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stev
Jan 22, 2013

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W10 is fine just embrace your inevitable fate.

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stev
Jan 22, 2013

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With the way my house is laid out, playing games from a sofa means playing a slightly uncomfortable position from the TV.

These days I play either from my desk chair or I roll over to my bed if I'm being a filthy filthy boy.

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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FirstAidKite posted:

it's like getting mad at the genre of roleplaying games since literally every game is a game where you play a role

This is a weird one though, since RPGs used to actually be all about playing roles, and as time went on the roleplaying got edged out by the stat management and progression, but the name stayed the same. So now stats and progression means roleplaying. :shrug:

Should just call then nerd games for nerds.

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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Lurdiak posted:

They can keep makin' 'em I just want to go back to never hearing about them, especially not from hyperactive indie game devs.

It's not often though that we get such a prominent series that's actually good. Even that bad one's still a really good game.

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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Who the gently caress voted for Gex over Spyro?

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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I played 10 minutes of the Doom closed beta and it was absolutely terrible. The single player looks like it could be really good from what we've seen so far though. Still cautiously optimistic.

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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VoidBurger posted:

So it's been over a solid month of games-related horrible drama/news.
-Tracer's rear end
-Alison Rapp
-Baldur'sGate-Gate
-Tobuscus
-Then there's this guy doing this poo poo that proves gamedev needs unions.

What's gonna happen next week? Is Gabe Newell gonna die?

It's not really gaming related or a big deal, but a very naive anti-harassment startup is basically having a mini Amy's Bakery meltdown.

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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Palpek posted:

How does it look any good? Non-existent level design with corridors with a couple of enemies and no actually dynamic movement and when they show the chainsaw instead of it making use of a real-time decapitation engine it's just a non-skippable animation that takes control away from you and breaks the flow of gameplay.

None of these things say 'bad game' to me. They say 'not exactly Doom'.

And I don't give a gently caress about Doom. The gameplay trailers look fun.

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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Palpek posted:

Somebody write a short recap because I haven't heard of any of this except for Tracer's rear end.

Nintendo fired an employee because she was being harassed and they felt vulnerable.

The same babies that cried over Overwatch being 'censored' actively campaigned (and succeeded) to change the content of a crappy Baldur's Gate game because they didn't like it.

Tobuscus (awful Youtuber) is apparently a rapist.

Times are terrible.

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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Level Slide posted:

I don't know for sure if the Baldur's Gate stuff was actually changed or not.

I don't think they removed the content entirely, but they changed the line that was a direct reference to a certain group. Not sure if the rest stayed intact.

Didn't really follow it though.

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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Dapper_Swindler posted:

didnt it end up that nintendo figured out she was moon lighting as a callgirl as well and thats why the fired her. If the reason was genualy about the paper then thats bullshit. i have friends who have to write the same kind of paper for psycholgy and criminal justice.

I'm fairly sure the escort stuff was scumbags exaggerating, but even if it was that's still a hosed up thing to fire someone over. Especially when it's because scumbags are desperately trying to dig things up to get her fired.

Ometeotl posted:

It's grounds when that second job is as an """""escort""""" and you are an outspoken PR person for a family friendly public - facing company.

Genuine curiosity here, is there actually any proof that she was that? Or is it just more of the same type of bullshit as usual?

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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8-Bit Scholar posted:

It isn't though. Rapp's firing had nothing to do with lol "hate mobs" or whatever.

Yes it did. She was fired because hate mobs fed Nintendo inflammatory information which they used as a convenient excuse*.


*This is speculation but it's correct.

8-Bit Scholar posted:

I don't know why anybody is continuing to harass her. Just delete your twitter and go off the Internet for awhile. The fact that the first thing she did was attempt to make this seem like she was being ousted for speaking her mind or whatever and then saying she's going to work for a progressive feminist game developer out in Seattle like okay

Lady needs to delete her twitter, update her resume, and maybe consider not offering herself as an escort or lingerie model when working for a children's toy company.
Yaaaaay victim blaming!

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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Broseph Brostar posted:

I hope everybody is having a great weekend. A local theater is showing Miyazaki movies all month and we're seeing Spirited Away tonight. I'm excited cause the only film of his I've seen on the big screen was Ponyo.

It just occurred to me that I've never seen a Ghibli movie on a big screen.

Actually the only Japanese animation I've seen on a big screen is Pokémon, Digimon, Yu-Gi-Oh (yes really) and Tokyo Godfathers.

One of those is good. Digimon.

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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Sakurazuka posted:

Not liking Tokyo Godfathers should be grounds for expulsion from the human race.
It's great but only one anime has the Digirap.

Dapper_Swindler posted:

I saw the first 2 pokemon movies in theater.
Dude you missed Entei? That one ruled.

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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Eh I sort of agree that Spirited Away gets less interesting the more it focuses on lore and narrative. The whole wolf dragon thing takes up so much time. Time that could have been spent on frog people.

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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Dapper_Swindler posted:

http://www.gamesradar.com/divisions...ign=buffer_grfb

my favorite gamesite decided to decent into the Moral clickbate bullshit.

because shooting violent criminals/psychopaths/ wannabee fascists in time of "everything is hosed" is bad m'kay. they never did nothing wrong. we are the real badguys.

Honestly I think the game is somewhat tonedef. but acting like its magic murder simulator is bullshit.

Man that was so much better than your standard Games Radar article.

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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Palpek posted:

A fair point. Too bad it's happening to studios that theoretically shouldn't have problems with finding investors for already estabilished titles like Bayonetta or freaking Tomb Raider which sold so poorly despite being pretty good.

Tomb Raider didn't sell poorly. It sold pretty drat well, but SE won't accept any game that doesn't make them literal billions.

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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exquisite tea posted:

I felt the same way about IGN and No Man's Sky as every promo video they release involves paid hype men becoming gradually more and more bored as they listen to Sean Murray ramble on about maths.

This makes the game sound way more cool and interesting than the hype men ever could.

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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Ostentatious posted:

outdated on-rail shooter

This is what people have been Nintendo to do for a decade.

I guess it would have been a better idea to get rid of the ground stuff altogether and focus on making the flying more interesting.

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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8-Bit Scholar posted:

So it's like six bucks for Bully on the PS4 PSN thingy so I picked it up. Anything I should know about this game going in? Is there a moral choice system?

Bullying is wrong.

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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Sakurazuka posted:

They already are.

Do it again though.

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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Quest For Glory II posted:

there are even more mobas to come too. battleborn, gigantic, paragon, for honor. mobas for miles

Every MOBA outside of the big three will fail within months. They are moneyholes for everyone involved.

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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I really want to get the new Ratchet and Clank but I'm scared that if I start playing it I wont go back and finish DS3.

I am bad at multi-gaming. :ohdear:

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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Gyro aiming has never been good for me. It's so incredibly unintuitive in every game that comes by.

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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Lurdiak posted:

It is very strange to me that the character defined almost entirely by blitzball isn't as good at blitzball as Tidus.

Tidus is also defined by blitzball. He's just also defined by having a oval office dad and swinging a sword and being a prick.

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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What happened to her? She was one of the most consistently not terrible people in these things.

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stev
Jan 22, 2013

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Guy Mann posted:

She was a lovely poster and a lovely person, I'm glad half the thread isn't her pointless inflamatory and standoffish arguments about dumb poo poo or "doop de doop made me a sandwich and now recording LPs :keke:" Livejournal updates anymore.
lovely person? Justify that?

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