Posts made by Jaded

Anyone who has been eyeballing Kingdom Come: Deliverance, Fanatical has a great deal on the game with all DLC at 50% off right now, making it about $35.

@ZombieGenesis
I definitely questioned the mental sanity of someone charging a wrestler on a stage full of wrestlers.

If you play Mechwarrior Online and you're sure you'll get Mechwarrior 5 later this year, today is the last day on pre-order to get one of the exclusive mechs for MWO.

https://mw5mercs.com/

My parents were about as far from nerdy as you could get, so they are often mystified how I turned out pretty far from them. My gateway to nerddom was literally Star Wars. I remember the first time I saw Star Wars was the year after Return of the Jedi came out. There was a drive in that was always doing double header movies and they did this July 4th weekend special with 3 movies and they showed all three Star Wars films.

Sci-fi in the form of cartoons, books, and movies pretty much dominated my preferences since then. Though I did expand my reading options while growing up. I had a 3rd-grade teacher concerned that a two-week book report I wanted to submit was on Tommyknockers by Stephen King - something that at the time was not on the recommended reading list for any child in our school district.

Then in early high school I got into tabletop gaming, joined the sci-fi club, the computer club, and all sorts of related things that were not what my parents would have preferred but it kept me out of trouble and away from the rising gang culture in our school, so they were not going to be too put out about it.

But it always came back to Star Wars. Novels, figures, comics - the movies. I consumed everything about that one topic and became so knowledgeable that I knew minutia that most people who called them 'superfans' did not know or remember. I have absolutely 0 friends today that will play the Trivial Pursuit Star Wars edition with me because of this. I even applied at Lucasfilm to be part of the continuity department that handled all of the Star Wars media - from books to comics to cartoons - when I was 20, on the hope that I could turn that love of everything Star Wars into a job. But alas there is always a bigger fish.

I have since tempered my Star Wars love into an expanse of love for other things as a whole. Star Trek, Babylon 5, Battlestar, Red Dwarf, and so on - the whole theme of space opera or things like it just hit my sweet spot for science fiction.

Then my enjoyment of video games came from my grandmother. She bought all the consoles I had as a kid growing up, mostly because she liked watching us play them - but also because she liked playing them herself. She loved RPGs and she played the hell out of every version of Final Fantasy that the U.S. had for NES and SNES. She loved the Phantasy Star series from Sega more though and at the time when 'call in for tips' hotlines for both companies were prevalent she was so well known at the Sega tip line that a lot of the helpline guys got to know her, enamored that some 60-year-old woman was so interested in the games. She became so well known to them that someone sent her a whole printed out 80-page booklet complete with maps for the Sega Master System version of Phantasy Star so she could find the secret ending to the game. When Phantasy Star II was released for the Genesis, someone from the company sent her a copy of the game with a handwritten dedication to her signed by Yuki Naka one of the lead developers, inside the strategy book that came with the game.

From there, things just progressed until I am where I am today.

@Ghost
It almost sounds like you're talking about the Indoctrination Theory, which was a fan-made theory that put a lot of things that didn't make sense across ME1-3 into perspective.

The only thing for certain that I do remember before Bioware changed how the whole ending fired off - was that if you took the Renegade option, it was the only option where at the end of the credits there was an end-game scene where you saw Shep's body and the character wakes up. And in the ~10 seconds of scene footage, it looks like you are still in the wreckage just prior to entering the gate that would have taken you up to the Citadel.

The other two options did not have such a thing. To a lot of people, that indicated that this was the best choice and the true ending of the game.

Anyways, here is a link for the Indoctrination Theory if you're interested in looking at it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ythY_GkEBck

@Testament
Shenanigans! I will claim false equivalency. They are different genres and so are not comparable and you are wrong for trying to make us fight you over the best.

Yes. That is the best answer to dodge any other response to your challenge.

@Ghost
See it is shit like that, which makes me glad that I have not bought anything from EA or off Origin since ME3 came out.

@Testament
I think the big difference between KOTOR and Mass Effect 1 though is that you rarely, if ever, saw these same maps back to back.

My experience with DA2 was encountering the same "outdoors terrain map" multiple times in a row. I can not recall that ever happening with other games that I have played including ME1 and KOTOR.

@Sparks
Did anyone else notice the narrator for When The Yogurt Took Over, was the voice actor for Brain from The Animaniacs?

@Runescryer
We play the tabletop for this on occasion and seeing this makes me...happy.

It is very rarely that I would advocate going to see a movie in the theater, given prices in my area, but I would recommend experiencing Us (if you like horror movies) in the theater.

The movie is tightly put together and was really well done.

Tropico 6 is up for release on the 29th and I got a review copy this morning. After playing it for a couple hours I can say that if you liked the other Tropico games you'll like this.

Really not much has changed - there are some cosmetic changes on buildings, a couple of new industries, a few other quality of life features like the ability to move the palace around now...but the formula is still pretty much the same.

While it is a been there done that game, I can say that I've enjoyed the entire series since the Tropico 3 and this one is equally fun to play as a city builder.

@Testament
I can confirm there is another IP in the works. Just not content.

In other gaming interests:

If you liked the old Tenchu Stealth Assassins games and you are a fan of Dark Souls or Souls-like games, you might want to check out Sakiro: Shadows Die Twice. I just finished doing my review play for it and that is exactly my first impression of the game.

The game design lets you take both a stealth ninja approach or a more upfront samurai kind of approach to a lot of the encounters outside of boss combat.

MKIceandFire has been doing an LP of it since its release, commentary-free. I recommend checking it out before purchase.

Anyone keeping an eye on Cyberpunk 2077, CDPR has stated that it will not be an exclusive for any launcher - Steam or Epic - and that they are projecting to release late 2019 or early 2020.

They have also confirmed that there's going to be a boatload of small free DLC content and at least 3 DLCs on the size and scale like those produced for The Witcher 3.

I'm very late, sorry guys. I have a scoop but many of you may have noticed it. Bloodlines 2 is up for Pre-Order as of today, which is about all I can say. I was encouraged to tell people interested to check out and sign up for the Paradox forums for Bloodlines, there should be a lot of stuff coming out about it in the weeks ahead. I can say what I learned gives me some good high hopes for the game.

But as always, it is a pre-order. Do so at your own risk.

@Arkandel said in General Video Game Thread:

@Jaded said in General Video Game Thread:

@Wretched
Damn you beat me to it. I was just here to drop the news. I got to talk to someone today about some details for it.

Well...?

I typoed. I get to talk to someone today. Not got to. If it is things I can share I will.

@Wretched
Damn you beat me to it. I was just here to drop the news. I get to talk to someone today about some details for it.

Stranger Things Season 3 Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEG3bmU_WaI

@peasoupling
It did come to me as a total surprise that there were hot coffee type mods for games like Stellaris, Cities:Skylines and Civilization. It really had me scratching my head how those worked.

I mean I get all the ones for Skyrim and Fallout. That stuff has fully rendered characters but...4x city building sims? I just...I don't get it.

@Testament said in General Video Game Thread:

Tidbits in various game industry related news.

Ubisoft and Red Storm is giving the limpest answer on whether or not The Division 2 is making a political statement with its narrative(it is).

Yeah I saw the mob on Twitter today also complaining how the opening cutscene in The Division 2 supports pro-gun arguments.

Media outlets are usuing Pewdiepie as a punching bag again(unjustly nor not) because the mosque shooter in New Zealand name dropped him.

But really is anyone surprised? Is not the first time they've taken a run at PDP.

Steam(and by proxy, Valve)are getting kind of salty at Epic because currently there's this bit that the Epic Games launcher program will go and try to potentially look at your DLL and root certificates, peeking at information. Epic has even said they're look at your Steam Local Config files(but don't worry, only doing it to look at your friends/what games you play). If that wasn't already questionable, the fact that Chinese company Tencent owns 10% of Epic, which has a number of people claiming that Epic is acting as spyware on Tencent's behalf.

Normally I would consider this to just be the usual panic, but given that Epic has lost game/user data to hackers 3 times in the past year, is a little concerning.

India is arresting, not banning, arresting ten kids for playing PUBG. Because video games=violence.

Oh India.

Respawn is cracking the fucking down on cheaters playing Apex Legends, but not only IP banning cheaters, but hardware banning people, but getting the hardware ID inside your PC. Which is the kind of ban that is exceedingly hard to get around(beyond buying an entirely new MB or GPU). I'll just go through a short list of things that people have tried to evade these bans that, surprise surprise, don't work; changing HWID, chaning vol ID, changing MAC address, formating PC, factory reset, changing dynamic IP, partitioning HDs, uninstalling and reinstalling older version of their GPU. None of it's worked, and I personally think that's hilarious.

Yes. Yes this is hilarious.