Comments on: Brawl: Sweet New Toy or Gaming Masturbation?

By: Bonnie Ruberg

Bonnie Ruberg — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:20:33 +0000

Leave it to Leigh to be the voice of caps lock shock and disbelief :).

By: Leigh

Leigh — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:13:00 +0000

OH NO U CANT SAY THAT

By: Bonnie Ruberg

Bonnie Ruberg — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:18:25 +0000

Courtney, while I do enjoy Brawl, I hear you on the Soul Calibur love. Maybe it’s the difference in layout, but I always feel I have more control/success fighting in the 3D format (and with Voldo, no less :) then on platforms where I often find myself forgetting just who I’m playing as or where the heck he/she is :).

That’s a cool attitude, halassured: masturbation a-ok. I like it! It’s sort of like my approach to people who eat meat (I’m vegetarian): if you can accept what you’re putting in your body (it’s an animal, it used to be alive, etc.) and you’re still fine with it, then more power to you!

By: halfassured

halfassured — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 03:04:29 +0000

I think it is perhaps a bit masturbatory, but I’m never opposed to that. I think video games themselves tend a bit toward that, and certainly the metaphor is instructive since I /like/ masturbating. I guess the question is, if you have a game where there’s less of this, is it /better/ to play that game — is the experience more enriching or whatever?

By: Courtney Taylor

Courtney Taylor — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:12:10 +0000

Personally, and though some people might shoot me for this, I’m not a big fan of the Smash Brothers series. I bought Melee for the cube to see what all the fuss was about a couple years ago. It was about a month before it was collecting dust I was back to old faithful, the Soul Callibur series. I just never could get into it, and after having played Brawl with a few friends… I still can’t. I guess it’s just not for some people.