@Auspice said in General Video Game Thread:
Fun conspiracy theory I saw today:
There is no legitimate reason for any game to be 90 gigs in the first place. Publishers intentionally avoid optimization in order to take up space that could be used by competitor's games.
Okay this gave me a good laugh and conceivably this could be true. Though if it is the first person to have thought this up was a genius. 
@ZombieGenesis said in Good or New Movies Review:
Went and saw it and my experience was "meh". It just felt like something they had to do so they could get to stuff they REALLY wanna do. Not a terrible movie overall but, IMO, one of the weaker Marvel movies(above the likes of Thor Dark World or Iron Man 3 but way below Guardians of the Galaxy or Avengers: Infinity War).
Now that I've viewed the movie, 'meh' is about how I felt about it, too.
@Ganymede
I did not even know a trailer was out yet, so I just took a look at it. And if you could not recognize Pheonix in the trailer I would have thought it was some fan-made movie trailer. It...there are no words to how bad it looks.
I do wish they'd adapt The Killing Joke but doubt we'll ever see that full storyline played out.
Just learned today that Warner Bros. is doing a Joker movie starring Joaquin Phoenix that is directed by Todd Philips, the guy who did the Hangover movies. It is supposed to be separate of the current DCEU stuff but meant to flesh out the background and history of the iconic villain.
I am not sure how I feel about the movie studios thinking we have to have an origin story for the Joker, but I'm definitely interested in seeing Phoenix try his hand at this. I am so torn.
I just want to voice my appreciation for Paradox. Crusader Kings II came out in 2012 and here they are, 7 years later still producing interesting and unique content for a game that is not an MMO.
I'm sure other studios have done it but today, this just stood out to me as I was going over my Steam libraries.
@Insomnia
Well he died apparently in February but no one confirmed it until this month. But yeah I looked at the age and I was surprised. 73? Could that be true. Yes. Yes it is.
@SG
I've been watching him for a while now and there are things that he will open and I go, "don't eat that." and he eats it and doesn't die. I think he has an iron stomach or something. Of course he does manage to get some really well preserved MREs but still...I would not eat food out of a 70 year old MRE.
But yeah, Number 4 was damn good, too. I wasn't too impressed with Elen Page though, I expected her to steal every scene but she was outperformed.
I felt this way too. Some of her scenes were just painful to watch through and her acting was just subpar compared to everyone else.
Also it took me 4 episodes to realize that Sir Reginald was Colm Feore and I had to look it up on IMDB to be sure.
Just an FYI guys. If you're playing Anthem on PS4 or XBox the game is causing critical hard crashes on the consoles and in some cases people are reporting that their systems are getting bricked.
Now right now there's only a few reports of bricking but the critical crashes were discussed on the Giant Bomb podcast the other night and is in their written review of the game.
There are days where doing the bookkeeping for a small business is a wonderful experience. And then days where it is just outright frustrating. Then days that piss me off entirely.
Particularly those days when payroll is due in 2 hours, none of the techs have turned in their two week time sheets, and you can't just say "well fuck'em they don't get paid this week." and submit payroll for the rest of the people who submitted everything on time.
Now I am stuck waiting for these lazy asses to get their information in, which could be as late as Wednesday, risking everyone else not getting their checks on time this week.
And...the company owner just tells me, "Well push them until they get it in." Because the smart decision is to tell 17 people you might not get paid on time this week because 3 other people can't do their GD paperwork.
@Ganymede
You use Nexus Mods to load it. Here's the link:
@Ganymede
The Roguetech mod pretty much changes the gameplay. You get jumped to 3040 and it unlocks a lot of tech from that timeline era and opens up some of the early clantech options. In addition it has a lot more mech variants that are available for play.
It opens up the equipment lists to include Ferro Fibrous, Endosteel armor, and a host of other options for cockpits and fire control systems and other interesting pieces of equipment - including melee weapons.
The weapon lists include the Ultra versions of the Autocannons for that era, Streaks, you can get Guardian ECM and the Beagle Active Probe. Now the newest release actually includes Rotary ACs and some other 3060 era tech if you set your timeline to that era. But I'm not sure how that is done since I still have the version that are two versions past from the current version.
Lastly it opens up all the factions on the map and adds more worlds. Like a ton more worlds, more mission options, and gives you more of the merc experience for doing jobs, fighting for salvage, and supporting your favorite faction. It also includes a system that lets you flip planets to other factions if a planet is being contested and you do enough jobs in one system supporting one faction type.
@Ganymede
Gany have you checked out the RogueTech mod for Battletech yet? If not, I recommend it, you might enjoy how it plays.
@Testament
I was going to drop my thoughts on here but you summed it up pretty well. As far as recommending games goes, I'd recommend Anthem as a skip. Not worth the time or money investment.
On the other hand I wish they had put as much effort into the character models for Andromeda that they did for Anthem.
@Ganymede
The first few weeks when the game was out, HBS did a poll and Dekker was the most killed character in the game. It was pretty amusing the memorials people were writing to him.
@Tempest
My brother was eager to get the game until he learned that you either had to get in on the limited edition $60 Story So Far game put out to catch up with everything that was in the prior games OR you had to keep up and buy/play those other games to know what was going on, going into 3.
@auspice
Well good news, Atomic Blonde 2 is in development.
@ortallus
Jeff Goldblum voice: "Darwinism finds a way...,"