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You mean the people who say that Rowan Kaiser gave a bad score to Stellaris to get back at TotalBiscuit through Paradox ? Completely insane but that's par for the course for "militant gamers". On the Idle forum, Bruce Geryk weighs in :

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I think it is less about a "grievance culture" and more about the demographic that populates game message boards. Rob's comment about "game culture" is on point, I think. I was reading these same types of comments as letters to the editor in Computer Gaming World 20 years ago.

And I think he's right. Rob Zacny is looking into this too hard and he's missing the simple answer despite having all the clues in hand : the first part of the discussion will probably sound familiar to anyone here, with people having invested their own self worth in mass market products and in desperate need for validation. I was way more interested when he and Danielle Riendeau discussed how those fan meltdowns affected their editorial jobs : it partly inhibits sites into the "7-9 out of ten scale" and scares reviewing talent away because ultimately having to support the hassle of death threats by rabid manchildren is not worth it for any normal person. The part about being estranged to your own theorical readership was also a toughtful aside.

I liked a lot the part where they discussed sexism in SF5 or the Witcher 3 and why it didn't bothered them as much as it may or should have (Danielle Riendeau being a SJWest SJW stereotype, by her own admission) when in middle of the game.

Rufus · « **Reply #16449 on:** May 13, 2016, 07:22:29 PM »

Yeah, this shit goes back to the Usenet days. The difference now is the overlap with the roving nutjobs that dip into every cesspool, some of which they've mentioned on the podcast. They all try to make it fit the "SJWs are killing our hobby" narrative.

VomKriege · « **Reply #16450 on:** May 13, 2016, 07:44:10 PM »

We are homo ludens

Kara · « **Reply #16451 on:** May 14, 2016, 02:17:20 AM »

When you play Sparks on Bridge as the attackers and no one bothers to stop you.

Rufus · « **Reply #16452 on:** May 14, 2016, 08:32:41 AM »

Try melee Sparks once you have a melee damage loadout with a cricket bat.

Kara · « **Reply #16453 on:** May 14, 2016, 01:18:15 PM »

If you have any familiarity with the history of mercenary armies in Renaissance Italy knowing this about EVE's player-run mercenary companies isn't surprising.

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Interestingly, what I found is that most of the mercenary corporations are all blue to each other [ed: at peace with one another]. Thus, if one has you wardecced [ed: has declared war on your corporation] chances are 9 out of 10 of the other merc corps you contact will refuse to help you as they are friendly to your aggressors.

Also some player apparently made everyone go crazy thinking that CCP was trying to manipulate the economics of PLEX (a F2P currency you use in-game to pay for 30 days of game time) by margin trading at an absurd level.

https://www.themittani.com/features/plex-wall-incident

The Sceneman · « **Reply #16454 on:** May 15, 2016, 07:36:19 AM »

https://twitter.com/NeruNox/status/730000242096148480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

VomKriege · « **Reply #16455 on:** May 15, 2016, 11:41:14 AM »

Listening to the Undertale OST and that's pretty fucking rad. I know the designer/composer used particular samples from other games for specific tracks and maybe I'm overreaching there but he manages to run the whole spectrum of styles common in classic and japanese games (There's a track with a Namco ring, one that is a bit of a medley of what you would expect from Sega games, stuff like that). It's all over the place but still homogeneous.

VomKriege · « **Reply #16456 on:** May 15, 2016, 07:54:58 PM »

Booted up Wipeout Fury for the first time in quite a while and had a decent session (some personal bests on a track in SL and TT). I find that Wipeout pretty deep to be honest, and not just because of the many tracks or piloting mechanics. According to online rankings, I'm decent against the clock (by far my favorite thing to do) at least until the highest speed but I suck hard at the Zone or Eliminator races despite having some grasp on the piloting and tracks. The SP campaign is chock full of stages to clear as well and some of the gold medals have pretty tight requirements even on medium.

It's still by far the most satisfying title I had on PS3.

(Servers for rankings are still up, BTW).

brob · « **Reply #16457 on:** May 15, 2016, 08:09:28 PM »

I really don't like the combat heavy stuff in wipeout. it's fine that there are weapons in races, but the modes structured around that are all way worse for it. I've done all the race/time trail campaign stuff on elite tho

Kara · « **Reply #16458 on:** May 15, 2016, 09:56:03 PM »

My favorite thing about that series is that it's a ground racing game where the vehicles behave more like objects in flight. (Air racing is lol.)

Rufus · « **Reply #16459 on:** May 15, 2016, 10:51:24 PM »

edit: moved to more appropriate thread

Kara · « **Reply #16460 on:** May 15, 2016, 10:53:17 PM »

Working Delays was the worst. Fuck that company.

Rufus · « **Reply #16461 on:** May 15, 2016, 11:01:12 PM »

I didn't import stuff until late into the PS2's life, so I haven't seen much of their work first hand. What sunk them?

tiesto · « **Reply #16462 on:** May 15, 2016, 11:31:40 PM »

Quote from: Rufus on May 15, 2016, 11:01:12 PM

I didn't import stuff until late into the PS2's life, so I haven't seen much of their work first hand. What sunk them?

Well, WD has been around since the Turbo days... what finally sunk them was spending so much time retooling and reprogramming a Goemon PS2 game, but constantly getting rejected by Sony (it never did get released). Sinking so much money into that game at the expense of not translating any others. Vic is back with Gaijinworks and have put out a few games (Summon Night 5 and Class of Heroes series, both on PSP).

Atramental · « **Reply #16463 on:** May 15, 2016, 11:41:37 PM »

Positive Touch · « **Reply #16464 on:** May 15, 2016, 11:50:03 PM »

working designs had a ton of problems to say the least, but I'll still defend them to a point because in the early nineties they were one of the only companies out there putting real effort into translations. i mean at the time it was rare enough to get a translation that was just coherent, but putting some real personality into it (even if some of that personality was shit) was damn near unheard of

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #16465 on:** May 15, 2016, 11:52:35 PM »

Quote from: Pallando on May 15, 2016, 11:41:37 PM

Kara · « **Reply #16466 on:** May 16, 2016, 02:25:36 AM »

Quote from: Rufus on May 15, 2016, 11:01:12 PM

I didn't import stuff until late into the PS2's life, so I haven't seen much of their work first hand. What sunk them?

They localized bad games and no one bought them. I agree that in some respects they were trail blazers, but they also dressed garbage in premium packaging.

That said, for a long time SCEA actively subverted the publishing of games that didn't showcase the dogshit graphics on PSX and PS2, so it became increasingly difficult for Working Delays to even get their bad games to market where they could fail.

We missed out on Metal Slug 3 here for a long time because of that fucking bullshit. Fuck SCEA and fuck Sony lickspittles and their fucking "Sony is all about the gamers" meme. Suck my fucking roacket lawn chair.

larrydavid · « **Reply #16467 on:** May 16, 2016, 04:11:52 AM »

my problem with Gaijinworks is Vic must have alienated every single publisher in the entire industry. there are so many games he's always "looking into" but nobody wants to work with the dude. also nobody was asking for him to spend 5 years hyping random crap like Summon Knight and Class of Heroes as big gets.

we wanted Tengai Makyou dammit!

Positive Touch · « **Reply #16468 on:** May 16, 2016, 07:20:21 AM »

"hi i run a company with three people and we can have your game translated by 2022! you interested?"

VomKriege · « **Reply #16469 on:** May 16, 2016, 07:42:34 AM »

Quote from: brob on May 15, 2016, 08:09:28 PM

I really don't like the combat heavy stuff in wipeout. it's fine that there are weapons in races, but the modes structured around that are all way worse for it. I've done all the race/time trail campaign stuff on elite tho

I actually like the mode where you must score points by doing damage better than the all the Zone ones but there's some ovious issues with it, chiefly that it encourages you to slow down or even camp which is a bit of an heresy to the core gameplay. The standard race already hit the sweet spot for me. All the new modes added with the Fury expansion are on the fluff side, by far the best thing about it is the new tracks, but the variety is welcomed in single player.

larrydavid · « **Reply #16470 on:** May 16, 2016, 08:20:00 PM »

Quote from: brob on May 15, 2016, 08:09:28 PM

I really don't like the combat heavy stuff in wipeout. it's fine that there are weapons in races, but the modes structured around that are all way worse for it. I've done all the race/time trail campaign stuff on elite tho

yeah i avoided all the weapon stuff as much as i could, all about that zone mode~

Rahxephon91 · « **Reply #16471 on:** May 17, 2016, 05:21:52 PM »

It's a shame that they seemed to have done nothing to the graphics for Valkyria Chronicles PS4.

brob · « **Reply #16472 on:** May 18, 2016, 09:13:35 AM »

http://venturebeat.com/2016/05/16/why-thailands-military-coup-is-great-for-the-countrys-mobile-gaming/

yea ok so the nation is destablized and people are agressively oppressed and suffering, but think about the ROI potential!

Yulwei · « **Reply #16473 on:** May 18, 2016, 10:43:38 AM »

This new FFXV gameplay vid

Wow it doesn't look fun at all. In fact it looks like

Kara · « **Reply #16474 on:** May 18, 2016, 11:23:47 AM »

Quote from: brob on May 18, 2016, 09:13:35 AM

http://venturebeat.com/2016/05/16/why-thailands-military-coup-is-great-for-the-countrys-mobile-gaming/

yea ok so the nation is destablized and people are agressively oppressed and suffering, but think about the ROI potential!

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The Thai people are dealing with martial law and a national curfew, but this has not destroyed the nation’s mobile gaming business.

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But it’s not just about lower costs. Perdesen thinks that you can succeed in Thailand as a mobile developer specifically because so many people are stuck inside.

“The great thing about having a military coup is that people spend a lot of time at home,” he said. “So they can play a lot of games. Instead of going to the theme park, you stay home and spend money on mobile games.”

Smrt fašizmu, sloboda narodu.

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #16475 on:** May 18, 2016, 02:06:54 PM »

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“The great thing about having a military coup is that people spend a lot of time at home,” he said. “So they can play a lot of games."

Well, when you put it like that...

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #16476 on:** May 18, 2016, 02:08:41 PM »

Quote from: brob on May 18, 2016, 09:13:35 AM

http://venturebeat.com/2016/05/16/why-thailands-military-coup-is-great-for-the-countrys-mobile-gaming/

yea ok so the nation is destablized and people are agressively oppressed and suffering, but think about the ROI potential!

#capitalism

Yulwei · « **Reply #16477 on:** May 18, 2016, 03:02:28 PM »

BLACKED porn

demi · « **Reply #16478 on:** May 18, 2016, 04:03:24 PM »

OG as fuck

Kara · « **Reply #16479 on:** May 19, 2016, 05:09:01 AM »

The world design in Destiny is really something else. Don't think I've wanted to run around a world this much since Mass Effect.

spoiler (click to show/hide)

Aside from New Eden, natch.

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demi · « **Reply #16480 on:** May 19, 2016, 09:47:56 AM »

Destiny

Hope they reveal the next expansion at E3...

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #16481 on:** May 19, 2016, 12:46:42 PM »

Quote from: demi on May 19, 2016, 09:47:56 AM

Destiny

Hope they reveal the next expansion at E3...

Bought a used PS4 yesterday and got Destiny for $10.

demi · « **Reply #16482 on:** May 19, 2016, 01:04:11 PM »

You need to buy TTK to really enjoy it these days, but hopefully you find some enjoyment out of the vanilla game

Kara · « **Reply #16483 on:** May 19, 2016, 01:27:01 PM »

Vanilla is really fun as an experience (at the Black Garden) but it's a wasteland as an MMO.

Seems like I have to buy the ultimate edition to unlock the DLC now? I'm sure it's a better deal but I don't like buying vanilla again.

demi · « **Reply #16484 on:** May 19, 2016, 01:42:33 PM »

This is what you want

https://store.playstation.com/#!/en-us/games/addons/destiny-the-taken-king/cid=UP0002-CUSA00219_00-DESTINYTAKENKING

toku · « **Reply #16485 on:** May 19, 2016, 01:51:42 PM »

Bungie's art team always been stellar. I know it's still shootmans but if you followed them during the Halo days you can tell they had been wanting to tackle wider more fantastical stuff for a minute.

Some of the best skyboxes in the industry

Kara · « **Reply #16486 on:** May 19, 2016, 02:31:38 PM »

Looking at Terra from Luna.

Looking at the Phobos and Deimos from Mars.

Seeing the shit you always tried to imagine as a lil kid.

Thanks demi, Amazon has the whole thing for $20 so I'm just going to buy and run strikes or something until it arrives.

Take My Breh Away · « **Reply #16487 on:** May 19, 2016, 03:07:44 PM »

What the fuck happened?

Positive Touch · « **Reply #16488 on:** May 19, 2016, 03:19:49 PM »

Quote from: demi on May 19, 2016, 09:47:56 AM

Destiny

Hope they reveal the next expansion at E3...

fuck an expansion i want a reboot. there's so much to like about destiny but it all gets ruined by the fuck ups in the basics. gimme better recruiting options and more special abilities for the classes and I'll be happy.

demi · « **Reply #16489 on:** May 19, 2016, 03:43:58 PM »

Destiny 2 is already confirmed next year. But for now I want the next expansion and raid.

Positive Touch · « **Reply #16490 on:** May 19, 2016, 04:10:57 PM »

still never did a raid bc fuck setting that shit up manually

demi · « **Reply #16491 on:** May 19, 2016, 04:53:31 PM »

Shoulda picked Xbox I would take you

Oh well, stay lost

Positive Touch · « **Reply #16492 on:** May 19, 2016, 05:10:45 PM »

ps4 has taken me to glorious weeaboo heaven. xbone sits in the sub-hd gutter begging for scraps

demi · « **Reply #16493 on:** May 19, 2016, 05:32:05 PM »

And you begging for a raid

Rufus · « **Reply #16494 on:** May 19, 2016, 07:47:14 PM »

Quote from: Take My Breh Away on May 19, 2016, 03:07:44 PM

What the fuck happened?

Guess they're not starting you off with a used clunker in this one. Also, this may as well be called Forza.

VomKriege · « **Reply #16495 on:** May 19, 2016, 07:58:54 PM »

Quote from: Rufus on May 19, 2016, 07:47:14 PM

Quote from: Take My Breh Away on May 19, 2016, 03:07:44 PM
What the fuck happened?
Guess they're not starting you off with a used clunker in this one. Also, this may as well be called Forza.

Yeah it has 130 cars and 30 tracks, or so they said (please correct me) ? Honestly it was perhaps the best thing to do to get rid of all the terrible baggage the series was carrying in GT5 and 6 (though it is a spin off title, who knows what they'll do with GT7). I loved the feeling of GT5 but honestly couldn't be arsed to grind a garage, as a potential future PS4 owner, I'm way more interested by a more pick up and play semi sim. If the final release date is not delayed, trimming all that fat managed to get Sony biggest franchise only three years in the cycle of their current console, and with a livery editor at last.

mormapope · « **Reply #16496 on:** May 19, 2016, 08:15:09 PM »

Its weird how Gran Turismo used to be THE prolific racing game on consoles. And now its just another sim racer thrown onto the pile. The franchise needed a huge overhaul or direction change after Gran Turismo 5.

Something like a story mode would've been interesting. Starting as someone that races in city streets, moving onto racing at tracks where you can independently register or sign up, onto professional racing outright.

Or even a owner mode where you manage a racing team. Decide what vehicles to get for your team, which drivers to hire, pit crew/mechanics, competing for sponserships.

demi · « **Reply #16497 on:** May 19, 2016, 09:51:45 PM »

http://kotaku.com/leaked-poster-reveals-destinys-next-expansion-rise-of-1777705438

Positive Touch · « **Reply #16498 on:** May 19, 2016, 10:08:03 PM »

lol the article says that bungie recently rebooted development of destiny 2. lowering my expectations appropriately

demi · « **Reply #16499 on:** May 19, 2016, 10:19:50 PM »

You must have not been following along about the story of Destiny's development then

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