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In reply to the discussion: Darken Rahl and his Trip to the Underworld (or, eat it, antigamers) [View all]Cleita
(75,480 posts)2. Darken Rahl is familiar to me, not the game.
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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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
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
"SCI-FI/Fantasy is telling. It is properly termed "adult fantasy", and your improper classification"
downandoutnow
Dec 2012
#30
So NOW you say that it's "honestly debatable" terminology of classification,
downandoutnow
Dec 2012
#37
Ha...I was wondering where you were going to go with this after reading the title.
Evoman
Dec 2012
#11
forgive me for saying this, but your synopsis would make a decent video game story
0rganism
Dec 2012
#14
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