m76
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Most modern games don't even allow manual saving, but those that do, I always save before ending a game session. And when I'm in a really good position, like after completing a mission and I refilled my ammo, health and tools.
i'm kind of paranoid about loosing progress so in games that have multiple save slots I always save on a new one and never overwrite the last save.
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Did Microsoft even directly develop any other game than Flight Simulator?
What about SONY?
Or are you being so brazen that you consider any game developed by a studio that is owned by either as developed by MS / SONY?
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Geez, I hope not. I mean playing videogames is fun, but making it a career is draining the fun out of it.
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The perfect fun gameplay is tactical open world shooters, on realistic difficulty. For example Ghost Recon Wildlands.
Where your objectives are not at the ends of linear levels, but in open world compounds that you need to infiltrate. And you have completely free reign on how to do it. Drive up to or crash the front gates guns blazing, sneak in undetected, silently stalk and take down every enemy, parachute from the top, carve a bloody route to your objective, arrive in a tank, or any combination of the above.
And the realistic difficulty makes it insanely intense, you are no super soldier, one unwise move, or an enemy allowed to circle around you, or an alarm raised, and you find yourself on the defensive instead of the offensive, often forced to flee, because if you get shot, you are dead. The enemy is as deadly to you as you are to the enemy.
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It was probably during the LAN party days in the early 2000s. We'd start Friday afternoon, and play until noon Sunday. But it was never a single game, but a variety of games we'd rotate randomly.
If we are talking about the longest playing a single game, I'm not certain how long of a stretch I exactly played them but the best candidates are these:
Carmageddon: completed the campaign the same night I got the game
Half Life: I realized at 4:30 AM that maybe it's time to go to bed
Beyond Two Souls: I played this game when I was really ill, it kept me focused on something else instead of how awful I felt
The Last of Us II: I couldn't stop playing until I completed the story. About 12-13 hours a day every day. -
11 hours ago, Heatman said:
Headshot kills always gives better XP in all shooting games that I have played. It's the same thing you get in playing Frontline Commando. There are some mission that are tasked to eliminate all enemies with headshot kills.
Except Deus Ex is not a shooting game. It is an immersive sim, that supposed to have multiple approaches, but if one approach gives far more rewards then it's less of a choice.
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3 hours ago, Boblee said:
Which particular game have you played which did that to you? Was it a temporary thing or it affected you throughout the game?
Deus Ex human revolution gives more XP the more ruthless and brutal you are. Clearing a level by sneaking barely gives you any, while the most XP can be gained by headshot killing every NPC.
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I don't remember why but one NPC in a town in skyrim attacked me, and I killed them accidentally. But the game never removed the corpse it was always there when I went to that town even 20 hours of gametime later, and there was always a dismayed crowd around it. It was horrible.
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If they bore me, or they make no sense in context of the story.
But most of all bait and switch can cause me to quit quests. You pick up a quest that seems simple enough, but then it suddenly turns into a much more involved thing that has you running all around the map. When you specifically picked that quests because of its locality.
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I don't even count FIFA as I quit it after World Cup 2002, I think.
The biggest franchise I quit was Need for Speed, I did revisit it a few times, but it was never the same.
I loved the series until Porsche Unleashed, which was undoubtedly the top for the series. Hot Pursuit 2 that came after was alright but not great. Then the series completely lost it's way. I hated Underground with every fiber of my being. It was not NFS in spirit. The next game I tried was prostreet, but it was disappointing and had very weird physics.
Then Shift and Shif2 the ones I played next but those had basically nothing to do with NFS, just a name slapped on for good measure.
The lowest point of the series was Hot Pursuit from 2010, it is the worst racing game I have ever seen.
The last NFS game that I actually finished was The Run from 2011, so that could be the date I quit the franchise.
What could make me come back is a return to the roots of the series, instead of the super arcady hipster dumpster fires that were the more recent entries. I want games focused on point to point street racing with semi realistic physics.
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When one of your crew says at the very beginning of Mass Effect 1 during your first visit to the presidium that they hear a faint humming around the relay monument.
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I don't want to pay a subscription for any game, period. It fuels the sunken cost fallacy, and fomo.I play games when I'm in the mood for them. Having an active subscription would force me to play even when my heart is not 100% in it. And I'd still be uncomfortable for not getting the most out of the subscription.
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When it comes to consoles the hardware is completely irrelevant to me. The only thing that matters are exclusive games. And in that regard Playstation always obliterated XBOX, it's not even a contest. As for current gen they are both equally bad. You can buy an xbox but have no worthwhile exclusives until 2023, or you can't even buy a PS5 unless you are willing to pay scalpers (please don't do that), or wait months on a pre-order.
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27 minutes ago, Reality vs Adventure said:
Only time will tell to see how he juggles free speech and threats/inciting violence/life threatening conspiracies all around the world.
I'm actually optimistic on that. I think actually harmful things will still be removed, but not the discussion about things. Because if you don't even allow something to be discussed that just drives it underground or to other platforms, making it even more harmful. I say as long as someone is not directly inciting harm allow it so you can keep an eye on them and actually point out when they talk nonsense.
27 minutes ago, Reality vs Adventure said:And you are right that a lot of media is owned by billionaires and thanks to Musk's takeover, he has shined a light on this problem. It's not every day we see some rich asshole take over a major platform.
Because usually the media ignores it so it happens quietly and under the radar. They are making a big deal out of this particular one because Musk is not an ally to the MSM.
27 minutes ago, Reality vs Adventure said:So we all should be concerned by this kind of thing. Social media shouldn't be up for grabs by the highest bidder. Not social media or news networks.
Oh, I've been very concerned about this for years. But I don't see a way to unbiased reporting and platforms. Someone has to own it in capitalism, and the platform will reflect the biases of the owner always. I don't think there is a truly independent social media platform. The internet itself was independent, but social media ruined it.
27 minutes ago, Reality vs Adventure said:There needs to be some kind of laws in place to keep media publicly owned and protected somehow from so called hostile takeovers. Is anything wrong about being concerned by this?
No, but it is a tiny bit hypocritical that not a single media outlet ever expressed concern over media ownership until suddenly someone tries to buy a platform who is not sharing their politics.
27 minutes ago, Reality vs Adventure said:I'm glad you are getting recommended posts now. But whatever is going on with the algorithms, I have no idea about. And I frankly could care less about it.
You have to look at the big picture. It's not about me getting what I want, it's just an example, me as a tiny twitter user with no followers and barely a handful of follows has been affected by this greatly. Then imagine the influence it has on the whole conversation? I think whoever put in place these suppressions and biases in the recommendations are rogue actors, who are cleaning house before the new management comes in who is actually interested in making them accountable.
27 minutes ago, Reality vs Adventure said:All I got to say is all forms of media needs protections. And it's even more concerning exactly why the richest man feels the need to own Twitter. Especially when he has chosen to side with other hostile people who want nothing more than to spread disinformation and incite violence.
Plenty of incitement of violence was allowed on twitter thus far already. Frankly it is disgusting what gets to remain on twitter with no moderation. Lunatics calling for the deaths of people over minor political differences. Twitter is far from being a safe and clean platform.
27 minutes ago, Reality vs Adventure said:That's alarming to have someone of questionable morality to take over Twitter. He's already being investigated for breaking the law in his Twitter share as previously explained, also investigated for torturing monkeys as explained, and also investigated for widespread racial discrimination at Tesla while he's CEO, and the FTC is reviewing his acquisition of Twitter to see if any further investigations is needed; what else is he investigated for? Those things matter to me, especially when someone wants to represent free speech and a major platform. He's already said he is bringing Trump back on Twitter. What other whack jobs are coming back? So we can expect threats and calls for violence to be perfectly legal on Twitter now.
Like it or not, free speech applies to everyone. No matter how much you or I dislike them. I may not trust Musk as far as I can throw him, when it comes to his outlandish promises and "inventions", but I think he is genuine about wanting to improve twitter, it would be hard to make it any worse that's for sure.
Even those convicted of actual manslaughter get out of prison eventually, so why should a life sentence be valid on twitter? You say one bad thing, and you are forever banned from expressing anything? That's not right. I was always in support of judging ideas, not people who have those ideas. There is not a single person on this planet who I agree with on everything, if I cut ties with everyone who I ever had any disagreement with I'd not have anyone left to talk to.
Absolutely people should be banned from twitter for saying heinous things, but not forever, 1 day first, then 1 week if they do it again, then 1 month, and then 6 months, and if they still reoffend then 1 year. That should be the maximum punishment on twitter. Unless someone is doing sg. actually illegal, or exposed as a fraudster, then the permanent ban for their account is valid.
I'm also in favor of Musk's idea of verifying everyone on twitter. Not just "high profile" people, but every user, to prove they are actual humans and not bots.
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I have no love for Musk, I think he is a con-man and a swindler. Not a genius as he is touted.
But if his buying twitter turns it into a neutral platform for free speech. That might be the only good thing he ever done.
Twitter was majority owed by rich saudi investors. You can't find bigger bigots than that. Anything is an improvement over that.
A lot of media is owned by billionaires, so It's hilarious how those exact media outlets owned by other billionaires suddenly think that media shouldn't be owned by billionaires. The irony.
What I find most revealing that in the days after the announcement of the acquisition twitter suddenly removed all under the table manipulations inserted in the algorithm, and suddenly I actually get recommended posts that are of interest to me based on what I posted about previously.
For example I posted a lot about TLOU in 2020, but never got any recommendations on that topic in the past 2 years. Musk buys twitter, suddenly my feed is filed with them. Curious, eh? Who know how much corruption was in place at twitter? I also get much more posts from people who I actually follow and who they follow in turn. You know, things that are potentially of interest to me.
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On 5/9/2022 at 11:56 PM, Heatman said:
It's all about the having the knowledge on how to take advantage of cryptocurrency market.
Here my today's trade..I closed $840 on it.
You could justify being an assassin the same way. "But I made money on it"
I could also make money by scamming people, that doesn't make it a good thing.
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You need a good story, and that means a clever story. And a clever story can only be written by a clever / intelligent person with lots of life experiences.
But being intelligent and experienced doesn't automatically guarantee that you can write a good story.
The creators of the movie must also put the story above themselves and their ego. Don't look for how the movie can serve you, look for ways how you can make your movie better.
The cast must also respect the source material if available. Nowadays it has become the chic in hollywood to take a poop on the source material. For example Pedro Pascal is proud of the fact that he knows nothing about the Last of Us games, and tries to spin this as a good thing. A respectful professional would've played the games immediately when they got the call that they were cast in the screen adaptation. Or if you are not a gamer at least watch the story portions on video. This is unbecoming to a professional actor, it is the behaviour of an entitled ego driven brat.
This has turned into a bit of a rant, but I'm really angry at hollywood for these kinds of transgressions. And their mouthpieces trying to blame the fans for demanding them to respect established lore.
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5 hours ago, Heatman said:
NFTs is part of Ethereum blockchain right? Yes, it something that can actually turn out to be very valuable in the future or worthless as well, I can admit that. Just like even some cryptocurrencies work. I'm not asking the world to jump into NFT but as far as I'm concerned, it's an investment decision for every individual.
It's not just about whether it will be worth anything or not. It is not moral to invest in something that you know to be unsustainable and terrible for both the economy and environment.
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Sure they'll get used to it
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- The Need For Speed
- Red Alert
- Test Drive Unlimited
- Mass Effect II
- Alien Isolation
- Horizon Zero Dawn
- The Last of Us II
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Armor: Style over function. I don't care if an armor has worse stats if it looks cooler I'm sticking with it.
Weapons: Prefer pistols and sniper rifles, rarely use automatic weapons or shotguns
Fantasy weapons: I prefer two handed swords or axes and physical brute strength characters, over mages and rogues. I don't think I've ever used any magic in The Elder Scrolls series beyond the basic healing spell.
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I don't think voluntarily joining forces would be realistic given their history.
The way it could work is if someone does come up with a cure that could be created without killing Ellie, but a rival faction kidnaps her and wants to keep the cure. And through circumstance Abby has to go to another continent to get her back. Most post apocalyptic games like Fallout are set in the US, so it would be nice if a post apocalyptic game was set in an entirely other location for once.
It would be a few years after the second, and Abby and Lev would be on separate paths, Abby after loosing everything would be working as a mercenary for hire, thus she'd get the assignment to get Ellie back. Only finding out that it is actually her after accepting the contract. But when she gets to the enemy compound it turns out Ellie already escaped, so Abby has to track her, but Ellie thinks they are tracking her to re-capture her, not to bring her home. Of course the player would again alternate between both characters.
At least that's my fan fiction.
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Nothing. Having access to a modern game would spoil me and I couldn't enjoy anything else until technology catches up.
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When did you start your Fortnite journey?
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I installed fortnite once when I was selling an old PC, because the buyer asked me to try it out on it.