Shole
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Twitter was the only time I connected with gamers through #GamerGate movement. Other than that i don't share much gaming content on my social media.
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If I have to get a god damn apple from another city and I can't fast travel, you bet your behind I will skip it until I finish the game.
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Not saving constantly on games that were in pre-alpha or alpha, crashing games and losing 3+ hours of gaming/building/resource gathering...
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On 2/13/2021 at 9:44 AM, m76 said:
Mass Effect 3's ending doesn't have a good choice because it's simply badly written and goes against everything that came before.
The only way I can reconcile ME3's ending is by the indoctrination theory. As in if you choose Control that means Shepard has been indoctrinated like the IM and the reapers win. If you choose synthesis you give up your humanity and become like the geth, sorry, I'd rather be dead than that so that is the worst ending for me. The only option remains is destroy, if you choose that, that means you defied the reaper's attempts at indoctrination. That's how I look at it.
This changed my perspective about the game ending a bit.
When it comes to the topic at hand I think Warcraft 3 had some bad choices or worse choices moments, where no matter what you do in the end Arthas kills his own father, Illidan never gets to be the good guy he tried to be, and chaos always comes.
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In Bioshock 1 and 2 it was exaggerated, really a game that beautiful and you can't enjoy it because of random spawns all around you... That being said on other games if you didn't have things spawning all the time it would be boring.
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On 8/14/2020 at 1:15 PM, Shagger said:
I disagree. Whether come as a Loot Box (and I'll get to those) or a straight up purchase, there's basically three kinds of microtransactions, and even if players don't buy them, they all make games worse in their own ways.
1) Pay to win. It's obvious why this makes games worse to point where I don't feel I need to explain why.
2) Time savers. This is takes the form of XP boosts, using premium currency to advance timers and such like. These make games worse because the games themselves have to become a tedious grind without them, otherwise nobody would buy them. So the games that include these have to deigned to be more tedious and frustrating than need to be. It has to get to the point where the money hungry bastards behind idea know you would literally pay money to not play the game. In what world is that a mark of a good game? Where you literally would at least be tempted to pay money to not plat it?
3) Cosmetics. Now, these sound more innocent that the other two, but there's a hidden darkness behind this that may in fact make them the worst of the three.
When I was a teenager in High School, there was bullying because of course there was. Amongst the usual, cliché motives behind this there was big deal a bout clothing and, more specifically, shoes. If a kid came to school with cheap trainers as opposed to the latest, expensive pair from Adidas or whatever, they'd be ridiculed because that was a sign or poverty and land that kind in the category of low social status.
I bring this up because cosmetics in video games are not only having the same effect, but that's exactly what they're supposed to do. For example, and this does happen, if a kid logged onto Fortnight and was seen by his/her peers sporting a slandered skin, the next time said peers see them at school, the same ridicule for pretty much the same reason happens again. There is a video on YouTube somewhere of an executive from advertising company literally spelling this out and proudly declaring this as the"genius" behind video game cosmetics. Sadly, I can't find the video, but will keep trying to find it or some other media on this and add it to thread later if I find it. This all puts pressure on that poor kid to get that fashionable new pair of designer trainers, or in this case, that fancy new skin, just to stop the social pressure and torment. Such low-life, vile yet brilliant manipulation, it's actually impossible not to be impressed.
Then, there's loot boxes. Oh my god, these things...
Loot boxes are specially deigned to use the same kind of phycological manipulation the gambling has used for decades to make you feel compelled to have "one more go", or"I'll get it this time". The really disturbing thing about them is these loot boxes are included in games that children play, or even in games made specifically FOR children. This deliberate targeting of people even more vulnerable to that kind of predatory manipulation that gambling mechanics employ is, without doubt, immoral. Several governments around the world are questioning whether it's even legal. Some have even decided it isn't.
All this, all of what I said, is to make money. These companies don't care about how this hurts the games they create, nor even how it hurts the people who play them. I know that free-to-play games (like the aforementioned Fortnight) need to do something to make their game profitable, I understand that, but the purpose of these microtransactions is not sustain a game, it's to make money. To scrape the last penny out of its payers and tricking them into thinking that it was worth it through some sick phycological manipulation.
FUCK Microtransactions and especially FUCK Loot Boxes.
Love your take on Cosmetics, I fully agree. It's dumb and I understand if you get some for like achievements and everyone can get them through questing or something, but lootboxes are the worst in any shape or form.
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I got for 1$ a hundred games. All cracked on a CD I dunno how or why, but I got it and it was the best. It was mostly old games that I have a hard time now remembering but it was still a great deal, and in the days of no internet it was so good(not that internet didn't exist but it just didn't get to my country).
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Nope, I download all the old games from some shady sites lol
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The weird part to me is when crowd funded games add such ridiculous prices, don't you want your game to be played. I get it 60$ x 100000 players is nice, but if you do the math 20$ x 1 mil players would be better wouldn't it? If your game is fun people will buy it, but if it's sort of fun and over priced, people will leave bad reviews on it.
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This is going to sound silly, but don't judge, I just go by feeling. If I feel like thinking I play strategies, if I feel like chilling I play sim games that are like CitySkylines or some random silly game like among us.
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A lot, I can't do without a good companion. Unless it's a dumb one that is annoying. If that's the case I always chose a way to get rid of him or her or it.
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I played PUBG for a while, until all my friends switched to free fire. Even tho Free fire is way easier to play it's always more fun with friends.
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Only played in China as in Serbia I can't find any unless you are in the capital lol. But oh well it is fun with friends.
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It's easy to achieve some good wins if you play as a team rather than solo with someone, it's just crazy how much a little tactic can do to a game.
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3 minutes ago, Heatman said:
Haha, it never gets better than that. psychological horror games are too impressive for me.
I didn't play one for a while, but I might try to find a new one, got a suggestion?
P.s. to stay on topic, yeah you can't replace something that scars you xD
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I played till 11 and got angry XD not because I was losing or couldn't do it I just figured I had better games to play.
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They probably will and the thing that worries me the most is that I will enjoy games more than real life (Like I do enjoy games but not to the extent I don't want to leave my room or such). So yeah I hope they will take some measures not to turn me into a sheep.
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Soon we will find ourselves in the days of 1TB games and it will be a laughing matter since I remember games that you could store on a floppy disk XD
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Cheaper cosplay outfits/weapons would be a thing I'd like to see. I mean I know it can't be cheaper but I'd still love it. As for what doesn't and should, furniture and home decor but like stools and tables and such stuff. I don't think any game merch offers that kind of thing.
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IT has amazing gameplay, good controls, camera a bit weird, but all in all I'd say it's one of the best Mafia games out there to date(clearly I am talking about the old school mafia with dons and such, GTA def takes the crime game top place).
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Not really, I mean what's the point if most people I game with get a SMS or a WA/Viber message to join me?
Social Media ain't what it used to be.
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2 minutes ago, Heatman said:
This is exactly what I had in mind when it comes to just playing survival horror video games. You will definitely get used to it sooner or later but never with psychological horror games.
Yup, it's always like oh no I am out of food, and a couple of game hours you are like "damn I need to go to place X again for food/water".
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VPN
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On 8/9/2021 at 11:52 PM, Heatman said:Personally, I wouldn't be open to make use of VPN anyhow I feel like because there are some data breach security issues with using them.
Well if you want facebook or instagram in China you gotta use a VPN or else you can't use those apps, nor google or youtube.
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On 8/10/2021 at 1:06 AM, The Blackangel said:
As an American I can confirm this. This country is so damn pussy whipped that it's pathetic. Everyone is actively looking for something to freak out about, even if they have to make it up. Central Park Karen is a prime example of this.
Yeah it's sad, since I meet so many nice people from there, but some younger people are just having too much money and opportunity so they just go baby mode. I hate victim mentality especially if you are in a country where hard work really does pay off (If I work as a waiter here and am supper nice and polite I can make a max of 700$ per month, and I think that is easily beatable in the states).
Unpopular opinion: Games can be for more than entertainment
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Yup even if they are not you can turn them into some. Like survivor games can show you some harsh realities of surviving, history games can tetach you history, etc.