General Video Game Thread
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@Jaded It's just clicks. You won't get many (or any) for criticizing works no one cares about.
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Mike isn't one to mince words.
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@Testament said in General Video Game Thread:
The latest controversy revolving around CDPR with Rock Paper Shotgun telling Mike Pondsmith what he should be offended with the game he created.
I was on the fence about pre-ordering.
I’m not on the fence anymore.
Remember to order through GOG to give maximum profit to the creators.
“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
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@Thenomain This game is going to be amazing, and CDPR deserves to be considered one of the top game studios these days. I'll be preordering for sure.
Delete the Hog Pit. It'll be fun.
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Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice is part of this month's Humble Bundle. I already have the game, but I say this because it's an amazing game and everyone should play it.
Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.
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@Auspice said in General Video Game Thread:
Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice is part of this month's Humble Bundle. I already have the game, but I say this because it's an amazing game and everyone should play it.
Seconded. It's surprisingly affecting in terms of narrative and execution, plus has really quite good atmospherics; a couple of the screenshots in my wallpapers directory are ones I took in Hellblade using Ansel.
a.k.a. Packetdancer (or "Pax" for short)
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@Sparks said in General Video Game Thread:
@Auspice said in General Video Game Thread:
Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice is part of this month's Humble Bundle. I already have the game, but I say this because it's an amazing game and everyone should play it.
Seconded. It's surprisingly affecting in terms of narrative and execution, plus has really quite good atmospherics; a couple of the screenshots in my wallpapers directory are ones I took in Hellblade using Ansel.
Share these wallpapers plzkthx.
Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.
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@Auspice — there's only two Hellblade ones in the screenshots folder I use for wallpapers right now, but here's the folder: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/777scj72o0l3f2b/AAC4xVi4WifuUy0X-GuJN1tza?dl=0
The rest are (a lot of) Dragon Age: Inquisition, (a lot of) Horizon Zero Dawn, Mass Effect Andromeda, a little bit of Black Desert Online, a little bit of Star Citizen (I actually have more shots from that I should really throw in), some Witcher 3, a little bit of Elite: Dangerous, and (a surprising amount of) The Secret World.
(I literally just have every machine I own, regardless of OS, set to pull wallpapers randomly from that folder. The folder is just a small set of the various screenshots I've taken, and periodically I remove ones and switch in new ones from my main library of screenshot work. I also used to maintain a screenshot blog, which has some of the shots I plan to swap in or add next.)
a.k.a. Packetdancer (or "Pax" for short)
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I do the same thing: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ak4lmrbnx5gbltx/AABqyQI8MjFzEafLHk5m_tY2a?dl=0
I'll check out yours tonight when I won't be scrolling around on a phone. 
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@Testament said in General Video Game Thread:
The latest controversy revolving around CDPR with Rock Paper Shotgun telling Mike Pondsmith what he should be offended with the game he created.
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@Ghost said in General Video Game Thread:
@Thenomain This game is going to be amazing, and CDPR deserves to be considered one of the top game studios these days. I'll be preordering for sure.
Anita Sarkeesian doesn't like it so it's bound to be good.
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@Tyche I find it "interesting" that she posts her resume, effectively offering her services as a consultant to help video game companies avoid "problematic" content, but then also leads the charge on trying to publicly shame companies about "problematic" content.
"You need to buy my exterminator services."
"I don't have a pest problem."
...salesman presses a button on a remote control.
"You do now."Sarkeesian is a bit of a carpetbagger. Best of luck to her for publicly attacking the companies she hopes that will hire her.
Delete the Hog Pit. It'll be fun.
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@Ghost said in General Video Game Thread:
@Tyche I find it "interesting" that she posts her resume, effectively offering her services as a consultant to help video game companies avoid "problematic" content, but then also leads the charge on trying to publicly shame companies about "problematic" content.
"You need to buy my exterminator services."
"I don't have a pest problem."
...salesman presses a button on a remote control.
"You do now."Sarkeesian is a bit of a carpetbagger. Best of luck to her for publicly attacking the companies she hopes that will hire her.
I applaud your use of carpetbagger. It was very appropriate.
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@Ghost said in General Video Game Thread:
Sarkeesian is a bit of a carpetbagger.
A bit?
It’s sad that anyone can turn Feminism into a business model.
“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
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@Thenomain said in General Video Game Thread:
@Ghost said in General Video Game Thread:
Sarkeesian is a bit of a carpetbagger.
A bit?
It’s sad that anyone can turn Feminism into a business model.
I think someone in that Twitter thread had the right response: it sounds like the freakin' mob.
'What a nice game you have here... be a shame if something happened to it.'
She's gone into the 'protection' business for game companies. It's gross. It reads like she's picking out potentially controversial games and saying 'If you pay me, I won't say bad things about you and your game.' -
When people stopped taking her seriously(which is about a few years ago)she needed to change her schitck. Need them clicks. Need that sweet sweet ad revenue.
She could do more benefit if she questioned CDPR's questionable workplace practices. Which has been a thing in the past. The whole Glassdoor thing from a year or two back.
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I re-started Horizon: Zero Dawn because of the 'What Games would you like to see?' thread, and am trying to figure out how you would even MU-it.
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@Jennkryst said in General Video Game Thread:
I re-started Horizon: Zero Dawn because of the 'What Games would you like to see?' thread, and am trying to figure out how you would even MU-it.
Yeah, at first I was thinking just 'this is the aesthetic I want', but after the idea bouncing around in my head for a few days, I've thought of about two (and a half) ways you could do it. Depending on how many automated systems you wanted.
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@Jennkryst said in General Video Game Thread:
I re-started Horizon: Zero Dawn because of the 'What Games would you like to see?' thread, and am trying to figure out how you would even MU-it.
FS3. The combat engine would make large-scale robo-dino killing easier and more fulfilling. It'd be tough to get the aim-at-the-weak-point mechanics down, but I'm willing to sacrifice that for playing a survival-esque post-apoc robo-dino-riding game, hell yeah.
But I'm playing Divinity II right now, and am having a tough time engaging. I think I'm getting old.
“It is better to live doing the things that you like. It is foolish to live within this dream of a world seeing unpleasantness and doing only things that you do not like.” -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo.
