This was not my first RPG - that honor goes to the Quest for Glory series (which might have been more adventure game than RPG, but I digress). It was, however, the game that made me an RPG fan. I make comics now. I'm a professional storyteller, and I have to credit a lot of early inspiration to want to tell stories…

Thank you for remembering Suki, the character all the creators seem to have forgotten forever. Loved her so much in that show, hated her utter disappearance from the canon afterward.

Happy to help. And, though it probably goes without saying, the comics of DKR and YO are so, so, so much better than the movies. I don't just say that in terms of telling the stories, but because of the way they use the comics medium. Particularly DKR, which uses a lot of great storytelling devices that only work in…

I've got you covered, pal. Here's my all-time Top 5 Batman stories, and they happen to all be stories that work well without any prior knowledge of the character (other than the basics that we all know). In no particular order:

One of the best ever written, and one of the last times Jeph Loeb was worth reading. LH is always on the short-list of Batman comics I recommend to anyone who is interested in the character. I recently re-read the sequel to this, Dark Victory, and it was extremely good as well.

INcorrect! Most of Michigan is quite beautiful. But there are a handful of cities that are the worst. Don't paint the whole state with a single brush - save that for Florida.

I'll have you know, sir-or-madam, that Flint, Michigan is unquestionably the armpit of America. Every time I take a drive through her fair streets, I mourn.

Ohhh, no. These two were way beyond that. It's what I call "Three Drink Curious" - he's just a few drinks away from dropping all pretense and making out with Cortez. But he's the kind of guy who would deny deny deny; he'd be in the middle of the act, Steve right behind him, and he'd be all "No homo, though."

Especially since James and Cortez were soooo cleeearly into each other. Soooooo. Cleeeearly.

And so here you are: It's midnight, you're elbow deep in your new machine, and you've realized that you don't have a part that you need. Maybe it's a screw. (It's probably a screw.) Maybe it's a wrench, or a specific sort of tiny screwdriver. Maybe it's a certain type of rubbing alcohol that you need to remove thermal…

It's fun to tell people you're building a new PC.

God... dammit...

I'd have been a fool not to expect a little of that, but I stand by my point. That very sort of response is part of why I tend to prefer fangirls over fanboys anyway, so it's just further reinforcement. It's frustrating as a guy to see that people with penises can be such dicks.

This is why fangirls are the absolute best thing ever. I'm so glad they're becoming such a huge, vocal, creative part of the gaming and comics communities. I mean, look at this! They make everything fun.

No lie. I had never seen a BlazBlue match in my life, and I was almost out of my chair by the end of this one. I don't think I've ever seen a match in any game that was this intense, this close, this exciting. Top marks to both players.

Your post is rife with assumptions based on your personal experience and the beliefs of your personal circles of fans. But anecdotal evidence is not enough proof to post - in ALL CAPS - that all of the original fans of DAO were there because a minority of advertising for the game said it was a new Baldur's Gate.…

I think you make the classic internet mistake of believing higher volume equals greater numbers. What you're likely to find is that, particularly regarding people who specifically disliked DA2 for not being enough like Baldur's Gate, they may have made a lot of noise online, but they were a minority of players. They…

No, those who complained because they wanted it to be more like Baldur's Gate are. But you're not helping your case by opening with the whiny-reading "Awww...." ;)

One thing few recognize that DA2 had going against it was that DAO was in development for something like 6 years or more. It started out as an XBox game, then the 360 came out and they updated it to that somewhat, but it was an ancient engine built for old systems. When they made DA2, they completely overhauled the…

Having just finished replaying DAO, I can say with confidence that DA2 is just objectively better in so many ways, to say nothing of all the subjective ways in which I prefer it over the first. It's really a great, great game, spoiled by internet whiners who just wanted Baldur's Gate back and couldn't shut up when…