saluk wrote on Jul 6, 2018, 15:52:
How will they know what content I actually like?

The shows you watch and if you give thumbs. But honestly, they don't really want you to watch stuff you like. The algorithm seems to actually bury it, so you watch all that other crap they paid for.

No one reads the reviews since the star system was removed. That was the time to complain and that was a long time ago. There's no way know if a show is good on Netflix. You have to open another tab and google each and every show to get reviews from rotten, imdb or metacritic. Trust the algorithm!

The Star Trek prime directive. A more advanced civilization will probably choose not to interfere with us. The lesser advanced, or equally advanced probably don't have the means to reach us. It's even possible that an advanced civilization will actively prevent early ones from communicating in order to let us "prove ourselves" as deserving first. With the size of things, I find it highly improbable that we'd be the only intelligent life in the universe. Also, claiming that we're the first is hard to justify because the odds are so so slim.

Parents do a bad job, kid becomes depressed, parents fail to get him the required help, parents blame a silly video game, the news laps it up like the sweetest milk.

Cutter wrote on Jun 26, 2018, 10:55:
Nice clickbait. "Researchers put odds of mankind being alone in Milky Way at up to 99.6%"

than....

"A team of scientists led by Anders Sandberg, a research fellow at Oxford University, have concluded that there is a 53% to 99.6% probability that humans are alone in our galaxy, the Milky Way, with a 39% to 85% chance that no intelligent life exists outside of the “observable universe”"

39% is a long goddamned way off from 99.6%. What a range! If the universe is infinite than life is also diverse and infinite in it's multitude. Even if it's close to infinite it's the height of arrogance and stupidity to think that life is at all rare in the universe, it's simply spaced really far apart.

Yeah, dunno about that Predator movie.

Yeah what a load of crap. Also, not only that, if there's a 99.6% chance that we're alone in the milky way, consider that there's an insane amount of other galaxies, so it means that it's almost certain that there's other intelligent life in the universe. The article is 100% bs. The only way to know the real info is to read the study, as usual...

El Pit wrote on Jun 26, 2018, 02:49:
Forced PvP? Really? No sale. Not even for free.

No one knows yet if PVP is forced. I would be surprised myself. A ton of people don't want that and essentially every other game of this type lets you play on private servers with friends only.

This trailer contains 0% new anything. They literally took Todd's voice from the E3 prez.

I'm super-hyped for this game though. I love coop survival games and if this is anything like Fallout 4, which it is, it's going to be one of the best.

I'd also like more single player Fallout, but they already gave us Fallout 4. I don't want the main Beth team working on the next SP RPG to spend time on a side project like 76. 76 is a gift made by another team while the main team works on Starfield.

Overon wrote on Jun 14, 2018, 17:54:
Phil Spencer is a bullshitter. How many times has he said this? Why doesn't someone in the bullshit games media call him out on this?

There's no such thing as games media. They're freelance marketting teams used by publishers. You can't call the BS of the people who put food on your plate.

The same old BS from Microsoft that I've been hearing for 17 years while they systematically keep doing worse. I don't want PC gaming to be a closed garden app store. If that's what you want, you've had tons of options for years, go play on consoles and phones! The cost of the UWP is too much.

It's a good horror game. Won't make the top of any list though and it gets pretty predictable. For free it's well worth it.

Very informative. I hope they allow private servers for you and your friends, but it doesn't sound like it. I hope you can alter the server settings too, because the penalty for death is too small. I also don't like the progression system. I hate when you can respect everything for free at all times.

VaranDragon wrote on Jun 12, 2018, 06:17:
Anyone else get the feel that as the years go by these big publishers and developers show us less and less actual content and still manage to increase hype more than ever?

I for one don't buy it. If you get a hard on for future games which literally show you nothing at all, you deserve the game you end up pre-ordering.

Well, a studio's reputation has to count for something. It's a really safe bet that Beth's main studio's game will be good. But yeah, never pre-order.

VaranDragon wrote on Jun 12, 2018, 08:43:
A survival fallout shooter? I mean why not? Its not like the last few fallout games have been much deeper than shooters anyway really. I'd be interested in this if it had first person actually. Will it have first person?

It definitely has first person. Also, when you think about it, Fallout 4 was already a survival game...

CJ_Parker wrote on Jun 11, 2018, 20:51:

Cutter wrote on Jun 11, 2018, 20:44:
Where the hell is that anyway? I really was hoping for Black Marsh and/or Elswyr.

YT comments were about 50/50 between guessing it is either High Rock or Hammerfell.

I really don't see why they'd make a game in High Rock because it's kinda generic and pretty similar to Skyrim. Hammerfell though, pirates. But I still don't know... Akavir is making a lot of sense too...

jdreyer wrote on Jun 11, 2018, 16:16:

Acleacius wrote on Jun 11, 2018, 14:39:
Yeah, fun times especially if your looking for Heretic and Hexen fix!

From the description that's what I was hoping this was. Thanks.

I really didn't get a Heretic or Hexen vibe from Ziggurat. I mean, you use staves to fight, but that's about it. Ziggurat's art style is cute. One of the most common enemy is a carrot... Pretty far from feeling like Heretic.

This is essentially the best survival game possible. If they just keep what they had in 4 and add multiplayer, which is exactly what it looks like. I can't wait to play this in coop. I just hope you can make private games for you and your friends.

I loved Dead Island, but couldn't get into Dying Light. Waaaay too much backtracking and menial tasks. Also, I haaate the weapon degradation system. Still going to keep an eye on this one.

It's pretty fun, but it gets pretty repetitive after 8 hours. So yeah, worth it.

Looks extremely generic and I fail to understand why I should be excited. Also, they release almost no new notable info and I can barely distinguish this trailer from the previous one. Major let down.

I've never had a single issue caused by shovelware games on Steam. I've never been spammed by them, I've never had a hard time finding good games, I've never had a hard time filtering games, they don't hide good indie games. It doesn't take much time for enough reviews to accumulate for us to know exactly how good a game is. It's the best review system I've ever seen. I feel like I live in crazy land where everything is pink and happy and some of you live in evil fire land where you can't find a single good game when you filter by user reviews.

Let all games(except illegal stuff) get in in the hopes that they find their public. If you hate a game, don't pay for it or refund it. Hell, maybe some people actually like shitty asset flips. I know youtubers and streamers make a lot of money out of them.