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	[quote name="Jerry Whorebach"]<img src="http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b369/juniper9/89f97536.jpg"> And they were both way more entertaining than either version of The Darkness. Coincidence? [quote name="Worm"]Is Eli's death as bad, less bad? Isn't that as much unnecessary motivation and cheap sympathy?[/quote] Eli's death didn't bother me as much because there were all sorts of male characters in that game, and some of them even had agency within the story - or at least the appearance of agency, if the whole thing wasn't some cosmic puppetshow being orchestrated by the cigarette lizard man (the gameplay could support either interpretation equally poorly) - Gordon Freeman, for example. I think if you were to pull a frog DNA on Half-Life 2 and reverse all the sexes, Eli's death as a reverse-man wouldn't even matter, it would still be the most SJW-approved game in the history of all time (if it isn't already - SJWs tend to have fairly awful taste in games). Somehow I feel like you understood this perfectly though and I just fell all over myself explaining the most obvious shit to someone as if either they were a child or I were logged in as TDARCOS. I honestly don't see a problem with sending the message to developers that if they're going to make us sit through their non-interactive story sequences while we wait for the blood textures to finish streaming off the DVD or whatever, the least they could do is try to make the scenery a little less depressing along the tram ride. I'm sure there are all sorts of people out there who get a kick out of seeing the artlessly horrible (as opposed to the artfully horrible, like Saturn eating his sons or the less popular but equally grotesque Saturn double dipping a chip), but they're not me, so why should I factor their stupid, stupid preferences into my response to the story any more than I should into my response to the save system? <img src="http://i.imgur.com/SwNCJKq.jpg"> The Tick video game was one of the worst I've ever owned, BTW, despite having a bat-type man in it. I don't remember what the story was or if it had a story beyond "there are two types of enemies and two dozen levels, have fun lol."[/quote]