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  1. I bought Dead Island and Riptide (with all their DLC) on Steam sales in 2013 and 2014, but have not even tried them yet. I do not play FPS but Dead Island was classified as "RPG".
  2. I have not bought a new BioWare game since Mass Effect on Xbox 360, (which I did not complete because my Xbox 360 broke.) However, I recently checked out some Let's Play videos of Dragon Age: Inquisition on YouTube. I have to say, the writings were quite awful. The character animations (body movements and facial expressions) in Dragon Age: Inquisition were also horrible, which was surprising, given that BioWare had so much better character animations in the Mass Effect series.
  3. Steam user ratings seem trustworthy. I used to use Metacritic as a gauge. However, Metacritic seems to have lost its popularity in the past year or so. Nowadays my main sources of game reviews are YouTubers: Angry Joe, (whose taste in gaming closely mirrors mine,) Jeremy Jahns (who may review old games as well as movies,) and Total Biscuit. A big reason why I like to watch YouTubers like Angry Joe and Jeremy Jahns is their reviews and videos are entertaining to watch. They are quite the personalities. I know GameSpot, IGN and the major review sites are also on YouTube. However, when people look for reviews on YouTube, we usually put less weights on the majors. Frankly, those old-style reviews are freaking boring to watch. If I watch a "major" review, I usually skip to the end to look at the final score instead of watching the entire review, which is professionally boring. Here are some YouTube reviewers, so you can understand why they have (IMO) replace dMetacritic and the traditional review outlets (because they are FUN to watch):
  4. Already hearing conservatives crying socialism.
  5. The irony is, just a couple months ago, I was given a ban and warning by a BioWare moderator for using a Charlie Hebdo cartoon as my profile picture in the BioWare forum; for "insulting Islam," I supposed.
  6. BTW, I did not say Fallout 3 was better than 2. I said 2 was better than 1. I would not know if 3 was better than 1 and 2 because I have never played 3, (nor New Vegas.) Fallout 2 was buggy as hell (just like the first one.) Fallout 2 bugged out on me, (i.e., everything I put in the car trunk disappeared, including quest items; I did not find out until after I had overridden all my older saved files with bugged ones, so I had no way of going back to an earlier safe point.) When that happened, I was already in mid-to-late game. So I had no time nor patience to restart from the beginning. So I have never completed Fallout 2. However, I played Fallout 2 long enough to know it was better than Fallout 1. Fallout 1 was also buggy as hell. However, Fallout 1 was a very short game. So I was able to quickly run through and finish Fallout 1 before any major bug broke my game. However, Fallout 1's short length and lack of contents also left me very unsatisfied at the end. The main problems with Fallout 2 were: (a) it was buggy, it had A LOT of bugs, and; (b) it was a long game. So Fallout 2 had too many points at which any of its numerous bugs could break the game. After Fallout 2, the series generally left a bad taste in my mouth. I know Fallout 3 was made by a different developer, but Bethesda's reputation was as bad as Black Isle/Trokia/Obdisian (in terms of releasing very buggy games; I have some horror stories with Daggerfall as well.) I do own Fallout 3 and New Vegas on Steam. I bought them when they were on sales, (as well as all of the Elder Scroll games.) Those games are in my library but I have NOT touched any of them: i.e., they are not high priority. I do plan to get to Fallout 3 and New Vegas. However, right now I am playing Tomb Raider, and I have about 200 to 300 games on Steam and another 170 on GOG, (not counting those that I have "hidden" from my main library because I have no intention of playing them, ever; like miscellaneous games that I grabbed from Humble Bundles.) Now that it has come up, here is something completely off-topic and an honest advice from a consumer. Quality matters. Product stability matters. Reputation matters. If a developer has a good reputation for releasing stable products, I'd buy their products within a year (if the products appeal to me.) A good example is CD Projekt, who has solid reputation for quality control. CD Projekt is also committed to fully patching their games long after release: they would keep patching and improving their products until the products are in excellent if not perfect condition, even years after the initial product release. (Unlike many other developers who would put out one or two patches, then just move on to other projects and abandon a game without completely ironing out all the bugs.) Currently CD Projekt is the only developer I would pre-order from. (I would also pre-order from Blizzard if they were making anything I would be interesting in playing; Blizzard has not made anything I want to play for a long time. BUT, I admire their dedication to excellence in quality, product stability, and long-term product support.) On the other hand, if a developer has a reputation of releasing buggy products, I may still buy their games if the genre appeals to me -- but not before all the patches (including fan-made patches) are already released. I am certainly not touching their games before then. Which means I would never pay full retail price or pre-order price for their products. Often, by the time everything is fixed, I have already moved on to other games. Oh, another thing, a reason why I think games nowadays are way, way better and so far ahead of old games: product stability and quality. Buggy games used to be the way of life back in the 1980s and 1990s, even the early 2000s. Nowadays games are so much less buggy on release day. Some are still buggy but at least we get day-1 patch to fix the major bugs. There are a few exceptions like Bethesda that has been able to get away with releasing one buggy game after another. Even Obsidian has cleaned up their act and, finally, started to release games that are not completely buggy and broken on release day, (i.e., Dungeon Siege III, South Park.)
  7. Bigger. Better. Improved. Enhanced. More contents. More fun. That is what the first sequel (no. 2) usually does right. FUN. That is what playing game is and should be about. Just because a game is more "creative" does not mean it is a good game. There are a lot of "experimental" and "artsy" games, and they are not particularly fun to play. They make excellent creative art projects. But they are still bad games.
  8. Gizmo, you are wrong. I am not going to argue over opinions, but I know for a fact that your opinion is in the minority and most people would disagree with you. That's all I have to say. I am not going to waste any of my time arguing over YOUR opinion with you. Tomb Raider 2013 is overall a better GAME than the original Tomb Raider. And I've played both. I know for a fact that the majority of gamers agree with me. I know because I have seen so many user reviews on YouTube and in various forums, users after users, reviews after reviews, all kept saying how the 2013 reboot was the best game in the entire franchise and superior to any and all of the previous Tomb Raider games. It was after watching and hearing all those positive reviews that finally convinced me to give the Tomb Raider franchise another try, even though I hated the original game and had decided that I would not play another Tomb Raider game. People kept telling me, "hey, this new one is the best one of the series," and, "I know you said you hate Tomb Raider, but this is completely different: they threw the old Tomb Raider out the window so this is a whole new animal. This one is really good. You really should try it." So I finally did. Man, the 2013 Tomb Raider blew me away. So I know I am in the majority here who think the 2013 reboot is a superior game to the original because I know a lot of people agree with me, (i.e., the people who convinced me in the first place.)
  9. The Bard's Tale is neither a sequel or a remake. Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance is a spinoff. It is NOT a reboot or re-imagineering. Fallout 3 is a sequel. There are plenty of video games whose sequels are far superior to the originals. Way too many to be listed here. Actually, video game sequels (especially the second game in the series) are generally - in fact, almost always - better than their predecessors. Examples include (of the top of my head): Baldur's Gate II, Fallout 2, Mass Effect 2, Uncharted 2, Halo 2, Half-Life 2, Portal 2, Diablo 2, WarCraft 2, The Witcher 2, Batman: Arkham City, Torchlight II, Borderlands 2, The Walking Dead Season 2, .... I'm sure I've missed lots of sequels. In the video gaming world, sequels are usually at least as good as the originals if they are not straight-out superior. (Which is why I am very excited for the next game - game no. 2! - in the new Lara Croft reboot series.) It's actually very uncommon for the first sequel (i.e., number 2 in the series) to be worse than the first one. The notable ones are: Dragon Age 2, and... I can't think of anything else! Also, Baldur's Gate II is not that different from Baldur's Gate. Baldur's Gate II used the same game engine in Baldur's Gate, and made huge improvements and enhancements over it. (And the Enhanced Edition improved and enhanced it further.)
  10. I tried the Long War mod, but I did not complete it. There are a whole lot of things I liked about the mod, but a major few that I did not like. The mid-to-late game requires more balancing. It is still in the beta phase. I would wait until it is finally finished and out of the beta stage. Yeah, I forgot about Deus Ex: Human Revolution. I have never played either so I can't compare. (I own the original on GOG and the new one on Steam; yet I have never played them.) I thought Human Revolution is a "prequel" to the original instead of a reboot/re-imagineering. However, if Human Revolution was a reboot/re-imagineering, then it was certainly a successful one - just look at its outstanding Metacritic and GameRankings aggregate scores, (i.e., both at 90.) P.S. I do not think Deus Ex: Human Revolution is a reboot of the original because they tell different stories in different time periods and feature different characters. Reboot/re-imagineering means taking the original premise, the original storyline, the original characters, and completely revamping them. Which is what XCOM: Enemy Unknown and the new Tomb Raider did.
  11. I hated the original XCOM: UFO Defense that came out in 1994. (I played it in 1998.) However, the new reboot, XCOM: Enemy Unknown, and its expansion, XCOM: Enemy Within, are one of my favorite games of all time. The new elements that were introduced in the Enemy Within expansion, MEC (Mechanized Exoskeleton Cybersuit) troopers and gene mods, which were NOT in the original classics, are actually the best parts of the already-superior reboot. I've clocked in over 1,000 hours playing the new games (mostly Enemy Within) on Steam. I hated the original Tomb Raider that came out in 1996, (which I bought and played in the same year in came out; I still remember it came in a triangle box and included a triangular talisman trinket.) Since then I have generally hated puzzle-platformer, both in 2D and 3D. I had never bothered with another Tomb Raider game since then. People, who knew I hated Tomb Raider, have been telling me to try the new 2013 "re-imagineerin", which rebooted the series with a younger, totally different Lara Croft who has no connections to the old Lara Croft or any of the old Tomb Raider games. I've just recently started playing the new Tomb Raider and absolutely loving it. It is drastically different from the Tomb Raider I remembered. It has almost no puzzles in it, which I love. The new Tomb Raider also includes a healthy dose of RPG elements, (i.e., Lara now has HP and earns XP to select and upgrade her various skills,) which many old fans hate. Obviously, I as a RPGamer love the new changes. Most importantly, I love how the developer has shifted the focus from puzzle and platforming to the character development and storytelling. I am already looking forward to playing the sequel, which is actually a direct continuation of the story of the first game: Lara Croft, who in the last game was an inexperience young girl shipwrecked with friends on an island infested by pirates, criminals and cultists, and then having the learn how to survive and watch her friends die, will be suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. Which I think is a very interesting twist for a video game. The newly release trailer focuses on character development more than action, which speaks volume for the game. So, in my experience, the "reboot" and "re-imagineering" have so far been superior than the old originals. Which is why I also think nowadays games are so much better than old ones.
  12. Just found out I was not banned. Just a warning. Thought it was a temp ban. Not gonna stop me from telling the TRUTH.
  13. I got a temporary ban in Steam forums today. Someone asked if a discounted game would get cheaper in the future. I replied, "Of course it will get cheaper as time passes. Games always get cheaper and more worthless when they become old. Just like women." Apparently some bitches got offended over my comments and reported me. Didn't realize there were actually women on Steam, (What? Women actually play games on Steam?!?)
  14. Obama will make an announcement on Thursday: he will issue an execute action to regulate on police brutality. First on immigration. Then on Cuba. Next up will be on police brutality. I like the new Obama.
  15. I've been playing PC RPG since Ultima IV: The Quest of Avatar in 1984 or 1985. Since then I've played and completed dozens of RPG, and played close to a hundred RPG (if not more.) So I think I have more experience in playing PC RPG than most amy of you guys. RPG has NOT been "going downhill;" (btw, "downhill" is one word.) IMO, RPG has been getting better in the past ten years or so. Not just in terms of product quality, stability, presentations, mechanics and execution, but also in terms of storytelling, characterization and contents. In a lot of cases, an average-rating RPG today is better than the highly-rated RPG from the 1980s and 1990s, (which means today's standard is much higher than before.)
  16. I've heard about Indonesia so many times. Muslims and Islam apologists in America and Europe -- President Obama, Reza Aslan and the Young Turk came to mind in particular -- love to hold up Indonesia as some shiny example of "moderate/peaceful Islamic nation" when people criticize Islam. Here you go. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwzF4uW0uTU
  17. Too much 4chan language. ~ Gorgon.
  18. Huffington Post: R.A. Montgomery, Author And Publisher Of Choose Your Own Adventure Books, Dead At 78 Neither the AP, Reuters, CNN, MSNBC, ABC, or any of the major news outlets has even bothered to report it. What a travesty.
  19. Female Kurdish fighters are hot - even without any makeup: P.S. Both were reported KIA by ISIS. Zozan Cudi was killed in May. Ceylan Ozalp killed herself last week to avoid rape and capture when she was surrounded by ISIS and ran out of ammo, (i.e., down to one last bullet, which she put into her own head.)
  20. Then move to Los Angeles (i.e., the beaches, westside, studio district or artist district.) Hot women here are a dime a dozen. Obviously Hollywood is here, but Hollywood itself is actually a dumpy area. The women (i.e., the hot ones) are collected at the beaches, westside, studio district and artist district - i.e., the "white" neighborhoods, which also attract hot Latinas, hot Asian women, hot Armenian women, Women come from all over the country - and world - and want to be stars. Unfortunately white girls (or any non-Asian girls in general) are mostly out of the league of Asian men like myself - i.e., white girls do not date Asian men. (I said white girls generally would not date Asian men. I did not say white men are racist, so do not get all defensive and go ape-**** at me.) So for Asian guys, the women here are more like "look, but no touch" kinda deal. Yet many Jewish and white men here are married to Asian women. As we Asian men like to say, the so-called "cross-racial" interracial dating is actually the most racist phenomenon. But hey, that's life. It's not meant to be fair. What are you gonna do about it? Improve your game. Or Asian men can get a big black **** transplant with all the money we make. Yeah, that oughta solve the problem. If you have to learn to play the "game" to get a woman, then she is not worth your time and effort. Anyway, I am married. And I had dated white girls. Overrated. White women's refusal/unwillingness to date Asian men could turn out to be a blessing in disguise. They required more time and effort, and offered less in return. Let say for the same amount of time and effort, I could get an Asian woman or Latina who are 7 or 8 out of 10.... and at most a 6 for a white girl. That was my experience. Moreover, everyone knows white girls are prone to divorcing their husbands and take half of everything the men own, and then make the men pay "vaginamony" - continuous monthly payments for the past use of a vagina. A while ago, I read the statistics that: if an Asian man married a Asian woman, they would unlikely to get a divorce, like only 15 or 20 percent chance. If a White man married a White woman, they would have a 50-percent chance of getting a divorce. If a White man married an Asian woman, they would have less than a 50-percent chance (like 35 to 40 percent) of getting a divorce. If an Asian man married a white woman, they would also have over 50-percent chance of getting a divorce. We know that women - i.e., white women - initiate over 80 percent of all divorces. So logically, the problem is white women. White women generally do not date Asian men. That just how it is. But that is okay. It is okay to be a "sexual racist" when it comes to dating and sexual preferences. People have racial preferences and are attracted to certain races and not others For example: Asian women prefer white men. Do not pretend you do not see it. White women have preferences as well, which are NOT Asian men. And that is perfectly okay. I have my own preferences as well. I am not attracted to black women. I know many Asian men are not. Certainly people should not be able to force me to be attracted to black women or date them, just as no one should be able to demand white women to date Asian men. At least I am honest and upfront about my sexual preferences. You all know you have your own preferences as well: you prefer some races and not others. That is perfectly okay. Just do not lie about it or and pretend it is not so, "oh, I'd date anyone. Race does not matter." Puh-lease. Women love saying that, but that is clearly not how they really are, not how they think, not how they behave. I used to believe in that BS when I was young and naive, but now I am an old fart to know better.
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