at all (some Codexers like to make it out to be because after 500 hours with the game and memorizing every encounter and the hard counters they have to use in it they start to get a bit bored so game has to be shit^^), using convoluted rulesets full of spells and abilities might be an easy way for game designers to get the player engaged, but it certainly works.
The Telengard remake is free. Try it. You'll hate it.Later games like DA:O didn't have as many options and little "awesome button" mechanics anyway, but others already pointed that out.
Not that it really matters. You could just look at the character sheet of DA:O and compare it to an actual casual game, like Dungeon Siege. But I know, that would be too much work.
Are they all fallacies. When I am quoting Bioware and game reviewers, and you all are quoting Misty water-colored memories of the way we wereSo in the end none of the claims in your rants have any merit to them, the conclusions you draw are logical fallacies and you don't even try to connect cause and effect, since that's beneath you I suppose. You just keep on ranting.
Mm hmm.Fucking Codex edgelords, I swear.
fuck you and everything you stand for