Random Video Game Crap
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It's definitely the wrong move, because SE bitched about the game not meeting the SALES quota they wanted when it was available on everything. It's a stupid move and exclusives should have died out years ago. Nobody's so desperate for the new Tomb Raider, of all things, that they're going to rush out and slam down cash for an XBone.
Games journalism needs to die.
Games journalism needs to die.
Wait a minute. Now, last I checked, sales = profits, do they not? Good lord, what an idiot.
GasBandit
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Usually yeah, but here I think it's being treated as the difference between Net and Gross. A lot of people don't understand the difference between "profits" and "profit margin." Which is why they hate oil companies.
Yeah. Most people don't understand that a gas station probably marks up their gas by 2 cents/gal at most, or that grocery stores are happy to net 3% profit after all the overhead comes out.
--Patrick
I don't really blame them for not focusing on the Vita at this point. No one is buying it because it's too expensive and doesn't have a whole lot of games... it's expensive because it's actually quite powerful, but no one wants to develop for it BECAUSE of that power.
Vita's dead and it's not even really anyone's fault. It's just too expensive, but it's justifiably so.
Vita's dead and it's not even really anyone's fault. It's just too expensive, but it's justifiably so.
That's fine, it's that Kuchera was arguing that going exclusive would increase sales, because he's a fucking moron troll.
The agony and ecstasy of engaging GB. I have not laughed so hard all day, if not longer.
Watching high level Super Smash Brothers play is kind of... boring. It usually turns into two guys using Fox or Metaknight or characters with certain moves that work well against Fox or Metaknight like Captain Falcon. Speed is just too much of a factor in the game.
Only if you had the option of using a baseball bat, a tennis racket, a cricket bat, or hockey stick instead, but everyone only focused on the tiny, fast paddle because it was the easiest to use.
I too know this pain.
That's the problem, he built his sentry in the wrong place. He's supposed to sneak into the enemy's intel room and build his base there.
GasBandit
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That's assuming anybody else is playing engi to defend the base. No engi on defense = lose on 2fort. And that spot is pretty close to the optimal position for placing a single sentry (just move it a little closer to the spawn garage)... from there, it can swivel to shoot at all 3 approaches - the courtyard from the ground floor, the ramparts, and the entrance murderhole room. Feckin scouts and rocket jumpers always comin' in the non-standard way. In fact I often like to build a dispenser in the door to the murderhole room just to slow enemies down a little more and let my turret get time to whip around and target them, otherwise the distance from that door to the central stairway door is too small and they can run by before the sentry can get a bead on them.
But yeah, once I've got that thing set up, 9 times out of 10 I end up trying to sneak into the enemy base and build a teleporter exit in there.
Yeah I know, I wasn't 100% serious. I like to build my sentry there as well, with my dispenser just around the corner. That way if someone attacks my sentry from the courtyard, I can take cover around the corner and repair it while getting resupplied by my sentry.
Still though, engie base in enemy intel room = much lulz.
GasBandit
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Another thing that inevitably happens, which that video doesn't cover, is the heavy/medic uber combo comes charging through the courtyard and annihilates your sentry and there's nothing you can do about it. Heh. But hey, at least your team has 6 snipers on the ramparts, amirite?
If a heavy/medic uber combo can get that far, they fucking deserve it. They usually die on the bridge or pop too early to be useful.
Yeah, that's what the six snipers on the battlements are for, sniping the medic.
Silly bhamv, they're obviously going to shoot the heavy. He's the threat!
GasBandit
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Nah, how it goes is they uber across the bridge (or sometimes don't even need to, the 6 snipers on the rampart are too busy dueling the six snipers on the OTHER team's rampart), then sit COMPLETELY UNMOLESTED in the room before the courtyard, building up another uber, then come charging through again.
Some guy spawned various tough enemies in Skyrim and had them fight it out.
It's pretty danged cool.
It's pretty danged cool.
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Sorry if someone already posted this (and I didn't see it on my search), but I came across an interesting report on gaming demographics. tl,dr: Women make up 48% of gamers, 50% of game purchaser and women 18 and older make up 36% of gamers, while boys 18 and under (the traditional "target audience") make up 17%. And the average gamer (regardless of gender) age is 31, which didn't surprise me.
So if I have one more teenage boy tell me my opinions on video games don't count, I'm going to find a hard copy of this report and beat him with it.
Also: Hyrule Warriors can't come out soon enough.
So if I have one more teenage boy tell me my opinions on video games don't count, I'm going to find a hard copy of this report and beat him with it.
Also: Hyrule Warriors can't come out soon enough.
Old news is old.Sorry if someone already posted this (and I didn't see it on my search), but I came across an interesting report on gaming demographics. tl,dr: Women make up 48% of gamers, 50% of game purchaser and women 18 and older make up 36% of gamers, while boys 18 and under (the traditional "target audience") make up 17%. And the average gamer (regardless of gender) age is 31, which didn't surprise me.
So if I have one more teenage boy tell me my opinions on video games don't count, I'm going to find a hard copy of this report and beat him with it.
Also: Hyrule Warriors can't come out soon enough.
Just kidding. These numbers get updated over time and with each report, the percentage of women playing seems to grow. Which is good, though I wonder if these reports factor in the variance of groups who only play Candy Crush.They probably do, but it is still a video game and can require game purchasing, so it does count.Old news is old.