Different strokes
July 25th 2010 00:54
Bioware’s writing director Daniel Erickson demonstrated everything wrong with the gaming community when he declared that Final Fantasy 13 “is not an RPG.” At some point between your third and fifth gaming experience, something happens that makes people think that they’re entitled to declare that something isn’t “real” or isn’t actually part of the continuum just because they don’t like it.
I’m not going to spend a lot of time attacking him (though I easily could, as almost no games other than Fallout and Oblivion have ever managed something approaching an open world, and Bioware’s latest offering, Dragon Age, is rife with the same recycled archetypes and cloying romantic subplots that were boring way back in Baldur’s Gate II). I am, however, going to point out that it is not any less obnoxious when Magic players do the exact same thing and declare that a certain card or deck type has “ruined Standard.”
Too many people have gone on forums to proclaim that they are quitting Magic because there are too many (or too few) creature decks, or whatever, in Standard. It’s like reacting to Dragon Age turning out to be a rehash of Baldur’s Gate II by selling your PS3. Did you even try switching to a JRPG or a first-person shooter? And there is, believe it or not, an equivalent in Magic. Take the damn pro websites off your favorites list, close the forum threads about how Baneslayer Angel is too expensive, and build a deck with all cards where you like the art.
I’m serious. Go.
Now.
I’m not going to spend a lot of time attacking him (though I easily could, as almost no games other than Fallout and Oblivion have ever managed something approaching an open world, and Bioware’s latest offering, Dragon Age, is rife with the same recycled archetypes and cloying romantic subplots that were boring way back in Baldur’s Gate II). I am, however, going to point out that it is not any less obnoxious when Magic players do the exact same thing and declare that a certain card or deck type has “ruined Standard.”
You’ll miss her someday.
Too many people have gone on forums to proclaim that they are quitting Magic because there are too many (or too few) creature decks, or whatever, in Standard. It’s like reacting to Dragon Age turning out to be a rehash of Baldur’s Gate II by selling your PS3. Did you even try switching to a JRPG or a first-person shooter? And there is, believe it or not, an equivalent in Magic. Take the damn pro websites off your favorites list, close the forum threads about how Baneslayer Angel is too expensive, and build a deck with all cards where you like the art.
I’m serious. Go.
Now.
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