guynamedbilly

@ripelivejam: There's of course nothing wrong with feeling sympathy with people in bad situations, but promoting empathic feelings for inanimate objects and selectively choosing when those feelings are relevant or not is incredibly dangerous. I mean, regardless of what the original books were, this is so obviously not a parable, or metaphor, or even a warning of a possible future or anything like that. It's a dumb fun game mechanic. That's obviously all they designed it to be and that's all it has to be. Just because you can play six degrees of separation to find some cause to tie it to, does not make it important or worthy of thought.

Having empathy for inanimate objects is always ridiculous.

Regarding the Mordor sadism... This is a game. They are not thinking, feeling beings. They don't have emotions. Why is this still a thought that won't die out? Why do people empathize with inanimate, inorganic objects?

Looks like a game I'd really like to pay when it's on sale. Kind of getting some City of Heroes urges from it.

The minimap is pretty useful.

I'll give it a try when it's free, but the slide puzzles are an immediate turn off for me too.

Never mind, the item degradation and micro transaction scheme means I'll skip it altogether.

He just wants to, like, educate the kids and, like, make them smart like their friends. Sorry, but all that and the '"well it's not really a spoiler" but of course it is because I had to preface my statements with that line' forced me to skip this episode.