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General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: Great Rumbler on March 07, 2013, 10:56:07 PM

Title: Mayan Video Game Apocalypse 2013 [Sell your consoles, this is the end!!]
Post by: Great Rumbler on March 07, 2013, 10:56:07 PM
1. Ennui [Wii U is dead, 3DS is barely hanging outside of Japan]
2. Slaughter of the Innocents [Aliens: Colonial Marines, SimCity]
3. Encroaching Tide [Always-on online DRM, DLC for everything]
4. Disease and Famine [Publishers/Developers failing left and right as budgets rise and sales fall]
4. False Idols [Mountain Dew, Doritos, 8GB of GDDR5]
5. End of All Things [Major consoles launching amid total uncertainty]
6. Last Great Hope [PC Gaming/Euro Jank/Indies/Kickstarter]

The end times are upon us, my friends, gather your family close and pray that tomorrow comes!
Title: Re: Mayan Video Game Apocalypse 2013 [Sell your consoles, this is the end!!]
Post by: D3RANG3D on March 07, 2013, 11:04:44 PM
1. Ennui [Wii U is dead, 3DS is barely hanging outside of Japan]
2. Slaughter of the Innocents [Aliens: Colonial Marines, SimCity]
3. Encroaching Tide [Always-on online DRM, DLC for everything]
4. Disease and Famine [Publishers/Developers failing left and right as budgets rise and sales fall]
4. False Idols [8GB of GDDR5]
5. End of All Things [Major consoles launching amid total uncertainty]
6. Last Great Hope [PC Gaming/Euro Jank/Indies]

The end times are upon us, my friends, gather your family close and pray that tomorrow comes!

Fixed your list
Title: Re: Mayan Video Game Apocalypse 2013 [Sell your consoles, this is the end!!]
Post by: Van Cruncheon on March 07, 2013, 11:29:22 PM
it's true
Title: Re: Mayan Video Game Apocalypse 2013 [Sell your consoles, this is the end!!]
Post by: mjemirzian on March 07, 2013, 11:37:42 PM
Should I stockpile up on good games now before there's a shortage?
Title: Re: Mayan Video Game Apocalypse 2013 [Sell your consoles, this is the end!!]
Post by: benjipwns on March 08, 2013, 12:32:41 AM
Someone's prepared:
(http://media1.gameinformer.com/imagefeed/featured/valve/half-life/halflife30114-610.jpg)

Why do you think he's been growing that beard and getting everyone to stockpile games on Steam?
Title: Re: Mayan Video Game Apocalypse 2013 [Sell your consoles, this is the end!!]
Post by: Diunx on March 08, 2013, 12:45:17 AM
Luckily I'm like one and a half gens behind due to poverty so the end isn't coming for at least  5 more years at casa de Diunx.
Title: Re: Mayan Video Game Apocalypse 2013 [Sell your consoles, this is the end!!]
Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on March 08, 2013, 06:48:53 AM
I barely have any time to play the games that are coming out.
Title: Re: Mayan Video Game Apocalypse 2013 [Sell your consoles, this is the end!!]
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on March 08, 2013, 07:54:38 AM
I play so little games I think I will survive on Steam forever if that's how it's gonna be.
Title: Re: Mayan Video Game Apocalypse 2013 [Sell your consoles, this is the end!!]
Post by: tiesto on March 08, 2013, 10:55:46 AM
Being an oldskool game and RPG fan with limited time on his hands.. yeah I can weather the crash for the next 30 years.
Title: Re: Mayan Video Game Apocalypse 2013 [Sell your consoles, this is the end!!]
Post by: Don Flamenco on March 08, 2013, 11:49:30 AM
FALSE idols?  When the GoDDes5 comes off the line at Foxconn we'll who's worshipping the false idol.   I don't know what she'll do exactly, but it'll be something for sure!

:gddr5
Title: Re: Mayan Video Game Apocalypse 2013 [Sell your consoles, this is the end!!]
Post by: chronovore on March 11, 2013, 06:35:24 AM
(http://i.imgur.com/Q8jnbPN.gif)
Title: Re: Mayan Video Game Apocalypse 2013 [Sell your consoles, this is the end!!]
Post by: hampster on March 11, 2013, 12:32:28 PM
Bring it on. I came to the realization over the weekend while playing FF9 that I don't want to play new games, I just want to replay all shit I played in high school, most of which I haven't even looked at since then. In other news I have a renewed appreciation for Nintendo fans!

Time to finish up FF9, play some Breath of Fire IV, bitch on gaf about the vita not supporting Spyro, play Ridge Racer Type 4, more bitching about Spyro (no seriously fuck you sony)... I feel like I'm set for awhile
Title: Re: Mayan Video Game Apocalypse 2013 [Sell your consoles, this is the end!!]
Post by: Great Rumbler on March 11, 2013, 12:49:36 PM
I'm really into Thunderscape recently, so let's just burn this mother to the ground! :rock
Title: Re: Mayan Video Game Apocalypse 2013 [Sell your consoles, this is the end!!]
Post by: naff on March 11, 2013, 05:57:17 PM
Last great hope :bow2 I'm currently in the process of selling all my old console shit, realised all I need is a pc now
Title: Re: Mayan Video Game Apocalypse 2013 [Sell your consoles, this is the end!!]
Post by: EmCeeGrammar on March 11, 2013, 06:40:47 PM
PC feggits
*am mad the tf2 update for hats or whatever made the game go from borderline unplayable to just unplayable on my laptop*
*will probably play animal crossing for a year straight so whatever*
Title: Re: Mayan Video Game Apocalypse 2013 [Sell your consoles, this is the end!!]
Post by: magus on March 11, 2013, 06:50:54 PM
Join the tabletop revolution,we have games that feature's actual thinking and no fanboys that fight over hasbro or whatever :smug
Title: Re: Mayan Video Game Apocalypse 2013 [Sell your consoles, this is the end!!]
Post by: chronovore on March 11, 2013, 06:57:39 PM
I would have thought boardgames would be too hard for you to pirate, Magoose.
Title: Re: Mayan Video Game Apocalypse 2013 [Sell your consoles, this is the end!!]
Post by: mjemirzian on March 11, 2013, 06:57:59 PM
Whatever you say Andrex. :-[
Title: Re: Mayan Video Game Apocalypse 2013 [Sell your consoles, this is the end!!]
Post by: magus on March 11, 2013, 07:01:48 PM
I would have thought boardgames would be too hard for you to pirate, Magoose.

nothing better than pirating games about pirates!
spoiler (click to show/hide)
except assassin's creed 4,that's one going to suck
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Title: Re: Mayan Video Game Apocalypse 2013 [Sell your consoles, this is the end!!]
Post by: Human Snorenado on March 11, 2013, 07:22:58 PM
Join the tabletop revolution,we have games that feature's actual thinking and no fanboys that fight over hasbro or whatever :smug

No fanboys?!  Bahaha, that's how I know you're new to tabletop gaming.

F'REALZ.
Title: Re: Mayan Video Game Apocalypse 2013 [Sell your consoles, this is the end!!]
Post by: Baiano19 on March 11, 2013, 08:39:40 PM
Good, there are more people that see this gen like I do!
Title: Re: Mayan Video Game Apocalypse 2013 [Sell your consoles, this is the end!!]
Post by: Flannel Boy on March 11, 2013, 09:58:14 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/Q8jnbPN.gif)

So nothing will change in Winnipeg.
Title: Re: Mayan Video Game Apocalypse 2013 [Sell your consoles, this is the end!!]
Post by: Steve Contra on March 13, 2013, 10:30:48 PM
Join the tabletop revolution,we have games that feature's actual thinking and no fanboys that fight over hasbro or whatever :smug

No fanboys?!  Bahaha, that's how I know you're new to tabletop gaming.
I know people who won't talk to each other over a wysiwyg argument 8 years ago.

Yeah, tabletop people are nuts.
Title: Re: Mayan Video Game Apocalypse 2013 [Sell your consoles, this is the end!!]
Post by: pilonv1 on March 13, 2013, 11:35:49 PM
I remember playing games of Diplomacy at university where my friends didn't speak to each other for weeks after because of what transpired during the game.
Title: Re: Mayan Video Game Apocalypse 2013 [Sell your consoles, this is the end!!]
Post by: Human Snorenado on March 13, 2013, 11:43:46 PM
For fucks sakes, I caught my boss cheating at Catan once.  CATAN.  That's like entry level table top gaming and he's so f'n ruthless he cheated at it.

We had games of Power Grid that caused weeks long difficulties at work.
Title: Re: Mayan Video Game Apocalypse 2013 [Sell your consoles, this is the end!!]
Post by: chronovore on March 14, 2013, 08:56:02 AM
I remember playing games of Diplomacy at university where my friends didn't speak to each other for weeks after because of what transpired during the game.

I had what was called an "introductory" game of Diplomacy my first year in the dorms at university. Halfway though the game, with no preamble, the game organizer pulled a stunt which knocked me out if the game and set him up for victory.

He felt really clever, but none of us were willing to play the game again.  I still think his long term planning was faulty.
Title: Re: Mayan Video Game Apocalypse 2013 [Sell your consoles, this is the end!!]
Post by: magus on March 14, 2013, 09:34:15 AM
For fucks sakes, I caught my boss cheating at Catan once.  CATAN.  That's like entry level table top gaming and he's so f'n ruthless he cheated at it.

We had games of Power Grid that caused weeks long difficulties at work.

i know a site where you can play power grid online (along with tons of other cool shit) but i have no idea how to play it
Title: Re: Mayan Video Game Apocalypse 2013 [Sell your consoles, this is the end!!]
Post by: Eel O'Brian on March 14, 2013, 09:59:13 AM
there were many tables overturned in this vicinity due to dragon dice and mage knight
Title: Re: Mayan Video Game Apocalypse 2013 [Sell your consoles, this is the end!!]
Post by: Great Rumbler on March 21, 2013, 11:01:40 PM
Just gonna put this here:

http://www.polygon.com/2013/3/21/4131702/tencents-epic-games-stock-acquisition
Title: Re: Mayan Video Game Apocalypse 2013 [Sell your consoles, this is the end!!]
Post by: Rahxephon91 on March 21, 2013, 11:16:29 PM
Man, it seems like next gen is going to be a terrible gen for the console gamer.
Title: Re: Mayan Video Game Apocalypse 2013 [Sell your consoles, this is the end!!]
Post by: Eel O'Brian on March 21, 2013, 11:19:01 PM
they might as well just install coin slots on these things, have a dude come around every couple weeks and empty it out
Title: Re: Mayan Video Game Apocalypse 2013 [Sell your consoles, this is the end!!]
Post by: mjemirzian on March 22, 2013, 03:39:13 AM
they might as well just install coin slots on these things, have a dude come around every couple weeks and empty it out
I thought the golden age of arcades was idolized by hardcore gamers. :-[
Title: Re: Mayan Video Game Apocalypse 2013 [Sell your consoles, this is the end!!]
Post by: chronovore on March 22, 2013, 06:18:25 AM
Just gonna put this here:

http://www.polygon.com/2013/3/21/4131702/tencents-epic-games-stock-acquisition

Wheeeeeooooooohhhhh:
Quote
In the months following the acquisition of stock for $330 million, a number of high profile people left Epic Games. The month after the acquisition was finalized, Gears of War producer Rod Fergusson left Epic Games to work on Irrational Games' Bioshock Infinite and three leads at Bulletstorm developer People Can Fly, which was acquired by Epic in 2007, left. In October, Cliff Bleszinski left the studio after two decades with the company. In December, the president of Epic Games, Mike Capps, announced that he was retiring from his role at the company and "transitioning into an advisory role as well as remaining on the Epic board of directors." Earlier this month, Capps gave up that connection with the company too, saying he is no longer affiliated with Epic.

Seems like there's probably a massive culture clash happening post-acquisition.
Title: Re: Mayan Video Game Apocalypse 2013 [Sell your consoles, this is the end!!]
Post by: archie4208 on March 22, 2013, 06:49:34 AM
Tencent hit a grand slam when they bought Riot back in 2011, although you could tell that their new sugar daddy had a negative effect on pricing.  The rate at which you earned in game currency was cut by about 20% and they raised the prices on all new characters to the maximum amount of game currency, whereas they used to have different prices.
Title: Re: Mayan Video Game Apocalypse 2013 [Sell your consoles, this is the end!!]
Post by: chronovore on March 22, 2013, 07:20:26 AM
After that, did they make more money, or less?
Title: Re: Mayan Video Game Apocalypse 2013 [Sell your consoles, this is the end!!]
Post by: archie4208 on March 22, 2013, 10:21:13 AM
I don't have access to Riot's financials, but League blew up in the past 18 months.  So I can assume they're making a ton more money now.
Title: Re: Mayan Video Game Apocalypse 2013 [Sell your consoles, this is the end!!]
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on March 22, 2013, 08:05:02 PM
So what is Cliffy B up to now?
Title: Re: Mayan Video Game Apocalypse 2013 [Sell your consoles, this is the end!!]
Post by: Fifstar on March 22, 2013, 08:09:39 PM
Giving dating advice on the internetz: http://dudehugespeaks.tumblr.com/post/44576689553/guys
Title: Re: Mayan Video Game Apocalypse 2013 [Sell your consoles, this is the end!!]
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on March 22, 2013, 08:28:08 PM
Seriously that's it?

pffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff
Title: Re: Mayan Video Game Apocalypse 2013 [Sell your consoles, this is the end!!]
Post by: mjemirzian on March 22, 2013, 09:05:39 PM
Yes, now he can go on to pontificate about baseball bat sized purple dildos and trolling entitled, clueless gaffers. Livin' the dream!
Title: Re: Mayan Video Game Apocalypse 2013 [Sell your consoles, this is the end!!]
Post by: Great Rumbler on June 03, 2013, 04:53:09 PM
No one is safe from the coming tide:

Quote from: http://www.theverge.com/2013/6/3/4392370/zynga-fires-520-employees-closes-several-offices-in-hopes-of-saving
Zynga today announced that it's laying off 520 employees, with the cuts affecting 18 percent of its workforce around the world. The company is also shuttering offices in Los Angeles, New York, and Dallas as part of what it's calling "substantial cost reductions." These reductions are expected to be complete by August. Describing today as "a hard day for Zynga" CEO Mark Pincus said, "I think we all know this is necessary to move forward. The scale that served us so well in building and delivering the leading social gaming service on the web is now making it hard to successfully lead across mobile and multiplatform, which is where social games are going to be played."
Title: Re: Mayan Video Game Apocalypse 2013 [Sell your consoles, this is the end!!]
Post by: Human Snorenado on June 03, 2013, 05:42:13 PM
(http://images.teamsugar.com/files/upl1/1/13254/44_2008/a6ec11a928a8867a_evilgirl.xxlarge.jpg)
Title: Re: Mayan Video Game Apocalypse 2013 [Sell your consoles, this is the end!!]
Post by: Don Flamenco on June 03, 2013, 06:00:04 PM
AHAHAHYAHAHAHA BURN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!