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Jay Rust posted:What other fandoms are you thinking of, ImpAtom? Pretty much any one. There are generally two kinds of crazy-rear end fans: A) The ones who want to hate something and go batshit when it gets any kind of positive response B) The ones who want to love something and go batshit when it gets any kind of negative response. I've seen it with Resident Evil, with Final Fantasy, with Pokemon, with Super Robot Wars. I personally gotten death threats (admittedly ignorable ones which I don't give a poo poo about) when I criticized Assassin's Creed 1 before the game even came out. Fans are crazy when hype or anti-hype comes into play. People get crazy about games that have either big hype expectations or big failure expectations about them. They get really crazy invested in it.
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Mar 15, 2017 22:15
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If you criticize things I like, you're criticizing me!!
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Mar 15, 2017 22:17
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If I don't defend media corporations, who will??
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I refuse to believe that there are asscreed superfans. I just thought it was a generic geek Funko bait property, the game is too vanilla for somebody to care strongly about it.
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Mar 15, 2017 22:18
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bloodychill posted:How does a game engine regress so much take a lovely engine, stretch it out as far as you possibly can over the course of 17 years e; wait, this is about mass effect, not the elder scrolls take an average engine, stretch it out as far as you possibly can over the course of 10 years
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tap my mountain posted:I refuse to believe that there are asscreed superfans. I don't know if there are Assassin's Creed megafans now but I'm talking about the original Assassin's Creed which was a mega-hype thing. People were super excited about it and it had a metric shitload of push behind it and people were genuinely expecting it to redefine gaming entirely.
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tap my mountain posted:I refuse to believe that there are asscreed superfans. I mean ezio probably has the most badass character design imaginable if you're 12  idk who the main character is now
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Mar 15, 2017 22:20
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um the main character has always been Desmond
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rear end Creed 1 got a ton of hype but I think a lot of that in hindsight is because it was one of the earliest "go anywhere do whatever" games. Free running was still a relatively new concept in that time, as were Ubisoft open world checkbox-a-thons. AC1 wasn't very good, but it had a lot of good systems. AC2 was much better in comparison.
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Mar 15, 2017 22:27
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oddium posted:um the main character has always been Desmond Desmond died half the series ago.
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Mar 15, 2017 22:27
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doesn't asscreed 4 use memories they pull from his dead body. and the rest probably do something similar
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oddium posted:um the main character has always been Desmond significantly less badass  e: I just noticed the tribal sleeve nevermind
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tap my mountain posted:I refuse to believe that there are asscreed superfans. i met a guy who wore an asscreed logo hat all the time once but i pretended not to recognize it
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Mar 15, 2017 22:30
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Assassin's Creed is almost a decade old.
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ImpAtom posted:Desmond died half the series ago. Desmond is Unbreakable
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ImpAtom posted:Desmond died half the series ago. so you're saying Desmond lived longer than the asscreed series.
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The Colonel posted:take a lovely engine, stretch it out as far as you possibly can over the course of 17 years Bioware uses DICE's Frostbite 3.0 for Mass Effect Andromeda since it's great for creating large environments with modern shader effects. However, much of its development tools and rendering pathway are optimized for multiplayer shooters. Bioware had to do a number of modification when using it for RPGs For example, they had to code in a pause function during combat for Inquisition. With Andromeda, there's probably quite a bit of engineering left to do compared to what they had with Unreal Engine 3 by Mass Effect 3.
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It's card games and not video games but there are multiple tales of game stores telling Yu Gi Oh players that they aren't welcome any more...I don't mean specific players, I mean people who play Yu Gi Oh period...because the crowd they attract is so intensely toxic that it drives other customers away, and that's kind of a big deal since Yu Gi Oh is an extremely profitable game for many brick and mortar stores so for them to say "we don't want you here, go away" means they're willing to give that up just to not deal with the fan base.
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Kai Tave posted:It's card games and not video games but there are multiple tales of game stores telling Yu Gi Oh players that they aren't welcome any more...I don't mean specific players, I mean people who play Yu Gi Oh period...because the crowd they attract is so intensely toxic that it drives other customers away, and that's kind of a big deal since Yu Gi Oh is an extremely profitable game for many brick and mortar stores so for them to say "we don't want you here, go away" means they're willing to give that up just to not deal with the fan base. I've heard that it's also because they tend to play for money in tournaments and that attracts people who act a lot shittier.
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bloodychill posted:The DLC is not very interesting. Y'know what I can live with that. Still waiting on a discounted GOTY edition though.
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Mar 15, 2017 22:37
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I don't recall people losing their poo poo when Spirit Tracks got mediocre reviews. Did that happen?
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Mar 15, 2017 22:39
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probably not because minish cap + phantom hourglass were bad so everyone expected it
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Mar 15, 2017 22:40
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i like minish cap and had fun wishing phantom hourglass was more like windwaker
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Grapplejack posted:I've heard that it's also because they tend to play for money in tournaments and that attracts people who act a lot shittier. A lot of game stores will hold tournaments for things like store credit or special swag as prizes, it isn't usually a cash pot going to the winner, but yeah, apparently the game draws a mix of hypercompetitive and abrasive 12 year olds with insanely toxic attitudes and creepy 40 year olds that most parents don't want around their kids. Like people make fun of Magic players but I've never heard any game store owner or regular have anything positive to say about Yu Gi Oh.
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Real hurthling! posted:i like minish cap and had fun wishing phantom hourglass was more like windwaker Same. I would never try to play either of them again. (eh, maaaybe Minish Cap.)
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Mar 15, 2017 22:43
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the hat and tiny link are pretty cool
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oddium posted:probably not because minish cap + phantom hourglass were bad so everyone expected it Phantom Hourglass is actually like, the 5th best Zelda game.
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minish cap is my favorite 2d zelda game phantom hourglass kind of blows though
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A couple of my friends worked at a comic shop for a couple years and they consistently hated the Yu Gi Oh players for a variety of reasons. The least surprising one that stuck in my mind is that the ratio of normal card mat to card mat with an anime girl with her titties out was skewed way more to the latter.
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:That's disappointing. I keep building this huge backlog of quirky indie story games like Oxenfree, Virginia, and Kentucky Route Zero, but every time I even mouse over them I suddenly find myself playing another round of Overwatch instead These folks have weird opinions, the ending of Night in the Woods is pretty good and if you don't see how it connects to everything else you weren't paying attention. At the very least I don't see how it would ruin the game for anyone. To be specific: The point of "the hole in the center of everything", this feeling of doom that you can't explain, is that it feels exactly the same as the non-magical pressures the characters are under. It's kind of uncanny to the point where it's not entirely clear there was something magical going on at all. I don't think it's anyone's favorite part of the game (there's a few parts that are clumsy) but it's definitely not game ruining. There's also a very good epilogue! Night in the Woods owns really hard!
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Kai Tave posted:It's card games and not video games but there are multiple tales of game stores telling Yu Gi Oh players that they aren't welcome any more...I don't mean specific players, I mean people who play Yu Gi Oh period...because the crowd they attract is so intensely toxic that it drives other customers away, and that's kind of a big deal since Yu Gi Oh is an extremely profitable game for many brick and mortar stores so for them to say "we don't want you here, go away" means they're willing to give that up just to not deal with the fan base. Pretty unrelated but the Yu Gi Oh cartoon makes the Pokemon cartoon look logical and is almost pure marketing.
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forming a life long bond of friendship with blue eyes white dragon
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Real hurthling! posted:forming a life long bond of friendship with blue eyes white dragon According to a friend of mine apparently the plot is that that dude was an ancient egyptian in a previous life whose waifu turned into a dragon and the cards represent his eternal magic bond with his dead waifu. I am never entirely sure when my friend is bullshitting me about YGO but I assume the answer is never.
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Everyone solves their problems by playing Yu Gi Oh, I saw half of one newer episode where a cop has to beat the protagonist at Yu Gi Oh to be able to arrest him. It's like if Transfromers was drama literally about kids playing with toys.
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That's Pokemon too.
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oddium posted:probably not because minish cap + phantom hourglass were bad so everyone expected it Minish Cap was good IMHO but either way I think ST was so obviously terrible that nobody really bothered defending it
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Jay Rust posted:That's Pokemon too. Well, Pokemon games and the Pokemon show are both models of the same premise. But Yu-Gi-Oh the show is just about playing Yu-Gi-Oh the game. Like, in the Pokemon show they Don't play the Pokemon card game or the Pokemon video games. The show is about the same things the games are about.
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Poops Mcgoots posted:A couple of my friends worked at a comic shop for a couple years and they consistently hated the Yu Gi Oh players for a variety of reasons. The least surprising one that stuck in my mind is that the ratio of normal card mat to card mat with an anime girl with her titties out was skewed way more to the latter. Like actual porn mats out in a comic shop?  Seems like they could probably kick them out.
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my ds microphone was broken and i got really mad at the pan pipe section of spirit tracks
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