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Originally Posted by ANT Pogo
Why pick FATAL, quite possibly and without exaggeration the worst, most offensive RPG ever written, to compare it to? What was it about CD that you deemed comparable to FATAL (or vice versa)?
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(I perfectly understant that you are not trying to start a fight. Neither was I, by the way.)
First and foremost, I was not comparing CD to FATAL as such. All I know about CD is what's in the review. Likewise, all I know about FATAL is what I read in its reviews. I didn't read any of these two games. I'm lead to believe that the reviewers of both of them have been faithful to their content and provide very useful insights for me to decided if I want the games or not. Those insights lead to think I don't, so I cannot comment directly on games I didn't read. I'm explaining all of this to correct your statement: I'm not exactly comparing CD to FATAL, rather I wrote from my perceptions on both these games that came from their reviews.
In any case, I think that meaningless and mindless violence is as obscene and objectionable as anything I read about FATAL. Yes, many rpgs are violent but the scenario described as being the core of CD is just gore for gore's sake. The games I like include violence but in such terms that I can relate to it since with them I can deal with violence as not being the ultimate objective of the game. That's not what the review leads me to think about CD. Based on what I read about FATAL the difference between it and CD is that FATAL adds sex and discrimination to violence. For me these are just other shades of the same basic de-humanising attitude. I just cannot entertain myself with such things.
In a sense my question was also a challenge to the reviwer: FATAL is considered a vile, unaccetable game. Why is CD any more acceptable when it keeps the same basic stance about violence? (The fact that it is based on some comics is meaningless in this context. It only moves the question from the object under discussion - the CD rpg - to another object that was not under discussion.)