FlowerSunRain
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What the fuck? Two awesome cards I kinda want to run with the same ridiculously restrictive casting cost?
It's like you're inside my head! This sums up nicely how I feel towards games today.For me, Dragon Age Origins was a homerun. Probably my favorite RPG of all time. DA2 was a let down for me, but not as bad as most made it out to be. Historically, I was a huge Zelda fan. Ocarina of Time I've passed more than once.
I'm not huge into sci-fi video games strangely enough, so I just could never get into the Mass Effect games. I've tried a couple times now. As far as shooter type games go, Resident Evil 4 totally captivated me and I passed that one more than once too.
Video games tend to not hold my interest for long, so I do not finish many of the ones I start. This trend has only gotten worse as I've gotten older since I now have less time for this sort of thing so I value my free time much more highly now. I simply can't be bothered with bad game mechanics, boring cliche story lines, or time sink nonsense like MMO's (although The Secret World and GW2 were both pretty fun and never felt tedious while I played them).
I've generally preferred play games with actual people, which is why I tend to come back to table top RPG's and MTG. I enjoy the social component the most I think.
God damn I love this discussion.
It's like you're inside my head! This sums up nicely how I feel towards games today.
Video games are notoriously terrible at telling a good story. Unfortunately, a lot of the "classics" that became famous because of their story just don't hold up for me anymore. I hate to say this, because I'm a huge Zelda fan, but modern Zelda games are a perfect example of how awful a game can be at telling a story.
KOTOR is an exception in that it had the exact opposite problem that Zelda had: a really engaging and incredible story with memorable characters, and a combat system that I simply could not stand. Do not make me frantically tab through menus in real-time combat. It is stressful, detaching, and not fun. Mass Effect handled that much better. But it worked well enough to keep me playing for the entirety of an undergrad January break.
I've found that most games dependent on telling a linear storyline just don't really do it for me anymore (though not when I was younger). I'd rather just go read a book or watch a movie where the characters are likely more interesting and multi-dimensional, and be done with it in a tenth of the time. It seems that somewhere along the way they discarded that holy grail of video games: YOU get to be the character, YOU get to make the decisions that determine your future, and YOU forge the story yourself. Video game stories ought to be what Choose Your Own Adventure books always wished they could be. See Super Metroid, original Legend of Zelda, etc. Games like those still have the capacity to inspire wonder.
Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against linear gameplay. I just don't think video games are a great medium for telling stories in that manner. I'd rather they just can the story in that case, Mega Man/Castlevania style.
Why is that mythic? Regardless of rarity it looks like I get to start replacing oppressive things with merely good things.
Probably too good to show up in retail limited as a regular rare. 5 mana Broodmate + lifegain bird seems pretty strong.
I've never voiced this opinion, but I played Chrono Trigger about 5 years ago after hearing it pop up in countless "best game ever" discussions. I didn't think it was that stellar. Did I need to play it during my SNES days?
I think the number of games that age poorly is lower than some might think. I didn't even grow up with most of the snes games that I now love dearly.
It's a fool's mistake to ever say super metroid is bad or outdated. Game's a masterpiece.
This is replacing Archangel of Thune in my cube! It promotes interactive gameplay through Raid and it interacts with both the lifegain subtheme and the blink subtheme. Love it!
yeah wadds that and starcraft
wouldn't it be nice if the people from black isle made their own studio?
L CancellingStarcraft would stand the test much better if the graphics weren't an eyesore (sorry, nostalgia fiends) and the controls weren't terribly unwieldy.
between this and the ugin thing can we just confirm eldrazi and/or zendikar are back
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Well also morphs