AWKWARD ZOMBIE

There is a disturbing lack of WA in this comic. I fixed it.

*Bows*
Yeah, I just don't really have anything to add to the conversation. I am but a lowly intermediate-gamer-level peon.
And that panel needed to be addressed because ohmygod.

Also this. WA.

This comic. This comic has SO many perfect avatars. Why has only about four people changed their avatars to this.

"C'mon, Samus, we finally squeezed him through the doors. The least you could do is say Wa."
'One time!'
"..."
"Wa."
"I miss the baby."

Can some kind soul do me a favor and cut out King Dedede in the 9th Panel (The one where he's playing Chess with Kirby) for me to steal as an avatar?

Because people are STUPID

Or they just don't feel like changing their avatars, whatever

I don't feel bad at all about completely discounting any "evil" done by Mario and Kirby villains. Mostly because Mario and Kirby don't care about it either. They have a race to see who can eat the most cake by the time they get to the end of the racetrack, and all is forgiven.

If the game treats it lightly and doesn't show it on-camera, it's hard for the player to take it seriously. You never once actually see Ganondorf harm a single person or give his henchmen a single order in most of the games, to my recollection; much less set fire to Nibelheim and then fall from the ceiling and impale Aeris. The vast majority of what he does is simply stuff you're assuming he did. Like, there's never any proof that he didn't take over Castle Town peacefully. It's kind of a safe assumption that he probably sunk the castle into the lava and killed a lot of people, but not only do you not see it, but no one ever even actually says he did it. Or says anything specific about the deaths of anyone being the result of Ganondorf, with maybe a couple exceptions, like... one death every few games. Apparently ultra-vague remarks like "His evil power radiated out from the temples, and in seven short years, it transformed Hyrule into a world of monsters" and repeatedly calling him the King of Evil are supposed to be enough to make me hate him. Everyone dances around what he did like they're hiding something, making me think that they're probably all fucking liars and Ganondorf didn't do any of it.

Which reminds me, I would love to see a kart racing game for something like Diablo, with all the seriousness and drama that's actually in the original games. Deckard Cain talking about the fate of the world depending on your drifting technique, and Tyrael giving you a multi-part quest to rebuild his holy spoiler that was shattered into three pieces when he crashed during his kart race against Belial through the Caldeum sewers.

Edit: Katie, feel free to make that into a comic, somehow.

i cant think of anything besides this chart

Okay, perhaps I should've specified that the use of the term "villain" in that comment meant "evil person you hate too much to invite them to a race around Choco Mountain on your B-Dasher".

...We need more serious-story-games-as-kart-racers ideas.

meh

Well I never change my avatar so that's part of it.

Like this?

Absolutely agreed! Heck, I never intended to say any other villains -weren't- worthy of the claim "has done awful things" or anything like that! Just thought it would be fun to point out one in particular x3

some people argue that windwaker dorf was such a compelling villain, with his soliloquy about seeing his lands barren and his people suffering, but he looked upon goodguyland and the winds were gentle and the land bountiful



it makes the villain understandable and dynamic, which is way better then 'imma kick a puppy, cause evil thats why'




leading to the argument that a hero is made better by the quality of villains they face. id half think its easier to mess up a villain then a hero- we remember heath leger as the joker waaaay more then we remember gravel voice batman cause holy crap that was an awesome joker. in the batman chronology the joker is typically pointed to as 'this is how you do a villain right' (except for brave and the bold), but when you look at a different character like the penguin you have a roller coaster of done right/done wrong going from a complete joke buffoon to formidable, suave, and composed