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Silent Hill Origins
Here is a long look at a game that tries to live up to a big legacy and fails hilariously.
Self-Balancing Gameplay
There's a wonderful way to balance difficulty in RPGs, and designers try to prevent it. For some reason.
Mass Effect 3 Ending Deconstruction
Did you dislike the ending to the Mass Effect trilogy? Here's my list of where it failed logically, thematically, and tonally.
The Truth About Piracy
What are publishers doing to fight piracy and why is it all wrong?
Silver Sable Sucks
This version of Silver Sable is poorly designed, horribly written, and placed in the game for all the wrong reasons.
Am I missing anything?
The comic works. Still missing the commentary.
There wasn’t any in the original version of this one, either. I’m guessing Bay didn’t have anything to add.
What else needs be said?
Boss, whole article missing!
Gah, fixed. We switched who was doing the file uploading and while my computer adds dashes between DM_of_the_rings, Issacs does not, so the image name changed and the site couldn’t find it.
Hah!
And here I was thinking that the advent of technology was supposed to make our lives easier xD
As usual, congratulations for your responsiveness!
I’ve tried reloading this page, but I’m still seeing an onward link to ‘Minecraft Complaints’ instead of GMotR LXIX.
Yup, all fixed, thanks for letting us know. All posts begin in the ‘random’ category, and you have to manually remove it and put in the new tag, but it’ll let you put in the new tag without removing random, which causes all sorts of issues.
Amusingly, the party was intended to fight the Balrog. Running away from that encounter was all on them.
So the DM’s smugness here is pretty justified.
I had to go back and check the page. They were intended to fight, but Gimli’s player points out that the Balrog seems to be so high above what the party can handle that he guesses Gandalf is clearly supposed to take care of it while the players’ characters watch. Instead of which, they run. So it’s an interesting question as to whether the party, per se, was supposed to fight (or would even be able to do anything), or just watch as Gandalf handled it. (It’s possible the DM had some cool boss fight mechanic that would allow the party to contribute, but with how this DM operates…)
It certainly remains true that they didn’t defeat the Balrog, or even really face it.
I mean, it worked for sir Robin… kinda.
I mean… There are opponents powerfull enough that the mere fact of being near one and fleeing to tell the tale is a praiseworthy feat achieved by few.
However, this is neither the party, nor GM that’d appreciate the concept.