Video Game News and Miscellany

figmentPez

figmentPez

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PatrThom said:
Well, it's finally happened. You can now buy a PC game that you can't use a mouse/kbd to play.

Dangerous Golf requires PC players to use a controller

Predictably, the PC Master Race has reacted unfavorably.

--Patrick
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I'm kind of surprised this is the first, but then even Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons technically had keyboard support. Though I know a fair amount of indie titles have favored controller, to the point of not having any sort of key rebinding, and only showing on-screen prompts for controller buttons.
 
Ravenpoe

Ravenpoe

Honestly, I respect no keyboard controls more than the half-assed keyboard controls that many game developers put into their pc port.


Maybe it's just because I don't care about their dumb golf game.
 
CynicismKills

CynicismKills

He was the director of D3, most attribute the RMAH and other shitty things the game started with to him. I think he had a hand in a lot of WoW's Draenor expansion, too, which was a pretty shitty experience all-together.

Also, after Dave Brevik spoke about how he wouldn't have made a lot of the same decisions about D3, especially with all his experience on D2, Wilson's response was "fuck that loser."

I'd say Wilson's not especially popular with people.

e: This article explains the whole "fuck that loser" debacle.
 
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ThatNickGuy

ThatNickGuy

Psychonauts 2 Pre-Alpha Gameplay



This looks amazing! I kinda regret not backing their crowdfunding.

EDIT: Wait, scratch that. This is a side-game specifically for VR that's also coming out. This is separate from Psychonauts 2, which is also in development (and I assume using the same graphics engine).
 
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Yoshimickster

Yoshimickster

ThatNickGuy said:
Psychonauts 2 Pre-Alpha Gameplay



This looks amazing! I kinda regret not backing their crowdfunding.

EDIT: Wait, scratch that. This is a side-game specifically for VR that's also coming out. This is separate from Psychonauts 2, which is also in development (and I assume using the same graphics engine).
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YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES-can't wait!
 
CynicismKills

CynicismKills

Apparently BattleBorn has recently added a new in-game currency that you buy with real money and the prices for new heroes/skins/etc are extortion-level high for the currency type dropped in-game. The currency you use otherwise has an abysmally low droprate, from what I see in this post here, and people are starting to wonder why they bothered defending the game in the first place.
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

CynicismKills said:
Apparently BattleBorn has recently added a new in-game currency that you buy with real money and the prices for new heroes/skins/etc are extortion-level high for the currency type dropped in-game. The currency you use otherwise has an abysmally low droprate, from what I see in this post here, and people are starting to wonder why they bothered defending the game in the first place.
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It's desperation to recover money they're not going to get in sales. Suck up what you can from the existing player base before the whole thing collapses.
 
Frank

Frank

Watched Jim Sterling play a little of the Mighty No 9 review copy he got. It actually looks fun. I mean, visually it looks horrendous, but the game looks like fun to play. Hopes are a little up for me now.

 
CynicismKills

CynicismKills

Zero Esc said:
It's desperation to recover money they're not going to get in sales. Suck up what you can from the existing player base before the whole thing collapses.
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Yeah Overwatch had a juggernaut of advertisements and media, while BattleBorn just went radio silent for months leading up to release. Like, how the fuck do you plan to compete with someone like Blizzard if you don't even advertise your game?
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

CynicismKills said:
Yeah Overwatch had a juggernaut of advertisements and media, while BattleBorn just went radio silent for months leading up to release. Like, how the fuck do you plan to compete with someone like Blizzard if you don't even advertise your game?
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They could've started by making a fun game. I played the damn thing during beta; it was a slog.
 
Jay

Jay

CynicismKills said:
Apparently BattleBorn has recently added a new in-game currency that you buy with real money and the prices for new heroes/skins/etc are extortion-level high for the currency type dropped in-game. The currency you use otherwise has an abysmally low droprate, from what I see in this post here, and people are starting to wonder why they bothered defending the game in the first place.
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Gearbox is generally is a shitty video game company. Would be long gone if it wasn't for the success of the BL franchise.
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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Jay said:
Gearbox is generally is a shitty video game company. Would be long gone if it wasn't for the success of the BL franchise.
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It's true that just about everything to come out of Gearbox besides Borderlands and Half-Life (and by extension, Counterstrike) has been a shit-soaked, vomit-drenched diarrhea nightmare, but those two franchises are so highly regarded that a lot of people still hold out hope that there's one more golden egg left in that goose somewhere.
 
CynicismKills

CynicismKills

They've earned a lot of ire the last couple years thanks to things like DNF (granted this was probably doomed to fail regardless) and the Colonial Marines shitshow. Borderlands is really all they have left, especially with all the cash they apparently sunk into the quickly-failing BattleBorn. They need a new Borderlands, and it'll need to be really good.
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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CynicismKills said:
They've earned a lot of ire the last couple years thanks to things like DNF (granted this was probably doomed to fail regardless) and the Colonial Marines shitshow. Borderlands is really all they have left, especially with all the cash they apparently sunk into the quickly-failing BattleBorn. They need a new Borderlands, and it'll need to be really good.
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Especially given that the Pre-sequel was kinda "ehhh."
 
CynicismKills

CynicismKills

So I've heard. I played a lot of BL1 but couldn't really get into 2. I think I got about halfway through it before losing interest and getting tired of Gearbox dialogue. Where a normal NPC would say

"I need three power cells to start this force field or we're going to get overrun. Go get them, I'll hold down the fort."

Gearbox NPCs say

"Hey, so you're some kind of badass or something, right? Yeah, of course you are. So there's this awesome shield I built because I'm a genius AND DEFINITELY NOT CRAZY HAHAHA but I seem to have misplaced the power cells it needs to work WHICH I TOTALLY DID ON PURPOSE. Do me a favor and get out there and find them for me, also be sure to kill things on the way because I said so. What, me? I'll stay here, it's safe here, I could totally kill bad things but I just don't feel like it today, no really. Just go, dammit!"
 
Denbrought

Denbrought

CynicismKills said:
So I've heard. I played a lot of BL1 but couldn't really get into 2. I think I got about halfway through it before losing interest and getting tired of Gearbox dialogue. Where a normal NPC would say

"I need three power cells to start this force field or we're going to get overrun. Go get them, I'll hold down the fort."

Gearbox NPCs say

"Hey, so you're some kind of badass or something, right? Yeah, of course you are. So there's this awesome shield I built because I'm a genius AND DEFINITELY NOT CRAZY HAHAHA but I seem to have misplaced the power cells it needs to work WHICH I TOTALLY DID ON PURPOSE. Do me a favor and get out there and find them for me, also be sure to kill things on the way because I said so. What, me? I'll stay here, it's safe here, I could totally kill bad things but I just don't feel like it today, no really. Just go, dammit!"
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And then the stupid high-pitched robot squeals for 10 seconds. I couldn't get more than a few hours into 2, and never finished 1.
 
Ravenpoe

Ravenpoe

If you like adventure games, Tales from the Borderlands from TellTale is seriously one of the best story games I've ever played. Like, it's way better than it has any right to be.
 
Frank

Frank

Mighty No 9 reviews are out and they are of course as mediocre as it gets. You know who's not going to get to find out how good or bad this game is at launch.


ALL THE FUCKING BACKERS WHO STILL DON'T HAVE FUCKING KEYS FOR THE FUCKING GAME.

I gave you a fucking chance Inafune, go fuck yourself.

Fucking scam. Fuck that piece of shit.

 
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