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LifeSunDeath posted:I'm so loving sad they don't do carboys anymore. To hell with all the drama, I want my free internet lols. Yeah, that McElroy/Robinson-alchemy isn't coming back. There a good backlog of the CoolGames Inc-podcast if you haven't listened to it yet.
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Guy Mann posted:2008: Spore launches with all the features it promised and gamers revolt because it's not as fun as they imagined it would be. Will Wright goes into hiding after a gamer fatwah is issued on him and Maxis is eventually quietly shut down 
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Megillah Gorilla posted:What they promised was that you could build your own procedurally generated species. Like, making the arms longer would give advantages for species which evolved to use spears. Shorter, thicker arms would be good for heavier weapons. The bodies had an underlying skeletal structure and modifying it took 'evolution points' but their in-game effects would be decided solely on how well you built your creature to interact with its world. In the tribe stage you could either murder other tribes or befriend them. Cool. But when you advance to the city stage every other sapient species is gone. Genocide happens no matter how friendly and pacifistic you were.  I also wasn't thrilled that your cell stage accomplishments didn't really matter. At no stage do your previous decisions really lock you into anything. You may have ended the cell stage with a murderous bulldog looking thing with six limbs and crab claws, but it's no problem to design your animal form as a gangly giraffe quadruped with tree frog fingers. You have points to spend and can spend them on whatever. Honestly I think it would go over better now than it did at the time. It doesn't compare well to PC games or even console games, but with a little tweaking it could be top notch phone app. Real easy to pick up and put down.
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Facebook Aunt posted:I also wasn't thrilled that your cell stage accomplishments didn't really matter. At no stage do your previous decisions really lock you into anything. You may have ended the cell stage with a murderous bulldog looking thing with six limbs and crab claws, but it's no problem to design your animal form as a gangly giraffe quadruped with tree frog fingers. You have points to spend and can spend them on whatever. Yeah, this is what really disappointed me about Spore. I had this idea in my head that it would work like, you know, evolution -- your critter evolves slowly to fit a niche, and maybe that niche eventually disappears or changes and the species adapts, but you can't just go back and rewrite all the early traits. You have to make do with what you have and change it slowly to fit as best you can. Like, for instance, when your creature comes out of the ocean you shouldn't be able to just totally redesign it. Maybe you can only change one or two parts, or move a couple of parts not more than 10% of the way along the creature's body. So you do your best to make your aquatic critter suitable for land, but all you can do is change two fins into claws and slide them towards the bottom of the body, and for the first several cycles it's like a crustacean that just flops along the beach until it evolves a better walk. You might even end up with real-life vestigial quirks like the recurrent laryngeal nerve -- maybe you don't need that extra set of flippers on the belly, but they aren't hurting you and it's more important to evolve legs that can jump, so you just leave them there well past the time when they're useful, and they just become part of the shape of the creature despite there being no intentional reason for it. I dunno. Maybe the tech wasn't there in the early 2000s but man, it really was a letdown.
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The one good part of spore was that other players creatures would be in your world and, during the creature stage, some rare creatures would be super sized to be some big threat so occasionally you'd run across this massive penis just strolling around.
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Garrand posted:The one good part of spore was that other players creatures would be in your world and, during the creature stage, some rare creatures would be super sized to be some big threat so occasionally you'd run across this massive penis just strolling around. you should have turned on your monitor
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Yo these Spore memes are loving dank as gently caress, gamer hell yeah.       https://i.imgur.com/6WKTHuT.gifv     https://i.imgur.com/RHBGqbn.gifv          https://i.imgur.com/tKezQ2u.gifv      (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Maybe step away from the computer for a bit.
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PYF Macros & Memes Part 6: I shidded and farded and came in my pants
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Kun on tätä kamaa rööreissä, edes supernova ei pelota.
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nice meltdown
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nice meltdown
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melt nicedown
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Okay, I think I see where I went wrong last time. Let’s try this again. I’m very sorry someone said a game you like was bad.
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no mad guy
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Guy Mann posted:Yo these Spore memes are loving dank as gently caress, gamer hell yeah. Say what you want but I'm all here for these salty memes
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PYF Macros & Memes Part 5: Video game meltdowns
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Holy poo poo shut up you salty loving videogame nerds. Overhyped game happened, news at loving 11. Get on with your lives, like everyone else did.
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Oftentimes, it's harder on the manchild
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I shidded and farded and camed ~my pants~
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Personally I'm still pissed about Starbound. One of those games that actually got worse as they technically delivered all the promised content and probably woulda been better off releasing the alpha as it was.
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But No Man’s Sky on the Xbox is...good? 
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Yeah Ok Game devs should probably not lie or overhype their game but on the other hand, how can "gamers" be so gullible as to believe every outlandish promise ever from what is just a salesman? They'll preorder and poo poo, based on what some rear end in a top hat salesman says on their screen, instead of just looking at the videos of the game or waiting one day after release to see if the insanely wild claims are true or not what im saying is people are dumb as poo poo as consumers
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What's with this dogpile? That was a very mild rant even by this thread's standards and those memes are good poo poo imo
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Zzulu posted:Yeah Ok You do realize most "gamers" are children? Do you also victim blame your grandma when she buys itunes giftcards to pay her tax to the "government"?
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Fried Watermelon posted:You do realize most "gamers" are children? For as long as I can remember (so, since the late 80s), every study has shown this to be categorically untrue. e: If we're talking about actual age.
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Fried Watermelon posted:You do realize most "gamers" are children? average age of gamers is a lot higher than you'd think quote:The average age of all video game players in our sample this year is 34, up from 33 in our 2016 report and an increase of 10 years over our first report in 2005 You're probably right about the outright majority of gamers being children, but the studies don't discriminate between 5 year olds and 17 year olds, which is a bit disingenuous. Memento has a new favorite as of 11:18 on Sep 16, 2018 |
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Memento posted:You're probably right about the outright majority of gamers being children He's not.
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Lets just get it straight that the devs of No Man's Sky outright lied about, or at least failed to deliver on, a lot of their key selling points for the game. People who preorder games are dumb for sure and anyone who believed NMS was going to be much more than it ended up being was naive, but the main dude is pretty lucky he wasn't sued for false advertising at the very least. If I commission a website with XYZ features but get a barely touched up WordPress template I'm gonna be rightly pissed. It's pretty akin to that imo. voiceless anal fricative has a new favorite as of 12:27 on Sep 16, 2018 |
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Why is the meme thread being derailed by a bunch of butthurting from, what, 4 years ago?
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Well, that article presumably refers to "people who regularly play video games," while standard internet lingo is "people whose personal identity is tied up in the media they consume." The former are pretty normal folks from all walks of life, while the latter are, frequetly, entitled (man)children. Both statements can be correct depending on context.
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bike tory posted:Lets just get it straight that the devs of No Man's Sky outright lied about, or at least failed to deliver on, a lot of their key selling points for the game. People who preorder games are dumb for sure and anyone who believed NMS was going to be much more than it ended up being was naive, but the main dude is pretty lucky he wasn't sure for false advertising at the very least. 
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Zulily Zoetrope posted:Well, that article presumably refers to "people who regularly play video games," while standard internet lingo is "people whose personal identity is tied up in the media they consume." The former are pretty normal folks from all walks of life, while the latter are, frequetly, entitled (man)children. Both statements can be correct depending on context. I'm a tv watcher. Tv watchers rise up!
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Karate Bastard posted:I shidded and farded and camed ~my pants~
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