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I'm out of the loop so I didn't know you could sell your account or stats. Thing is that COD isn't really heavy on a complex story and grand innovation like Assassins Creed, so games like Assassins Creed can release every 2 years at this point with excitement from people unlike COD. The current system of Assassins Creed is downright spectacular, and ties together several elements of other popular games. Valhalla's system, which I'm guessing is based on Odyssey although I haven't played Valhalla yet, is certainly going to change and shift around in the future. The new Assassins Creed games are practically guaranteed to have a great reception by fans, but the only thing the AC people did wrong was throw out the Desmond Miles/current day part of the story in terms of how complex and relevant it was. At some point you would think the Assassins Creed developers are going to have to go full Sam Fisher mode and have the series involve modern day sequences involving armies and intelligence agencies like Fisher was, because the Templar's came from BC era and go all the way to the modern day except the gameplay currently does not touch on the modern day as much as it used to. It's kind of like "Check Out Historical Exhibit #1 This Year", and in two years comes Historical Exhibit X. More reasons why I should be made an AC executive.

My point was actually that physical sports people don't really take that much risk in many fields these days. A long time ago in the NFL, they used to have pretty weak protection and the players were along to freaking clothesline people like they do in the WWE. Speaking of WWE: That's where the real risk is at. I know how the WWE works and it's not fake but "pre-determined". They are basically trained to hit other people of equal caliber very hard in safe places. The generally do not strike "opponents" in the WWE for real in the head, face, neck and specific areas of the back but areas like the backside of the shoulder plexus area those guys could care less how hard they hit the other person. And then there is new people that pop up in the WWE who have a much with an established person, and I don't know why it is, but the newer guy will get beat up and manhandled almost as if it were a real fight. In pro-football, people BESIDES THE BALL CARRIER and PERHAPS the quarterback himself are going to get hit just as much as people in the WWE in 2022.

Fortnite is terrible. It's made by the makers of Gears of War and makes you build stuff in the middle of a firefight and starts you with no guns.

Call of Duty; but that's just my personal preference.

None. Only games I thought would be easy that ended up being unnecessarily difficult.

If you're making the argument for the long term continuation of games like Earthworm Jim and Banjo-Kazooie, I am IN! I wouldn't mind seeing yearly releases for Earthworm Jim and bi-yearly releases for BK.

E-sports people obviously take less physical risk than physical sports people because video games are not physical sports. However, there's not that much risk in physical sports these days, especially due to how some of them were played in the past. Basketball players have practically no risk on the court, and I'm not talking about the cases where players just fall over and faceplant out of no where (I know why that's happening but won't discuss it here). Basketball is just one massive cardio triathlon. Players would be tested before entering pro-basketball to see if they have any risks, and if they're told that they dont, then that's all they have to do is run around on the court the whole game and basically fool around with the ball a little bit. Pro basketball people have good cardio and very fast hands/arms -- the latter of which is similar to blockers in pro-football. You can have 350 pounders in football that have extremely fast hands.

They are very similar depending on what type of sport and gaming field we are talking about. Some athletes spend thousands of hours practicing; so do some e-sports players. NASCAR is a "sport" and could easily be played by just good (high mid tier) e-sports people. Baseball requires very little athleticism, but has some of the most pay in sports. Pro-football is not what people think it is, and quite frankly some of those dudes in the pro division are pretty lazy. The best players in pro-football are relatively athletic, but people don't understand how much time a player in football actually spends in REAL time play (it's small, look it up). Hockey/Basketball require the most athleticism. Pro-Esports people could out-golf Tiger Woods on his best day.

Just the new Batman Arkham game on PS5, whatever the name of it was I forget. The new Splinter Cell, Gears of War 6, and new Perfect Dark when they finally come out in 2035.

That's going to depend on each game, which means that the answer to your question cannot necessarily be answered. Usually modern day autosaves just re-write over the previous autosave, and a manual save you make will just save right next to it. Modern games don't fill your whole list with a unique auto save each time.

I've never watched a single one of his videos ever, and I never watch any "youtubers" video's because I genuinely just don't care about their opinion unless they are an expert in a field I study or whatever. The "popularity" among "youtubers" kind of goofing off on video very often comes down to a random dude basically being an expert at goofing off all day on the internet in front of a younger audience. I support their right to goof around, etcetera, but I don't think alot of these people are well trained in areas that I care about. By context there are elite video game players who occasionally, or very often, post some youtube stuff, and I still don't even watch that but used to and may occassionally. Only actual channel that I've been watching recently is Karl Jobst, and he's kind of an expert at exposing some very, very sneaky frauds in the video game communities at some of the highest levels on earth.

Yes, there always seems to be a very large plot twist at the end of Metal Gear games starting with the original MSX game.

The Kingdom Hearts franchise as a whole goes through some fairly unexpected changes. I have a theory that some games, books, media, tv shows or movies can start out with one type of direction or intent and then be covertly purchased to push the said content in a subtle but entirely different direction. Kingdom Hearts 1, for example, had a very pure first game. Then the series got all weird and involved alot of evil and very unnecessary plot twists.

They can develop skills in some areas, but diminish skills in other areas. It may also depend on whether or not a game is, or has the ability, to connect to the internet because very nasty advanced hackers can take the game that someone is playing and potentially make it an un-authentic experience. This is partially a legal theory that I am working on, but it's also essentially proven to an extent, that the authentic version of a game can be vastly different from the game if it is changed or tampered with even if said change is tiny.

I just plain do not watch stuff like that. Like I said in another topic today: I tend to entirely reject people's opinions that video games are bad, and could care less what they think. As far as all of the "facts" outlined in the video: Science is a constant evolving entity, so what can be true today may be wrong tomorrow. Handwashing at one time was entirely rejected by the core scientific establishment leading to a massive scientific showdown for quite some time; and then it was simply accepted as both fact and normal one day. Video games are extremely complex in the sense that what the person in the video is ALLUDING to is true, in the sense that video games can potentially change behavior, albeit the stuff would need to be examined on a case by case basis.

Virtually never; only if I need a guide to a video game or a video game's story. Every once in a while uploaded competitive play (that's not LIVE). Stuff with competitive play I usually either figure out myself, or already know the majority or what I need. With fighting games, alot of the combos you see on youtube either don't work in a real fight or have been patched out of the game somehow (due to a certain property in the combo being slightly changed). I think it's best just to achievement hunt to learn a game competitively so you can slowly do it from the ground up, but I don't achievement hunt anymore.

That's like a person downsizing from an 8 bedroom mansion down to a 1 bedroom apartment; so this is captain obvious type of stuff from the call of duty people (and more reasons why I should be an executive). In a really sneaky way, though, people like Nintendo can still have a good sized mansion while maintaining all of their exclusives. Some of it just comes down to recognition I think. Nobody in the current gaming world recognizes or has previously recognized call of duty as being exclusive to any platform. Alot of people don't even remember that Metal Gear Solid and Final Fantasy games were Playstation exclusives for a long time.

There's arguments to persuade people; I've gone that route sometimes. Such as I have like 57 competitive gaming #1 Ranks and several world records, therefore it is not a waste of time for me personally. I'm not NECESSARILY bragging about that, I just throw the facts at some people who say gaming is a waste of time. It also increases IQ, or has been said to by studies. Some stories and games are fun to entirely absorb yourself in to for leisure, which probably reduces stress. Lately I don't argue and could literally care less what other people think about my gaming stuff provided that their negative comments are avoidable (meaning not shouted at me over an megaphone all day at work or something ridiculous). There are people in the world that have some pretty terrible and destructive habits, and video gaming isn't one of them. I'm also a competitor and have received plenty of nasty criticism. In retrospect, I can say that 99% of the criticism or more has largely been non-constructive -- meaning that it has no ability to help or assist me in any way, therefore it's basically tossed out and always has been. I can think of like 2 or 3 instances where other people in my competitive field were friendly and gave me actual pointers, aside from groups I was in when I was younger where me and the other dudes just simply traded information without even being critical. Ask question to friend, get answer type of stuff.

No; they HD remastered just about every game that they perceived as needing an "HD remaster" except for the very first Assassins Creed -- which until this day has still not been touched, and it's still pretty awesome (if played correctly). 2, Brotherhood and Revelations were HD remastered in the Ezio Trilogy (all on 1 disc). Rogue and AC3 were remastered and the game where you play as Aveline was remastered in some way a second time, following its first remaster.

So, Kingdom Hearts 4 and Kingdom Hearts Missing Link have both been recently announced which puts the total of Kingdom Hearts entries at something like 17 games. Kingdom Hearts Dark Road was already released with an online version of the game, but has been pulled from the market only to get a re-release of an (offline) version of the title set to be available on August 24th, 2022 (with some final chapter Dark Road content). I'm studying these games, and their story, and figured that other people could help me out. I'm not new to the series, but I set myself up to specifically be on Dark Road when it comes out. From what I understand, the best order to play the entire series in is: -1 Kingdom Hearts -2 Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories -3 Kingdom Hearts II -4 Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days -5 Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep -6 Kingdom Hearts Coded -7 Kingdom Hearts Dream Drop Distance -8 Kingdom Hearts X -9 Kingdom Hearts X Back Cover (CGI Movie) -10 Kingdom Hearts X Unchained -11 Kingdom Hearts Union X -12 Kingdom Hearts Union X Dark Road -13 Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep: A Fragmentary Passage -14 Kingdom Hearts III -Kingdom Hearts III Re-Mind (DLC) -15 Kingdom Hearts Melody of Memories #15 Would be the last game you want to play in the series, so far as I understand as of currently. My questions are mostly about the "X" games, since most of them are entirely unplayable at this time. I'm aware that you can go in to Union X and watch the cut scenes from the game, but that you cannot play the title anymore. The original X was exclusive to Japan, so far as I know, and a browser based video game. X Unchained was basically the original X game, but also functioned as a sequel to the original with some additional content, then so far as I know: Union X is the same thing as X Unchained. Back Cover is a CGI movie that you can still get (and that I already have) that is a re-telling of the original X events from the "foretellers" perspective. Can someone break down for me how all of the X games work (minus Dark Road, because I will play that starting on launch day; I just finished the 3D/PS4 version of Dream Drop Distance. What's the story of these games and what should I cover before playing Dark Road because I'm a little lost with these games at this point.

All due respect; that is not true. I study law, and the context in which you could sue someone (in relationship to the above scenario where your team mates rigged a tournament), it has nothing to do with whether or not there is a large public interest in any particular event. People sue others in small claims court when the public doesn't know about it all the time, so one of the players that was potentially victimized in a rigged tournament could relentlessly sue others -- especially in a situation where the tournament jackpot (not just the "prize pool") involved him or her possibly winning something like $18 million dollars in a perfectly legal and legitimate way by victory in tournament. There also happens to be a massive interest in tournaments these days, but that really wouldn't be a factor at all in terms of lawsuits, unless it involved stuff like character defamation, libel, slander, etcetera, I guess. Perhaps that's what information you looked up, was information on character defamation laws? That would be correct if that's what you looked up. Like if one of your e-sports team mates was going around (in a theoretical situation, I am intending to stay on topic) and saying that the other team mate is doing something very terrible on a regular basis, or that they have done something very terrible or whatever (pick a number out of a hat). If the first person starts saying stuff to like 1 single person about e-sports person 2, then the "damages" of the case would be minimal and potentially dismissed from a court of law because there was not enough public view of the false information that was spread. Basically the Judge or Jury would look at the case as whether or not the persons reputation was even affected by the spread of false information (slander/liber/whatever), and people that are youtubers/twitch streamers, etcetera are pretty easy to snag on stuff like this if they go on terrible rants regarding other people. Most streamers are actually pretty solid with this type of thing and they just do their thing and jump off. Talking trash about someone they're playing online is not slander, as that is 1st Amendment/opinion/Freedom of Speech (at least in America), and I don't think I've ever seen a streamer (outside of 1 or 2 instances) where they were going on a significant rant about literally anyone else. So a civil suit would apply in the "rigged tournament" scenario mentioned above provided the two people were in the United States (I haven't gotten to foreign law/international court study yet), but criminal charges are all over the place in this stuff involving e-sports fraud. Other countries have literally arrested and charged cheat makers in some cases and there was a really big name (that I personally didn't follow because he was one of those "LEAKERS") that got identified past his pseudonym and pursued legally by Nintendo. I say good for Nintendo and they should keep it up. What crimes are involved in the rigging of tournaments, however, is stuff that could involve a wide plethora of crimes.

At 2:23:28, the Rewind guy basically has the match won but does something I probably wouldn't even have done when drunk and loses the round against the other dude who I've played online several times. Robocop dude does the same spamming for years and has thankfully never won an entire EVO. At about 2:23:45 Rewind then does a very strange thing which is Back+1 and tries to randomly chain it into Liu Kang's command grab. I barely play this game and I'm pretty good at it and I used to say I was like 2 weeks away from the other Liu Kang players in terms of skill, but I'm thinking more like a week after watching some of this.

Yeah this is a feature that is increasingly becoming quite normal on console based games. You can't delete the mandatory footage on something like Mega Man 11 if you are the world record holder for boss runs, for example -- at least as far as I understand. But Mortal Kombat 11 allows anyone (that'd include top players) to delete mandatory saved matches, and you can kind of determine whether or not they are real with some tricks (video being one of them). I've said this in other topics: Usually the online top 100 (generally for the best console for said game) is going to have it's bracket filled with the exact same people that compete at the highest levels in paid tournaments. There's alot of people in the fighting game community that I do not like or respect; it's nothing personal... I'm a competitor myself, so all that I will say is that in that context I simply avoid becoming fans of other people in the same field because I think it's a weird thing to do. But the 2nd place person this year at EVO (World's largest fighting game tournament) for Mortal Kombat 11 was a dude called "Rewind", and the winner was actually a no-namer who won the entire thing as a relatively unknown. I don't like Rewind (nothing personal), and I don't know anything about the other dude. But Rewind is like top 10 on the mk11 leaderboard online. The guy that won last years EVO was the #1 rank online and swept everybody kind of ridiculously. The thing that makes me skeptical about these alleged tournaments is how it's always the same people winning them. In fact there are two identical twins fighting each other in the below video (EVO Top 8/2022/MK11)! Very strange, and to me that's a red flag: Mortal Kombat 11: EVO 2022 - Full Tournament! [TOP8 + Finals] (ft. SonicFox, Foxy, Nicolas etc) - YouTube

Speedrunning is people basically racing a clock to break world records, so e-sports speed running would just be 2 or more people racing. They already do it; I'm just not aware of major paid tournaments. As far as trash talking goes; it exists in just about every form of competitive gaming, as well as most forms of physical sports. The people on the field in pro-football talk trash to each other under their breath all the time (it just isn't caught on mics), and look at hockey: they trash talk and fist fight the whole game. It's really the nature of competition to have tempers flying like that sometimes UNFORTUNATELY. Best bet is to just mute people online, and at tournaments you really can't go to the level of trash talking people do online (if any).

I played a ton of one of the earlier Smackdown games (just before they became Smackdown vs RAW) in online competition, but never checked the leaderboards. Always been a game I wanted to take a top spot on to be honest (maybe next game). The one I play was either Here Comes the Pain (4), or one of the just prior PS2 Rock themed games. If you are still interested in playing in e-sports like you claimed in another thread, you are young enough still, but there's alot of really young people. Alot of the best players in some fields are around 30 or so; sometimes in their 40's. So if you're considering it, nows the time!