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I have used a Hotmail account as my primary e-mail for at least 17 years and never felt the need to change it. I do usually use g-mail (at least the app) along with Outlook on my phone because it's sometimes necessary to have another e-mail client to access you email if you have opened a link up in n email into that e-mail client's bowser. Because I have both apps to access the same Hotmail account, there is some comparisons to be made and I'd say Outlook is cleaner to look at and it always refreshes and shows the latest's messages first, without fail. It can take g-mail as long as two full minutes to catch up. So, I'd have to say Hotmail/Outlook in better. The junk filter is usually pretty solid as well.

Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning I did a review of thus dumpster fire on VGR, so I urge people to check that out first and read the whole thread to get the full story. Suffice to say, it was tragic. The original game that run perfectly fine with issue I can recall and "remastered" into something at time barely worked. The didn't really look any better either, it just had better compatibility with higher resolution displays (the original has texture scaling issues that make the game very hard to play at anything higher than 1080p). The only real reason to even buy this version was the new Fatesworn DLC that was delayed and took well over a year to come out, and that was also busted. It was also after patches I was finally able to finish it. It was so bad it actually makes me feel ambivalent about the prospect of a sequel form this same studio and publisher. Yes, I'd love a follow up to Kingdoms of Amalur, but the thought of these incompetent pricks making it is a bad omen.

You don't need to say "Fortnite Battle Royal game", just Fortnite will do, we'll know what you're talking about.

@The Blackangel is right. Just because @killamch89 casually mentioned a Switch as part of the point he was making on not needing an Xbox when he already has a PC, it is not an invite to start talking about the Switch on this thread that clearly nothing to do with the Switch. It take only a moment to gauge what the thread is about overall and think about what it is you are about to post and decide if it's applicable, but no, you just latch onto to the comment then blindly burst out a reply without thinking it through. Then somebody else will reply to your irrelevant comment, then another and before you know it the thread is complexly derailed and is now only a place for you and your friends to spin around your irrelevant chatter on. You really have got to stop that. We're not saying you're doing this maliciously, but you are doing it and it's because you just reply without thinking.

Skyrim is available on PS4, but it will not look like this, First of, it's a 10 year old game. It was enhanced for the PS4 as part of the Definitive Edition with enhanced visuals, but not like what you saw on my screenshots. The screenshots you see there are from a heavily modified version of the game on PC. The PS4 version can be modified, but the options for mods are extremely limited because that version of the game can't be run with a Script Extender. On those screenshots the textures on the trees and foliage, the ground, the sky, the buildings and even the lighting have all been modified so they look different and it's likely you will not be able to duplicate the same results I got on console. I felt it was important to tell you because I would hate for you to buy the game on PS4 expecting it to look like that.

Welcome to VGR. We're happy to have you.

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What it all come down to is how popular you and your Twitch channel is. To make the absurd amount of money PewDiePie or Ninja does, you have to be at a level of populatiy that's pretty much A-list celebrity territory. When Twitch streamers get to a certain point in popularity, the amount of traffic the bring to the twitch website can be immense, generating a ton of revenue for both themselves and Twitch through adds. Popularity also brings in more subscribers, donators and sometimes sponsors as well. It's a classic "the rich get richer" scenario. However, forget about making millions, just earning enough through streaming to earn a living is incredibly rare and very few people even get that far. To get to that point requires working hard at it and being decimated and committed, something that's difficult to do before your earning enough money to actually stream full time without another job, so it's not easy. Not to mention this does require a certain amount of luck as well. People can work twice as hard on thier Twitch channel as Ninja or PewDiePie and earn nothing. It's not fair, but it's what it is. Ninja was a little bit different because he's a successful pro-gamer, so he was able to jump right into it and be as popular as he is almost right away, but PewDiePie has been doing YouTube and Twitch for a long time and built this up from nothing. So I don't actually grudge him his success, but I still reserve the right to be homicidally jealous.

No. It would suck the fun out of it. Based on what I've researched, being a a video game tester is some seriously tedious stuff. You control a character, make the character turn around, face every direction, preform every solo action like bring out a weapon, attack, use items etc for every one of those directions, have the character duck, do all the that again, have the character move one pixel, rinse and repeat for that entire room. Imagining what it would be like trying to actually play the game after doing that, even if it were a great for me, it just wouldn't be the same. It would be like PTSD.

This first thing I have been able to find out is the the Fortnite Dreamhack Tournament appears to have expired, so I'm afraid that's out. The second thing is I'd advise caution. Legitimate tournaments do often expect players to pay to be a part of the professional associations to pay for tournaments making it very easy to be scammed. I'd never discourage anyone from perusing esports if they're serious about it, but with all due respect the way you have worded you post tells me that you haven't given this much thought. Sometime game companies might host open competitions like Dreamhack, but most of them are made for professionals with capital to invest into thier career either from themselves or from investors and sponsors, and it takes being the absolute best players with a proven record to get there. By all means , keep an eye out for tournaments like Dreamhack in the future and even share them with VGR when you learn about them, but be carful out there.

The way you worded what you've been saying suggests you nominate out of habit rather than actually thinking about it and nomination somebody who actually deserves it, and that is not a good thing. It's not that person you nominate out of habit happens to be @skyfire who surely can't be considered this month, is that you do it or have done it at all. I'm sure that isn't or at least hope that isn't the case, but that was a worrying statement you made, and actually a pretty pointless one as you didn't actually nominate anyone. Why didn't you just save commenting on this until you had actually made your mind up? That's what I'm trying to make clear to you about your posts, you never think it through. I haven't nominated anyone yet and reason I haven't is because by the time I had made my mind up, that individual had already been nominated by somebody else. If it wasn't for that pointless, yet concerning statement of yours, I probably wouldn't have commented on this thread at all because I would have nothing to add.

No need to be rude. I explained all of this already in an earlier post.

Why? He hasn't even been of the forum in weeks, and the last posts he did make were abusive and had to be deleted. Quite frankly, there is nobody who deserves a nomination less. So yes, please do actually think about it.

Seriously, did you even watch the trailer? Or even read @Yaramaki's opening posts? Or read anything at all in the thread? This is ridiculous, mate.

I think in a single stretch the longest I had was probably about 12-14 hours. It was on Uncharted 4. I sat down to play the game one morning then the next thing I knew it was time for bed. The really weird thing is, I wasn't actually that crazy about the game. I even reviewed it. It was good, but not that good I felt. Still, it must have go my hooks into me given the I dedicated almost the entirety of two days of waking hours to beat it.

We have rules on VGR that forbid people posting purely for the sake of promotional purposes on VGR without permission. We left this thread be @rootstereo because; You genuinely engaged with people on the forum. This thread has been in existence since before the current policy on promotional posts came into place, so it wouldn't have been fair to penalise you over that. However, it appears we have a bit of a problem. Yes, you did engage with people on this forum, but you have only posted on this one thread about your game, so this is not a genuine attempt to contribute to the community, you are just using the forum to peddle this game and nothing more. Like I said, it's not your fault that this is technically in violation of our policy as the thread is older than that policy, but it's also true that until today you had not posted on VGR for over a year. You think you can just come back after such a long time just to bump this thread and that's it? Sorry, but no. That's why I'm locking this thread. This no longer constitutes as a genuine contribution to this community. Don't take this the wrong way, I think I speak for the VGR community when I wish you the very best of luck with the game.

You expect me to believe you post with care and due diligence when you don't even read the title of the article you quote? It's literally in the URL, you don't even need to click on it to see that. And by the way, why wouldn't you hyperlink that? it would look a lot better. And @Justin11, @Heatman obviously messed up there and the article wasn't about what he thought it was, but if the article was about what he thought it was about, don't you think that reading it would have answerd your question? When somebody posts an article and you want to know more about the subject at hand, it's both common courtesy and common sense to read said article. If that article was about a Twisted Metal, don't you think it would mention what version of the game it would be? That was sheer laziness. Frankly, shame on you both. Unbelievable...

Like I said, Hideo Kojima had wanted to replace David Hayter with a more high profile actor for years. David even had to audition to play Snake in MGS 3 and 4. Hideo claimed he wanted Kiefer to play Snake because he believed the older actor would attune to the motion capture better for the older version of Snake in MGS 5, which I call supreme bullshit on. He also claimed he wanted this version of snake to be a reimagining of the character, and given how story goes in MGS5, and I'll admit that dose make sense, but I still don't understand why he needed a different actor to do that. Hideo also said he wanted "real" actor instead of a mere "voice" actor, which I think is really disrespectful on his part. I found a really good article/opinion piece on the subject from Levelskip if you want to check this out more detail. Personally, I believe Hideo wanted a more more high profile actor for promotional reasons, but that's speculation on my part. Whether Hideo's reasons make sense and if thier justifiable is for each individual to decide for themselves, but I personally believe David Haytor was done rotten in this situation and it wasn't fair.

First, I want to point out the show is called 24, not 24 Hours. And I don't really understand why everyone is so quick to praise Kiefer Sutherland's performance in MGSV. Don't get me wrong, I love Kiefer Sutherland and 24 is one of my favourite shows, but I was not a fan of his portrayal of Snake. I don't if there was re-writes or if Kiefer Sutherland was only available for a limited period of time or something, but his version of Snake barley says a word in that game. Entire cut scenes go by without him saying anything. There was also something really sedate about snake in that game, Kiefer just didn't bring the fire that I know he can. Sorry, but David Hayter did this so much better. Another thing worth pointing it was actually Hideo Kojima's idea to replace David with a more famous actor, NOT Konami, so as much as Konami deserve every shred of hate that the get, this actually wasn't thier fault.

Honestly, that's still asking quite a lot.

There you are correct, so I'm gonna watch the trailer now and offer my two cents. I like the look of the game and I like the vibes. There is something a little "Life is Strange" and "Telltale's The Walking Dead" about it with a little "Stranger Things" and The Last of Us" in there as well. I'm a little more wary of the story progression given that the journey apparently has some procedural generation going, but if holds this this really could be worth a play.

I responded earlier, but didn't really address the topic, so I'll do that because boy there is a lot to go through. Abuse in the games industry. This should be number 1 on anyone's list. We all know about the issues with Activision/Blizzard and Ubisoft I'm sure, but I believe this problem, whilst maybe not as extreme as it was was with them, is certainly more widespread. Crunch, harassment (Whether it be sexual or otherwise), pay gaps between genders, discrimination and abuse is a part of the culture at too many game companies and it needs to stop. It's difficult to not support the companies who are guilty of this given how widespread the problem is, but stand with the employees and journalists who have face this shit and support them too. Microtransactions. There was a time I was prepared to forgive them under certain circumstances, but I regret that as should every gamer as we have learned the hard way that if you give mouse a cookie, it will want a glass of milk, wait, no, it'll eat fucking everything. We were like, "Well, OK, microtransactions are fine so long as the game is free to play", then we were "Well, OK, Well, OK, microtransactions are fine in a premium game, so long as it's just cosmetic", then we were "Well, OK, microtransactions are fine in a premium game with gameplay effects so long as it just single player" then we were "Well, OK, microtransactions are fine with gameplay effects even in a multiplayer game, just so long as it's not Pay-to-Win" then we were "Well, OK, microtransactions are fine just so long as it's not a lootbox". There was a point that has sadly already passed that we should said "Fuck you! We've had enough". Pay-to-Win microtransactions and lootboxes are awful for obvious reason so I won't insult anyone's intelligence by going into that, but cosmetic microtransactions are just as awful because of how they affect the social aspect of the games. You no longer admire another player for thier rare skin because of the work and dedication it must have took to get it, you now look at them and think "Well, that prick obviously paid for that" even if, in fact, they did earn it hard way. It also crease a very toxic "class" environment were people with standard skins are free game for ridicule and even harassment and bullying. Believe me when I tell you that game companies not only want that, that's actually the goal. Fuck microtransactions and fuck any defence for them. The false "Beta's". This is a problem that I think doesn't get talked about nearly often enough. his is when a game is sold in early access or as "incomplete" in a test phase, usually with an in game store with microtransactions and DLC for sale, then stays there for years usually never actually fully releasing at all. Games that do this to always have an excuse for lack of content or polish and also give the thier developers the excuse to contently "beg" for more from the fans. They often label the in-game purchases as "pledges" to rob the players of thier consumer rights and give the developers an opportunity to change whatever they want. It's a disgusting practice that prays on people's generosity and passion. Star Citizen is the crown jewel of this practice and has successfully scammed hundreds of million of dollers from it's fans, but there have been others. PUBG, for example, still claimed to be "in Beta" when is launched on consoles on disk! Escape from Tarkov is another one that I'm convinced will never actually come out as it's been five years since it's so-called "close beta" stated. The worst part about this is that these fans who get scammed by this practice often totally refuse to see the facts and defend the respective developers to the hills. They've been completely brainwashed and that is the saddest part of all.

You can believe what you want, whatever makes you feel better, but the fact I'm a moderator on VGR and when I tell somebody something or ask them to do something, I expect them to listen and take heed without getting talked back too, and I don't think that's an unreasonable expectation. So you're right, I don't get told what to do (at least not by regular members) because that's my role here. Other people who have come under fire in recent weeks accused of so-called "post farming" or posting to up post counts at the cost of quality have shown improvement, but if anything you're getting worse and I'm not the only person who getting fed up with it. And honestly, I don't believe you are putting in the level of diligence and care you need to into your posts when you post at the pace you do. The proof is in the pudding given that so much of what you post lacks substance and quality, but maybe that's just my opinion, so I'll take this a little further. When the gap between post of yours isn't several hours obviously between times when you're online and on the forum, it's usually at 2-3 minutes. So what you are saying is in that in that space of time you read a thread, check for new replies, gauge the conversation, do whatever research you have to (if applicable), think if you have anything to respond to or add, judge to yourself if the reply is worth making, compile a worthwhile post, type out the reply with care, read the post back to yourself to check for errors, correct those errors then finally hit "send". If you expect me to believe that you do all that in less than three minutes, then I don't know who you are trying to fool. I literally couldn't do that, and I think that will be the case for most people on VGR.

All I'm asking you to do is read your own posts before you post them. That way, you might avoid making these errors. I'll take this chance to remind you that posting grammatically so people can understand you is something required of members on VGR and is in the Forum Rules and Guidelines. In other words, don't argue with me and just do as I ask because, in the end, I'm only trying to help you. I'm not singling you out here, I posted a similar reply to @Boblee only yesterday over the same thing when he made a post I could barley read. However, if you want to argue with me and ignore my advice, the only option left for me is to start deleting your posts when they're hard to understand. Would you prefer that?

This actually was on Gamepass until a couple of weeks ago and I never played it. Starting to regret that now.