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#281

Just went through some “professional” game of the year awards… most of them are being slaughtered by the readers. Poor Gamtrailers and Gamespot. GT picks the “popular” title, but I guess selling the 5+ million copies doesn’t mean people think it is truly GOTY material. Every single one of their ratings are abysmal for the MW2 categories.

As for Gamespot… really, just being different for the sake of being different. I like Demon’s Souls personally, but it is definitely not GOTY material. The difficulty is a bit too contrived and the story is rather shallow.

Trying to find GI’s… but I expect little better.

Personally, I understand the MW2 nod from GT, though I don’t agree. I would also understand Uncharted 2, Assassin’s Creed 2, and Dragon’s Age: Origins. I cannot understand a game like Demon’s Souls taking a GOTY title though.

#282

Hell >>>>>>>>>> PC’s.

I hate computers with a passion. Everything going smoothly with my build and then… display issues. Okay, okay. Easy fix, at least so they said. Trying to “fix” the BIOS and drivers for the card as suggested by both the manufacturer and from another forum has now resulted in the system not even making to windows… at least before the “fix” it crashed after some use within the OS.

Gah!

:evil:

#283

If I’m at one of the poles would I be at the bottom or top of the world?

#284

And if you took one step away from either pole, then where would you be (in the fucking cold!). By convention we use north to mean up and south to be down. But it needn’t be that way. I’ve seen maps that use south as the up direction. And I’m given to understand that astronomical telescopes (because of the optics) show the other planets upside down. That’s not important to astronomers. In all, it’s not one of those questions you should approach sober.

#285

Defenestration. Defenestration. Defenestration.

Such an odd sounding word, with an odd real meaning.

Can’t stop saying it.

Defenestration. Defenestration. Defenestration.

#286

You’re hoarrible.

#287

Why not just use the common phrase for the act…

Anyway (I like this word), I would not want to be Bioware right now. The past two months of marketing have absolutely riled the vocal fanbase and now the forums are a mess. Sadly, it does look like another case of Xenosaga. Hopefully that means they rectify it with ME3 if Mass Effect 2 is as bad as many fear.

#288

Huh? What are you talking about? Looks like another Xenosaga? Bioware was never so incompetent. I have issues with some of the stuff they did in their recent games, but none of it was to the level of issues that the Xenosaga series had. And all the previews I’ve seen have said ME2 looks like it’s going to be awesome.

#289

Changing far too much from the first installment to the second installment. It doesn’t help that much of the “we listened to the fans” appears to be utter bullshit since a lot of the fury in the vocal fanbase is becuase it seems Bioware has indeed flipped the finger to those fans on key aspects from ME1 in order to appeal to a different niche in the gaming market. This is probably just horrible, horrible marketing like Dragon Age had though.

Specific worries (which may or may not be in the end game, we shall see in two weeks):

  • from some recent information, there seems to be a complete overhaul of the MAKO. Most fans simply wanted that feature tweaked, not renovated.
  • reduced role of the Love Interests from ME1
  • reduced role of any character that could potentially die in ME1
  • railroading Shepard into acts that some Shepards would not commit based on first game choices
  • zombie Shepard
  • “gritty”, more “mature”… basically many fear that this will be a case of the writers trying way too hard to be “dark”
  • no f/f, m/m romance (Bioware obviously does not consider Liara and Femshep to be f/f… sorry, but Asari are a monogendered race that happens to be FEMALE)
  • Suze, Thane, and Grunt… an equally large “hate” base has erupted along-side the “love” groups for these characters
  • possible loss of many RPGing elements
  • possible overhaul of the gameplay
  • far too renegade oriented

Based on issues with the new comic series:

  • what the fuck happened to Liara?!?
  • trying too hard to be “dark”
  • inconsistent in tone with ME1

Based on the recent chat:

  • it seems the characters from ME2 will be scrapped come ME3. There was a rather odd comment that implied that they were one off runs… add this with the LI and returning cast issues and Bioware has really managed to plant thier foot in their mouth and then shove their head straight up their ass when it comes to the existing fanbase.

I’m willing to hope that this is another case of Bioware’s ineptitude with marketing like DA:O, but too much of the information reminds me of Xenosaga episode II… though with that the story was still stellar. Much of the worry over ME2 is that Bioware has dumbed down the narrative experience from ME1 in order to appeal to a certain subsect of gamers and have ignored the established fanbase in a TRILOGY. This wouldn’t be that big of an issue with a new IP, but for the second installment of a dedicated trilogy… this marketing is absolutely pathetic. The fact that Bioware has pissed off much of its staunchest defenders on the ME boards these past few weeks is proof enough of that.

#290

I already commented but… are you on the ME forums by chance? I run into this word maybe four or five times in my life before today and suddenly…POOF… two times in mere hours. Coincidence or something more sinsister…

#291

Defenestration. Defenestration. Defenestration.

Naw… not on the ME forum. But you gotta admit it’s a catchy.

I mean you can say, “throw that man out the window…” or you can say, “defenestrate the bastard.” :twisted:

And there’s just something appealing about throwing evil out a window.

Defenestration. Defenestration. Defenestration.

#292

North Korean anime. :stuck_out_tongue:

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNR4kR1uC-w

Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oO6LvFLLKtY

Guess who the Evil Americans are. :lol:

#293

Tapping my inner Hawkeye here… martini, the nectar of the gods.

What would humanity be without it? Other than sober of course…

#294

About Starcraft 2 being delayed so much, in an issue of Wired:

I have only one comment about all that, in the immortal words of Shigeru Miyamoto himself: “A delayed game is eventually good, a bad game is bad forever.”

#295

I’m surprised it has been 12 years. Not that I am one of those rabid fans for that particular Blizzard game. I’m waiting for Diablo 3.

#296

I seriously credit Dablo for Setting the stage for MMORPG games.

#297

Stay awhile and listen. 8)

The United States of America is worth 14.4 trillion dollars. Due to how economics works, other countries already “own” parts of America’s value. According to the US Treasury Department, the top holders are:

$798.9 billion = China
$751.5 billion = Japan
$249.3 billion = UK
$185.3 billion = Oil Barons (Arabs, Exxon, etc)
$171.7 billion = Caribbean
$144.9 billion = Brazil

Buying America since 1776. :stuck_out_tongue:

#298

I was just forwarded an email I found highly amusing that I thought I’d share here. It pokes fun at the governments and militaries of several western countries. Just for the sake of clarity, I’ll say it one more time: I did not write this, so don’t get pissed at me if you don’t like it.

Given the line about the US, I’d say that this has been floating around for some time. :stuck_out_tongue:

#299

that was quite amusing to say the east

#300

It’s totally Constitutional for corporations to bribe the government: Supreme Court says so. :roll:

Except. You know. CORPORATIONS LIE! Exploding gas tanks. Mercury dumping in lakes. Coal power plants pumping out crazy gases. Then there’s the problem that people are too dumb to realize when they’re being lied to, and believe anything they see on TV. Sheesh.

Well hopefully this means the court is against censorship, so we can get our hardcore porn on. Somehow I doubt that.