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crms
Profile Joined February 2010
United States11933 Posts
October 31 2011 23:27 GMT
#861
you're a very small, very insignificant (sorry) portion of the gaming (or society as a whole) community. Companies cannot make changes for every niche problem people have, you know many people may have a phobia of roaches? Intense fear of aliens? Or are terrified if they hear gunfire? I'm sure you can find plenty of issues with much high % of people that are affected that are currently in many popular games, why you think blizzard should change their unit design because of this extremely small niche group is really quite delusional.
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Keitzer
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States2509 Posts
October 31 2011 23:28 GMT
#862
To be honest, the video / gameplay at blizzcon didn't affect me/i didn't notice it.... but when JP showed the images of the holes in the fingers... ewww, that's just fucking gross man.....

I can see how this would be a problem, and since HoTS is so far away, I don't see why not
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Jeremyy
Profile Joined July 2010
Canada182 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-11-01 05:30:43
November 01 2011 03:36 GMT
#863
On October 24 2011 20:22 iGrok wrote:
I'd prefer Lurker artwork. and maybe instead of the things that it sends out, it can shoot like, spines or something. And since Zerg doesn't have a lot of AOE, maybe these "spines" could do AEO damage of some sort.



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Dugrok
Profile Joined April 2010
Canada377 Posts
November 01 2011 03:47 GMT
#864
While I know the OP said not to respond with other phobias, I can't help but do so.

I suffer from thanatophobia (fear of death/dying) yet I play Starcraft pretty extensively. Have you ever counted the number of deaths in a game of SC2? Every unit makes a specific noise when it dies, telling you that it is dying... However, that doesn't stop me from playing. Yeah, it creeps me out when I stop to think about it (like when I'm writing this post) but I don't think that it's a bigger deal than that.

Really don't think changing the unit is necessary.
PantsB
Profile Joined January 2011
United States77 Posts
November 01 2011 03:49 GMT
#865
I also think the game is far to insensitive to our veterans. Do we really think its appropriate to show marines being ripped to shreds by alien monsters?

And for that matter, why must we call the zealot a zealot? This reinforces negative stereotypes about the religious....

Come on man.
Ryder.
Profile Joined January 2011
1117 Posts
November 01 2011 04:07 GMT
#866
Lol the test is the biggest joke of a test ever... When you do a psychological test you DON'T tell people what the test is about and what their reactions should be, the test is immediately flawed from that point on.

Also the stuff it showed in there doesn't prove this 'phobia', a phobia is defined as 'An extreme or irrational fear of or aversion to something'; there is nothing irrational about being at least mildly disgusted seeing weird indentations in human skin with maggots crawling through them, but this is not the same as being repulsed by a few pods on a computer generated skin.

Although I did have a chuckle when I saw urban dictionary quoted as a credible source...
Befree
Profile Joined April 2010
695 Posts
November 01 2011 04:17 GMT
#867
I feel uncomfortable with viewing lots of circles, but I don't think the swarm host is that bad from the gameplay footage. You can only see like 5 holes which isn't that much. I think the art could be improved, but I'm okay with it at the moment.

Ugh, now I feel itchy from all this discussion.
dizzy101
Profile Joined August 2010
Netherlands2066 Posts
November 01 2011 04:32 GMT
#868
LOL-worthy thread. And that video... what's the big deal? Do you sue movie theaters that show horror movies cuz they disgust you? Everything's a disease and everybody's a victim in today's society, sigh.
ELA
Profile Joined April 2010
Denmark4608 Posts
November 04 2011 12:18 GMT
#869
I still stand by what I posted earlier - I dont think this is significant enough for Blizzard to change the design, from the videos I have seen, the holes are not that visible

However, going through the funny pictures thread (Daily ritual), I stumpled on this image and I got a really weird disgusting feeling..

Is this related to the holes maybe? Or am I completely alone on this one?

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Cheeseling
Profile Joined March 2012
Ukraine132 Posts
June 25 2012 14:02 GMT
#870
Its so qt >^_^<

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