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You know, I'm just gonna open this thread up to spoilers. The game's been been out over a year, so why not. The review will remain spoiler free, but let's just go with it the responses.

I don't think that's unreasonable. I'm also very sorry it was one of my posts that prompted this. I'll join with you in this request to the forum members to take every care to avoid posting the kind of images you describe or offer a warning about it. It's obviously not guaranteed that everyone will see this thread, but what I'll do is pin this in the hope as many people take notice as possible. I'll also insist people avoid using these images as avatars and profile banners.

You still haven't mentioned what the capacity of you storage drive(s) is. I was already aware of the potential issue with disk fragmentation @Crazycrab described, I see that as a separate issue to a HDD being full, but it's starting to sound like your computer just doesn't have enough storage. I do think it's very possible that your boot drive is needing to be defragmented, but I don't think that's the only issue.

I'm no expert, but I don't think a storage diving nearing it's capacity would be a direct cause of slowdown on a modern PC. The games would have to be stored a rather slow HDD that also serves as the boot drive for the operating system for that to be possible. Having such problems after only installing a handful of games is also really odd. Can you give details on the PC you're using?

I never consent to collection of data for anything if I have a choice. I don't care if it's solely for the purpose to find issues, bugs, gather data on performance or in some way to improve the quality of the game and that's all, I'm not paying money to be your video game tester.

I can't be sure, but I think I learned about this feature whilst trying to figure out how to make Fallout 3 work on a modern PC (That game truly is a certifiable nightmare when it comes to trying to get it to run on a modern system.). That's Steam's quality control for you. A game from one of the world's largest and most revered publisher/developers that you buy 100% legit on the most popular game service in world and it literally doesn't work. I figured it out eventually, but the experience of trying to get that to work is something I'd wish on nobody.

No, you don't have to buy them, but that still makes your game worse. To make the premium currency worth buying, the "free" currency has to become an unnecessarily tedious and boring grind to earn, otherwise there would be no incentive to buy the premium currency at all. It being possible to play the game without buying that garbage is not a good reason to put up with it.

It depends a lot on how the multiplier game is set up. Sometimes it can be a lesser blow to quit a match and not have the stats' register than to continue to a loss. When this is the case you could attribute the fact that's the case to bad game design, and you would probably have a point. It's always better to make a game more rewarding to stick with to the end rather than quit, but this also a world whare it is unfair to not reward people who leave a match with nothing (it might not be thier fault after all, bad connection, server crashes ect), then finding the right balance is not simple as it sounds. Is it actually more rewarding to do poorly in lots of short matches then doing well is fewer longer matches and playing to the end for example? That would be especially important in a battle royale style game or big, longer timed events such Battlefield or an MMO event. There is lots to consider and if a system can be exploited, you're guaranteed somebody will so it's vital in the interest of fairness to get that right, and game developers don't always get that right.

The problem is not that people don't read your posts, it's your inability to explain your position very clearly. Nobody is going to assume that you disapprove of Amazon and the corporate policy's they have in force when you spend half a thread defending them. Your other problem, and it's another frequent occurrence, is your inability to understand the difference between someone criticising your point and criticising yourself. What we were addressing is the problems with the points you made, not your overall view on a cooperation that you didn't even state clearly in the first place. If you can't debate in a mature manner without taking everything to heart I suggest you stop debating.

When you say something that's in agreement with something an animated Disney villain from the 1970's said, that's already a worry... But even without that, what you just said is actually quite sexist even if it were true. At least in the world of Robin Hood it makes some sense because it's the middle ages and like it or not the gender roles were what they were, but for TLOU it doesn't make sense at all. Throughout history woman have been robbing people, it's not a gender specific profession. Spoilers Ahead I remember Henry said something about how the hunters in Pittsburgh "Didn't keep woman and kids around", and then there's the thing @Crazycrab mentioned about David's town of cannibals. Between those two area's, the Soldiers in Boston (many of them are female if I remember correctly), Robert's goons and the Fireflies at the end, that's pretty much all the human's you fight in the game. You're probably right @StaceyPowers, TLOU is a bit bit of a sausage-fest, but there is some logic to it. The second game was a lot better in this regard, though.

Again, you fail to understand that just because it's nothing new or can be considered common, that doesn't doesn't automatically make it right. A few years ago, a couple of my colleges started thier own business manufacturing exhausts for cars using skills they learned from the apprenticeship program they severed with the very company we all worked for. The even bought equipment for the new business with money earned from working at our company having been full time, time served employees for only a couple of years. Did my company penalise them or take action? No. My colleagues just put in thier notice of resignation when thier new business was ready parted ways with the company amicably. Why interests people pursue in thier spare time should be no business of any employer unless it's a direct and deliberate attempt to make money off that company's goods and/or services. Like, and for the sake of it let's use Amazon as the example, selling of Amazon's warehouse stock by yourself or selling prime membership codes and pocketing the money. Amazon are in the game development market, true, but barley so because they haven't even a had single successfully released game as of yet. So employees that are in thier own free time and using thier own equipment doing game development is none of Amazon's business, just like how it was not my company's right to stop my colleagues stating thier open business using skills my company paid for them to learn. You have a habit of defending every obviously rancid cooperate practice that ever get's discussed here because that's what you're used to. Well, accept my sympathies because you clearly work for some grade A assholes.

If I'm remembering the movie correctly, It has been a while, the puppet actually did become a real boy. As a puppet, his nose grew when he told a lie, but after he became a real boy his nose moved further south and now grows when he sees a pretty lady.

Vice City is my favourite GTA game. Everybody gives the props to San Andreas, but I actually prefer Vice City. I like it's setting I like the pogromist, love the soundtrack and the side missions are much more rewarding that GTA3. Set in the 1980's, about 15 years or so further back than GTA3, you play as Tommy Vercetti, a mobster recently released from prison. The "family" in Liberty City don't want Tommy in town because his crimes are too fresh in the mind of the local population, so they send him to Vice City to set a drag deal to quietly make some money in this bustling trade that Vice City has to offer. They want to do this quietly because the family doesn't want to deal with drugs openly. However, the deal is a set up and both the drugs and the money is stolen, so now Tommy has to track down whoever it was that set them up and recover the drugs and cash. Thus begins his quest to build his own little empire for the mob in Vice City. I think it's superb. It's the good old goofy days of GTA, but with a compelling story in there as well.

Fair point. OK, here's what I'll do. I'll lock this thread and leave a link to the already existing thread in the opening post so the old thread can be easily found.

Enough of that. You two don't agree politically and that's fine, but it is out of order to bring this to threads that have nothing to do with it. That assumption is unfair and without any real base to it outside of you clearly painting all conservatives with the same brush. Consider yourself warned, don't do that again. Same to you @The Blackangel. Don't encourage him.

I've been gaming since the early 1990's. And on systems like the Atari 2600. I've gamed on just about all systems since then, especially the N64 and PS2 as they are my favourite systems. Now I do indeed hate the Original XBox controllers, thier sheer size was ridiculous. But did I find a durability problem like I fund with DS3? No. I know there are controllers like the on for the Atari 5200 that had a horrible reputation that I can't speak of, but based on my recollection the PS3 controller was the worst with time and quality overall considered.

There has been, I've no doubt, many references to gaming themed songs on VGR, but I want to see some of them referenced specifically. So please, let's see what songs you know that are created with a video game as it's direct influence. I'll start with Dan Bull. This guy is good; (Do not download the Dungeon Keeper game on Mobile, it's crap, even though this song isn't)

It's the PS3. What I did there was hold onto the SHITFT key for a moment to long to generate the capitol letters, but ended up typing a pound sign (£) instead of the number three as they are assigned to the same key on this keyboard. One uses the SHIFT key to switch between the two key functions, the same key used to switch between capitol letters and lower case. My bad.

On topic, I don't see how it's possible to injure your hand directly playing a game unless the control interface your using is very badly designed or you're using it wrong, and even then it just isn't realistic in these times. Companies like Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo have spent many years and even more $millions developing thier control interfaces with great effect to the point where I just don't see how it's possible to injure whilst using a controller normally without there being some pre-existing condition. Game modern game controls and even M/K configurations just don't push hand movements and responses hard enough to cause a problem. I work in heavy industry and I'm well aware of the risks the use of man made tools pose on the body, and I can tell you for a fact that there is no game control interface that poses something even close to a comparable level of risk to the tools I use daily.

I use Opera GX pretty much exclusively now. It's loaded with features, very gaming centric and is as fast and easy to use as chrome. I stated used quite recently, but I honestly couldn't imagine anything else now.

I suppose that, in a way, it is similar to the prospect of people leaving thier bodies to medical science and plenty of people wouldn't have an issue with that. However, necromancy isn't exactly medical science, it's abusing people's remains to use them for personal gain, like for combat or personal defence, and that is kind of sick. Summoned Deadra are clearly not creatures of will, otherwise why would they serve you? So I see summoning them as a different matter. When an Atroanch or bound weapon is summoned, nobody's remains have been defiled for selfish gain. If it were me, I wouldn't like to think that my corpse was being uses as a weapon, especially in the likely truth that the one wielding me as that weapon was the one that killed me in the first place.

I's disagree with you there. I've dropped my DS4 dozens of times and it's always worked fine. And, if anything, the XB1 controllers are built even better. I've only had to replace my DS4 once because the internal battery was loosing it's ability to retain a charge (an inevitability will any reparable battery). For the PS£, it was a different matter. You would have had your forth, maybe fifth haircut since you bought it and it would suddenly stop working. There were crap.

@Heatman and @killamch89 This has derailed the topic somewhat. The battle for supremacy in the CPU market has nothing to do with the topic at hand. If you want to discuss that please either continue this in a DM's or start a new thread.

Is it just me, or is it really funny that at the end after going through this story he said the words "If you can't get enough Ring of Fire"? 😆 Seriously though, I wouldn't necessarily call this a political matter, this is more like stupid people being stupid. Maybe it is true that conservatives are more likely to be the ones doing this, but I'd still like to think the majority of them would not do something this stupid. This is anti-vaxers being the idiots that they are. I know that VGR members are smarter that this, but please don't take medication that isn't prescribed for you, nevermind medication that isn't prescribed for humans. And if any of you actually ARE horses, then respect toy you... and how do you type with them hooves?

I don't believe for one second that you would be claiming there was fraud in this election if Trump had won (Trump himself certainly wouldn't have), but let's just you're telling the truth, and if you are that may in fact be the problem. Not everything is a conspiracy, not everything is a façade or a lie. I'm not saying that one should accept everything they see blindly, but it's really not helpful nor healthy to believe nothing is real. The right way to go about it is to listen to proven facts. The accusations of fraud attributed to this election have been proven to be baseless, That's not me saying that, that's the findings of the US court system, many of which with Judges appointed by Trump himself. You can believe what you want and it won't make the slightest difference to me, but for your own sake, please pull your head out of his ass accept the reality. Doing for is offering more favours to yourself than anybody else.