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(almost) all the things I don't like, and why
Pen n' Paper RPGs - A good argument for why designing games around multiplayer fails: If you don't live in an area with good players/GMs then these games are worthless. Nevermind that you're paying money for rulebooks that essentially just tell you how to play make-believe, something I've always done just fine without rules.
Mecha anime - Except for maybe Mazinkaiser, these seem kind of repetitive, and honestly I find "look at how cool my vehicle is!" kind of boring.
SWAT Kats - Actually for the same reason as Mecha anime--after a couple of episodes I wondered if these two ever do anything without that jet.
Dune novels - I loved the Frank Herbert ones as a kid, but nowadays the attempts to be deep and philosophical come off as laughable to me. I could never get into the Brian Herbert/KJA ones at all.
Hannibal Lecter novels - Again loved these as a kid, but nowadays they're a poster child for what's wrong with American novels that aren't authored by Tom Clancy or Erle Stanley Gardner: all the characters are two-dimensional, they're either whiny all the time or angry all the time and nobody comes off as an actual human being you could get behind. And Lecter himself is just kind of silly from an adult perspective (keep in mind, I've never read Hannibal Rising--by that point I was too old for these books).
Record of Lodoss War - The. Worst. Anime. Ever. It watches like they basically adapted their D&D game into an anime without an attempt to add any depth to the characters (especially Deedlit, whose sole personality trait is trying to get down Parn's pants) or flesh out the plot. It's funny that the American D&D cartoon which was made by people who had largely never played the game turned out far better.
Gradius games - Actually I love these things, I'm just putting this here to see whose paying attention.
Tekkaman Blade - Another contender for worst anime ever. It's basically like Marvel Comics made an anime: it starts out interesting, but instead of giving us actual compelling drama, they just crank the angst up and hope that suffices, and by the last disc you just want the show to hurry up and fucking end. Kudos for having blink-or-you'll-miss-it cameos from the original Space Knight Tekkaman (which was actually a decent series) though.
Comic books - Because none of the characters, universes or plotlines are compelling enough to be worth spending hundreds of man-hours (not to mention dollars) scouring eBay for back issues, and the graphic novel collections are way overpriced and often leave a lot to be desired.
PC Gaming - First you have to work around compatibility issues, then you have to work around whatever DRM they put on the disc, then you have to tweak the settings so the game runs optimally... granted, there are some pretty awesome PC games out there (practically all of them are by companies that are long dead, like Origin and Sierra) but the headaches make them almost not worth it when you can game just by slipping in a cartridge or a disc and powering up a console.
Children - Don't let anime lie to you: Children are not cute or sexy. Often, they're annoying, gross, and near impossible to communicate with on any meaningful level.
There, now I should never have an excuse to make an IJBM topic ever again!... Maybe!
Comments
I was tempted to ask if the horse was Uni, then I remembered Uni is from the good D&D cartoon.
@Bob -
Funniest damn thing I've read yet!
Sorry to have to snap but responses that consist entirely of Youtube video links get annoying for that very reason. They're like seeing a message that's been pre-thumped. So if you have something to tell me, just effing say it. Text loads much faster.
If you buy the books when you don't have anyone to play with, that's kind of your fault.
For something like D&D, unless you have the exact right group of people, you need at least some rules in place so it doesn't turn into "That monster hit you!" "Nuh uh, it missed!" etc, etc.
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I like kids. Anime has nothing to do with it.
But yeah, not the best story it can tell.
Which is why we're all still playing Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers to this day!
"Children are not cute or sexy."
That's the first thing you thought of?
With all due respect to Ian:
around multiplayer fails: If you don't live in an area with good
players/GMs then these games are worthless. Nevermind that you're
paying money for rulebooks that essentially just tell you how to play
make-believe, something I've always done just fine without rules.
@Forzare > If you buy the books when you don't have anyone to play with, that's kind of your fault.
@Forzare > For something like D&D, unless you have the exact right group of
people, you need at least some rules in place so it doesn't turn into
"That monster hit you!" "Nuh uh, it missed!" etc, etc.
What Everest said. Basically, tabletop (a.k.a. pen-and-paper) RPGs spread mainly by social contact and word of mouth, and if you were a TRPG company that required your customers to actually each own copies of at least basic sourcebooks before playing, you'd be out of business in no time. And also what Everest said; make-believe needs some sort of rules-based standardization to prevent stupid arguments between different people about how stuff happens.
@MoeDantes > Record of Lodoss War - The. Worst. Anime. Ever. It watches
like they basically adapted their D&D game into an anime without an
attempt to add any depth to the characters (especially Deedlit, whose
sole personality trait is trying to get down Parn's pants) or flesh out
the plot. It's funny that the American D&D cartoon which was made
by people who had largely never played the game turned out far better.
I agree that Deedlit seemed a bit annoying at times, but then again she's a highly plot-significant element herself so that partly justified it.
I've seen just the first series, and didn't find it that annoying. Maybe it's because I enjoyed the music and general epicness, while glossing over the slowness and "no duh"-ness of some parts.
@MoeDantes < An apple core - I'm leaving this here just to see if MoeDantes will shoot it.
@MoeDantes > PC Gaming
Yeah, my experience with PC gaming has a huge gap between some older Sierra games (The Even More Incredible Machine, EcoQuest: the Search for Cetus) and getting Steam a year or so ago. Between those two, pretty much the only "traditional" PC gaming that I did was play Age of Empires 2 and a tiny bit of Worms World Party. Apart from that it was all freeware and emulation.
@MoeDantes > Children - Don't let anime lie to you: Children are not cute or
sexy. Often, they're annoying, gross, and near impossible to
communicate with on any meaningful level.
Eureka Seven's children FTW. Possibly the three most irritating and non-cute children in all of animé.
I thought you were just joking.
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Maybe it does, but not enough standardization to require 200+ pages of rules.
*shoots it*
Wait a minute. I'm a kiddy-fiddler because I don't think children are sexy? Like, what's the line of reasoning there? Am I gonna need tylenol?
...I think that's about right for Paedofinder General logic
Gotcha.