Shagger

You know what @m76, I've seen enough. You've proven for the last time that you cannot discuss or debate certain issues from an impersonal and mature base. Nobody can challenge what you say without you making it out as a personal attack and I'm no longer willing to tolerate those accusations, whether they be at myself or somebody else. The only way to avoid a scathing response from you is to blindly agree with you, and I'm not prepared to tell people to do that mostly because it's not their fault so few agree with you on VGR. We do not exist to acknowledge you, feed your ego and blow smoke up your ass. I'm going to discuss the next step with the site admin, but for now this thread is locked. Do not try to aggravate people or try to continue debating the issues of inclusion or sexualisation on other threads.

Despite saying it several times, I can't seem to get this through to some people. As long as what people are posting is within the rules, they can post as much as they like. Nobody, including myself and @DC, have the right to tell anyone they post "too much" just because people like yourself and @The Blackangel feel inconvenienced by the forum being busier. I know why people like yourself and @The Blackangel are complaining about this better than anyone. It's not like I enjoy going through page after page of recent activity looking for suspicious posts. I do that because I have to and do it without complaint because it's a good thing for the forum to be busier, to have more traffic. Yes, I'm ready to believe some people post more spuriously to earn more points, but the system is set up to reward people for being active and we're not about to change it just because a minority of our members feel inconvenienced by the forum being busy. The other problem with members complaining about this is that other people need not be burdened to the same extent as I am. Again, I've said this several times, but once again people can follow topics and even individual members to keep track of new content that interests you. If anyone does choose to "scan" the forum for new posts the same why I have to using the recent activity tab, the burden of doing so is also a choice of your own and there's nothing that I nor @DC can do to help you. To make this crystal clear. VGR staff will NOT order nor encourage people to post more or less often for any reason, least of all for other people's convenience, not even our own. What I will do is propose ideas to @DC to help make the forum easier to navigate now that is a bit busier than it used to be. For example, I think one simple thing that could help would be to increase the amount of topics that show per-page so one wouldn't have to go through as many pages of topics in order to get caught up. If anyone has other ideas, let's hear them, but we are not going to encourage people to post less.

Seriously @m76, given your history when it comes to discussing inclusion and how women are depicted in games, I'm struggling to understand why you even bothered to post this topic in the first place. Coming from you, this carries absolutely no weight whatsoever. You're not stupid, you must know how this looks coming from you. Not that this rant would be that relevant if somebody else was to say it anyway. So, I'm not even going to entertain you, not this time. You wanna piss and moan like a teenage boy mad that your mum took away your Playboy's, then be my guest.

I don't really feel like I have one. There's plenty of people out there that I admire for one reason or another, but I would go so far as to call anyone my "hero".

Here's what your supposed to do. Play every story quest and then every side mission except the very easiest one. Then, just stop playing.

When that happens, I do what I do best. Panic.

I'm not saying I'm proud of it nor ashamed, but my screenname on VGR is my real world nickname.

In some games, you're role playing the character, in some games you're merely observing. Like it or not, it's not really up to the player which one of these roles you hold when playing a game. If the option is there, it's by the game's design, not the players will.

I don't see Epic making thier planform appeal to publishers/developers as being such a terrible thing. GOG was there, but it had a very different claim of the market wasn't really meant to compete with Steam. Other services like EA's Origin and Ubisoft's UPlay were fairly indigenous for thier respective publishers and weren't the same thing as Steam. Let's face it, Steam held a monopoly and that's never good for the customer. In fact, I remember people screaming out for somebody to break that monopoly, and nobody offered a realistic alternative to Steam until EGS came along. Epic's strategy was to make thier platform appealing to publishers/developers with lower commission to gain traction. I see nothing wrong with that at least for small, independent developers accepting a better commission deal for exclusivity, especially since Steam has become a difficult place for such dev's to get thier games noticed in more recent years. This will always be a problem for Steam so long as they insist on having this "open door" policy with the piss poor quality control that goes with it. The problem for me starts when big publishers accept these kinds of deals, they have no excuse to deny a large amount of people the option of buying thier games where they want. I think both you and @Withywarlock are right, Steam got better with time and perhaps so could Epic, and maybe Epic should have leant the lessons through Valve's mistakes, but I get why Epic didn't copy Steam directly, such a thing would be doomed to fail. So, they try something a little different. Offer free games weekly to customers, better commission deals to developers/publishers and exclusivity deals. Some of thier policies I agree with, some I don't. I for one just refuse to deny the importance of competition in the game market on PC just because I don't agree with everything Epic does, especially when I have at least an many issues with how Valve handle themselves.

It has been common practice for gamers to be outraged whenever Epic, for example, has a game exclusively on thier storefront for PC, especially a major third party title. Werther or not you think that Epic are justified in doing that is another matter and not really the point of this thread, but it has been a big deal when it's happened. The thing is, though, I have just purchased Tales of Arise on PC. I looked around Steam, GOG and EGS to find that this game can only be purchased on Steam. So for people who have called Epic out for this, why is this OK? People who call out Epic for exclusive games always say it anti-consumer to have PC games only sold on one storefront, but surely that rule would have to apply regardless of what storefront that happens to be. So my question is, why is it never controversial when Steam does this, and it happens on Steam probably more often than anywhere else when it come to PC games, but people only every lift thier torches and pitchforks when Epic does it? Surely CDPR with GOG have the best policy by allowing even thier own games to be sold on other storefronts and Valve obviously don't do that either. Is this some massive hypocrisy or is there something I'm missing?

OK, I've decided t try out This model from EasySMX. I've also purchased Tales of Arise for PC. Perhaps I'll give a kind of "dual review".

OK, we've purchased some ingredients and starting with most important things in the books. The being, of course, the alcohol! So I'm getting ready for some Stimpacks, Skooma and Radaway. We're Also making Nuka Cola Quantum.

That's not what tracking is for. The purpose is to gather data about your spending habits, what apps you use and even personal information like your name and email to then sell that data to somebody else. That somebody could (and would) send you spam, scam you or otherwise manipulate you into buying something. For example, let's say Google picks up on the fact you've spent some time browsing for a laptop online. They would then sell your personal information to a company selling laptops so they can hard sell you on laptops.

The DRM was put in place by IO Interactive, not GOG. GOG had no control over the implementation of this. I wanted to point that out because that's a detail that seems to be getting left out as this story gains traction on the internet. However, still take issue with GOG over this The first problem I have with GOG over this is that the game is advertised as having no DRM, as it standard on GOG. They should have made it clear that some elements of the single game you have to be online to use and exactly what those are. Second is that threat to remove negative reviews calling this out, you simply can't do that. They're only digging themselves into a deeper hole by doing so.

I somehow doubt that Neil Druckmann would approve, much less be involved if Ellie's sexual orientation was to be buried or changed. However, to be fair Ellie's sexual orientation or any romance or any kind wasn't addressed until the lest behind DLC, so if the series is based on the first, stand alone game it might not come up. I suspect that it probably will, though, like that aspect of the story will be told in flashback some other form of exposition.

In that case, I stand corrected. Personally I'd say that definition a bit archaic and I don't like it, but if that's what defines a sport then that's what defines a sport.

Some Bethesda games are better than others, but I don't think a single game Bethesda has developed has been without issues. Oblivion, Fallout New Vagas (I know that was developed by Obsidian and not Bethesda, but it's still the same engine and base assets) and latter ports of Skyrim (Like Skyrim Special Edition) were not bad, where as Fallout 3 and especially Fallout 76 were train wrecks. I have successfully played Shyrim SSE for hours on end without any notable problems in both PC and console, but there were fan-made mods and patches at work.

Not all sports are a form of athletic competition. Some are a test of strategy and/or skill. Look at darts, bowling, golf, pool, snooker, professional chess and (at least some) motorsports. There are even some Olympic sports I would put in the same category, likely archery and shooting. So e-sports absolutely count as a sport. A competition that tests teamwork, strategy, skill, reflexes and situational awareness measured against other people.

The fact that so many people get confused when it comes to companies like EA and Ubisoft and games they're actually associated with, it just goes to show how similarly horrid the big players in the "AAA" game industry are.

What do you mean you don't see how they're gaming cooking books? One's themed on The Elder Scrolls and the other on Fallout.

@StaceyPowers There has been several topic created to discuss TLOU TV series and new ones seems to get posted every time there's a bit of news, so I've decided to just merge this new topic into one of the existing threads and encourage you to try and use this thread to post new info on the TV show going forward. But yeah, the image is not much to go on, but still hyped for this.

Moving this topic from General Gaming" to "Video Games as this topic is about a specific game. Without fan-made mods and patches, the vampirism cure quest in Oblivion is even worse as it completely messes up your character's face making you character appear to age. Being a vampire in Oblivion yields pretty much no benefits at all given how the magic system works. Being a vampire is a little more fun is Skyrim with the vampire lord, but it still isn't brilliant.

I'm not talking about an internet provider, I'm taking about my mobile phone provider, and I said who it was, it's 3.

I'm with 3 for my mobile phone and, to be honest, I wish I wasn't. They can never get my payment dates right and thier customer service is abysmal. I tried to leave them and go another provider, but the credit check failed, probably because I had just bought a laptop on higher purchase and that messed with my credit score. So, a renewal from 3 was my only option as I needed a new phone immediately. Pain in the bum hole.

I don't want that. I want the game companies who do this sort of thing buggerd rough and dry, but that's me.