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News Comments > Far Cry 3 Patch Brings Base Resets
8. Re: Far Cry 3 Patch Brings Base Resets Mar 5, 2013, 09:20 Verno
 
Jerykk wrote on Mar 4, 2013, 23:10:
Don't really see the point of resetting all the outposts. Yay, you get to do the same thing all over again! Instead of this, they should have just made the outposts significantly harder to take over in the first place.

The reasoning behind is that there's no sense of an ongoing conflict, as soon as you capture an outpost the enemy AI never seems to visit or attempt to retake that section of the island(s). Once you take a territory your only real enemy is the wildlife. Unfortunately the outpost reset thing is just a bandaid for that issue, its a design flaw more than anything else.
 
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News Comments > Morning Q&As
3. Re: Morning Q&As Mar 5, 2013, 09:04 Verno
 
I thought Bioshock was a great game in its own right but it was definitely no successor to SS2.  
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News Comments > TimeGate Layoffs
15. Re: TimeGate Layoffs Mar 5, 2013, 08:55 Verno
 
nin wrote on Mar 5, 2013, 08:42:
I can probably decide in less than 2 seconds if I would have sex with a woman or not.

Thanks for sharing?


He can do it because the decision is always yes, true story.
 
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News Comments > Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag Trailers; Details
33. Re: Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag Trailers; Details Mar 5, 2013, 08:45 Verno
 
Creston wrote on Mar 4, 2013, 15:47:
Yeah, neither did I. I was wondering if I'd perhaps missed something in Revelations, but apparently not.

Urgh.

Oh well, hopefully Desmond and pals will be a thing of the past.

Yep, ditch the lame framing story, keep bumping up the combat difficulty and I'm fine. I've accepted this game will never be Thief and I'm fine with that. They finally made the combat interesting in AC3 with foes more inclined to team up on you and ranged foes nailing you.
 
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News Comments > Dead Island Riptide Preorder Bonuses
12. Re: Dead Island Riptide Preorder Bonuses Mar 5, 2013, 08:33 Verno
 
netnerd85 wrote on Mar 4, 2013, 23:33:
Bumpy wrote on Mar 4, 2013, 20:27:
Wonder if there will be some fear put into this one? First ones weren't scary at all, which saddened me.
It was plenty scary some of us don't like zombies by default

I can't remember a single legitimate scare from the first game to be honest. Maybe a jump shock? That's about all I can remember, the games atmosphere didn't feel foreboding or repressive, the undead were just obstacles as usual. The addition of "specials" to the game world hurt more than it helped IMHO, that shit just feels goofy for some reason.

I loved the island resort motif but the rest of the game was pretty meh for me. Very grindy and repetitive, melee system was ok, didn't care for their crafting mechanics and the game's story was a nonsensical mess. Won't be revisiting the resort
 
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News Comments > Torment: Tides of Numenera Crowdfunding This Week
11. Re: Torment: Tides of Numenera Crowdfunding This Week Mar 5, 2013, 08:31 Verno
 
jacobvandy wrote on Mar 4, 2013, 22:19:
inXile is still in the business of making games for people who buy them, not pseudo-investors who are getting it for free.

And yet they keep turning to Kickstarter. Just sayin
 
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News Comments > TimeGate Layoffs
11. Re: TimeGate Layoffs Mar 5, 2013, 08:29 Verno
 
Mad Max RW wrote on Mar 4, 2013, 22:30:
And idiot Randy Pitchford, a guy who says shit like this still has his cozy job.

My favorite was his twitter message about not being called a liar when he makes things up because its ok as long as he "believes its true". He is just a tremendous butthead.
 
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News Comments > Morning Consolidation
1. Re: Morning Consolidation Mar 4, 2013, 15:16 Verno
 
The limited capability of the Wii U seems to make it destined to be mostly old gen ports, I don't see how anyone but Nintendo is going to make much out of its hardware.  
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News Comments > Morning Tech Bits
8. Re: Morning Tech Bits Mar 4, 2013, 14:58 Verno
 
Yeah me too bro. They stopped making the 700 series and I hear they're selling off the entire unit so I'm worried about the One too. I ordered a spare 700 as no one seems to be getting any inventory any time soon.  
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News Comments > Skyrim Beta Patch
14. Re: Skyrim Beta Patch Mar 4, 2013, 14:56 Verno
 
Creston wrote on Mar 4, 2013, 14:40:
However, it is kind of your own fault for being a walking deity within 10 hours. :)

I just play the game dude, their balance is all out of whack. I'm not doing anything special or reading FAQs
 
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News Comments > Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag Trailers; Details
18. Re: Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag Trailers; Details Mar 4, 2013, 14:52 Verno
 
Creston wrote on Mar 4, 2013, 14:30:
Verno wrote on Mar 4, 2013, 14:06:
Don't forget the ever important framing story! Spoilers below:

It turns out Lucy was a triple agent all along, betrays you and dies. Presumably this is because Kristen Bell is a big deal now and costs more money.

Oh, that's right, I forgot about that. But, eh... (secret) How do they ever figure that out? Desmond stabs her, and then in the next game everyone's like "Yeah, she was a double agent." Nothing is ever said on how they actually discovered this, other than that "Minerva said so." Now, there were clues throughout AC2 and Brotherhood that this was the case, but they just kind of "oh, okay"'ed it and never really talked about it again. It was pretty fucking underwhelming.

You're just told it. It's a stupid plot twist as it goes against three games of established character development and the only real hints could be true of any of the cast. They claim it was planned all along but I don't believe it. The Desmond framing story is fucking awful anyway so I don't really care, I just found it bizarre. It's like sub-B movie level plot crap complete with "NOW PLZ SAVE THE WORLD!!!" stakes in the third game.

They can write competent character arcs and stories when they want to, Ezio owned. Apparently not for Desmond though!
 
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News Comments > Skyrim Beta Patch
8. Re: Skyrim Beta Patch Mar 4, 2013, 14:11 Verno
 
Does the difficulty setting just give everything absurd health/damage mitigation? Bethesda cannot balance a game to save their life so I'm not sure I'd want to find out

I love their games but I'm always a walking deity within 10 hours and their solution is always just making me hit a mob for 5 minutes.
 
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News Comments > Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag Trailers; Details
14. Re: Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag Trailers; Details Mar 4, 2013, 14:06 Verno
 
Creston wrote on Mar 4, 2013, 13:38:
The last sentence was never in the game, but is apparently revealed in a cgi short movie about the end of Ezio. Anyone have a link to that, by any chance? I never was able to get it from Ubi, even though I was supposed to.

Don't forget the ever important framing story! Spoilers below:

It turns out Lucy was a triple agent all along, betrays you and dies. Presumably this is because Kristen Bell is a big deal now and costs more money.

Revelations was really really mediocre overall and felt like the first "cash in" title, lots of questionable design choices in that game too. People should just play Brotherhood, watch the synopsis for AC:R and go right to AC3.
 
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News Comments > etc.
3. Re: etc. Mar 4, 2013, 12:28 Verno
 
I've never understood that sort of defensiveness, at work here if customers complain we usually listen to feedback and make adjustments. From my limited playtime with it Crysis 3 is really just ok to good, the visuals are really the highlight if anything.  
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News Comments > Op Ed
30. Re: Op Ed Mar 4, 2013, 10:39 Verno
 
Slick wrote on Mar 4, 2013, 10:05:
you know, evil.

i do like the idea that there's this shadowy board which holds all of our true desires as consumers, but then for their own profit-minded belligerence they choose to give us infact what we don't want. you know, cause that's what makes us buy more of that, giving us what we don't want. if they gave us what we want, they'd probably be bankrupt. pretty sure that's how business works.

You're the one positing that nonsense, it has literally zip to do with my post and just serves so you can stream your little rant into the thread

I'm just pointing out that they control a large portion of the creation and supply of goods in the industry, now they're aiming at distribution. If there's a problem, then why is the onus on the consumer? The consumer's responsibility is ultimately very small and while it's easy to blame the "internet" at large or vocal minorities, maybe the issues stem from the source.

Of course a corporation exists to serve the public and make money. That doesn't mean there are ways of going about it that are going to be more desirable for consumers. The prevalence of marketing in modern society helps blur the line between actual desire and supply to some extent. I remember reading an interesting book called No Logo, one of the people the author interviews worked for PepsiCo and commented that we're in an age where product quality is now secondary to how the product is marketed.

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News Comments > Morning Tech Bits
5. Re: Morning Tech Bits Mar 4, 2013, 10:35 Verno
 
It's their own fault, they've been really inconsistent across numerous product segments. For example they paid a bundle for Harmony then squandered it. They are pretty much the only decent universal remote game in town and they still can't make it profitable despite neglecting it. Software is dogshit and they keep making devices no one wants. I took one look at the Harmony Touch and started laughing, this is a damned train wreck. Remotes are supposed to be quick and efficient input devices that operate off muscle memory, not a goofy iPhone device that you stare at instead of the TV.

I do love their support though, they have some of the best support in the business.
 
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News Comments > Sunday Metaverse
15. Re: Out of the Blue Mar 4, 2013, 10:31 Verno
 
Mr. Tact wrote on Mar 4, 2013, 10:13:
I guess I just don't see FB as social. To me social is face to face communication with phone calls as a secondary method. I mean I communicate with coworkers via email everyday, and yet we still have miscommunications sometimes. So, imagine how hard it is to communicate more complicated emotional topics via texting, wall posts, and emails when you only do it occasionally. Maybe I'm an idiot or emotionally stunted, but I just don't get it.

It's not my place to judge how you handle your personal life, if it works for you then fair enough man. Any method of communicating with others is inherently "social" though. Sometimes I call people, sometimes we get together and sometimes I just poke them on Facebook. It's a tool box, there are times each is appropriate and inappropriate or inconvenient.

I often hear "I don't get Facebook" or comments like yours that Facebook seems pointless. There's nothing to get, it's like email, phone calls, Skype, pen pals, etc etc.
 
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News Comments > Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag Trailers; Details
1. Re: Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag Trailers; Details Mar 4, 2013, 09:34 Verno
 
You know what, Assassin's Creed: Pirates actually sounds really cool. Count me in.  
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News Comments > Sunday Mobilization
4. Re: Sunday Mobilization Mar 4, 2013, 09:20 Verno
 
I don't know, I went from a Samsung AMOLED to an LCD in the Nexus 4 and it's pretty much been a visual upgrade in every way except contrast ratio. In direct sunlight it's a bit annoying but that rarely happens so *shrug*.  
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News Comments > Sunday Metaverse
12. Re: Out of the Blue Mar 4, 2013, 09:13 Verno
 
Mr. Tact wrote on Mar 4, 2013, 08:27:
Rigs wrote on Mar 4, 2013, 06:27:
Plus, I've been able to keep in contact with some family I've not otherwise seen or heard from for decades...
First a disclaimer -- I do lean towards the loner side of the spectrum, I'm not anti-social, just less social than most. Anyway, this idea you put forward is the thing I least understand. If you hadn't seen or heard from someone in decades, doesn't that indicate you had no interest in contacting them?

Not really, sometimes people just drift apart due to circumstance, location or etc. It doesn't mean you don't want to keep in contact necessarily and that's what Facebook is good for. I don't use 90% of the features on Facebook, I basically just login a few times a week to check in with friends and family. If you don't see any value in a social mechanism for staying connected then *shrug*. People seem to think Facebook and your real life social circles are mutually exclusive and I find them to be highly complementary.
 
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