Kxmode wrote on Jul 18, 2018, 15:18:

Muscular Beaver wrote on Jul 18, 2018, 14:57:
WoW stopped being They dumbed down the game, questing and much more, and havent seen me again since then.

Having played both vanilla and the recent iteration it always cracks me up with how wrong people are here.

Blizzard didn't dumb down the game. They streamlined it. I know what you're thinking, and no those are not the same. There's PLENTY of challenging content in today's WOW. It is just presented in more streamlined ways, and at different tiers. Blizzard doesn't force you, as they did in vanilla, to do one-size-fits-all content. Now everyone can experience the same content in different play styles. Obviously, the most difficult that requires more skill to complete gives the best rewards.

Sentimentality is fun! I was on Nostalgia when it had an active concurrent player count of 15K. Besides the fact that Blizzard never designed WOW for those numbers (and especially on a PVP server. Strangethorn Vale was the worst!), I was on Nost's IVV team helping to smash bugs. There are so many things in vanilla that lacked quality of life polish that the gameplay wasn't "harder." It just made it less polished. I have no doubts you'll notice them when you play vanilla alongside today's WOW.

HoSpanky wrote on Jul 11, 2018, 11:53:
Scheherazade, you’re half right. But you clearly weren’t using it for its intended purpose.

- You shouldn’t be playing anything in VR that plays competitively against pancake players, that’s a HUGE mistake. Let’s ignore resolution entirely, as that will eventually be on par. What won’t ever “catch up” is our poor weak human bodies. You can’t physically turn and aim like a pancake mouse/kB player. Something as simple as ducking is a quick button press, versus someone having to physically drop down.

-if you had any input lag, that’s not the current VR setup’s fault unless you were using some off-brand thing. Vive and Rift both have no discernable input lag, unless the game itself is lagging. Considering you appeared to have been playing something that work on both Vr and pancake, I assume it was something that probably wasn’t made for Vr to begin with, and has effects that can cause abysmal slowdown.

VR won’t ever look as pretty as pancake games do, because it’s WAY more demanding. People who think it will eventually look just as good are technologically retarded. Resolution will improve, and the sooner devs and VR promoters push SLI, the faster it’ll look better. Second gen headsets should include eye tracking and foveated rendering, allowing for higher resolution screens without as bad of a performance hit.

The benefit is the completely different way you play, and the possibilities allowed by it. If you’re just playing the same old things, that’s *your* mistake. The best VR titles keep the game “close”...not just due to low resolution, but because that’s where the difference is best felt. Once an object is 75-100 feet away from you, depth perception matters less.

I don’t think VR is ready for mass consumption yet. The current sets are there to make the tech available to anyone who wants to try to figure out how to best use this new medium. Games are weird and have no standard, like how pancake games all use WASD and a mouse to move now, but that wasn’t always the case. VR is so alien in nature compared to how games are normally done that programmers still spend a HUGE amount of their development budget on basic interaction functionality.

So, I agree that VR isn’t ready for prime time, but I do think your experience may have been sub-par. What were you playing, and playing ON?

Wowbagger_TIP wrote on Jul 9, 2018, 22:06:
Huffman is rather full of shit. Reddit is a bunch of speech silos, and he claims that the best solution to hate speech and racism is to repudiate their views in free conversation. This is not an effective solution due to the bubbles that are created within Reddit, so that you can't engage directly with someone in a sub like /r/The_Donald, because you get banned instantly for any criticism. You can address it in a different sub, but that does little good, because it likely won't be seen by the people who are viewing the sub where the initial speech happened.

Cutter wrote on Jun 29, 2018, 16:37:

Scheherazade wrote on Jun 29, 2018, 11:44:
A lot of the newer shit I see I'm like : "ugh, you're in the weeds on details."

Ok, I lol'd at that.

You're absolutely correct. They just keep fucking around with all this minutia that doesn't matter. And that's why you need good producers to keep you on time and budget by moving you away from spinning your wheels pointlessly like that. People either don't know or forget that Wing Commander and Privateer were made in spite of him. That EA fired him because he's a shitty producer that has no business being in that role at all. He's completely unqualified for the job.

And the comments from the fanboys? Holy shit have they ever drunk deep of the Kool-Aid.

Cutter wrote on Jun 29, 2018, 11:36:
It's DNF all over again. Except CR is wasting other peoples money instead of his own. So over six years on and still nothing to show for it. Lol.

Creston wrote on Jun 15, 2018, 22:29:
Good. I hope she rots in jail.

Oh wait, what am I saying. She's one of the rich. She'll get a slap on the wrist and a stern admonishment that next time, she needs to grease some more governmental palms.

Nullity wrote on Jun 14, 2018, 12:45:

Democrats introduce an election security bill that proposes paper trails and mandatory audits.

Definitely a good thing, but expect scumbag Republicans to kill it any way they can. Those fuckers can't win unless they cheat, and it's disgusting.

And before any conservatives here get their panties wadded up: gerrymandering, voter suppression (countless methods - a whole book could be written on just this alone), voter intimidation, destroying the Voting Rights Act, voter registration purges, Fox "news", Russia ('nuff said), McConnell cancelling this summer Senate recess to prevent Democrats from campaigning for the mid-terms, flat-out lying, and even "hanging chads" in 2000. Holy shit, I could do this all day. Sit back down.

VaranDragon wrote on Jun 7, 2018, 02:45:
It's all guesswork. Fact remains that Russia did the push on the eastern front, the US opened up and pushed on the western front.

Both contributed to the end of WWII, and you can't disregard the actions of either side, no matter what Redeye thinks.

Im not defending the actions of Stalin, both before and after WWII, but the fact remains that without the Red Army fighthing in the east, D-day would have ended in disaster, and vice-versa.

Cutter wrote on May 29, 2018, 22:02:
Valve's house, Valve's rules. It's still hugely fucking hypocritical nonetheless.

RedEye9 wrote on May 27, 2018, 12:52:

Scheherazade wrote on May 27, 2018, 12:43:
Confused, which blues link is this referring to?

None, it's a gaming related newsworthy post in OoTB.
BioWare Boss Apologizes for Ex-Employee’s TotalBiscuit Comments

YourNick wrote on May 26, 2018, 09:58:
While it could be used as training for future school shooters, at the same time it could be used for figuring out ways to counteract school shooters, training would-be victims on counter measures. Maybe they should release with the ability to only play as a SWAT member or as a student, and not as the murderer.

Cram wrote on May 26, 2018, 14:19:
Bioware Programmer goes on a rant and makes some sick remarks hours after TotalBiscuits death. He has since made is account private and deleted all information referencing him as a Bioware/EA employee.

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Reddit Thread nearing 10,000 upvotes at /r/pcgaming

eRe4s3r wrote on May 26, 2018, 00:44:
I hope everyone involved in that swatting circle-jerk gets fucked hard.

But most importantly, the cop goes free, right?

MoreLuckThanSkill wrote on May 23, 2018, 22:59:
Wow, I didn't realize we had accounts on here taken over by Russian spammers?

Scheherazade - Putin has literally murdered his political rivals, invaded other sovereign nations, and you are defending him? Organized attempts by Russian intelligence services to alter the US election process are deliberate acts of war. The US government is definitely guilty of many crimes, but that doesn't excuse any transgressions by Russia.

Not really surprising at all that you think a US President being compromised by Russian intelligence services is no big deal, because hey, it "helps everyone."

I'm glad you outed yourself, although it's a shame we can't escape this propaganda shit even on a video game site.