There's a cap on difficulty where it goes from "hard to get good at" to "so hard that success is random".

Mastery of the game does give you advantage, but if the game has a low skill ceiling, then there is less of a chance for higher skill to shine through. If I went 1v1 against Kobe Bryant, he would kick my ass so hard. If we were playing with the wider, 5 ft tall hoops I mentioned earlier on a half size court, he would…

Same here. My mom was responsible about the games that she got me, but that doesn't mean that I didn't use my older sister as a way to get games all the time.

We're talking about games in a competitive context, where mastery of the game should give you an advantage, so I don't see how you saying that CoD's aim is easier is a good point. Playing basketball with kiddie hoops that are really wide and only 5 feet tall is easy, too, but there's a reason that the NBA doesn't do…

Remember when skill based FPS games like CS/Quake/UT existed?

Yeah, except that in CS you can't insta-spray kill a guy from across the map as soon as you start playing. Also, the maps are a lot better, not random shit everywhere.

Those are definitely fucked up, but they're gated behind a "this is bad and you need to be 18" page, so I don't really get the problem with it being on the website.

I love MtG, I'm 22 now but my first deck was the 4th Ed Starter Deck, which I actually bought around the time 6th Ed was the main set.

That's called Standard, or Type 2, the main tournament style. It allows the last 2 blocks, and the latest core set, so up to 7 sets of cards, all printed within the last 2 years.

No God of War, Killer 7, Max Payne 3, Gears of War, or Splatterhouse?

It's not illegal for them to buy M rated games here in the US, either. California tried to make it a law and failed, the retail stores themselves restrict the games to 17+ games out of self regulation.

"When one of the teenagers was killed in a round,"

I kinda have to agree. I watch CS matches a lot, but for someone who doesn't play tons of CS, the spectating would really be hard to follow.

It's hard to imagine them making a good competitive game with them trying to push games like Blops 2 as competitive lately...

Or maybe you're wrong, the one that was a scam was a totally separate company. This company has been working on this stuff for years.

Such a great film. I actually had it recommended to me by a fellow Kotakuite a while back and have watched it several times since then.

You know, I agree with you that it makes no sense in a game, unless there is an actual lens (such as games with cameras you can control). However, despite it not making sense, I still think it looks cool.

My current backlog...

dafuq is dat rayquaza shit

I actually know a quite beautiful woman IRL that has been a pretty hardcore EVE player for years.