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| News Comments > Battlefield 4 Teaser Trailer |
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Re: Battlefield 4 Teaser Trailer |
Mar 21, 2013, 15:26 |
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| I'd rather see BF2143, adding naval combat isn't enough to get me to buy this so soon after BF3 which still has plenty of life left. Also these days I trust EA about as much as a daytime soap character so I'm going to wait a looong time and see how much DLC appears before I even think about picking it up. |
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| News Comments > Game Reviews |
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Re: Game Reviews |
Mar 21, 2013, 12:38 |
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I got both Bioshock Infinite and Tomb Raider for like $45ish after someone linked an ebay thing on here for those AMD Reloaded codes, no regrets here. I really enjoyed Bioshock for what it was, I had complaints but overall it was a pretty interesting experience.
Sure it was no System Shock 2 and that sucks but Bioshock had a pretty compelling narrative, great characters and some interesting gameplay of its own. The level design was top notch too. |
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Re: Out of the Blue |
Mar 21, 2013, 12:32 |
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They did that around here but I guess people stopped putting up with it because the prices went back down to "only" $10. I'm sure they're splitting the difference on concessions though. $30 for 2 pops and 2 bags of popcorn is just a riot.
Oh we went and saw Dead Man Down last weekend and it was pretty ok. Nothing special, weird pacing but solid performances from everyone involved. Really surprised that WWE put money into it, didn't see any wrestlers, guess they're branching out. |
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| News Comments > Game Reviews |
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Re: Game Reviews |
Mar 21, 2013, 10:19 |
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| I think most people by now know the real arrangements sites like IGN have with publishers. This stuff only fools the folks who find reviews from metacritic and google which depressingly is a huge portion of the audience. |
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Re: Out of the Blue |
Mar 21, 2013, 10:06 |
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Lost Sleep Can Lead to Weight Gain.
Interesting article, although the amount of calories burned seems insignificant (100-130 in a day), on a weekly scale that is the difference in having an extra meal or snack. Ignoring the science in the article, on a more common sense level people who sleep less are probably more likely to skip physical activities due to their general fatigue levels. Gaining weight is a bit of a vicious cycle, people tend to treat emotional problems with food which leads to more of the same due to guilt, stigmatization and negative feelings associated with being overweight. |
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| News Comments > OnLive: 'Tis But a Scratch! |
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Re: OnLive: 'Tis But a Scratch! |
Mar 21, 2013, 09:45 |
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| Gunshot wound is just a scratch, it's ok guys, ignore all that blood I'm good. |
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Playing: Faster Than Light, Tales of Graces F, Fire Emblem 3DS
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| News Comments > Battlefield 4 Trailer Tease |
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Re: Battlefield 4 Trailer Tease |
Mar 21, 2013, 09:13 |
Verno |
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Newbro wrote on Mar 21, 2013, 04:38:
Coming from Battlefield Bad Company 2, I thought the netcode in BF3 has improved a lot. I honestly have tons of fun in the original game and just bought the premium pack. For all of you who said the netcode sucks, perhaps you should just find a better server to play on?
It's still pretty poor, it's not uncommon to be shot after getting into cover due to the games overly aggressive predictive code. There's also a lot of jank in the netcode itself, particularly when it comes to giving the client too much control which is a big part of why the multihacks are so ridiculous.
If you own the game, then stop bitching about it and just enjoy it... or is that too hard for you?
Errr, just owning a game doesn't mean the person can necessarily love the game, it really depends on the quality. I thought this would be self evident. Talking about things you dislike in a game isn't "hate" either, the liberal misuse of that word on the internet is astonishing these days. |
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| News Comments > Saints Row 4 CE Survey |
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Re: Saints Row 4 CE Survey |
Mar 21, 2013, 08:36 |
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xXBatmanXx wrote on Mar 20, 2013, 21:07:
Agreed. I will be very leary of anything over 30.00.
Most of us are going to score it for $30ish from GMG anyways  |
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| News Comments > Morning Consolidation |
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Re: Morning Consolidation |
Mar 20, 2013, 12:01 |
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| Just an aside but for fun I did a rough estimate on my households vampire usage a few years ago and it was about $40.00 for an entire year. That included major appliances, dozens of devices, entertainment center, etc. It was amusing because I had gotten myself all worked up prior to that, getting an expensive power strip with remotes and looking into crazy home automation stuff but it turned out to be pretty tame. |
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Playing: Faster Than Light, Tales of Graces F, Fire Emblem 3DS
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| News Comments > No Plans for Single-Player Tomb Raider Expansions |
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Re: No Plans for buying Tomb Raider |
Mar 20, 2013, 10:17 |
Verno |
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Xero wrote on Mar 20, 2013, 10:13:
Overall, I don't have that many issues with it though as it's not THAT often in Tomb Raider as many players make it seem. It's like you played the first 10-15 minutes only and returned it without seeing just how open the world becomes later on...
Far from it, I'm still playing and loving the game. I just hate QTEs in all forms, whether they are used for tutorials or "enhancing" dramatic scenes or etc. They are just a lazy, unwelcome game mechanic without any positive value IMHO. They don't ruin the game though and I never said that they did, I quite enjoy it. |
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Playing: Faster Than Light, Tales of Graces F, Fire Emblem 3DS
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| News Comments > Game Reviews |
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Re: Game Reviews |
Mar 20, 2013, 10:12 |
Verno |
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InBlack wrote on Mar 20, 2013, 09:39:
I cant remember the last time a game felt 'padded' to me. If anything games are becoming abysmaly short on average.
Backtracking, obviously repetitive mechanics or exercises in games, not providing players a travel mechanism over long distances, games with long checkpoints and no save mechanisms, etc. It goes on all the time and takes many different forms, it's a very common complaint from devs that publishers make them pad out the titles with little things like that.
I don't think games are too short, it's really hard to generalize that sort of thing because every game is different. I was very pleased with Portal which was a short game but a 30 hour Portal would be too long. Bethesda titles can go on hundreds of hours but I still had more fun with Baldur's Gate 2 despite only playing it for half of that. It's very difficult to compare and contrast.
Is 10 hours too short for a $60 game? Maybe, I don't know, it depends on the game. Cost and length aren't the only factors, how much enjoyment I derive from it is more important to me. There's also the question of value, 20 hours of unsatisfying repetition will feel like a ripoff no matter what. |
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Playing: Faster Than Light, Tales of Graces F, Fire Emblem 3DS
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| News Comments > Morning Interviews |
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Re: Morning Interviews |
Mar 20, 2013, 10:06 |
Verno |
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ItBurn wrote on Mar 20, 2013, 09:55:
I'm not sure Garriot is such a good designer, but I sure agree with what he's saying. It's something I've been thinking for a while. Designers are so damn lazy. They can't be bothered to even consider balancing game systems. They act like it's impossible. It's not f-ing impossible, spend time on it, do it properly. Old school designers have done it for a long time. This is just one of the aspects of course.
I don't think we can blame designers for lack of innovation though. This is because of publishers and investors. They basically want to make clones of games that made a lot of money. It's much safer.
I agree with what you're saying. No one really can afford to because publishers have no patience for that stuff, it sucks. I don't think that designers can't or don't want to do these things, it's just a question of time, cost and in some cases desire (fucking streamlining bullshit). They want hard and fast 30 day sales based on metacritic ratings, visual bling and short lived products that they can recycle. There are exceptions though thankfully. This is why the indie scene on Steam is so important, many of those guys are going to be the game designers of the next 20-30 years. I just wish they could all stop making 2D platformers please (exaggerating obviously)  |
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| News Comments > Morning Interviews |
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Re: Morning Interviews |
Mar 20, 2013, 09:40 |
Verno |
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InBlack wrote on Mar 20, 2013, 09:35:
Doesnt the new Tomb Raider use them a fair ammount?
Yep, there are several recent ones, not to mention the hundreds of games that featured them over the past ten years. Most FPS and many TPS games feature them still. They are far from a dead trend unfortunately. |
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| News Comments > Op Ed |
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Re: Op Ed |
Mar 20, 2013, 09:38 |
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Scottish Martial Arts wrote on Mar 19, 2013, 20:54:
long post, many great points
Thank you, that was a pleasure to read. I'm very tired of people in my own party perverting and twisting what the intent of the 2nd Amendment was originally and what's it become to modern society. If the true intent was to prevent tyrannical government then it has long since been outmoded and needs to be discarded or significantly updated. |
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| News Comments > etc. |
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Re: etc. |
Mar 20, 2013, 09:29 |
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| Good luck explaining that to the dead weight biz dev types dragging down the industry |
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| News Comments > Game Reviews |
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Re: Game Reviews |
Mar 20, 2013, 09:21 |
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Some fair points, many reviewers do seem to ding for length in otherwise quality games. To be fair though, I don't think there's any hard and fast rule for length, it's just an inherently subjective thing based on genre and the actual game content. Some games overstay their welcome by focusing on minutiae and busywork, others are so good they leave you wanting more. I think it's always better to focus on the base experience and not worry about padding things out, that is always really transparent and just serves to annoy more than anything else.
Unfortunately the big focus on Metacritic ratings means devs keep doing this. |
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| News Comments > Morning Interviews |
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Re: Morning Interviews |
Mar 20, 2013, 09:11 |
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| I'm sure this will invite a lot of "what have you done for me lately?" posts on Garriott but he has some good points. Most designers these days seem hellbent on pandering to the lowest common denominator with horrible game mechanics like QTEs and busywork. I'm not sure why videogames think they need to be movies to such a literal degree either, many recent AAA entries resemble movies more than interactive games. |
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Playing: Faster Than Light, Tales of Graces F, Fire Emblem 3DS
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| News Comments > Morning Consolidation |
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Re: Morning Consolidation |
Mar 20, 2013, 09:07 |
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| It's fine to have the ability to use your internet connection but to require an always online connection for a console is just too far even with the ubiquity of Wifi. Built-in Kinect, meh. Bluray drive and standard hard drive, about bloody time. |
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| News Comments > No Plans for Single-Player Tomb Raider Expansions |
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Re: No Plans for Single-Player Tomb Raider Expansions |
Mar 20, 2013, 08:59 |
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I haven't tried the MP yet but the SP campaign is quite good outside of the dumb QTEs. It seems kinda silly that they're just doing MP DLC though, they could probably make some decent bank doing smaller Bethesda style expansions.
Speaking of QTEs, when will this horrid design crutch die already? Maybe if QTEs were in any way intelligent or required some actual thought process I could behind them but just literally hammering the key when prompted to on screen is mind numbing shit. |
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