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    DC reacted to harleyqbx in Create your own Marvel Universe epic team-up and send them against some of the most formidable villains in Marvel Puzzle Quest   
    Infinity Stones supports are only available by ranking in PvP. We want them to remain rare as a way to reward MPQ's true hardcore fans.
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    DC got a reaction from Heatman in Best movie of 2022   
    I loved the demeanor of this Batman. He was more masculine and dark than ever before. However, I thought the movie was about 20-25 minutes too long.
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    DC reacted to Withywarlock in Videogame Franchises that outstayed their welcome?   
    Though I enjoy the multiplayer aspects of the games still to this day they would stand up on their own without constant sequels, especially sequels that are off-putting due to the progression systems not carrying over particularly well. With Warzone 2 coming out, and none of the old material carrying over it's hard for me to justify playing newer installments when the old ones have active (if often sweaty) playerbases.
    Ben 'Yahtzee' Croshaw was involved in some of the initial drafts for what would become Duke Nukem: Forever. His pitch was an ironic take on the character: people not glorifying his deeds; acknowledging his attitude doesn't fly by today's standards; and he's too unfit to be as outrageous as he once was. But he admits himself it wasn't a very interesting story to tell, or in my opinion, via a video game. As a webcoming, a short animation or blog post, I'd welcome it.
    I don't think Duke Nukem should come back primarily because of what you go on to say: "they'd have to tone him down a lot." If you make him too offensive he'll just add another sentence to his sad footnote on games history because that'll go down worse than DN:Forever; if you tone it down he's Matt Hazard minus the satire.
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    Most of my choices would be 'put on hold until diverted to their original purpose' which Tomb Raider and Assassin's Creed fall snugly into, but that's not the question at hand. The problem is I don't really want any games to go away if people enjoy them, even if I don't get or dislike them myself. I agree with the OP's choice of Halo: anything that's doing the novels have done better by miles, if a friend's back-to-back revision of them is anything to go by. 343i haven't a clue where they want Infinite to go, and a sequel's prospects look worse each passing update.
    Sonic's definitely the big choice for me. He's resistant to my earlier proposed treatment of Duke Nukem given he's a very charming character with a lot of nostalgia value. Even the films were halfway decent (the fan service being my favourite things about them are not glowing praise, I realise). Not to mention I saw how Banjo & Kazooie were treated in Nuts 'n' Bolts: it's a fantastical game in its own right but it spends so much energy taking the piss out of itself that it feels abusive more than it does a parody. I'd rather Sonic be retired than see a game where his ankles are too swollen to fit into his iconic running shoes.
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    DC reacted to Rain Dew in Share Your Streaming Channel and Videos in This Thread   
    My first playthrough of tomb raider is uploaded https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCDZym3HBNhZR6CGNiKCl9GA
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    DC reacted to kingpotato in Best movie of 2022   
    The Batman, I loved it 10/10
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    DC reacted to Techno in Videogame Franchises that outstayed their welcome?   
    COD, they've made around 20 games. It's no longer interesting or unique. I just want them to stop. Especially with WW2, it's been done to death.
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    DC got a reaction from Clasher in What is the dumbest commercial you’ve ever seen?   
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    DC reacted to Shagger in 2 products that are always together   
    Two things I always, for some reason, buy together are a video game from Bethesda and pain.
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    DC reacted to harleyqbx in Ask HarleyQBx   
    LET'S DO THIS. 
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    DC reacted to Withywarlock in The first NFT game console has been announced   
    I won't quote the article ver batim (though I strongly recommend people read it fully rather than just what myself and others quote), but here's some interesting tidbits that stand out to me:
    Such as...?
    So what is Web 3? Because right now "Metaverse" and "Crypto" are buzzwords used by people who want to impress investors, not actually move the World Wide Web forward like what came with Web 2.0. You can't just say "who doesn't understand Web 3" and then proceed to not explain what it is, which right now the Wikipedia page only confirms my suspicions.
    Correct me if I'm wrong, but does this therefore mean there's only going to be 10,000 of these things sold? If so this leads me to the next bit,
    How are you going to cover the costs if only 10,000 people are paying for these passes? Games consoles are sold at a loss: the games and accessories themselves make up for the losses. What "games built on different blockchains" are going to make up the cost of hardware that can run games at 8K HDR, 120 FPS, ray tracing whilst being accessed by a fingerprint scanner?
    Regarding the logo they say this much:
    OK, I guess...? You couldn't just change the logo anyway, just to be sure? Your brand isn't going to hit store shelves or wherever for another two years, you've got plenty of time to change it.
    Four guys and a 3D Printer, essentially. That's a romcom waiting to happen.
    ...you didn't speak to developers before you decided to make your console?
    Jesus wept on an 30p NFT.
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    DC reacted to Shagger in The first NFT game console has been announced   
    Remember how I said how creatively inept this idea was with how generic the console looked, the soulless nature of the concept and how even the logo itself ripped off the gamecube logo? Well it turns out it gets worse/better!
     
    The very design mock up of the console is itself a rip-off of a failed South Korean console called the Behance Oasis! This was first reported on Twitter as seen below.
     

     
    Here's a more detailed report and update from YongYea:
     
     
    I can't exactly say I'm surprised.
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    DC reacted to Lamarr the strelok in A good introductory question   
    Blackangel and DC: I can only speak for my self but I was planning on joining Resetera but they require a different email provider  so that was out. Then I thought they must have just a shitload of stuff I may not really be interested in.So I did a Yahoo search for video game forums and VGR was one of them. I checked out a few others but chose VGR because I liked the conversations about games here.Iwas very picky about what forum I was going to join.I'm on the north side of fiddy and been playin teh vidya games over 40 years so I don't need any foolishness . I must go yell at some clouds now.(god im old)
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    DC got a reaction from StaceyPowers in What game would be the worst to live in if you're not a main character?   
    Here are my initial thoughts -
    Any GTA or GTA like games God of War because the gods hate you Literally any survival type game
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    DC reacted to Techno in Favorite Studio   
    What is your favorite video game studio?
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    DC got a reaction from Techno in Ask DC   
    You Talk Sports, which was my forum. It was a sports forum back in 2006. No longer around.
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    DC got a reaction from kingpotato in The first NFT game console has been announced   
    Introducing the Polium. No information on price, release date, etc
    Yikes. Seems Cringeworthy.
    Discuss.
    https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/the-first-nft-games-console-has-been-announced/   
     
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    DC reacted to harleyqbx in Create your own Marvel Universe epic team-up and send them against some of the most formidable villains in Marvel Puzzle Quest   
    Live out that comic book fantasy and assemble your own team in the Match-3 RPG Marvel Puzzle Quest. Recruit Super Heroes ranging from bold to obscure, battle through storyline campaigns and in-game events, and unlock Super Heroes, upgrades, and more.

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    DC reacted to Kane99 in The first NFT game console has been announced   
    Oh yeah, they're going to get sued for that logo, it's too similar to the GC logo and I don't think Nintendo will let them get away with it. 
    Anyway, in regards to the console, I smell a huge failure on the horizon. It looks like a raspberry pi in a custom case. Hell, it probably is for all we know lol. Oh and that claim of 8k graphics and all that, yeah no, that's not happening haha. This is just a kickstarter toy waiting to happen, and once it gets funded by the idiots who think this is the next best thing, we'll hear stories about how it's not coming. Just wait and see, if this thing does magically come out, there's no chance it'll survive for long. Plus with NFT's starting to fail these days, this console will as well. 
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    DC reacted to Shagger in The first NFT game console has been announced   
    There so much wrong here that I am not sure where to even start. The one thing I won't do though is talk about Blockchain and NFT games because they are terrible and the only reason to play them is be the fool that thinks you're going to make money doing so, but I want to quickly point out that if this thing is only going to run those types of games then that is a huge problem right off the bat. Still, I'll leave that on the back burner and focus on the console itself.
     
    I think I'll start with the one thing Polium has said the I actually believe, that they only have four people working on this. That's a problem as that just isn't enough people to get the basic interface design elements correct, both in terms of software and hardware, to make it user friendly for a wide verity of people. PlayStation probably employed more people than that to decide the placement of the Disk Eject button on the PS4 Pro, and they still managed to make it awkward for me, so what chance have these not-even-a-handful of idiots got?
     
    Then there's that claim they'll have games running at 8K, 120fps with HDR enabled;
     

     
    It makes sense that they make this claim, after all the only people stupid enough to believe that are same people who would buy into this whole NFT, Blockchain game nonsense in the first place. Maybe there is a Blockchain version of Pong out there, and if there is I'll confess they might get that to run at 8K 120 fps with HDR enabled, but suffice to say for anything else I doubt it. At the very the least it's a bullshit claim to make at this point when we know nothing about the hardware of this thing, they haven't even built a prototype yet. It's likely the console won't actually run games itself.  I believe it will be like Stadia and work as a streaming device for games, but if Stadia has proven anything it's that that technology is still too young and not ready yet and it's really not ready for the kind of ambitious numbers Polium are claiming. So whatever way I look at it, they are talking out their ass.
     
    Then there's Polium's attitude. Like so many who run these NFT, Blockchain scams, they come at criticism by claiming that those people don't understand. It even appears Polium has thier own fun little acronym for these doubts, "FUD" (I don't know about the rest of the world, but here is the UK, the term "Fud" is a literal insult, I means "moron" or something to that effect). Yeah nice touch, very dignified and mature. It's actually stands for "Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt", but no Polium.
     
    We don't "Fear" this. Even at it's worst this is a scam that won't hurt people with more than half a brain, so why would we fear it? We're not "Uncertain", on the contrary we  know exactly what we are talking about when we call this shit out for what it is. You wish we were uncertain, then you might actually rope us in. And we are in no "Doubt" whatsoever. Much like how NFT's and the Metaverse has doing hard over this past year, this console is going to crash and burn. Even if this stupid console did come out, by that time the entire infrastructure it's meant to work with will probably have burned down completely, and that is what people actually want. This was doomed before it even get's started.  
    The last thing I want to touch is creatively inept this thing is, exposing even further how blatantly shallow NFT's really are. The controller is a rip of off a DualShock, the console itself is tiny, looks generic and could easily be mistaken for a Wi-Fi hub or something. Even Polium's logo itself looks strangely familiar...
     

     
    Ok, Nintendo, this time we'd be totally OK with you suing somebody. To be fair, Polium has already announced they plan to re-design the logo, but even so the point stands. There is no creative soul to this at all and these people do not know what the hell they're doing.
     
    Even with some of the worst products or product concepts I've seen in my life, I have always found something to praise about it, I've found something about it that makes sense, something redeemable. With this though, I have been defeated. No matter how hard I try, I cannot think of anything I like about this thing. I actually feel like a bit of an idiot just for spending so much time putting this post together, the Polium One was not worthy of this from me. It is a terrible idea convinced by terrible people made exclusively for twits who deserve to be conned to buy. Polium are going to realise too late that they are in way over thier head. This is a joke at best, a scam at worst with nothing worthwhile in between.
     
    For the love of god, if you reading this gets the chance, do not support this. Do not buy it, do not take part in any kind of crowdfund if it happens, do not even engage with Polium just to criticize them. Live your life like this thing doesn't exist.
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    DC reacted to Shagger in Celebrating 150,000 Posts at VGR Forum   
    I just ran the same math for myself. I joined 950 days ago (November 28, 2019) and this here will be my 2,612th post. So that's average of 2.75 posts a day. I have had a little time off from the forum here and there and my moderating duties and updating the Game Services Threads do rob me of quite a bit of time I could spend making posts, but even so that is pretty alarming. To do 30 posts a day, I would have to try to hit that number, and I mean really try. That's not my style. I post if and when I feel I have something worthwhile to say. Whether it be something informative, in debate, advisory, funny or whatever, I could easily read about 30+ posts from others and not make a single post myself, that's just how I enjoy spending my time here. I get a lot out of this place, possibly more than I give back, and cannot imagine feeling that way whilst making 30 posts a day. Everything I say would be drowned out and bleed together and probably even forget most of it. I just couldn't do that, at least not a smaller forum like this.
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    DC got a reaction from Justin11 in The first NFT game console has been announced   
    Introducing the Polium. No information on price, release date, etc
    Yikes. Seems Cringeworthy.
    Discuss.
    https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/the-first-nft-games-console-has-been-announced/   
     
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    DC got a reaction from Empire Of Sight in Do we need somewhere for people to "chat" instead of the amount of PM style posts going on in the forum?   
    I have disabled posting from Dannyjax and Aniekwe. As a reminder, in June I disabled Jasmin, Boblee, and Heath-Hunter from posting.
    I am now deciding what to do with Justin11, Heatman, and Clasher.
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    DC got a reaction from Crazycrab in Do we need somewhere for people to "chat" instead of the amount of PM style posts going on in the forum?   
    @Yaramaki I understand your suggestion. I am going to brainstorm a solution where users who have made X amount of MEANINGFUL posts and/or have been a member at VGR for X amount of time period have the ability to edit posts for more than 10 minutes. Basically this feature would only be available to those who are considered valued contributors of the forum (which I would categorize you in).
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    DC reacted to Yaramaki in Celebrating 150,000 Posts at VGR Forum   
    It's probably none of my business but I just gotta quote this so you have been here for like roughly 10 months and made over 10 000 posts in that period. That's over 1000 posts a month!!! That is like what over 30 posts a day. Come one man isen't it time to start giving it some tought you may be over doing it a bit? 
    But anyways glad to know i contributed roughly 500 posts to the 150 000 milestone.
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    DC reacted to kingpotato in When you wash your hands   
    I made a joke... your neighbors are fucking disguisting dude...
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