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		<title>Pac-Google-Man</title>
		<link>http://www.phasetoground.com/gaming/2010/05/pac-google-man/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 20:52:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dana</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you happened to be off of work last Friday, first off, I hate you. Second, you may have missed the 30th Anniversary of Pac-Man tribute in Google's first playable Doodle. Now don't come crying to me saying you want to waste time on Monday, because Google has created a permanent page for running Pac-Man [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you happened to be off of work last Friday, first off, I hate you. Second, you may have missed the 30th Anniversary of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pac-Man" target="_blank">Pac-Man</a> tribute in <a href="http://www.phasetoground.com/tag/google/" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag" title="Posts tagged with google">Google</a>'s first playable<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Doodle#Google_Doodle" target="_blank"> Doodle</a>. Now don't come crying to me saying you want to waste time on Monday, because <a href="http://www.phasetoground.com/tag/google/" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag" title="Posts tagged with google">Google</a> has created a <a href="http://www.google.com/pacman/" target="_blank">permanent page</a> for running <a href="http://www.phasetoground.com/tag/pac-man/" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag" title="Posts tagged with pac-man">Pac-Man</a> around the <a href="http://www.phasetoground.com/tag/google/" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag" title="Posts tagged with google">Google</a> logo.</p>
<p>Never mind the fact that there have been <a href="http://tinyurl.com/ldmnsw" target="_blank">flash versions of Pac-Man</a> around for a while now, it's cool now!</p>
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		<title>NerdRage over Diablo 3&#8242;s Design</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:18:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dana</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently there are a bunch of nerds people that are pissed off over the proposed look and feel of Blizzard's Diablo 3, enough to make a petition to change it.  According to the petition, the screenshots have looked too cartoony and there isn't enough use of the shadows that gave the first 2 games in [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Apparently there are a bunch of <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">nerds</span> people that are pissed off over the proposed look and feel of <a href="http://www.blizzard.com/diablo3/">Blizzard's Diablo 3</a>, enough to make a <a href="http://www.petitiononline.com/d3art/petition.html">petition</a> to change it.  According to the <a href="http://www.phasetoground.com/tag/petition/" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag" title="Posts tagged with petition">petition</a>, the screenshots have looked too cartoony and there isn't enough use of the shadows that gave the first 2 games in the Diablo series a distinctive gothic feel.</p>
<p>This just goes to show that people will complain about anything. This is <a href="http://www.phasetoground.com/tag/blizzard/" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag" title="Posts tagged with blizzard">Blizzard</a>'s game, I think they know what they're doing with the design of the game, and just because you don't like it.  I understand the complaint that they are fundamentally changing the Diablo universe by making it too "cartoony", but if the people at <a href="http://www.phasetoground.com/tag/blizzard/" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag" title="Posts tagged with blizzard">Blizzard</a> feel like taking their game in a new artistic direction, it's their prerogative to do so.  They've only successfully launched the most successful MMO in history, so they obviously don't know what they're doing.</p>
<p>The funny part is that 80% of the people who signed this <a href="http://www.phasetoground.com/tag/petition/" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag" title="Posts tagged with petition">petition</a> will still be lined up outside their local GameStop on release day to pick up their reserved copy, while the other 20% will protest on principle, only to buy their copies 2 weeks later after hearing their friends talk about how great it is. (This assumes the gameplay is good of course).</p>
<p>Let me know what you think, should a video game company tailor their games to suit their "hardcore" fans, or make a game that appeals to a broader audience?</p>
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