I’m actually not sure I disagree, although in Dawn of War’s 2 case I’m not entirely convinced the game was faulty just because it removed base building (there were a lot of problems with DAW2—an over simplified map design with almost no ability to defend points reasonably, leading to both merry-go-round style play and…

...Uh, yeah, I know. I really shouldn’t have even addressed it at all as it’s not relevant to the genre we’re talking about. What I meant was that’s why the ‘tip’ of building macro early isn’t as daunting to a new player versus the RTS genre.

Like, I get what you’re saying but with the exception of Civilization you just pointed out a bunch of RTS while literally describing why the genre has remained a niche product and difficult for new or more casual. The problem is that in every game except Civ 2 you’re dealing with an execution barrier. The advice isn’t…

I honestly understand it. The weird thing about SC2 that makes it so impenetrable to so many people is you can be losing a game and not even know it. Hit your population cap? You’ve lost advantage on timing. Missed a spawn larva timing? Your army is now smaller. Let your base energy cap? Too bad, now your base isn’t…

At the end of the movie Q-bert turns into her.

Seriously.

He actually made an exception for this particular game (pretty much because you know what you’re getting at this point. It’s more Starcraft. Either you want it or you don’t).

Now see, it’s all well and good to link that comic, but the thing is MOBA’s aren’t TF2 (in that the medic can’t heal himself and must seek additional support) and they aren’t say an MMORPG (where it’s generally attacks interrupt casting, meaning the healer heals less efficient). Uther can heal himself as well as…

Not a problem. I really like the guide otherwise, I’ve just seen one too many Illidans dive into a healer because ‘kill healers first’ and die within two seconds.

“The support characters in Heroes have some insanely powerful healing and shielding abilities. If you want your attacks to mean anything during a team battle, you should aim for these characters before anyone else. If you don’t, an experienced Rhegar or LiLi player can easily keep all four of their teammates alive no…

So let’s talk about Mercs. Specifically, their purpose and when to take them.

Mercs give a team two advantages. They put additional pressure on a lane and, far more importantly, they force a response from the enemy team, allowing you to exert a soft form of control over how they respond. The best timing for a merc camp…

2fort has been a terrible map since day 1, as if the teams were even remotely match it turned into a horrible stalemate—even if you Ubered past one Bottleneck, there were 3 more you had to get through to get the objective and then get it *back*. You pretty much had to sweep the team to get effectively through, and…

Well, except that it's a Graphic Novel and thus a visual medium, so if the visuals are all off-putting you're just reading dialogue bubbles. They'd have to be pretty insanely good bubbles to enjoy it.

Not to split hairs, but X Wing vs. Tie Fighter was practically an online-only title even for it's time. That was the largely MP-only deathmatch style game. I mean, you could fight bots and play a handful of canned scenarios, but it wasn't Tie Fighter. Wasn't until the expansion that they even added a story.

So, I…

As someone going through what the letter-writer is asking I have two small bits of advice for a similar situation I've went through (with a grandparent) and am going through (with a parent).

FUCK. YES.

Ugh, apparently I can't edit. *You should not. In fact,

Scientists shouldn't use figures of speeches that set up expectations for Scientists to make declaritive statements, ones that most Scientists avoid like the plague because the very foundations of the Scientific Method kind of lay out that you shouldn't make that kind of declarative statement, no. You should not. in…

Still interesting that you'd identify as a Scientist one minute and than choose to make a figure of speech that is, by the very nature of Science, not something that you could ever achieve.

You're a scientist, yet you insist that you can prove claim with 100% perfect certainty.

Compared to what? Go forward 6 years: Was GURPS any better? GURPS could take many, many re-reads to even begin to understand. ALL RPGs were like that around then, an artifact of being born out of the historical wargame genre, which was in and of itself a niche hobby that was entirely more complex than it had to be…