It’s wacky Monday so we’re publishing Ask A Doll today instead of on Thursday.  Yay!  If this session of Ask A Doll inspires questions of your own, just post them on the forum in the Ask A Doll thread.

1. I had a really deep, thought-provoking question to ask, but I can’t remember what it was. So here is my alternate question - what was the question that I was going to ask? And feel free to answer that question. If it happens to spark my memory and it really is the question I had in mind, I will kneel before your psychic prowess.

Brimtown: I really need a new sweater, you know, something to keep me warm this winter.  Why can’t I have a sweater knitted out of human hair?  I just really want a human hair sweater.

Calyber: With enough money, Brim, you can have pretty much any kind of sweater you want.  Even a human hair sweater is possible with enough moolah.  Check out this dress. 

2. If the Frag Dolls put out their own fighting game (a la Street Fighter 2 or Mortal Kombat), what would be your “signature” special move?

All the really cool moves are already taken, like Ryu’s Hadoken, Sub Zero’s Ice Blast, and Orchid’s Handstand Split Helicopter Kick (I am guessing on that name – more just describing the move, I guess).  With the limited original “signature” moves left, I would have to settle for the Ninja Burp Blast, which would expel stinky (and invisible) burning gases into the eyes of my opponents, temporarily blinding them so that I could kick them in the shin.  And if the Frag Dolls had a fighting game, we would definitely have fatalities.  After the huge deep voice said “Finish him!” I would do the ultimate gum-in-hair-slash-toe-stomp combo followed by a jab of the elbow in their throat, causing them to choke on their own tongue so hard that their head a-splodes.

3. Ok so games are costing $60 or around $60 when the original America’s Army was free. So why is AA better than most games that have come out and it was free?

Honestly, I haven’t played America’s Army, so I can’t comment on how good of a game it is – sawwy! It’s times like these that I like to remember an acronym I learned in my macro-economics class in high school: TANSTAAFL.  The game was paid for, just not necessarily by the kids playing it. 

4. I’m one of those gamers that has a life beyond my computer/consoles. Sometimes it can be kind of rough dealing with all the **** I get for wanting to stay in sometimes and game as opposed to going out, getting trashed, and partying. Have you ever/do you ever have to deal with that annoyance and how?

PS- You’d think in 2007 this wouldn’t be an issue, but alas...

I just want to point out that interaction with live human beings is healthy no matter what century you live in (although maybe a little less healthy if you lived during the bubonic plague).  But hey – sometimes you wants to game, sometimes you wants to play, if you know what I mean.  (Do I even know what I mean?) Balance is a good thing – that’s all the advice I can give.

5. What’s your favorite game? What online game are in progress? I enjoy Halo: Combat Evolved. My name there is “Chief”. I’m current playing GunZ too.

My all-time favorite game is hopscotch.  A good-old round of tossin’ that rock onto the pavement inside the numbered squares, then counting out the jumps with some little rhyme about Miss Penny Pumpkin, picking up your rock and hopping back… all before the dragon burns your family to sooty cinders.  Man, I miss them.  Anyway, we are currently playing Rainbow Six: Vegas, but sometimes I like to get my Halo 2 on.  I need to get more into online PC games, now that I got a sweet new Dell XPS lappumz-toppumz.  That GunZ game could have potential…

6. What are some games that you have never finished that you would like to have?

That’s funny, I wrote a whole blog on this once… here’s the abridged bulleted-version of that blog:

• Enchanted Arms (I’m at the very last battle and just can’t win!)
• DOA4 (I got as far as unlocking the Spartan character – pretty much all in one sitting, I might add… but never went on to play anymore of the game)
• Oblivion (I got so caught up in collecting stuff in my wolf-purse… then some jerk-face-hole-head-bottom stole my memory card, and it was just too traumatic to have to start over.  I miss my wolf-purse.)
• GRAW (Best. Campaign. Ever… I just got sucked in to the multiplayer, and lost all time for campaign.)
• Halo 2 (I never beat it on Legendary.)
• Far Cry (Way fun game, but I had to quit cuz the monsters got too scary.  Does that make me a little girl?  Wait, I am a little girl.)

7. Cheesecake or Pumpkin pie. Which is better?

Cheesecake, without a doubt.  In fact, pumpkin pie is just plain gross.  It only becomes tolerable when it’s drenched in whipped cream.  But cheesecake is delicious by itself or topped with fruit or chocolate or, hell, anything.

8. So now that the FragDolls are shifting somewhat to PC gaming, what is the method of gaming online with the Dolls on PC? XboxLIVE was convenient enough. Is there a system of coordinating Online Gaming for the PC that the Dolls are using?

Not shifting – more like expanding… Xbox 360 will still be a huge part of our online and competitive play.  As far as coordinating our PC gaming, it will become more scheduled once we get a regiment going and settle on games we’re going to take on.  Right now, we still need to finish recruiting a new PC-playing Frag Doll before we make a good solid plunge into online PC play as a team.  Some of us already play PC, but that is more personal happy-fun-time, with the occasional event thrown in there.  Last week, I was playing R6V and Quake 4 on PC at Quake-Con.  I don’t wanna brag or anything (but I have to in this case), but I was ripping it up in both games. 

9. Perhaps it is simply nostalgia getting the best of me, but it seems that the games released for the last two generations of systems lack the charm of previous “older” systems. Much like none of the young actresses today can hold a candle to Audrey Hepburn, I feel that none of the games today can hope to generate the joy and excitement of games like Chrono Trigger or Donkey Kong Country. The only game that deviated from this for me was Ninja Gaiden on the Xbox. Do you feel that this is true of games today? And if so, what is it that developers are missing in their games today that were present in the games of years before?

I’m going to answer your question with another question… Have you played Fable?  How about Paper Mario or Psychonauts?  Any of the Prince of Persias?  Really, if you have that opinion of games today, I think maybe you’re playing the wrong games.  To add to that, you can’t confuse systems with games on them.  Mario games will always be fun; Zelda games will always be epic; Metroid will always get more interesting; Halo (although the trilogy will soon end *shed a tear*) will only get deeper – no matter what console they are on or genre the game is.  True, there are many developers that are missing the mark (were they even aiming?) and making “throw-away” games.  I read an interesting article in this month’s OXM about that very thing, written by Randy Pitchford, a developer on an old 007 game, entitled “My Game Sucked!” Very informative… basically states that sometimes you gotta start working at Taco Bell in order to make the money to start your own restaurant.

Thus endeth another successful edition of Ask a Doll!