Posts made by insomniac7809

@Ghost said in Cyberrun:

So, if this is all just much-ado and nothing bad is going on, I'm assuming no one would be bothered if someone reached out to a watchdog group about the pedophilia RP at places like Cyberrun and PenDes to make sure that they're added to a watchlist for kid-safe browsing?

Why do you think someone would?

Like, good on you for doing it. But you seem to be making a whole Thing about it.

Fans are terrible.

For my thoughts: I'm not a fan of preorder culture on the whole. Me, the only video game I bought within a month of release, like, ever was the third Mass Effect (and, well, case in point there; I'm super lucky @Aria was out of the house when I started swearing at the TV at 3 in the ante meridian). If I haven't played the game it's new to me.

("But @insomniac7809, what about massively multiplayer games when the servers are empty?" You, Hypothetical Strawman, have grossly misunderstood what appeals to me about video games. "This is fun, but wouldn't it be more fun if I was hearing a Korean teenager calling me a homophobic slur as I play" I said, never.)

But yeah. Pre-orders. "So you can buy a video game." I'm listening. "Well, there's no video game, but you will get the video game when it exists." Oh, is this funding the project? "Well, we're an EA subsidiary, so..." Okay, gotcha. So is it cheaper if I pre-order it than it will be if I wait six months until the game actually works, and after people can tell me whether or not it's a turd? "NOOOOOO no no no. Nonononono. No. Uh-uh." So I don't really see how I benefit from buying a game blind at the most expensive it will ever be while it's still likely to be full of game-breaking bugs. "Well... your pretend character gets a hoodie." Oh well be still my fucking heart...

@surreality

@Jaded said in Worst Games:

It would be fair to note that some of these issues could have been patched out since then but I have not revisited the games since their initial releases.

You know...

It's a good thing, on balance, that devs can release patches. It is. The sprawling work on a modern AAA game is akways gonna have some issues, and the fact that they can reach into my console and fix things is proof that we live in the future.

But goddamn if it doesn't annoy me that companies are using that to ship out unplayable games and then making the suckers who shelled out for the Ultimate Deluxe Big Spender edition into their second round of beta, so that by the time people are scraping it out of the bargain bin they might find a good game in there. So now scoping out reviews, they all have to end with "...as of time of writing; if you buy it now, maybe it's a cooking simulator for all I can say."

There's a happy medium, y'know?

@SabotKick72 I mean, ET really has to win. That's the only game that's ever managed to destroy the Western gaming industry single-handedly.

Worst I ever played... Superman 64 is up there. And after all these years, I hold out some bitterness at the SNES Rocketeer.

@silverfox You'd think one would preclude the other, you really would...

@Thenomain said in Consent in Gaming:

What, people sometimes play games to portray special snowflakes? Gasp! It's like people see cool things in media and want to enact those!

Yeah, the thing is, tho...

If Gregory House always makes everything all about him, that's not a problem. House is already about House. It's right in the name.

MU*s are collaborative fiction works where the authors are also kinda actors and also we're the audience. Structures have to be different.

And while everyone should want to be cool... there's that joke about how an RP group playing Firefly would be five Rivers and maybe a Jayne. Follow your RP bliss, but like, if everyone's the quirky outsider nobody is...

@Ominous Wasn't that a JRPG?

You know, the one where a bunch of teenagers with bad hairstyles use the power of friendship to kill God?

Honestly, unless the writers are really confident in their ability to deliver gripping or at least amusingly Eremey-esque dialogue, "CO yells at subordinate" sounds like exactly the sort of scene that would mostly be glazed over in a book or a movie. I realize that directly translating from other media to MU* is even more of a gap than from tabletop, this is a situation that seems less engaging in the MU* format than it would be otherwise.

Like, what are my options on the receiving end? I can mouth off, which could be fun, if I'm willing to Hand Over My Badge And Gun. Or I can make response poses of "yes, sir" and "no, ma'am" until it's over. Fucking enthralling.

So yeah. Fade to black, commentary made in length and volume concerning my behavior, my potential, my future, my decision-making abilities, and my genealogy. Skip to the part where I'm demoted, Suspended From The Case, or sent of with a stern warning and let us all get on with our lives.

I mean, Fade To Black is called that for a reason. You can do that for material that's too sensitive to show "on screen," you can do that when you think the implication is more impactful than the explication, and you can do that because no one wants to watch Jack Bauer doing a crossword puzzle during his morning coffee shits.