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Unpopular opinion: The PS5's design, but especially the white controller is a crime against good taste.

You are misconstruing what I wrote. I never said there should be pc exclusives. I said I don't care about bringing pc games to console because it is already on the platform I prefer. I'm not against anyone porting PC games to console, I just don't have any interest in it.

Don't play the victim here. I said third party stores, it's entirely on you that you immediately jumped to the conlcusion that I buy black market keys. Since when is 3rd party store equals black market? LOL This topic is not about "where do you buy your games" so why would I list the exact stores I buy games from?

This is a complete urban legend. There is no risk. I'm not talking about black market marketplace sites selling stolen keys like G2A or kingui. There is risk in that, but there are reputable sites who sell keys from legitimate sources.

If you look at directly the publisher or steam there are no discounts, but 3rd party stores often sell games bellow the usual $60 even on preorder.

I buy 90% of games at release but not at full price. I always look for deals. I think I got less than 1% of my games at full price.

I don't think gaming is supposed to give meaning to your life. Gaming is an escape from life, so finding meaning for life in something that is detached from life, is kind of a problem.

The problem with bioshock games isn't that they only have one ending, it's that the ending invalidates your experience, it tells you that everything you did during the game you really weren't in control at all, so it was an exercise in futility. I think the ending of Bioshock and Infinite are both insulting.

I looked at it and immediately though this looks like Hard Truck Apocalypse, and wouldn't you know, developed by the same company. If it was single player instead of an MMO I'd be intrigued.

You can't find logic in hate.

In Quake multiplayer advanced players played with ridiculously high fov, like 150 or more, it gave a real advantage. In regular games I prefer 90-100, but it's also very game specific. Games that are set in huge open areas can get away with lower FOV, but when you have to go through narrow corridors and small rooms narrow fov really bothers me.

Star Citizen, as it would be a constant reminder what a fool I've been to donate money to this project. And it is a completely pointless game anyway where there is zero fun to have, and even if it were ever to be completed and fully functional I Hate MMOs. Then why did I donate? It was a bait and switch. I was promised a single player game: Squadron 42

Why, because he was a misogynist, a word that is thrown around willy nilly nowadays, but this guy really fit the bill. We just didn't expect him to stoop this low, within the work force nobody took his remarks to heart, we thought him harmless, the female employees at the company just laughed at him. That's probably why he choose to take it out on girls fresh out of college.

It depends on how unbeatable it is. If I see that it is within the realm of possibility I just have to concentrate a bit better then I keep trying until I succeed. But if I can't even get near to beating it even after lowering the difficulty then I quit trying and consider the game badly designed. I don't consider myself an especially skilled gamer but I beat numerous games on their hardest difficulty, so if any game has a level or boss that I can't beat I'll cry foul.

I didn't say it was right, I'm just frustrated by the disproportionate reporting of it in gaming. This goes on everywhere almost, but for some reason it is made out to be a gaming industry specific issue by the media. It kind of makes it seem that the abuse in other industries is not as important. For example there was this one guy I used to work with who only called in female candidates to job interviews to grill and humiliate them with zero intention of actually hiring them. Unfortunately I only learned his true intentions after the interviews.

Didn't COD BLack ops partly play in the vietnam era? But even that is 11 years ago. There were a few good games in that era, there was one that I particularly liked, which ironically I can't recall the name of.

The working conditions of employees is a problem of corporate culture, not specifically that of gaming. The gaming industry is the same as any other competitive cutthroat for profit industry. The nasty practices like not giving low level workers employee benefits or paying them scraps exists all over the spectrum not just specifically in gaming. Crunch as they like to call it is not unique to games either. Any discrepancy is in the reporting. So it's not fair to say that this is a gaming problem. I have experienced first and second hand what is reported in the gaming industry. If you think mid management who gets off on humiliating employees is unique to the gaming industry then I have a bridge to sell you. What is actually a gaming industry problem, is deliberately making the products flawed, to later sell the fixes for it. No other industry does this that I know of. Sell you a deliberately broken product then sell you a fix for it. Or as we commonly know them as "time savers" and "xp boosts" Yes these aer a type of microtransactions too, and all of those are bad, but not equally bad. By far these are the most heinous.

Test Drive Unlimited, because it pays attention to the presentation. It's not just about racing but the lifestyle.

Off topic: Would you mind slowing down a bit? I mean you bump a hundred threads every day, not giving a chance to others to react to new threads because they get dropped to the second or even third page. It degrades the experience of other forum users. Please, can you pace yourself a bit? Maybe limit the number of threads you bump in the general gaming section within a day? I was trying to be patient until now, but it has been ongoing for over a week now.

Two games where I had to watch the conclusion of the story on youtube in recordings: Splinter Cell Double Agent. When the last cutscene should start the game just glitches and halts. Meaning you can't see the final cutscene and can't play the bonus mission. The Force Unleashed II: The most buggy game I've ever played. Cutscenes would get replaced with a blank screen, and there are numerous other game breaking bugs. Like if you die on one particular mission you can't finish it, meaning you have to finish it in one go without dying including the bossfight.

Well first off, they should not need a facebook account to use. That is a deal breaker they added recently. At least oculus. I'm still of the opinion that VR is a gimmick, that will slowly fade away. There are too few games that support it, and even fewer that are actually good games. It'd need to be one fifth of the price to have a chance, or an avalanche of great games releasing for it to make it even remotely appealing.

Open ended games are the worst offenders. A story should always end with an epilogue. But most stories today are cut off at the climax, it is a terrible habit that I despise. Very few games have proper epilogues like Mass Effect Andromeda or Fallout games.

Too often, and it is the worst thing, because you think you searched that room fully, and you search elsewhere wasting half an hour or more walking aimlessly in the level until I either bump into the missed thing by accident, or give up and stop playing, or look up a let's play on how to progress.

I prefer to buy the physical copy then download from the internet. I like to own a physical token of the purchase not just a digital version. That said I haven't purchased physical games apart from console games in years. Simply because digital copies could be had much cheaper.

Because again you are misconstruing what I wrote. I specifically mentioned that this makes it harder to get justice for actual victims, loading down the lawsuit with things that are maybe, imho not as important as employees driven to suicide, don't you think? But of course you ignore that part completely because it does not fit with your narrative about me. I specifically said paying different amounts for the "same job description" is not proof of any wrongdoing. Not for doing the same job. If they were literally doing the same job at the same seniority level at the same quality and for the same hours they should get paid equally, but this is a hypothetical that is so rare it is almost non existent in real life. If there is proof that they didn't promote women because "They might get pregnant" that's again another thing. Which is hard to prove, unless they are on record admitting to it. Again your anger overcomes reason, because that sentence makes zero sense. I think what you are trying to say is that you never saw two employees getting paid different amounts for doing the same job. Well I'll try to answer that: I've never seen two people at any office environment in any position who would've done the exact same job, in the exact same quality, and would've had the exact same abilities and talents. Despite their contractual job descriptions being the same. So would you say it is fair to pay everyone exactly the same regardless of the quality of work they do, and the responsibilities they take on? Because I think it is highly unfair. This cannot be judged discrimination only by the fact that women on average were paid less. LOL, I don't base my opinions on hearsay. I base it on my own work experience. And the numerous people who worked for me or under me. Many people do wildly different quality work, and their performance can also be extremely varying. One person would do a task in 3 days, that another would do better in one day. Should they get paid 3 times more then? Of course not, but companies need to show appreciation to people who are better and more driven / motivated. This notion of yours that two people in the same position always should get the exact same payment is born of ignorance and naivety. Well that's exactly the problem, to you a person is just a name on a paper, no personality, no individuality, you think you can judge people by their group identities. Yes job description is also a group identity too. And judging a person by their job description is the vilest thing I can think of. No, they don't deserve equal pay, unless their performance is exactly the same. Do you know how insane you sound? If you'd pay the exact same to the better employee as the ones who do a worse job, then you only de-motivate those who do the best work. Hurting the company in the process and also the self esteem of the above average employees. While on the other hand rewarding motivated people can maybe get the slackers to perform better as well. You might be right if we were talking about a job at an assembly line, but developing a game is entirely another thing. No two people will do the exact same job all the time. Sometime they may overlap, but definitely not all the time. People also have unique experiences that have value to a company. If you are the only person who has the know how for certain tasks you have more value to the company than those who only do common stuff. That doesn't mean the company needs to invent a position just for you then. I've seen that too, and it was ridiculous, when basically almost every employee was titled as some kind of manager. And that is why it is a different case and should not be mixed into the one about harassment, weakening it which was exactly my point to begin with. I'm not passing sympathy for blizzard I said that this is why cancel culture is a problem, because when real cases like this come to light people are less inclined to take them seriously. I'm glad that you pre-emptively deciding that you are right and I can be only wrong about everything. I think you are the one who needs to re-evaluate and self reflect if to you employees are only names on a piece of paper.