I have logged an embarrassing amount of hours on that game.
GasBandit
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I wish it were possible in that game to make your payments successfully just buying and selling. The adventure parts did nothing for me :/ But without doing them, I couldn't keep up with the increasing payments.
GasBandit
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Sigh... why can't I stop playing Clash of Clans...
... and why is EVERY SINGLE woman in my village COMPLETELY ENTHRALLED by the each random fallen tree or overgrown shrub to grow?
"I've got washing and mending and other bronze-age woman stuff to do but HOLY SHIT LOOK AT THIS DEAD OLD TREE I SWEAR TO MUDGOD IT WASN'T HERE YESTERDAY! GIRLS! GIRLS! EVERYBODY COME LOOK AT THIS AMAZING TREE"
"Oh... the chief spent the elixir to have a worker tear it down. Well, back to having a dozen babies and dying in my early 20s, I guess."
... and why is EVERY SINGLE woman in my village COMPLETELY ENTHRALLED by the each random fallen tree or overgrown shrub to grow?
"I've got washing and mending and other bronze-age woman stuff to do but HOLY SHIT LOOK AT THIS DEAD OLD TREE I SWEAR TO MUDGOD IT WASN'T HERE YESTERDAY! GIRLS! GIRLS! EVERYBODY COME LOOK AT THIS AMAZING TREE"
"Oh... the chief spent the elixir to have a worker tear it down. Well, back to having a dozen babies and dying in my early 20s, I guess."
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Last night's games with Terrik brought me my first (and I think it was Terrik's first too) encounter with a nightmare I've only heard before on Xbox Live--screeching, shouting idiot who plays sound clips into his microphone. I could not leave that lobby fast enough.
Everyone I've talked to on PSN before then has been cool (and the Dark Souls community is amazing). But that was just some fucked up shit.
Everyone I've talked to on PSN before then has been cool (and the Dark Souls community is amazing). But that was just some fucked up shit.
GasBandit
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Terrik played lots of TF2. I guarantee you that was not his first experience with mic-spam.
First time on PSN, I meant.
I've experienced it on Xbox (for the brief time I had access to a 360) and on Team Fortress 2.
Well, this community takes care of its own, man. All right everybody, I need a volunteer to go whack Frank in the head with a hammer until he forgets. Who's closest?
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I don't know who on here has played Star Control 2 (the greatest game ever made) but a year or two ago, some good folks released an HD update for the game (which is 23 years old now....fuuuuuuck). I think @GasBandit and maybe @AshburnerX.
It's not nostalgia (because I literally just played through the game early this morning) but I don't like the updated visuals. A lot of visual charm is lost.
It's not nostalgia (because I literally just played through the game early this morning) but I don't like the updated visuals. A lot of visual charm is lost.
Dark Souls: Taking a break from this for a month and then expecting to easily beat Seath and the final boss was a mistaken notion. However, I was able to clear the Duke's archives and dungeon, and get some kindly assistance with the last pair of bosses so that next time I play, it'll be New Game + and with a good build. I just didn't want to come back to it in the future and have no fucking clue what I was doing.
On a side-note, I think I've earned my asshole badge for the game. I invaded someone in the Duke's Archives using my last red orb. Almost killed him (death from above with 1100 damage), but screwed up and he got away. I then waited 20 minutes for him in the Crystal Cave just before the boss just so I could ambush him. I didn't kill him, but at least I surprised him.
On a side-note, I think I've earned my asshole badge for the game. I invaded someone in the Duke's Archives using my last red orb. Almost killed him (death from above with 1100 damage), but screwed up and he got away. I then waited 20 minutes for him in the Crystal Cave just before the boss just so I could ambush him. I didn't kill him, but at least I surprised him.
So I bought FF Theaterhythm: Curtain Call.
Fuck me, I thought Pokemon was addicting.
Fuck me, I thought Pokemon was addicting.
Batman: Arkham Origins
Still mostly enjoying it. I haven't done much of the story lately and just doing all the side stuff: Enigma packages, challenges, crime scenes. I must say that, after the crime scene investigation tutorial (which I wasn't crazy about), I've really gotten into them.
Came across one thing that I feel the need to rant about, though: why the FUCK would you program it in to have 4 frigging snipers (which are hard as hell to take down in this game compared to Arkham City) surrounding a AR glide training program? It took me about half a dozen tries just to get rid of them in order to FINALLY do the stupid gliding. I get that the snipers were there for one of Enigma's comms towers, but come on. I cleared that ages ago. Take away the damn snipers and let me do the AR training!
Still mostly enjoying it. I haven't done much of the story lately and just doing all the side stuff: Enigma packages, challenges, crime scenes. I must say that, after the crime scene investigation tutorial (which I wasn't crazy about), I've really gotten into them.
Came across one thing that I feel the need to rant about, though: why the FUCK would you program it in to have 4 frigging snipers (which are hard as hell to take down in this game compared to Arkham City) surrounding a AR glide training program? It took me about half a dozen tries just to get rid of them in order to FINALLY do the stupid gliding. I get that the snipers were there for one of Enigma's comms towers, but come on. I cleared that ages ago. Take away the damn snipers and let me do the AR training!
My only complaint with any of the arkham games is that moment you eventually arrive within the game where sniper density becomes equal to the average new york subway.
Tell me about it. I bought it release day and over five months later, I still will usually turn it on just to play a song or two when I have a free 10 minutes waiting for a bus transfer.
I've also bought way too much of the DLC considering the game already comes with 230 or so songs. 35 songs, and probably more this Thursday. <3 Chrono Trigger.
Oh God it's getting CT music? Oh God.
You'd have payed out the ass for a Gamecube controller though. Like I've said before, Smash Brothers people have been snagging them up to play competitively.
EDIT: If Evolve doesn't interest someone because of its gameplay, fine, or because it's over-priced at its core (which it is), fine, but taking issue with the day-one DLC thing, being that it's pointless (and also over-priced) cosmetic shit, is putting up a big "I don't know what I'm talking about" sign.
The guy who buys a $2.99 monster skin and the guy who doesn't are having the exact same game experience.
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At the moment, but 25.00 of that inflated price is for additional hunters. PLUS, the only way to get one of the monsters is buying the 100.00 version of the game.
EDIT: If Evolve doesn't interest someone because of its gameplay, fine, or because it's over-priced at its core (which it is), fine, but taking issue with the day-one DLC thing, being that it's pointless (and also over-priced) cosmetic shit, is putting up a big "I don't know what I'm talking about" sign.
The guy who buys a $2.99 monster skin and the guy who doesn't are having the exact same game experience.
Yeah, that's slimy and the worst possible way to do DLC.
If it were anything but cosmetic DLC, people would be right to get angry---but come on.
EDIT: If Evolve doesn't interest someone because of its gameplay, fine, or because it's over-priced at its core (which it is), fine, but taking issue with the day-one DLC thing, being that it's pointless (and also over-priced) cosmetic shit, is putting up a big "I don't know what I'm talking about" sign.
The guy who buys a $2.99 monster skin and the guy who doesn't are having the exact same game experience.
Which isn't launch day DLC. You can buy it then, but the hunters won't be available for a bit. If you want to GameFAQs forum it up, you could say "so they released an unfinished game." It's not day one DLC; it's the equivalent of a pre-order.
Nope. There are going to be two additional monsters, each available for $15. And also not available day-one. None of the DLC hunters or monsters are finished yet, and there's currently no release date on when they will be. Everything that was going to ship has shipped; this isn't like Shale in Dragon Age Origins.
Granted, it's all more expensive than it should be. No way am I paying full price for those hunters and monsters; I'll wait for a sale. But it's not launch day DLC. And if its existence as later DLC is a problem, then might as well say no DLC, and they should release Evolve 2 instead.
EDIT: Edited for overlong explanation I've done 50 times now.
If games that have deplorable DLC wouldn't get purchased, maybe companies would stop doing this. This is EA proportions of bullshittery.
The game was literally built from the ground up to be a DLC factory. This is by the proud proclamation of the developers.
This game is using a F2P model, but charging 60 bucks out the gate for it. 99.99 if you want the complete edition.
I know you like the game, so you're trying to defend it, but this is some shady ass bullshit.
I consider season passes day one DLC because you're paying for it right away. I never really liked season passes before but now they're out of control. Paying for vaporware that may or may not pan out is getting ridiculous.
The game was literally built from the ground up to be a DLC factory. This is by the proud proclamation of the developers.
This game is using a F2P model, but charging 60 bucks out the gate for it. 99.99 if you want the complete edition.
I know you like the game, so you're trying to defend it, but this is some shady ass bullshit.
I consider season passes day one DLC because you're paying for it right away. I never really liked season passes before but now they're out of control. Paying for vaporware that may or may not pan out is getting ridiculous.
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Deplorable ... color swaps?
You're not seeing it through corporate logic. Evolve had a 5-year development on an experimental kind of shooter, with the over-priced cosmetic DLC being 2K's effort to recoup some of that early. People don't buy Evolve = never try anything different, more Battlefield/COD/etc. Don't buy DLC = maybe we should stop the nonsense with DLC.
People wanted more zombie types for Left 4 Dead, but the developers couldn't easily throw those in without fucking everything up. The way Evolve is built doesn't have that problem, for either hunters or monsters, so if the game stayed popular for a long time (which it won't), they could continue to make content. That's it. That's all that meant.
Any game could be called a DLC factory if you're looking at DLC skins. I'm still waiting for someone to tell me why these skins are so damn important. Out of a couple hundred matches, I've seen people with DLC skins twice, both having the same green color swap for the Kraken. He died just the same--the skin made no difference for him.
That, I'll agree with and I said as much earlier in this thread. The game provides an arena and a structure, and the rest is up to the players. They could've released this with just Goliath and the starting 4 hunters as a F2P game, and then all the other monsters and hunters as purchasable add-ons, and that would've made sense ... if it was a PC exclusive. I can't see that working for console games. That said, $60 is over-priced.
But that still doesn't give you everything, so it is still Satan.
It has nothing to do with liking the game. Like I said, I've said before, in this thread, on this forum, the game is over-priced. The DLC is over-priced. I would've maybe bought a skin or two for the hell of it if they were 99 cents each, $2.50 a pack, but they're $3 each, $7, so fuck it. But you know what? Far as I can tell, not having those skins hasn't disrupted my gaming at all. I still suck as the trapper. I'm still an awesome healer. Wraith is OP, Kraken is my main. Changing them to red or blue or some splotchy gray-and-white from the Wendigo skin isn't going to change anything. No one has been able to explain to me why these skins matter, and the reason I surmise is because they've tied up the skins with the actual content, and nobody wants to read that the actual content DLC is coming later. It's more fun to be angry and wrong.
I actually had cancelled my pre-order because of this DLC crap. But then I looked at what was actually going on with it (day one DLC is pointless color swaps, actual DLC isn't ready and will be later on), and realized how ridiculous people sounded. Then I pre-ordered it again. I didn't have to play it to see how silly people have gotten over the numbers.
And that's really where it comes down to--people rankled by the numbers, not what they get you. This isn't $40 of valuable DLC, it's meaningless crap. If you pay for those weapon skins, you're paying for nothing, because you can hardly see it while you're running around in the game.
That doesn't make any sense. I thought the problem with day one DLC was that it was stuff that was on the disc, not the point when you pay for it. It's no different than a pre-order and taking issue with the act of pre-ordering is another subject entirely.
For the record, I have bought zero of Evolve's DLC, didn't buy the season pass, hunter season pass, the very important color swaps that would give me a huge advantage just like in Smash Bros, none of it.
I'm not telling you to buy Evolve. If you don't think you'd enjoy the gameplay or that it's not worth $60, don't get it. It'll probably be $10 on Steam by December. If someone asked me to recommend them a February release, I'd say Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate.
But the DLC isn't this "they gutted all the content out of the game" crap. It's a shitty business practice, but they didn't take away anything you can even enjoy while playing the game, and I never got the twinge of "gotta have that fucking skin." I don't really know who those skins are for. People with poor impulse control, probably.
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And I've dropped quite a bit of money on Heroes of the Storm skins. The difference being that both of those are F2P games, not 60.00 retail games.This is where I don't mention how much money I have spent on League of Legends on purely cosmetic DLC.
Cosmetic DLC is a pretty smart business model I'd say.
Also, in games like this, different hunters and monsters ARE the content, so excluding some for DLC is cutting out content. If it had a robust story mode, I would have payed full retail for it. But paying full retail for a game that specifically seeks to pump out a DLC money factory that may be dead in 2 months.
Nope, can't justify it.
Nope, can't justify it.
Fixed.
I don't think it's going to be around long enough to be worth 2k shuffling it around that way, but I could be wrong. This is probably the last week I'll be playing it as much as I have been; next week I'm visiting family so no PS4, and two days after I get back, out comes Bloodborne.
This only makes sense if all DLC = bad.
Those additional hunters and monsters were never intended to be part of the release, were hardly in development at the time of the original release date before the delay (October 2014), and arestill not ready. The game came out weeks ago, those hunters and monsters still aren't ready. They may not be ready for another month, two months, three months, we have no idea. Behemoth doesn't even have all his animations; let alone play testing and balance issues. We don't even know what the 5th monster is supposed to be. If they come up with a 6th monster down the line and it's released in 2016, should they have included that one in the release too?
Someone made a comment similar to this on another forum, saying "so now they're just releasing an incomplete game" and it made me realize the gaming community was really looking for something new to be angry about. Everyone will forget Evolve's DLC at the next disastrous Ubisoft release.