This Wired article is pretty hilarious. Anyone who has been following 4e's reception on the WOTC boards will recognize all the types represented here. The nerd conservatism (consnerdatism?) that makes transitions from things like D&D 3.5 to 4.0 so painful to wounded souls the world over has a corollary even closer to home, of course--the persistent NWN1-->NWN2 discussion.
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Well, the NWN1-->NWN2 thing has at least one very dire point: There's /no/ GNU/Linux binary for NWN2.
Yes, it works in Wine, but just barely, with abysmal performance and after jumping through lots of hoops (native DirectX 9 DLLs, anyone?).
Ah, and you need a crack, of course, thanks to the "great" copy protection.
True enough, anoncoward, and at least that discussion doesn't go so much into RPG causes célèbres. My favorite bit from the Wired article, obviously parodying the tendency among 4e naysayers to complain about the lack of roleplaying fluff in 4e:
Where are the recipes for chatting with friends while cooking? Where are the recipes for conversation over the meal? When I throw a dinner party, I want it to be a PARTY. I guess the idiots who use the Better Joy Cookbook just cook and eat in stony silence, never saying a word or even looking each other in the eye.
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