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Electric Alpaca

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BloatedGuppy said:
Labeling games like Baldur's Gate 2 and Planescape Torment as "old school" RPGS that are the template for everything a RPG should be is pretty funny, because when they came out advocates of "old school" RPGS like Wizardry and Ultima roundly trashed the "new" RPGS as being soulless and lowest common denominator.

In 10 years, you guys will be smacking the shit out of the new RPGS, and talking about how they did it right back in the olden days, with hardcore old timer shit like Mass Effect and Skyrim.
Much like your heralded games owe themselves to Legend: Four Crystals of Trazere.

My fact - gaming and Facebook will become intertwined, to the extent where games will ask to be liked prior to play.
 

The Funslinger

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leet_x1337 said:
Labeling a game as "casual" because it's accessible to people who've never played a video game before is a stupid idea. I could call most Call of Duty players 'casuals' because they never expand their horizons past it.
I highly agree.

OT: That Tetris is Russian.
 

BishopofAges

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For Gamers: "Using the internet for EVERY game you buy is the quickest way to end all fun and intrigue to be had with said game."

"If you get angry/sad or otherwise stop having fun, stop playing, take a break, and tell yourself 'its just a game,' everyone will thing higher of you for it, those who do not arn't worth your time." <-- also good for generating a Zen-style, gaming attitude.

"If you 'single-player' an MMO by yourself and raid without any sort of vocal communication or interaction beyond text that would be considered comraderie, then you must accept that you've become a basement-troll."

and finally, "Inventing your own creed for being a Gamer is cool, getting a tattoo of it across your chest/knuckles/back might not be. Especially in your late 60s and on."

For Gamer parents (kid <18 yrs old): There are plenty of awesome, intriguing game titles to play that are appropriate WITHOUT being a BS playstation flower game, or otherwise wimpy enough to get your kid beaten up by his other gamer friends.

For Gamer parents (kid >=18 yrs old): If you don't agree with the game your 'kid' wants, make him/her get a job to buy it instead, then do not complain when they play deep into the night, unless, they jack the volume up and wake you.

Captcha: "spread the net" Will do, captcha. Will do.

Edit: Sorry, I made multiple points, but you have to admit, most of them are valid...
 

nuba km

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just because you don't like a game, or even hate it, doesn't mean its a bad game. I mean I don't like the first mass effect that doesn't make it a bad game.
 

Eldermage

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BloatedGuppy said:
Labeling games like Baldur's Gate 2 and Planescape Torment as "old school" RPGS that are the template for everything a RPG should be is pretty funny, because when they came out advocates of "old school" RPGS like Wizardry and Ultima roundly trashed the "new" RPGS as being soulless and lowest common denominator.

In 10 years, you guys will be smacking the shit out of the new RPGS, and talking about how they did it right back in the olden days, with hardcore old timer shit like Mass Effect and Skyrim.
This made my day :3
 

Mauso88

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If you don't like a game or it's pubs/devs, don't buy the game. Nothing hurts a corporation as much as a lack of investors.
 

Waffle_Man

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There is no such thing as a "bad" feature or gameplay mechanic, only bad implementation.

Thus, there isn't anything wrong with a game simply because it doesn't behave exactly like another game.
 

craftomega

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CD-R said:
Warhammer 40k is not a ripoff of Starcraft. Starcraft is a ripoff of Warhammer 40k.

OMG someone else knows this!!! OMG!

Yes warhammer 40k has been using spazz marans since 1983!
 

TehCookie

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Games go down in price, don't ***** about a game being $60 when you can wait a year or two and pick it up for $20.

Also you can dislike games you haven't played. I'm pretty sure most people here didn't have to read yaoi to know it's not for them.
 

VulpesAqua

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craftomega said:
CD-R said:
Warhammer 40k is not a ripoff of Starcraft. Starcraft is a ripoff of Warhammer 40k.

OMG someone else knows this!!! OMG!

Yes warhammer 40k has been using spazz marans since 1983!
For the emprahhh!!!

OT: Survival Horror is supposed to be hard! I'm really bugged at how people I know will trash Silent Hill for it's clunky combat, that's the point, you're supposed to feel massively underpowered, every fight has to be a struggle. That's the one thing that bugs me about games like Alan Wake and Dead Space (I love both of those games to death however) but I never felt overwhelmed, I always had more than enough ammo to dispatch of my foes (in the rare occasions I didn't in Dead Space Issac used his training as a Space Boxer to beat the necromorphs down :3).

Also anyone else pick up Silent Hill: Downpour? Loving that game right now, smoothed out but still clunky combat, great atmosphere. It's definatly a Silent Hill game <3
 

sextus the crazy

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1.Games that are "hardcore" are usually just "hardcore" in ascetics.
2. Actual Hardcore games are Hardcore due to a combination of a sharp learning curve and deep, complex gameplay.

3. The Title of "Hardcore" gamer is determined by time and energy invested in any number of games.Despite Pokemon being a "kiddie" game this guy [http://www.smogon.com/forums/showthread.php?t=76061] is more hardcore than you ever will be in Call of Duty because he spends his time writing algorithms for competative pokemon battling in microsoft excel.
 

kayo of the Well

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Shawn MacDonald said:
Really is no need to get angry because you don't have to buy it. Do yourself a favor and put that energy towards something more productive.
Not true, not at all. Just because I'm not putting up with EA's tyranny doesn't mean I can't complain about the damnable flight of stairs they've thrown modern gaming down. The repercussions are undeniable within the world of gaming, regardless of whether or not you have to play the games or not; you can't seriously posit that the "if I close my eyes it'll go away and I won't have to deal with it lalallala" mentality is valid here.
 

Asuka Soryu

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Prepare to have your intelligence insulted when you play Red Steel 2 for the first time.


Unskippable 2 minute video of how to put in and remove the Wii Motion Plus.