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Cleita

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2. Darken Rahl is familiar to me, not the game.

Tue Dec 18, 2012, 08:12 PM

Dec 2012

Somewhere in the cobwebby attic of my memory, I believe he was a character in some long forgotten wizard type story or movie. Do you know? Oh, I'm not one of those people who think games are the bottom of the problem. Like I said in another post, I would like to find the ER doctor who treated any one with wounds on him from a video game by another gamer.

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Darken Rahl and his Trip to the Underworld (or, eat it, antigamers) [View all] Occulus Dec 2012 OP

. RomneyLies Dec 2012 #1

Darken Rahl is familiar to me, not the game. Cleita Dec 2012 #2

Exactly. The fact is, those who are pissing and moaning about video games Occulus Dec 2012 #3

actually, I think its part of the puzzle here. To just roguevalley Dec 2012 #32

Wizard's First Rule, brought to you Ayn Rand disciple Terry Goodkind. Liberal Veteran Dec 2012 #4

They got really, really preachy after Temple of the Winds Occulus Dec 2012 #6

Marking to read later...nt SidDithers Dec 2012 #5

I'll never poke fun at my wife .... Bok_Tukalo Dec 2012 #7

... Matariki Dec 2012 #38

Or what about the inhabitants of Sodom? Nevernose Dec 2012 #8

I was going to pick something from the Bible, but this was a whole lot more mild Occulus Dec 2012 #9

LOL -- am I getting this right? Videos games aren't bad because some SciFi/Fantasy book is worse? downandoutnow Dec 2012 #10

Violence is a part of the human experience. An awful part, but a part none the less. white_wolf Dec 2012 #13

"To tell a good story you sometimes have to talk about the darker side of humanity." -- may be so! - downandoutnow Dec 2012 #18

replications of up-close-and-personal gory, brutal murder white_wolf Dec 2012 #21

Then again, there's FarCry 3, which I'm playing through now Occulus Dec 2012 #23

There are lots and lots of "first person shooters" out there that really aren't. Occulus Dec 2012 #31

Yep, he doesn't flinch from the horrors his characters visit on each other. I'm up to Cleita Dec 2012 #33

My point was to illustrate that many books are far, FAR more violent than any game Occulus Dec 2012 #16

I'm afraid you're wasting your time. This poster has to be a troll. white_wolf Dec 2012 #17

Frankly, I'm wondering if Mr. Benchley is making a repeat visit Occulus Dec 2012 #26

"SCI-FI/Fantasy is telling. It is properly termed "adult fantasy", and your improper classification" downandoutnow Dec 2012 #30

Google? Wikipedia? "Some professor"? Wikipedia? Occulus Dec 2012 #34

So NOW you say that it's "honestly debatable" terminology of classification, downandoutnow Dec 2012 #37

No, Occulus Dec 2012 #40

Gotta disagree. TDale313 Dec 2012 #39

Ha...I was wondering where you were going to go with this after reading the title. Evoman Dec 2012 #11

What Kahlan did to Demmin Nass was horrific Occulus Dec 2012 #20

I skipped to the bottom for fear of spoilers, but your post is brilliant. white_wolf Dec 2012 #12

forgive me for saying this, but your synopsis would make a decent video game story 0rganism Dec 2012 #14

The Witcher is amazing and one of the few games to deserve the M rating. white_wolf Dec 2012 #15

agreed - one of the few games that can hold its own as interactive literature 0rganism Dec 2012 #22

Interestingly, there's an entire series of games in which not a shot is fired Occulus Dec 2012 #25

You can play (and win) Fallout without killing anything too 0rganism Dec 2012 #27

Yes, you can. It's not exactly EASY in a post-apocalypic nuclear wasteland, but you CAN. Occulus Dec 2012 #29

It was tried as the television show "Legend of the Seeker", produced by Disney/ABC Occulus Dec 2012 #19

There's no way Disney/ABC could produce that kind of story convincingly 0rganism Dec 2012 #24

Fallout is great; I just started replaying New Vegas with the beauty mods Occulus Dec 2012 #28

That's it! TDale313 Dec 2012 #35

It felt garbled because Occulus Dec 2012 #36