Izuno

Yeah Ghosts totally bummed me out and I didn't bother finishing it (in fact I just rented it). Sorry to all the good folks at I.W. I still <3 you! I'm feeling saucy and since Activision isn't going to send me a free one until maybe mid 2015 f-it i may just buy it. Question is...do I buy a disc? Digital DL? PS4? XBONE? Steam? Probably PS4.... ...and I'm thinking disc since back in my day we hiked 3 days uphill, in the snow, with no shoes to get our discs and by gar that's the way we liked it.

Played Frontier Defense tonight (Xbox One) after having not touched the game in a while. Yep, it's a horde mode but I had fun with it. I like that it was free...a good gesture from Respawn. I think this is a long haul franchise for them and to really grow they are going to have to add a single player campaign which I know they had, have been, were, are, will be talking about else implementing. As much as we kind of disregarded the story in Titanfall there is a lot to work with here...but how the Titans are used in SP is tricky and I'm so tired right now...will leave it at zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.......

Intriguing, this is.

I still haven't played it yet due to childhood Alien viewing trauma (see earlier post in this thread) but this really makes me wonder what the mod scene could do with this game.... just sayin..

....................................................................................................................................................ok so this hard for me to write but here goes. When I was 6 years old over Thanksgiving we visited my aunt/uncle/cousin in the Midwest (that's in America, you uh, non-Americans who might not know) as we did every year. It snowed a lot that weekend so the adults rented a stack of movies. Somehow they dug out the original Alien from the "Horror Classics Old and New" section at the local Blockbuster. Late Friday night after turkey soup and leftover pie, they put Alien on in the family room after all the kids were supposed to be a sleep. I heard the TV during what I later figured out was the chestbursting scene so I came upstairs to see what the hubub was about. I watched a dialogue scene, got bored, went downstairs...couldn't sleep...came back up later during the air vent scene and watched this: By Sunday everyone was commenting how it seemed I hadn't slept since Thursday. So yeah...been avoiding this game....

Well I wish my 2 year old didn't get up at 3am to take a dump in the toilet....for 45 minutes...cause I am freaking tired as hell but wtf here goes.... Killing unarmed, innocent people (or even unarmed guilty people) in games always gives me pause. Even way back to the original Half-Life I just couldn't bring myself to shoot the scientists for no reason. War, combat, killing things that are trying to kill you...yeah...in a game I can get that and of course we've all done that in games for yea- no, eons. Epochs, even. A few times in GTA I said fuck it and started killing civilians...and then the cops come in droves. And most of the time I'd just keep shooting and killing and then get killed. I didn't feel so bad getting killed in the game cause wtf i just blew away all these NPCs getting coffee and shit and well my character deserved it. It felt somewhat real to me, and it made me feel good that I felt bad for killing NPCs because it reminded me I am a good person who cares about other human beings....even if a game is just a meaningless simulation at the end of the day. But in this game, it just feels like a celebration of narcissistic, insane superiority with absolutely zero shred of humanity. And here is my personal problem with that: I want my games to mean something. I like games that cause me to learn something about characters, people, myself, my ideas etc. that hopefully will teach me a reason to be more positive, hopeful and better. I want to think about issues in society that will hopefully inspire people to question why things are the way they are and further inspire people to want to make the world better. Kinda flowery and rainbow unicorn-y. Yeah, I get it. I'm a skeptic, not a cynic. I have two small children. Every day when I drop my daughter off at kindergarten I think about her safety, and how I love her with all my heart. Things like this basically say "let's celebrate all the school shooters, all the narcissistic psychos and make this behavior fun!" Or is it not trying to do that? Doesn't seem like it. I have to be brutally honest, if I were hiring a game developer and they told me they made this game and loved it and found nothing wrong with it and that they could not see why anyone would at least find it objectionable and then start denouncing anyone who had a problem with it, I wouldn't hired that person simply due to a conflict in my personal moral code. Why? Because deep down I would be worried about that person's values, that it says somewhere they believe that the behavior in this simulation is okay. Or said another way, it makes me wonder if that person fantasizes about going on killing sprees themselves. I just don't want to be around that or celebrate that. I suppose it is okay to have thoughts but if you are thinking about that, and thinking about that a lot, you have issues with anger. I find people like that ultimately very toxic even if they never touch a weapon or harm another person ever in their life. And finally the flip side...there is something fascinating in watching that trailer, like watching a horrible car crash in slow motion. When I watched it I really felt bad and thought about my kids and their schools and how I hope all the kids in their schools are free from bullying...then I thought about wanting to be a guest teacher at the school on how to recognize when you are bullying someone and what to do if you are being bullied. So bravo for making me think something positive after watching this. Still wouldn't ever buy it but having said all that...hope the devs enjoy their right of expression. We'll just have to sit back and see what happens. Damn i need coffee.

Shopping list: 18 pack jumbo paper towels 24 pack bulk underpants Tide Ultra UF-plus (urine and fecal matter from underpants removal ingredient) Alien: Isolation for PS4 Bucket Bulk garbage bags 2 copies of Ace Ventura Pet Detective (just in case the first one breaks) My Little Pony anything

Amazing art direction. Bravo to what I have seen thus far. That music...the ambiance. I love how it's not a bunch of talking heads about who the people behind it are but rather it's just where (I presume) the game is at now.

I'm so torn by this. I want to really love it and get lost in it. But I just can't. I'm wanting some real meat additional content for this, but having already paid $60 for the game I don't see myself risking more money for more of the same. I really like the Bungie folks and I know they worked very hard on polishing this thing but...well, Sprony basically said what I was thinking. tl;dr: what Sprony said.

Sounds like a game for perfectionists. Perfectionists who like to overcome things. Like shitting their pants.

Anyone playing on a console have an opinion on controls and FOV?

I assume via Steam on PC? Anyone get this for console via download direct from XBL or PSN? (That's really a topic for another thread...) This is on my list to get...

It's not the when but the how. Has he been in anything since ?

It's over. http://kotaku.com/bungie-kills-destiny-loot-cave-1639154905

I'm still playing it but due to time limitations I've only just hit lvl 15 today and that was after finding the Loot Cave™. I was there a for 30 minutes and went from just under lvl 14 to just over lvl 15 and got 8 green engrams. But the real fun part was the event that happened where a shitload of mobs just come at you...i was with a few players in mid 20s and a couple in single digits and it was an incredible spontaneous blast. That said, this game is going to need imprUvements to be viable in the long term...and FAST.

Still legit.

Sad. But this is the right thing to do. The market for MMO is not the same...and unless Blizzard can come up with something truly amazing in the category then there is no realistic chance of a subscription MMO doing anything close to what WoW has done. The market has been burning out on sub based MMO for a long time and the F2P MMO business is getting very tough after being tough for a while. Beyond Diablo and SC, Blizzard has Hearthstone which is definitely making good revenues and good profits. And it has Heroes of the Storm. I know, I know...MOBA is on its way to saturating or else already has saturated and everyone seems to be getting into it. LoL and DOTA 2 are the clear market leaders and if anyone can become a 3rd major player in MOBA it's Blizzard. Quick, name another dev/pub that could likely jump into the MOBA market better than Blizzard? [silence] A Warcraft themed MOBA is an extension of the WoW PvP arena anyway (with some level of RTS thrown in). That's basically how one could roughly describe LoL and DOTA. (Yeah...WoW arena does not equal a LoL style MOBA...yeah...heard that argument from nitpickers. kthxbai.) Also, "in dev for 7 6 years" does not mean full scale production for 7 6 years. How much of that was pre-prod with a small team? I don't know. But to finish something, launch it and all the live ops might cost another $100 million plus tens of millions per month? Basically Blizzard execs have to go to the Activision-Blizzard board and justify how they will make that a viable business and between all of them the writing on the wall probably became pretty clear. Still I'm sure this decision was long analyzed, probably caused tremendous internal 'discussion' and overall was not easy despite being the only realistic option. tl;dr version: Blizzard has a high fun/quality bar to reach...and has to make money. Titan just wouldn't have done it. Glad no one lost their jobs as of now.

Damn, Corwin. You have some balls attempting this, let alone in actually pulling it off. Respect.

Totally agree about Snake's Putin cosplay. Congrats to Kojima for nailing it.

It's with friends that this game REALLY shines, like really, it's not the same. I haven't played it with friends yet (no love!) but I have joined some random fireteams where noone talked. It works...totally fun. That said, I'm having fun in SP simply because the combat is so fucking good. Yeah it is very story light which I think is weird given Bungie's capabilities and, you know, there are a lot of smart people out there who can get stories working in games. But whatever, I understand how some people don't like it but I'm glad I bought it and plan to continue playing it.

Through it all I still have respect for Notch and Mojang. Minecraft is one of the greatest things in gaming so I can't give him any crap. ...and I still want Minecraft on my Vita.

There's your answer...

The thing is: he doesn't even maintain the game anymore. Jeb has been in charge of it for years. notch has been tinkering on new projects (that frankly haven't lead to anything substantial yet). The guy has made many millions - and yes, I know, more millions are always better - but even if his attitude has come across as snobbish at times, he always seemed to be very genuine and outspoken. He has often talked about how he wants Mojang to be best studio to work for in the world and made his disdain of big corporations public at numerous occasions (he cancelled the Rift version of Minecraft after Facebook picked up Oculus etc.). I was thinking, maybe the other shareholders want to cash out, but rumor has it that notch instigated the deal. Him being burnt out or a general discontent with making games under the microscope is my best guess at the moment. Who are the other shareholders? Afaik Notch never took any outside investment because everything was funded out of cash flows. I thought I heard some employees have stock in the company, but the total amount doesn't add up to much leaving Notch as the only significant shareholder by a large margin (ie over 90 or 95%)... ....lest ye, Frie, have some other knowledge ye doth hast withholdeth?

Sweden. Taxes. So notch gets less than $2b. Still....he's one of the richest people in gaming. Good for him!

I started a new Minecraft world a few days ago after not touching the game in over a year. Now this. I suppose once it comes to Vita that may be a Vita game I actually buy and play on my actual Vita rather than use said Vita as a PSP (PlayStation Paperweight). Wait...if Microsoft owns...Minecraft....then Sony platforms...