Mister Jack

The reason I don't care for RTS games is because I'm not very good at changing strategies on the fly for games that involve commanding several characters. I like to be able to take my time and plan the best possible move. Since the entire point of RTS games is to change strategies on the fly, it's not something I care to subject myself to any more after Starcraft 1.

I'll just point out here that I have never played a Persona game.

I actually haven't really messed with New Vegas party members much outside of Boone (since Boone is god with shades on and all). Who are you referring to?

I think we've all forgotten that Leilana was also bisexual and way less of a slut than Zevran.

It was before October. I think I could be forgiven for not expecting the guy to shell out the kind of money that is needed to get certified.

Well it's true that unless gay characters are all ding-a-ling-a-liiing~ :heart: then they tend not to be detectable at all, but that isn't really something inevitable. I'm not aware of any game that pulls off a non-player "straight gay" (i.e. a gay character who doesn't really act in a stereotypical gay fashion). It's possible there's something out there I just haven't played, but you never really have a normal party member who just happens to be fighting to save his boyfriend or anything like that. You could say "Well why bother if it's barely going to be touched on?" but I would say "Would it really be so bad if it's like that?" Of course, I imagine the business standpoint is probably "Conservative America dislikes gays, so there's no reason to risk losing money when we're not making a statement". I don't really give a whole lot of credit to player characters who have the option to be gay, since that's more about player choice than open-mindedness.

Oh really? It has a certificate now? When was this?

I notice that for the most part this thread has been about black people, which is fine, but do any more hispanic characters come to mind? How about jewish or gay characters? Asians? Of course, I mean asians in western games when I say that.

Pheer, I'm having trouble getting Windows 7 64-bit to recognize the dualshock, even with MotionInJoy. Any tips?

Can't say I'm familiar with it. Maybe I'll check it out sometime.

Hey Tali, I'm a fucking liar. Is it possible to show when a forum post is made from a mobile device? I tend to make shorter posts when I'm on my device and I don't want to seem dismissive when I reply to people.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkAvVqjbUG8 Red Dead Redemption had some of the best music in years.

Maybe he's too young.

I liked the characters, but I guess that's just something we'll have to disagree on. And the beginning of Up was certainly brilliant, you'll get no argument from me. I'm not trying to tear down Pixar, I'm just saying that a lot of their movies---and I did mention that Toy Story 3 was an exception to this---use standard genre conventions in their storytelling.

Dean just PMed me and told me I need to play Company of Heroes. He thinks he's cute.

See, I thought I was playing a tragedy.

Oscars are bullshit anyway. I made up my mind about that establishment after they snubbed both Dark Knight and Wall-e for best picture nominations.

Yes, I like the Lonely Island. Their first album is one of my most played. I hope the new one has "To the ground" on it. Or whatever that song was called. The digital version had a bunch of videos so I'm hoping to get the video for that one, as it's one of my favorites.

There was comedy in that game?

In other news, oxygen is good.

Well I say fuck that. If I want to use a pad, like you have an option in your game to do, I should be able to use a fucking pad. I take it this means you tried and had a problem. What did you try to use? What happened?

I don't know that I would say Cole is a racist character, just not a very deep one. Gears is a very macho game, and Cole is just as macho as all the other characters. He's not really unintelligent or unlikeable, unless you don't like loud, boisterous types in general. Gears 3 is going to have another black character who is supposedly more subdued and down to earth than Cole, so it will be interesting to see that.