What they should be saying is that there are no ninja games AS REAL as Mini Ninjas.

I agree totally. An assassin in feudal Japan? We've played that game. All of us. A dozen or a hundred times. Been Done. Done to death, really.

Mmmm, pork-laden cabbage . . .

Oh and something else: It's also worth examining the specific technical, economic, social and, hell, even geographic milieu that video games grew up in. To be a 'hardcore gamer', you need to have:

So Happy Action Theater . . .

Okay, let me try again:

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1.) I predict a lot of uninformed comments based on half-remembered headlines in this thread.

Forsooth.

Favorite Gamecube memory: "Gun", specifically the bit where whiskey works as a healing potion. That's some mighty fine training for adult life right there, that is.

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Mr. Raines went on to say that he had been privy to secret information, to wit that the new console would:

Probably some concatenation of the uncanny valley (or lack thereof) combined with the generally more-positive feelings our culture has about pandas than about cows but short answer: No. Tauren females never gave me tingly feeling down there.

Thanks, Blizzard, thanks a LOAD: Now, thanks to you, I'm a Furry. Here I was, normal person with normal sexual proclivities, looking at a normal, non-perverty Internet site and then suddenly BAM: I fancy performing sex acts with other people wearing furry costumes while I myself also wear a furry costume.

I remember that from 2E, probably because I skipped right from 2E to 4E (spent the 3E years getting a college education, making myself halfway interesting to women, becoming an adult, etc.).

*All Rangers are double weapons build? Christ. I liked Drizz't as much as any seventeen year old and had my fair share of good Drow, but that is one legacy that needs to be laid to rest.*

You're the first. I've floated ideas like this before (i.e. a $60 FPS where you get one life and if you die, the game ends, erases itself from your console and can never be reinstalled; I call it "Actual Modern Warfare") and gotten some pretty testy responses.

Time for a paper-and-pencil games interlude here: How do I get my fellow PCs to be just a *little* more creative when it comes to picking their race a class?

Totally. They should just make a female lead and be done with it. I don't give a shit about Conan: Drop 'Hyborian Age' and bring on the all-female Red Sonja MMO.

I have a better idea: Since everyone's so hepped on 'realism' and broad choice of weapons these days, how about the counterterrorist forces in a game be permitted to use Predator drones.