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    Yaramaki got a reaction from Heatman in Xbox CEO Phil Spencer excepts fewer console exclusives going forward   
    Yeah well nintendo can afford to keep their exclusives to their own platforms, not only that but let's face it Nintendo is 10 years behind in terms of technology so it's doubtfull most of their games even need to have the budget of any current gen "triple a" game and i'm sure with any nintendo published game even the more unknown titles are good to turn a decent profit. I'll admit i was kinda skeptical when i got a swicht at launch but now i'm more on board with nintendo then ever, imo the switch is the last traditional console as we once one knew consoles like no long installation time, you pop in a cart and you are good to go, offcourse i meanly use the switch for exclusives and indie games, eventough the switch is starting to show it's age by now it's still a damn fine machine with a huge amount of games you can't play anywhere else. My only wish would be that nintendo would just make a consolised version of the switch something.
    Always liked spencer, he is the face of xbox now and does it pretty well. While i don't read everithing he says, any human being is bound to say something stupid at some point, only if you and me do it, nobody is really going to care, well atleast i hope so.
    Also Let's not go into microsoft and them activision/blizzard because it's getting old and stale by now. I can't see it happening them making all these ip's exclusive to their own platform, just like i can see starfield coming to a playstation platform maybe a few years after it launched on microsoft platforms because you know where are they going to recoup the overall costs that it toke to make starfield because apperently starfield is already one of the most expensive games ever are gamepass and probably physical/digital sales going to be enough to recoup som of the costs, let alone the 7,5 billion dollars they paid to aquire zenimax. 
    It's almost crazy to say but combine the aquisition of activision/blizzard and Zenimax together with that kind of money you could quite frankly solve a lot of problems in the world. 
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    Yaramaki got a reaction from Withywarlock in Xbox CEO Phil Spencer excepts fewer console exclusives going forward   
    Yeah well nintendo can afford to keep their exclusives to their own platforms, not only that but let's face it Nintendo is 10 years behind in terms of technology so it's doubtfull most of their games even need to have the budget of any current gen "triple a" game and i'm sure with any nintendo published game even the more unknown titles are good to turn a decent profit. I'll admit i was kinda skeptical when i got a swicht at launch but now i'm more on board with nintendo then ever, imo the switch is the last traditional console as we once one knew consoles like no long installation time, you pop in a cart and you are good to go, offcourse i meanly use the switch for exclusives and indie games, eventough the switch is starting to show it's age by now it's still a damn fine machine with a huge amount of games you can't play anywhere else. My only wish would be that nintendo would just make a consolised version of the switch something.
    Always liked spencer, he is the face of xbox now and does it pretty well. While i don't read everithing he says, any human being is bound to say something stupid at some point, only if you and me do it, nobody is really going to care, well atleast i hope so.
    Also Let's not go into microsoft and them activision/blizzard because it's getting old and stale by now. I can't see it happening them making all these ip's exclusive to their own platform, just like i can see starfield coming to a playstation platform maybe a few years after it launched on microsoft platforms because you know where are they going to recoup the overall costs that it toke to make starfield because apperently starfield is already one of the most expensive games ever are gamepass and probably physical/digital sales going to be enough to recoup som of the costs, let alone the 7,5 billion dollars they paid to aquire zenimax. 
    It's almost crazy to say but combine the aquisition of activision/blizzard and Zenimax together with that kind of money you could quite frankly solve a lot of problems in the world. 
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    Yaramaki got a reaction from Withywarlock in Xbox CEO Phil Spencer excepts fewer console exclusives going forward   
    It's pretty clear we are going to get less and less exclusives with the way gaming has been going the past few years and the state it is in now. You also should consider in the fact that costs of videogames keep going up and up and most games take years to develop, riddle in the fact that a lot of games struggle to even turn a profit you can already guess developers are going to choose either go for an exclusivity deal wheter or not timed let's leave that in between or just try and put their games on as many platforms as possible. 
    Speaking about time it takes to develop a game as you can already start to see that yearly franchises are struggling big time these days, either to innovate something new or in some cases devs even fail to develop a working product at launch (wwe 2k on switch for example) just because of a way too tight schedule.
    Also i don't really mind sony going to pc with their exclusives, sony fanboys aren't really happy with it i get that. But sony is a company and money has to be made above all and if it helps them to make a profit on their games, why not. Maybe we will get a second days gone that way because that is imo the best new ip sony brought to the table on the ps4.
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    Yaramaki got a reaction from Empire Of Sight in VGR Member of the Month - August 2022 Nominations   
    Thanks for the nice words justin much appreciated.
    I'll give my vote towards a rather new face as @runswithspatulas deserves to get my nomination hopefully this nomantion will be a motivation to continue posting here.
     
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    Yaramaki got a reaction from Justin11 in What's the absolute worst game you've ever played?   
    I had no idea rollercoaster tycoon was still around but oh man, i remember soaking hours on end on rollcoaster tycoon 1 and 2 back in the day on my dad his computer, shame to see what once was such a great franchise to be in such dire state like this and probably being milked dry for all that they possibly can.
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    Yaramaki got a reaction from killamch89 in Embracer Group completes acquisition of Crystal Dynamics, Eidos Montreal, and Square Enix Montreal and more   
    I feel like the embracer group has been a breath of fresh air in the gaming industry, like a big company that is still willing to take a gamble on a new ip or a franchise that has been considered long dead by many. Wheter or not their games are good let's leave that in between but they put out a variety of stuff under their different publisher labels (deep silver/thq nordic/etc) it's kinda hard not to like them as a company from a neutral standpoint. 
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    Yaramaki got a reaction from DC in What's the absolute worst game you've ever played?   
    I had no idea rollercoaster tycoon was still around but oh man, i remember soaking hours on end on rollcoaster tycoon 1 and 2 back in the day on my dad his computer, shame to see what once was such a great franchise to be in such dire state like this and probably being milked dry for all that they possibly can.
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    Yaramaki got a reaction from DC in Hello Guys   
    Welcome aboard (to the best gaming forum on the internet)
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    Yaramaki got a reaction from Lamarr the strelok in What's the absolute worst game you've ever played?   
    I've played a lot of worse games but one game that always stood out to me as the biggest garbage i've played over the years was Charlie's Angels on the ps2 the fact that i paid full price for it made it even worse. Yes shame on me i know.
     
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    Yaramaki got a reaction from Withywarlock in The funniest video game   
    Don't think i ever replied to this thread, so let us change that now, i'll try not to go into obscure games too much this time.
    I always felt like the humour in saints row felt forced, some characters are likeable like johhny gat but he tries way too hard in later games to be funny that it feels unnatural. Goat simulator while i had a good laugh with it, the novelty wears off pretty quickly. Same with the Borderlands series, it just tries too hard to be funny.
    A lot of the early lucas arts point and click games like secret of monkey island and grim fadango just to name would be a perfect candidate for funniest videogames because the humour comes naturally, same with the leisure suit larry games (altough not all are great) you can't help but laughing when larry fucks up yet again. 
    Offcourse both south park rpg's are a no brainer if you are a fan of the show, because it's full of typical south park humour.
    If we think outside the box a bit and name something like Gta 5, especially early game when you play as franklin together with lamar are supposed to be kidnapping a person and you have to take control of chop a dog, man i almost wet my pants when they fucked up yet again and had to let go of the person in the end. Like whenever lamar says something you just have to laugh another legendary conversation i can remember was between trevor and lamar when you have to drive together in a truck alongside franklin with stolen vehicles. Man whenever lamar opens his mouth you just know something stupid and funny will come out of it.
    The witcher 3, while it's a serious game, in a couple of side missions geralt get's made a complete fool out of himself.
    Maybe i should add another recent example and that's the outer wilds, from the side characters , your companions to the dialogue choice you can make a fool out of pretty much anybody that you can talk too. It's hard to not have a laugh at some of the whacky choices you can make and above all it feels natural. If an npc is talking for too long or annoying, you can tell them to shut up, just give them a punch in the face or if you feel really adventurous why not just shoot them lol.
    A couple of others that have not been mentioned before but are bound to make you smile, well if you're not a complete sour puss anyway :
    Yakazu series  Lego City Undercover Bully Two point Hospital and Two point campus (haven't played campus myself yet but from the looks of it, looks to be funny as hell again ) Jak and dexter series Various Fmv games like Night trap and Plumbers Don't Wear Ties just to name two,( if only for the hilariously bad acting) Psychonauts Thimbleweed Park Skate series ->  the hall of meat sections and the rediculous ragdoll physics always made me laugh Fable series  And let's wrap things up with games that are funny when you are playing with somebody aka local coop -> mario party, wii sports and it's various reincarnations, Overcooked, Monopoly (especially when you are winning always good for a laugh), Mario vs sonic games, 2020 olympic tokyo just to name a few. Don't underestimate the power of playing games with somebody else or even a better a couple of people in the same room because everithing that is remotly competitive can turn out to be a funny experience.
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    Yaramaki got a reaction from Empire Of Sight in What's the absolute worst game you've ever played?   
    I've played a lot of worse games but one game that always stood out to me as the biggest garbage i've played over the years was Charlie's Angels on the ps2 the fact that i paid full price for it made it even worse. Yes shame on me i know.
     
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    Yaramaki got a reaction from Withywarlock in Favourite hype train?   
    Not in recent years that i can remember i've been part of a hype train as i'm getting a bit to old for too be hyped about a new videogame/console release. As many of you know adult life is quite busy and you are just to busy with other stuff in general so whenever a game gets released it gets released, while i do follow the latest game releases and latest news a lot of times it just slips my mind whenever a game i'm exited for gets released. I did pick up xenoblade chronicles 3 on launch day but can't say i was counting the days until it got released. Just happen to have a store that sells videogames on my route that day.
    As far as hype trains go for consoles i'd say the original xbox, it was supposed to be this beefed up pc inside a console and you know the fact i went to hell and back to scrape the money together to be able to buy it on launch was quite an accomplishment, probably wouldn't do it agian tough. Various stores had these preview dvd's as preorder bonuses where you could watch clips from the launch games, i think i must have watched that dvd atleast 50 times by the time the xbox launched.
    As for a game then let it be tony hawk pro skater 2, this was in a time when nearly everybody was into skateboarding or atleast they tought they were but damn everybody was wearing skate shoes at the time, pants that were way too big and whatnot. Skateboarding was big over here so naturally the sequel to what many including myself at the time considered to be the best game of all time can't go wrong. I remember putting in a pre order months ahead before the games launch, studying every screenshot in detail along the way, trying to get to know the latest information etc. When it launched my god did it live up to the hype, yes it did and the rest is ancient history by now.
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    Yaramaki got a reaction from Clasher in The funniest video game   
    Don't think i ever replied to this thread, so let us change that now, i'll try not to go into obscure games too much this time.
    I always felt like the humour in saints row felt forced, some characters are likeable like johhny gat but he tries way too hard in later games to be funny that it feels unnatural. Goat simulator while i had a good laugh with it, the novelty wears off pretty quickly. Same with the Borderlands series, it just tries too hard to be funny.
    A lot of the early lucas arts point and click games like secret of monkey island and grim fadango just to name would be a perfect candidate for funniest videogames because the humour comes naturally, same with the leisure suit larry games (altough not all are great) you can't help but laughing when larry fucks up yet again. 
    Offcourse both south park rpg's are a no brainer if you are a fan of the show, because it's full of typical south park humour.
    If we think outside the box a bit and name something like Gta 5, especially early game when you play as franklin together with lamar are supposed to be kidnapping a person and you have to take control of chop a dog, man i almost wet my pants when they fucked up yet again and had to let go of the person in the end. Like whenever lamar says something you just have to laugh another legendary conversation i can remember was between trevor and lamar when you have to drive together in a truck alongside franklin with stolen vehicles. Man whenever lamar opens his mouth you just know something stupid and funny will come out of it.
    The witcher 3, while it's a serious game, in a couple of side missions geralt get's made a complete fool out of himself.
    Maybe i should add another recent example and that's the outer wilds, from the side characters , your companions to the dialogue choice you can make a fool out of pretty much anybody that you can talk too. It's hard to not have a laugh at some of the whacky choices you can make and above all it feels natural. If an npc is talking for too long or annoying, you can tell them to shut up, just give them a punch in the face or if you feel really adventurous why not just shoot them lol.
    A couple of others that have not been mentioned before but are bound to make you smile, well if you're not a complete sour puss anyway :
    Yakazu series  Lego City Undercover Bully Two point Hospital and Two point campus (haven't played campus myself yet but from the looks of it, looks to be funny as hell again ) Jak and dexter series Various Fmv games like Night trap and Plumbers Don't Wear Ties just to name two,( if only for the hilariously bad acting) Psychonauts Thimbleweed Park Skate series ->  the hall of meat sections and the rediculous ragdoll physics always made me laugh Fable series  And let's wrap things up with games that are funny when you are playing with somebody aka local coop -> mario party, wii sports and it's various reincarnations, Overcooked, Monopoly (especially when you are winning always good for a laugh), Mario vs sonic games, 2020 olympic tokyo just to name a few. Don't underestimate the power of playing games with somebody else or even a better a couple of people in the same room because everithing that is remotly competitive can turn out to be a funny experience.
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    Yaramaki got a reaction from killamch89 in Think they'll try to make another Game of Thrones game?   
    There is so much lore and history here you could make atleast a couple of openworld games out of the Games of thrones ip and still have something new to tell everytime. The only problem is what company could afford the games of thrones ip, given it's one of the most populair tv shows of the past decade, one would assume securring the rights are going to expensive. 
    I'd rather see a new season of the telltale series because the games of thrones one ended with a cliffhanger and more questions then answers imo. It will probably never happen tough but one can always hope.
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    Yaramaki got a reaction from Withywarlock in Saints Row Reboot Delayed to August 2022   
    Yesterday I've already seen a few stores slashing the price down to 50 bucks already and that was before the game was even out, since it launches today. Woulden't be suprised if it goes down to 20-30 bucks within the next 2 months. Maybe at 20-25 i'll pick up a copy but as expected from violition they done and fucked it up (again). While i'm definalty going to play the game at some point, i kinda fear if sales are bad and they probably will be bad this is the nail in the coffin for the saints row franchise but you never know maybe thq nordic/deep silver will feel the need to remaster the first 2 games at some point in the future and milk the saints row ip completly dry and you know i would not be suprised if they did.
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    Yaramaki got a reaction from Empire Of Sight in What makes for good and bad side quests?   
    A good side quest imo should tell a good and compelling story, should reward you properly for completing them and above all should give a sense of satisfaction for taking the time to go of the beaten path . Some games that have brilliant side stories are skyrim, the witcher series, kingdom come deliverance and any bioware game just to give some recent examples. I'm personally a fan if they stretch out side stories over different quests and tell a complete story like the factions quests in skyrim or some of the witcher 3 quests.
    Bad quests are offcourse the fetch quests that don't really have any significance to the game and are only there to lenghten the game, offcourse ubisoft games really have a habit of doing this where you have to collect a certain amount of things only to unlock a costume that isn't  anything special other then being a cosmetic item. I know i'm a sucker for this myself aslong as they are  showing on the map i don't really have a problem with this myself.
    Rockstar is another company that is guilty of this as good as their games are, much of their side quest are just boring and frustrating as hell, collecing waste in gta 5 is boring and tedious as fuck let alone collecing the ufo parts that don't show up on the map once you start that mission, so you have either spend 100's of hours looking for them or look up a guide online. Same with rdr 2 where you have to collect bones, why can't they show up on the map, why isn't there an option to buy a map for them, whoever tought this was a good idea at rockstar i don't know fire them for my part.
    I've also find that a lot of jrpg's have these boring side quests, since i'm currently playing dragon quest 11 let us use that game as an example like you have to get a certain material for somebody which you can only obtain by defeating a certian monster, when you complete it you get 10 silver ores, a crafting component that is common and pretty respawns at the some locations everytime you enter a certain area. What's the point atleast give me something decent for my efforts.
    Alright i'm off to defeat 10 monsters in dragon quest 11 maybe that npc who gave me that quest will give me a pat on the back and will be saying good boy, you completly wasted your time here have a few herbs for your efforts.
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    Yaramaki got a reaction from Withywarlock in Saints Row Reboot Delayed to August 2022   
    i'm kinda torn wheter i should get saints row right away or just hold off until it goes on sale. To me it looks like just another open world game that adds nothing new to the table and from what i have gathered from previews on various sites, the side content is just your standard uninspired open world affair. I know i'll have fun with the game no doubt but is it really worth paying full price for. Currently i'm not really feeling it maybe that will change over time but as it stands now especially after violition's previous game agents of mayhem which flopped hard, i don't have a lot of faith in violition anymore to save their flagship franchise. 
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    Yaramaki got a reaction from Withywarlock in Last Game Played   
    Oof finally got around and beated The council played through late in the night yesterday, only to begin today with the same thing some puzzles were brutal and for one i had to look up a guide online, others toke me a few hours to figure out, you get plenty of hints here and there, only problem in my case was you have to understand the hints the game throws at you, toke me a while to figure the hints out. I got a pretty decent ending altough couldn't save everybody but all in all well worth the 20+hours i putted into the game eventough the story is sometimes hard to follow early on, but it all falls into place into the last 2 episodes. Had to mop up a few achievements i've missed but with these type of games it's fairly easy since there is a chapter select and you can skip all the dialogue. I'd say a job well done and the perfect way to conlude my 3 week vacation, off to work we go tommorow.
     
     
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    Yaramaki got a reaction from Justin11 in VGR Member of the Month - August 2022 Nominations   
    Thanks for the nice words justin much appreciated.
    I'll give my vote towards a rather new face as @runswithspatulas deserves to get my nomination hopefully this nomantion will be a motivation to continue posting here.
     
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    Yaramaki reacted to Justin11 in VGR Member of the Month - August 2022 Nominations   
    If not that @Yaramaki is ineligible I would have nominated him again, his contributions here are top notch. @kingpotato should have it. 
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    Yaramaki got a reaction from Withywarlock in Question about hunting games and wheter are not to play them?   
    Hunting over here isn't really the same as in America, people who hunt here are usually the upper rich class who have there own private hunting territority don't know how it's in the rest of europe but my guess is other europeans here can relate to that hunting is a rich persons hobby.
    The only reason i can think of is why i keep getting these hunting games is for the exploration of the map. Hiking is my second passion besides video games and collecting and i feel like walking trough these maps would give me a sense of what an American or Australian national park looks like for example. Pretty much the same @Empire said above as i too wouldn't mind just exploring the map without the hunting.
    Makes me wonder does anybody remember the game Africa on ps3 where you have to photgraph animals? They should make something like this but with a national park setting instead.
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    Yaramaki got a reaction from Empire Of Sight in Bid For Rewards + Announcing Our Third Moderator!   
    When i first came here it was to talk about videogames, one thing that was immediately clear to me this is the messageboard i have been looking for years, fellow posters welcomed me when i first joined up like i have been here for years. Everybody is so open and genuine   there is no hate and jealousy towards eachother wheter or not somebody has a different oppinion it doesen't end up in a flame war. I may consider myself more video game collector then gamer these days but being part of vgr has worked miracles like getting stoked again on current gen gaming and actually being encouraged to play games that are way out of my zone. 
    I also want to thank @DC, @Shagger and @The Blackangel for their faith and trusting me with this task, i'll try my utmost best to be the best mod i possible can, so if there is ever anything you possibly think i could help out with wheter it's board related or not, do not hestitate to send me a pm.
    Also thanks to all of you guys the entire community for being the way you are, we may not always agree with eachother but let's keep doing what we do best and make vgr the best place it possible can be.
    Damn i almost sound like a politician.
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    Yaramaki got a reaction from Justin11 in What are your Top 10 Premier League Predictions   
    here is my top 10 for the 2022/23 seasons, what are yours? if you can't list 10 just do a top 5 and if that isen't possible just list who will become champions. 
    1) Manchester City
    2) Liverpool
    3) Arsenal
    4) Tottenham Hotspur
    5) Chelsea
    6) Newcastle
    7) Manchester united
    8 ) Aston Villa
    9) West ham
    10) Leicester city
    I think mid table will be a toss up between leicester and wolves and why not Nottingham forest. But ultimatly going with leicester in 10th place.
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    Yaramaki got a reaction from Heatman in How many games do you play at the same time?   
    No offence but why bid on something you have no intention of playing or using anyway? I've got a certain moral that if i'm not interested in something leave it for somebody else who is, it's called having respect towards other posters. This is the first time i made a bid on something as it's a visual novel and you know that is right up my alley. 
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    Yaramaki got a reaction from Justin11 in How many games do you play at the same time?   
    No offence but why bid on something you have no intention of playing or using anyway? I've got a certain moral that if i'm not interested in something leave it for somebody else who is, it's called having respect towards other posters. This is the first time i made a bid on something as it's a visual novel and you know that is right up my alley. 
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