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What the bloody hell is the point of assigning team classes? Half the game is deciding what class to use in what situation.

I'm Spartacus.

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Diggin' the username. However, I doubt that your real name is "part of this complete breakfast", and the administration frowns upon using the Real Name field for anything other than your real name, so you might want to take care of that.

*headshots Neko*

Now that's impressive. I can see not being interested in the series and just never bothering to play -- but starting all of them and not finishing any? Nice.

Yeah, actually, I still have my copy of TMNT. I'm not saying he's wrong about them, I'm just saying that I don't find longwinded obscene rants of manufactured rage to be amusing. Sorry? Or, "what sephfire said". BUT THAT'S ALL I HAVE.

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This movie has Gambit in it? Is he awesome? Gambit was always the awesomest X-man. I mean, his power is "makes stuff explode". And he's Cajun. And he beats people to death with a big stick. He better be awesome.

Fake ZOMG NERDRAGE doesn't amuse me at all. I don't like Stephen Colbert either.

Ditto. I mean, can anyone else think of a nationwide store that does nothing but sell games? 'Cause I can't. Sure there's places like Walmart and Best Buy, but they don't focus entirely on games.

Several kinds of nerdery combined: I play D&D online via IRC, using a script for dice rolls. We play 3.5 ed; I have no experience with 4th. Sadly, our group is somewhat too large -- we've got like a dozen people, which means that we've got around ten or so players in any given session. Combat always takes a long time in D&D, but when you've got more than twice as many people as the system was designed for, it gets a thousand times worse... That said, it's great fun for the most part. Right now one of the campaigns we're running is Planescape -- a damned entertaining setting. Party is currently being stalked by the quori, a nigh-invincible race of monsters created by nightmares (which I believe were originally from the Ebberon setting). Given that damn near no one knows of their existence, and reality on the Outer Planes is shaped entirely by belief, our master plan at this point is to create a sitcom starring an adventuring party on the Prime Material and casting the quori as Team Rocket. If everyone who sees the show believes the quori are bumbling idiots, they'll eventually become bumbling idiots. Sadly, the airwaves in Sigil (the capital city of the multiverse, as much as such a thing is possible) are currently controlled by the Anarchists, a faction devoted to the destruction of the other dozen or so factions. So we have to find them (which is a feat in and of itself, given that EVERYONE is ALWAYS trying to find them, they're very good at hiding), steal their teleprojector (the device that lets them broadcast), and barter it back to the Sensates (another faction, who are the ones who are supposed to be in charge of the airwaves) in exchange for airtime to show our anti-quori sitcom. Yeah, Planescape is awesome.

Real life != video games. I think that the contents of this thread show that a significant number of people would use them.

Shockingly, not everyone wants to turn video gaming into another job. Some people don't equate "hard" with "fun" and if they find something frustrating, their reaction isn't "Oho, I must hone my gaming-fu skills to become a master!" They say "this is too hard, fuck it" and go do something else. People play games to have fun. Something that's frustrating isn't fun. Cheats turn things that are frustrating into things that are fun. That's why people like them. Saying "fuck it" and no longer playing the game keeps people from playing the whole game. It keeps them from experiencing part of what they paid for when they bought the game. That's understandably annoying. Cheats allow people to get the whole experience of the game even past the frustrating parts. If you're one of those people who likes challenge, then you don't have to use the cheats. You lose nothing. The mere existence of cheats doesn't somehow take something away from you if you choose not to use them. So yeah. Cheats good.

That is retarded.

How does the mere existence of cheats affect your enjoyment of the game, if you choose not to use them?

Grammar doesn't have to be logical!

You mean the weird/creepy/disturbing/ambiguous type games in general, or this one in particular? Because I've always felt that "lulz mind games!!!" in any medium is almost always a cheap and lazy substitute for actual depth.

Perhaps someone gifted it to you? Also, give your poor period key a break. The end of a sentence requires one period and two spaces, no more, no less.

Turning your text white would be better for spoilers, because it blends into the background. And red... y'know, doesn't. That said, I can't take "weird/creepy/disturbing" games at all seriously. I played through Silent Hill 2 and couldn't figure out what the big deal was. 2x4ing monsters to death was fun, though.

Ironically, I'm going to respond to pretentious opinions with a pretentious opinion of my own. It's music, people. Noises that come out of instruments and/or faces. Some people like varieties of noise that other people do not. Nothin' to get worked up over.

Why did you call me Jordan?

Dude, everyone knows that Korean Nu-Metal Vegetarian Progressive Grindcore owns the shit out of that Scandinavian bullshit.

L4D:FGE would consist entirely of sitting on a rooftop with a lawn chair, a whole bunch of health/ammo, and a milk crate full of beer. Seriously, that's an actual spot in Ravenholm. Father Gregori has excellent taste in entertainments.

I could do without Game Genie type cheatery devices, but I will say that I miss button-combo codes where you just type in a (usually long and complicated) sequence of buttons and something awesome happens. The most recent game I can think of that still uses that is the GTA III series. I also tend to like the weird-but-fun cheats more than the standard useful ones (like, the "get all weapons" cheat in GTA III wasn't nearly as fun as the "flying cars" cheat). hur dur dur I'm cooler than you because I'm HARDCORE HELLZ YEAH everyone else is noobs. If you don't like cheats, don't use them. Easy.