I'm seeing two different readings here, one with a boy who will do anything, including hurt people, to get to a girl he's obsessed with, and a manipulative girl who demands more and more of a boy, who goes along with it.

Feedback, absolutely. Voting with your dollars, yes. Sometimes a big community backlash can do some good.

They're different, and I don't really mind either way. I will say, though, that I don't really like the direction that Blizzard's art took after Brood War. I don't mind stylized art at all, and with Warcraft it worked very well, but it seems like Blizzard has made *all* of their titles brighter, softer, and more…

But they did in the OT material, and certainly did in the EU material. Point taken, though.

I'm not entirely sure how I feel about this issue. While I certainly want more interesting, varied, nuanced, and compelling characters/stories period (particularly female ones), and the old cliques we see over and over get, well, old, I'm not really comfortable saying that the media has a moral imperative to portray…

Now *that's* what we're really running into here, isn't it? I personally don't think there is anything wrong with a sexual depiction of a person, regardless of gender, and I don't think that we as a society should be afraid of sex, but women do get the brunt of the sexualized stick. Objectification, which is broader,…

Oh GOSH yes

Like I said, no worse than an old European emperor or king

Depends. Dune is similar where what needs to happen is awful, but in the long run in better.

I don't think having a morally ambiguous message makes a story bad. So long as it is adequately treated, it can be a lot of fun.

Oh gosh, that's funny.

Yeah, I know . . . but I can dream :p

I went and re-watched some of these and the Spiderman cartoon. Not as good as I remembered, especially in the 1st season, but I have to agree. The best X-men show to date.

Agreed. Plenty of productions have quality religious characters without becoming preachy.

Yes.

Well played.

I'm conflicted here. Shaddam was trying to maintain order, and wasn't any worse than a old European emperor or king in going about it. Paul's conquest of the galaxy killed more people than any other conflict, ever, but it did eventually lead humanity on the Golden Path, which prevented the eventual extinction of…

Well, it depends on which Empire we're dealing with. The OT empire, the prequel empire, the EU empire, the new. . . EU didn't happen . . . empire . . .

In the old films, the Empire was basically meant to represent Nazi Germany as seen by the American public. An organization wholly made up of bad people twirling their…

So AoM you had three factions (four with an expansion) which all collected resources and used them differently. Very clever, though I personally didn't care for the game very much.

Some of them, sure, but some just did not age well. At all.

Masters of Orion 2, Magic Carpet 2, X-COM, Planetfall, some of the King's Quest series, Heroes of Might and Magic III; I can play these to this day and quite enjoy them. But bring out Quake, or Dune II, or Diablo 1, not so much.

I think it depends on what you play the game for. With titles which, in their time, were known for shiny new graphics or some quirky new mechanic (quick time events, for example), they tend to die pretty quickly. That's why there are SO many abandoned FPS titles; they were the latest flash in the pan with a new…