Random Video Game Crap
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The thing I'm getting out of this is that Crysis is a very foggy game. Is it meant to be like that in vanilla, or is that due to the mod?
GasBandit
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That's the mod. Though, it's possible for the game to get foggy, there's weather and smoke bombs if memory serves. But vanilla, the game is actually clear and brightly colored.
GasBandit
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Guess we're not allowed to enjoy Witcher 3 after all, as Feminist Frequency has declared it toxic, despite that they're basically wrong about every criticism they make about it.
GasBandit
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I actually had a section of highway do that for some reason. It was surreal. I was disappointed that the cars traveled along it in defiance of physics, rather than launching themselves off the edge in one direction and slamming into the embankment in the other.
Those tires have some serious grip.Sometimes, your building placement in Cities: Skylines makes the geography have to get a little creative.
I played the beta a few times, less than 5 hours collectively, was a B rated XCom game with some lineage options, looked decent.
I'll wait 1-2 patches and try it when I have some resemblance of a life back.
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But Splatoon is probably the scariest of all post-apocalyptic worlds.
Everyone only has a binary choice of being a squid now or a kid now.
At least in the others, there's a fighting chance. Splatoon is the scariest because in that world humans are extinct.
"Squids... sticky liquid all over everything... I've seen enough hentai to know where this is going."
Polygon sent some dude who hates people, fun and Rock Band to review Rock Band at an expensive hotel event.
The guy spends multiple paragraphs talking about himself and how much he dislikes crowds and rock music, barely touching on the actual game.
The guy spends multiple paragraphs talking about himself and how much he dislikes crowds and rock music, barely touching on the actual game.
Yeah, I saw that and told some friends on Twitter. It's everything wrong with the Games Media scene in one package:
- Went to a PR event to review under control of the devs (Strike 1)
- They sent somebody who not only doesn't know much about the genre, actively thinks it's kind of dumb. (Strike 2)
- Game Reviewer actually seems to think he's above games, despite getting paid to write about them (Strike 3)
- The actual article is pretentious as hell. Dude, I don't give a shit about your grandmother. Tell me about Rockband 4.
- How THE FUCK did this get past the Editor? Was he stoned?
It's exactly the kind of bullshit that makes the Games Media a laughing stock... and why it's apparent that the industry is kind of done with them, since publishers and developers are inviting "fans" (read: bloggers and YouTube personalities) into E3 to provide coverage alongside the people ostensibly paid to be there.
I'm fine with that since the people paid to be there sometimes work for companies paid by the developers. At this point, their word is less trustworthy than people from Youtube.
Yeah lately if I want to know about a game I watch guys like ProJared, The Completionist, etc. They're just so fucking happy to be doing what they do, and that shows in every review/preview they put out, especially in a franchise they know well/play a lot of (Jared's MonHunX analysis, for example). Even TotalBiscuit's managed to stay somewhat impartial after all his time in the spotlight.
See, I can't even do this anymore. Some of these guys are doing paid reviews/looks without disclosing it (mostly because people don't click if they know it's a paid thing). I'm at the point where I'm waiting weeks after release to get fucking footage before I buy anything.
I'm not a big online gamer, with the exception of Awesomenauts. Lately, I've been running into a new thing: people (usually kids, because they mention their mothers needing them) saying "afk" constantly throughout a session.
Has anyone experienced another player (or players) saying this? I've had a few games (random pick-up groups, of course) now where it's becoming a regular thing.
They keep saying afk, and yet they're still playing. They'll say "afk" and then I'll see them walking across the screen, firing shots and such. Or worse, they'll stand right in the middle of the battlefield, not moving (clearly afk) and then complain when they get killed. Hell, when my team has miraculously won the game, they'll even say that's rude because they were afk. We're not gonna just sit around patiently while your mom needs you, kid, especially if we're in the home stretch.
Is this some new thing? Is this like a new "get rekt" thing? A way to play horribly and then have a new excuse for it or something?
Has anyone experienced another player (or players) saying this? I've had a few games (random pick-up groups, of course) now where it's becoming a regular thing.
They keep saying afk, and yet they're still playing. They'll say "afk" and then I'll see them walking across the screen, firing shots and such. Or worse, they'll stand right in the middle of the battlefield, not moving (clearly afk) and then complain when they get killed. Hell, when my team has miraculously won the game, they'll even say that's rude because they were afk. We're not gonna just sit around patiently while your mom needs you, kid, especially if we're in the home stretch.
Is this some new thing? Is this like a new "get rekt" thing? A way to play horribly and then have a new excuse for it or something?
Like, I get when you have to go afk. It happens. But RIGHT at the start of a match or leaving your character out in the middle to die? That's just being stupid. To say nothing of rude to your team during an online live game.
Unless you're already dead.
Nerds.
They'll say it was only possible with the new generation of consoles.Are we finally, FINALLY out of the drab age of games?
They couldn't show colours at 30fps.They'll say it was only possible with the new generation of consoles.
Also, the colours seem less muted in the Just Cause 3 screenshots compared to the last game. Is it just me?