Random Video Game Crap
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With the 3DS offering only two games I'm interested in this year, I did something I thought I'd never do ...
I bought a PS Vita.
I have seven days to change my mind, but getting to play Persona 4 is going to be really hard to turn away from now that it's in my grasp. On top of that, being able to play Bloodborne even if my wife is using the TV for Splatoon. And portable Playstation 1, essentially.
Extra present: Gamestop only had a preowned 16GB memory card. I couldn't figure out how to get the damn thing into the slot, so I turned on a light and looked inside--and they'd never checked the slot. There was already a 16GB card inside
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I bought a PS Vita.
I have seven days to change my mind, but getting to play Persona 4 is going to be really hard to turn away from now that it's in my grasp. On top of that, being able to play Bloodborne even if my wife is using the TV for Splatoon. And portable Playstation 1, essentially.
Extra present: Gamestop only had a preowned 16GB memory card. I couldn't figure out how to get the damn thing into the slot, so I turned on a light and looked inside--and they'd never checked the slot. There was already a 16GB card inside
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I wish Atlus would sell versions of the collector's editions of their games with a download code inside instead of the game. I got Persona 4: Dancing All Night for download ... but I also want the swag.
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I'm don't usually have a problem with gore, but the fatalities and x-rays in that game are just unnecessarily gory. If you say this on reddit, someone(s) will respond "But it doesn't look realistic!" To which I say, A) bullshit--that looks pretty meaty to me, and B) how would you know? Do you go around slicing the fronts off of people's heads so their brains squish out on a regular basis?
The biggest problem I had was the fact that the fighters would keep on going unhampered and with none of the signs of the structural damage that had just been inflicted. It broke the immersion for me.
--Patrick
It doesn't bother me at all, gore in video games and movies never have. Just different sensitivity levels, I suppose.
Though, much, much less graphic depictions of actual violence, like news footage of bombings, images that get posted online, etc, those make me very squeamish. I can watch Johnny Cage get his face put through a meat grinder all day, but those 'fail' videos where some guy falls three stories and lands hard and then you never see any followup as to whether he lived through that, that bothers me. I assume it's because no matter how realistic depictions of gore in fantasy becomes, I know it's just that, fantasy. Once that barrier is breached... yech.
I'm in the same boat.
I got this sniper game on PS3. I think it's Sniper Elite, but it's in the basement, so I'm just guessing. It had this X-Ray kill cam thing that was just amazing. The gore didn't bother me at all, but if you made a good shot, it'd show the bullet plowing through the body in slow-mo with x-ray view (showing bone, muscle, etc) and the damage it was doing as it passed. I thought it was fascinating anatomically, and the gore itself really didn't strike me on a personal level. I know it's all just pixels. But watching the bullet pass through an enemy sniper scope and into his eye was just fantastic.
On the other hand, I've seen some real life death videos (like Saddam Hussein's hanging video for instance) that disturbed me greatly, so I don't think I'm desensitized to death or violence. I think I recognize on a visceral level that gory video games just aren't reality.
Exactly. I've heard lots of people claim that violent video games and other violent fictional media desensitize people to violence. I'm of the opinion that it might desensitize to fictional depictions of violence, but real violence garners an entirely different reaction. But that's purely anecdotal.
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Most video game gore I have no issue with. Mkx crosses that Saddam hanging threshold for me. It feels like it's really happening because of the anatomical correctness.[DOUBLEPOST=1453784314,1453784094][/DOUBLEPOST]The other game that got to me was some FPS set in WWII from about 12 years ago now. Can't remember the name. Battle something. On the PC. When you headshot the Germans, sometimes they'd reach up and touch the wound before falling over. That was a little on the real side for me, too. Gib the German to meaty chunks and its fantasy. Make me feel bad for killing him and its too real.
GasBandit
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Welp, this truly is video game crap. Possibly not safe for work, depending on your work.
I might break my pre-order rule...
The no bathrooms thing in Elder Scrolls always bothered me. In Oblivion, you could at least claim the Imperial City had sewers so the common folk were probably squatting over buckets and dumping it into the sewers, but it makes literally no sense anywhere else. Why are there no privies in the Castles? No outhouses?
The laser thing always bothered me too, but I always figured it was an animation recycling issue.
The laser thing always bothered me too, but I always figured it was an animation recycling issue.
Castle privies mostly just looked like nooks where you might put candles or books.
Imagine doing your business there when the scullery maid walks by
Imagine doing your business there when the scullery maid walks by
I'm fearing the day our PS3 dies. I really don't want to spend money on a new one, but right now we're using it more than any other console we have.
Even worse if you have PT on it.
Damn, that really sucks. The backwards compatible model was more ideal than Sony wanted to admit.
Sony probably made the right move in dropping it though... it raised costs per a PS3 by something like 50 bucks a console just to include the PS2 hardware in the system. They dropped it at a point where they were struggling to get sales and they had a pretty big uptick afterwards. As much as we like backwards compatibility, it isn't always the smartest option, especially when it raises system prices so much.
I'm sure they liked the premise of re-selling those games both digitally and as HD re-releases too.
Sure, but it's ultimately a decision of whether you'd rather pay an extra 50-100 bucks to have backwards compatibility or pay 10-20 bucks for the digital versions of what you want. The digital ones are going to look better on your TV anyway because they've been pre-upscaled.
By the point I bought a PS3, it didn't matter anymore. It would've been nice to not need the PS2 around, but that's kind of become the case anyway.
Now the issue is the PS3. It's able to interact with many Sony things that the PS4 for some reason can't, even ignoring backwards compatibility. Why? No idea. Sony can't seem to do two things right without simultaneously doing something wrong.
I don't think I ever knew about that; was busy with personal shit back then.
Fucking hell, Sony.
