User Information - Quboid

News Comments > The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Dawnguard Revealed

What does GetGamesGo give you, a Steam key?

I hope your advice is better than your sig's




- Quboid

28.

Re: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Dawnguard Revealed

May 1, 2012, 20:08

News Comments > Call of Black Ops II Revealed

Lorcin wrote on May 1, 2012, 18:53:
I bought Skyrim for my PC.

I supported the developers by buying the game rather than the much cheaper option of downloading it for free.

I gave them the respect I felt they deserved for crafting an awesome game by paying for it.

They then shit in my face and tell me the continuation of the game will be exclusive to a console I don't own for awhile because that's who offered them the most money.

Fuck you Bethesda. Stop being so platformist or I'll start stealing you shit. If you can't treat all platforms with respect then why should we respect you profit margins?

I really hope you're being sarcastic. Are you being sarcastic, or are you actually trying to claim that this justifies piracy? It's one thing to be annoyed but geez, grow up. You bought Skyrim and you got Skyrim.

That you generously paid for it rather than pirating it (well done you!) doesn't mean that they owe you anything more. The sense of entitlement here is breathtaking, you think that because you valiantly OBEYED THE FUCKING LAW you deserve extra?

EDIT: As is so often the case, Chris Rock said it much better than I ever could:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0B_ekSrsEk

This comment was edited on May 1, 2012, 20:22.




- Quboid

31.

Re: Call of Black Ops II Revealed

May 1, 2012, 16:52

News Comments > Call of Black Ops II Revealed

Wildone wrote on May 1, 2012, 12:35:
Uhmm didn't homefront already do this? WTF do people think everything COD does is so revolutionary when they dont innovate in the slightest

What did Homefront do that's in this? I think you'll find that not many people think COD is revolutionary, at least not on here.




- Quboid

12.

Re: Call of Black Ops II Revealed

May 1, 2012, 11:38

News Comments > Evening Metaverse

Damn people, buying games they like rather than games I like. If only they'd see that my opinions are objectively correct and that they should fund the sort of trendy indie games that I play. Imagine being dumb enough to buy this and think you're enjoying it when actually Activision tricked you into buying it and tricked you into thinking you like it.




- Quboid

12.

Re: Evening Metaverse

May 1, 2012, 11:35

It seems to me that they're banking on the virtually inevitable passing of a SOPA style law. The UK has just made ISPs block The Pirate Bay and eventually something will be passed in the US when people get bored of putting up resistance time after time.

They'll be in for a shock when it turns out that SOPA will do the square root of fuck all.




- Quboid

18.

Re: Game Reviews

May 1, 2012, 08:08

I'm not scared of exploring, I dislike immersion breaking exploring. If someone says "it's somewhere south of the watch-tower", I should be able to ask "how far south? Is it as far south as this rock" *points to rock on map* "or is it just by this thicket here" *points to wooded area".

Dialogue in games is so far from realistic that sadly, we need concessions to make up for this. I would say that marks on the map for hidden treasure are quest markers (at least they're markers, I don't know if these count as quests in R2). Markers displayed on the compass are annoying and markers displayed in the game world are very poor ideas and should be optional, but markers on maps are basically the same thing in that they give the same info, but in a less obnoxious way.

Reviewers do need to avoid being overly subjective, yes, but there is a point where they need to give opinions on things. Otherwise, it's not a review but a feature list. If a review is of the subjective opinion that a game is a steaming pile of horseshit, none of the review is going to be very nice for the developer and the game's fans.

This doesn't mean that the game's fans are wrong, I must add!




- Quboid

29.

Re: Sunday Legal Briefs

May 1, 2012, 07:58

News Comments > Evening Legal Briefs

Prez wrote on Apr 30, 2012, 12:22:
OMFG has this thread taking a turn for the ridiculous and melodramatic! Sorry I fucking said anything. People not knowing your fucking name is NOT privacy. I mean holy shit - thousands of people know my name right now! I better curl up in a fetal position and start mumbling gibberish and drooling on myself.

So how would you feel if you were desperate, but all 3 burger joints turned you down because they read on a fake Facebook profile that you smoke the ganja?

That (like this thread) humanity has become too stupid to be a part of and eat a fucking bullet.

That's certainly a very unlikely scenario, but I think it illustrated the point. I hate to agree with space_captain (because I'm special too, I even get my own bus!) but you are being illogical and melodramatic. This isn't about people not knowing my name, this is about people not reading malicious slander about me.




- Quboid

Re: Evening Legal Briefs

May 1, 2012, 07:48

Ha! Dotcom is one of the most dislikeable people I've ever heard of, so it's very impressive that the authorities have made him such a sympathetic character in this. Smarter prosecutors would have played the trial by media game a lot better. Of course, smarter prosecutors would know how warrants work.

The US paymasters must be livid with their New Zealand cop bitches for fucking this up, a thought which amuses me further.

It was interesting to see Google Drive launch with a trailer about how you can share files. I wonder if cops will break down Google's doors and seize Google's servers.




- Quboid

22.

Re: Sunday Legal Briefs

Apr 30, 2012, 09:37

Prez wrote on Apr 29, 2012, 22:18:
Dude, not good. No way in hell I'd list stuff like that on the internet.

Thing is, the people who could fuck with me the most already know way more than that about me. I just believe in not hiding behind a forum name. There's not many things I hate more than people who cowardly hide behind their internet anonymity while being an asshole to everyone.

Quboid wrote on Apr 29, 2012, 21:29:
Prez wrote on Apr 29, 2012, 20:23:
I wouldn't care. I certainly wouldn't want to work for a company that would base their hiring decisions on fucking Facebook pages, nor associate with idiots who would judge me for what I supposedly say or do online.

So hypothetically, if you lost your job and were about to lose your house, you'd turn down an employer because they check you out on Facebook?

No, I'd take the job, as a stopgap measure until I found a better one. Hell, if I was desperate I'd be working three burger joints until I found a good job.

So how would you feel if you were desperate, but all 3 burger joints turned you down because they read on a fake Facebook profile that you smoke the ganja?




- Quboid

16.

Re: Game Reviews

Apr 30, 2012, 09:20

Fair enough.

I assumed Jaguar was being sarcastic when he said he was the only negative reviewer of Risen 2 as all the reviews I've checked out have been negative; albeit taking ~6/10 as a negative score which it is, but shouldn't be. Maybe he wasn't being sarcastic, I'm not sure.

Things like quest markers and quick level-ups are divisive and subjective. I found it very hard in Gothic 3 to find things, virtually everything took some searching (not always a bad thing) and some things made me resort to Google (always a bad thing). Quest markers aren't realistic, but when you're constrained by dialogue trees (i.e. you can't ask people for directions or ask a quest giver to elaborate on a location), it's an understandable feature. IMHO a fairly quick level-up or two is a good idea just to help players understand how the game works but that's a subjective thing.

Another thing - I assume you're the guy who's been playing since 1985? First off, change your clothes and have a shower! Oh, not continuously? Good. Er, right, my actual point - if a game is accessible only to people who have been playing PC games for decades, then it is very, very badly designed. Moreover, gameplay innovations since 1985 are generally a good thing. Having an unfair difficulty curve is a bad thing and whether or not Risen 2 does have an unfair difficulty curve is subjective and the reviewer can only really give his or her own view on this. They could have been playing PC games since 1984 for all I know, but even if they starting playing games in 2010, their opinion isn't invalid.




- Quboid

15.

Re: Sunday Legal Briefs

Apr 29, 2012, 21:29

Prez wrote on Apr 29, 2012, 20:23:
I wouldn't care. I certainly wouldn't want to work for a company that would base their hiring decisions on fucking Facebook pages, nor associate with idiots who would judge me for what I supposedly say or do online.

So hypothetically, if you lost your job and were about to lose your house, you'd turn down an employer because they check you out on Facebook?




- Quboid

Re: Sunday Legal Briefs

Apr 29, 2012, 16:27

It seems that she was left with no choice and I hope she leaves a good precedent, either in court or just with Facebook.

Point of pedantry - she's not a Facebook customer. The advertisers are Facebook's customers. We are Facebook's product.




- Quboid

14.

Re: Game Reviews

Apr 29, 2012, 16:20

Perhaps they genuinely don't rate the game? Do you have any particular reason to think that Jaguar is an impatient, arrogant asshole, or do you just not agree with his opinion and are enough of an arrogant asshole to lay into him for this?

It sucks for a developer who has worked hard on a title to see their work get slammed but perhaps their work deserves to be slammed. It must also suck to be a critic when you routinely get accused of being publishers' bitches, yet when they call it as they see it they get more stick.




- Quboid

News Comments > etc.

Re: etc.

Apr 29, 2012, 12:30

There's less the mod community can do as much of this is built in to the compiled code. I don't know how true this is of Skyrim. It's interesting to see the sort of mods in CK2 rework a lot of the overlying game-logic (which is deliberately exposed) but even they are limited to largely superficial changes.

CK2 is a good example of a game that does many of the things they talk about. I like the way the world turns without you and AI characters make their decisions based realistically whether or not you have anything to do with it. I'm sure it wasn't cheap to make, but by reusing and evolving much of the same code between Europa Universalis, Victoria, Crusader Kings, Senkogu and Hearts of Iron, each one will be affordable.




- Quboid

News Comments > SimOcean TMed

16.

Re: SimOcean TMed

Apr 29, 2012, 11:01

Kythlyn wrote on Apr 28, 2012, 14:21:
SimEarth 2 would be welcome... but really, a Sim game about the Ocean could be really deep. ... *chortles*

You! Get out of this internet! You're barred.




- Quboid

12.

Re: Game Reviews

Apr 28, 2012, 16:16

News Comments > Gothic 3 Community Patch

Aww, sorry other words. I read whole reviews of course, but if it's a game I'm not familiar with, I like the summary to clue me in without revealing the ins-and-outs of the game in detail.




- Quboid

Re: Gothic 3 Community Patch

Apr 28, 2012, 16:12

News Comments > Gothic 3 Community Patch

I played Gothic 3 with the latest community patch about a year ago, I don't think much has changed since then. It's very good, better than I'd expected given its reputation. I can easily believe that out of the box it was unplayable but with this patch, it's good fun.

This can be applied to the Game of the Year edition, which is probably what you'll find is easiest to buy for a few bucks from somewhere.

It's nothing like as pretty or as polished as the latest Elder Scrolls games but I found the world to have a fair bit more character. Skyrim is polished to the point where the world feels a bit generic, Gothic can't be accused of being too polished.




- Quboid

Re: Gothic 3 Community Patch

Apr 28, 2012, 13:18

I wonder if these guys are going to work on a Risen 2 patch. By the sounds of it, it needs one.




- Quboid

Re: Game Reviews

Apr 27, 2012, 18:44

I think Metacritic do that, which IMHO is flawed. A review that gives something a 5/5 star rating shouldn't equate to 100%. Giving it 91.6% would be better as this is the median of the top sixth bracket (assuming 0 stars is a valid score and X-and-a-half star ratings aren't in any given site's metric). If you never give 0/8 ratings, then 2/8 should be 18.75%, midpoint in the 12.5% - 25% range that 2/8 implies.

Game scores get a lot of stick but them, and summaries like you put at the top, are the first and possibly only things I look at because they tend to give a general idea of how good the game is and what the game is about, with a low risk of spoilers.




- Quboid

Re: Game Reviews

Apr 27, 2012, 14:07