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| Video games (sincere) |
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44 | 10.89% |
| Video games (ironic) |
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14 | 3.47% |
| Video games (the mod) |
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74 | 18.32% |
| Video games (but only for my platform of choice) |
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10 | 2.48% |
| Video games (but only the one game I play) |
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13 | 3.22% |
| Video games (but only the ones I played as a kid) |
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17 | 4.21% |
| Family, friends, your job, the forum (sincere) |
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38 | 9.41% |
| Family, friends, your job, the forum (ironic) |
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14 | 3.47% |
| Bowsette |
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117 | 28.96% |
| That this Bowsette meme seems to be dying |
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63 | 15.59% |
| Total: | 404 votes | ||
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More like spider-narc
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Nov 22, 2018 09:54
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Infinitum posted:Spider-cop exists now ASCAB 
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Nov 22, 2018 10:08
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bushisms.txt posted:More like spider-narc all spidermans are bastards
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Nov 22, 2018 10:24
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Blizzard has literally no idea how to balance a game. If they had made Starcraft Broodwar in the year 2018 they would of ruined its balance in the first patch. After they release skins for each unit you can buy for a small price of 4.99 (for a random lootbox)
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Nov 22, 2018 10:43
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Internet Kraken posted:Blizzard has literally no idea how to balance a game. If they had made Starcraft Broodwar in the year 2018 they would of ruined its balance in the first patch. Please expand on this, I’m curious
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Nov 22, 2018 11:17
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Steve Yun posted:Please expand on this, I’m curious Basically if you took that same game and released it today, it would not survive Blizzard's current development culture. No matter how balanced a game is, its always gonna be patched; because patches get people interested in picking it up again. And Blizzard has a vested interest in keeping as many people as possible interested in their games rather than appealing to serious, dedicated players. And on the surface that seems like a good thing; why wouldn't you want a dev to keep patching their game? But the reality is Blizzard doesn't patch with a solid balance plan. They patch with the intent of pushing new content for people to play with first and balance second. If there was ever a stable, perfect meta in a game Blizzard would gladly disrupt it by throwing in new poo poo that completely upends it. A shifting meta isn't necessarily a bad thing but Blizzard handles it without any sort of finesse or care. And all this isn't done for the sake of improving the game; its done to sell lootboxes. Get people to play the game again. Get them to buy shiny new skins. Do whatever it takes to keep people on the hamster wheel, and trickling in new content is the perfect way to do that. Tons of games do this now, but with Blizzard its extremely clear their only interest in supporting a game is opportunities to fleece people with their insidious microtransactions. So lets examine the hypothetical of Starcraft Broodwar being released by 2018 Blizzard. Well, the game would come out of the box with cosmetics and loot boxes for all your little units (which would kind of be awesome in an RTS not gonna lie). But then after a month or so, they balance patch the game. Maybe they make a reactionary patch to something the community is vocally complaining about (nerf spider mines or some poo poo). Might not seem like a big deal but making little changes without planning ahead can disrupt a very delicate balance. Soon they add some new units (with some new cosmetics buy now!), and those units are designed to be as flashy and cool as possible to draw people back into the game. Their balance is dubious though, and further balance patches just exacerbate the problems. A year down the line you've got a game that's meta has shifted from the original incarnation in a huge way due to so many changes and additions, and because Blizzard is focused on content first and balance second the game's meta becomes a mangled mess. But you can give your marines cowboy hats or something so don't complain. Just buy more lootboxes.
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Nov 22, 2018 11:44
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Steve Yun posted:Please expand on this, I’m curious From my experience with Hearthstone and Overwatch in the past few years, they basically approach balance issues with a very heavy sledgehammer. When things are nerfed, they'll utterly kill the option, or revamp it in to a completely different form. In a similar fashion when things are buffed, they tend to be extremely powerful, or they introduce new options that are hard counters to old stuff, warping the meta around the new thing. There's very rarely any nuance to their nerfs and buffs. End result is a game experience that can be very swingy and unpredictable, often with long periods of having to deal with whatever is the new hot game warping thing.
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Nov 22, 2018 11:50
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Most goon opinions about balance in any competitive game are poo poo. They watch some 30-minute thinkpiece about how GOAT comp is really broken at high levels of play and think that's totally their situation for why they can't kill a Brigitte. It's about as useful for one's own learning as reading NPR's 38 interviews a week with rural Ohio voters about how they're sticking with Trump.
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Nov 22, 2018 11:54
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exquisite tea posted:Most goon opinions about balance in any competitive game are poo poo. They watch some 30-minute thinkpiece about how GOAT comp is really broken at high levels of play and think that's totally their situation for why they can't kill a Brigitte. It's about as useful for one's own learning as reading NPR's 38 interviews a week with rural Ohio voters about how they're sticking with Trump. Good, I was beginning to think that the weird self-hating goon standpoint was underrepresented in this thread
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Nov 22, 2018 13:23
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Every character in Overwatch has a 15 second stun so you can't play the game even when you're playing the game so it looks miserable
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Nov 22, 2018 13:29
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Stick to single player games
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Nov 22, 2018 14:34
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exquisite tea posted:Most goon opinions about balance in any competitive game are poo poo. They watch some 30-minute thinkpiece about how GOAT comp is really broken at high levels of play and think that's totally their situation for why they can't kill a Brigitte. It's about as useful for one's own learning as reading NPR's 38 interviews a week with rural Ohio voters about how they're sticking with Trump. I main Hanzo because I don't want globalist fluoride chemtrails in my tap water
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Nov 22, 2018 14:41
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Nerf all other heroes and buff Mei because she will BUILD THAT WALL.
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Nov 22, 2018 14:44
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My experience playing Overwatch after having not played it since the Olympics event in 2016. https://twitter.com/Arikadou/status/1065417759658393600
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Nov 22, 2018 15:09
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happy thanksgiving amerigoons
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Nov 22, 2018 15:38
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Looper posted:happy thanksgiving amerigoons Thank you, and happy thanksgiving to you as well and all others who are celebrating it
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Nov 22, 2018 16:00
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Ty, fak
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Nov 22, 2018 16:02
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Wow, Dragon Quest 11 is fantastic I'm not even sure I need to get AssCreedOdd today, but it's so cheap I might as well
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Nov 22, 2018 16:11
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Is very good. I like it better than 8
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Nov 22, 2018 16:53
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DQ11 is my favorite game this year. also one of my favorite games ever. i'm biased tho
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Nov 22, 2018 17:07
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psychoJ posted:DQ11 is my favorite game this year. also one of my favorite games ever. i'm biased tho I gotta finish the postgame
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Nov 22, 2018 17:15
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Real hurthling! posted:I gotta finish the postgame I thought the postgame was a huge bummer because of story reasons
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Nov 22, 2018 17:20
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I stopped right at the start of the post game to play other stuff since it seemed like a good break point but I really wanna finish it up by the end of the year.
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Nov 22, 2018 17:28
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Is DQ11 coming to the Switch?
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Nov 22, 2018 17:34
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Is it really called post game if you are still playing? What defines something being post game? I have always wondered this.
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Nov 22, 2018 17:35
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VideoGames posted:Is it really called post game if you are still playing? What defines something being post game? I have always wondered this. It's usually anything after credits roll. So mgsv has the longest post game of all time
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Nov 22, 2018 17:37
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Wildtortilla posted:Is DQ11 coming to the Switch? It was the first game ever announced for switch, when it was still codenamed NX, but the switch version has also been indefinitely delayed bc they've had port issues. It will come out eventually but may stay Japan only like the 3DS version
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Nov 22, 2018 17:38
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VideoGames posted:Is it really called post game if you are still playing? What defines something being post game? I have always wondered this. In rpgs the postgame refers to the challenging bosses and dungeons after the credits. Dq11 has a more robust postgame than other rpgs, adding an entire epilogue
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Nov 22, 2018 17:38
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Wildtortilla posted:Is DQ11 coming to the Switch? Yes. When though no one can tell, not even the geniuses at Squeenix.
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Nov 22, 2018 17:38
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Thank you in training and real hurtling. That makes a ton of sense and answers my question succinctly 
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Nov 22, 2018 17:40
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DQ11 not being up for goty is the true sign gaming journalism has failed
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Nov 22, 2018 17:46
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corn in the bible posted:DQ11 not being up for goty is the true sign gaming journalism has failed if it wanted to be goty it should have tried being a mediocre action game
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Nov 22, 2018 17:49
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Relax Or DIE posted:if it wanted to be goty it should have tried being a mediocre action game With 70 hours of transit between events
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Nov 22, 2018 17:50
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i liked RDR2 more than i thought i would on the whole but i still spent several hours of it doing something else while my horse clip-clopped through miles of absolute gently caress-all
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Nov 22, 2018 17:57
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The actual frustrating thing was all the journalists attacking it for being a traditional jrpg as if we have dozens of those releasing all the time. Ironically I think that so much stuff tries to be different and subvert your expectations that now a well-crafted yet traditional game like that feels super refreshing and good, in much the same way that DOOM maybe wouldn't have stood out ten years ago but now feels like a breath of fresh air because you simply don't get big, exciting single player fpses anymore.
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Nov 22, 2018 17:57
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Real hurthling! posted:With 70 hours of transit between events And Teal’c as voice actor.
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Nov 22, 2018 17:59
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corn in the bible posted:The actual frustrating thing was all the journalists attacking it for being a traditional jrpg as if we have dozens of those releasing all the time. Ironically I think that so much stuff tries to be different and subvert your expectations that now a well-crafted yet traditional game like that feels super refreshing and good, in much the same way that DOOM maybe wouldn't have stood out ten years ago but now feels like a breath of fresh air because you simply don't get big, exciting single player fpses anymore. it's doubly weird bc all those same outlets put out articles all last year praising the "return" of Japanese gaming, even though t was more of a awareness of an ongoing trend, and then they just shrugged and stopped caring again this year bc Spider Man says funny poo poo while swinging around doing fetch quests
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Nov 22, 2018 18:01
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corn in the bible posted:The actual frustrating thing was all the journalists attacking it for being a traditional jrpg as if we have dozens of those releasing all the time. Ironically I think that so much stuff tries to be different and subvert your expectations that now a well-crafted yet traditional game like that feels super refreshing and good, in much the same way that DOOM maybe wouldn't have stood out ten years ago but now feels like a breath of fresh air because you simply don't get big, exciting single player fpses anymore. Pretty sure most journalists who played DQ11 liked it.
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Nov 22, 2018 18:02
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Well, to be fair the came could have been more innovative and - *is washed away in a flood of new JRPG releases, each more traditional than the last*
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Nov 22, 2018 18:02
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Andrast posted:Pretty sure most journalists who played DQ11 liked it. Everybody complained it was too grindy and too easy bc everybody who reviews JRPGs is apparently 5 years old
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Nov 22, 2018 18:05
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