Mamoulian War

Quality Control is not trivial matter. Valve makes ****loads of money, but they couldn’t be arsed to hire few people to make som QC. If a brick store has “bums” all over place, who disturb your contentment from shopping, you just go to the different store, where they take care more about having it all tidy. GOG makes maybe 1/1000 of the Valve’s money, and they still have employed people to curate their catalogue, so no ****ware get’s into their catalogue. I do not get a flying **** about achievements, trading cards and whatever other stuff some shop offers, if I have to spent hours searching through the garbage to find what I want, I rather go to some smaller shop, with more limited inventory, where I know, that I can find what I want in 5 minutes...

I vote for Yakuza Zero, and Yakuza Kiwami purchase on the same day :-P

"I've been working on Free-To-Play games for years and lootboxes are pretty crucial to that business model working."Load of bull. League of Legends made F2P work and popularized it and they didn't add lootboxes until a year ago - and even then the boxes are mainly earned through playing the game and while buying them is an option, the devs themselves discouraged it. Buying is useful if you lack either boxes or the keys needed to open them and don't want to wait for one or the other, but if you want something specific, buying it normally is the sensible choice. Sure, not everything will be as popular as League, but that doesn't make lootboxes necessary. Didn't those things become the rage suddenly after Overwatch? I don't remember them being a thing before. GW2 had black lion chests, but those weren't the main attraction for the real money store either. According to one article, which I am unable to find out, there was before Overwatch in 7 years about 17 "AAA" games with some sort of lootboxes. After Overwatch in about a year, there is already 22 "AAA" games with lootboxes. The culprit of this **** is pretty well visible.

That's 27 weeks or 51% of your year playing non-stop with no breaks. Which means it is economically more prudent just to shill out the $2100 USD. This is how they get you. The backlash was more than deserved. Well with my luck, I would have to fork out probably about 6300 EUR to unlock all the content. Well, compared to this ****, the For Honor 700EUR to unlock all the stuff, sounds like ****ing awesome deal...

Especially not Ubisoft :-D

Nowadays, for me it is grinding :-P I still have no problem to grind for stuff, but I need to have some carrot, and have to see a reward in the end. I spent 750 hours in Star Ocean grinding for gear to be able to kill Ethereal Queen in 10 minutes and get the hardest battletrophies and Platinum. But some people were able to get it under 300 hours. Because they got better skills. And no MTs in the game. It took me more than 5 years to achieve that. So if by some stupid decision I would start to play this game, I would be able to unlock all content without paying for lootboxes in 4 to 5 years. Bit knowing EA. The servers will be gone in 2 years. So people like me, will never unlock all the content. On the other hand, there is nice saying. "If you starts to think about paying to skip the content of the game, instead of experiencing it, the content is ****." But what is the reason/incentive to pay for ****ty content?

GOG exclusively, because of their no-DRM policy, and because they invest time to make older games compatible with newest OS. I am still physical release enthusiast, but I think, I have already more games on GOG, than physical discs.

My PS4 Pro is pretty quite. I hear vents only during summer when I am playing Project CARS.

Say goodbye to Respawn, while you can. They are being acquired by EA. And you know what that means... http://www.siliconera.com/2017/11/10/ea-set-acquire-titanfall-studio-respawn-entertainment/

Syberia for free on GOG for the next few hours! Also Syberia 1 and 2 available throgh GOG connect.

Another **** patent by activision

Yeah, there are so many great voice actors out there that have never been used in video games, just as good as Troy Baker or anyone else. I suppose they caved purely for the reason of legacy and reputable status. Some people don't care but there are also some that would be more likely to buy a game if it had someone familiar or well-known doing the voice overs. The gaming community is awfully picky these days... with everything :/ Being picky? Bad voiceacting can completely destroy atmosphere. Be it game or movie. That is the reason, I never watch dubbed movies or shows. The voiceacting for Slovak commercial televisions is mostly attrocious. Same with games. You either bother to make quality VO or make none. Bad voiceacting is worse than none at all... Bad voiceacting is for me a reason to refund a game...

The thing is, that most of the games, which were affected by the strike are still in development. I bet we'll notice the effect much more in a year or two.

Voice Actor strike ended. https://arstechnica.co.uk/gaming/2017/11/video-game-voice-actors-officially-end-strike-after-340-days/

In the case that game is offered as coop and SP experience in one, the issue is most of the time balance. It's either too hard to play alone or to easy to play in a group. The Mass Effect AI was completely useless on their own. 90% of work was made by the player. For three players, it would be a breeze through. Most of the shooters I've played before they became "cinematic experience" were already too easy for me alone on hardest difficulties. I would be bored to death plating them coop.

Why is there a bunch of medieval European armor in Japan? Because Nioh is about western samurai.

In other news, review of xXx-Bone-xXx https://arstechnica.co.uk/gaming/2017/11/xbox-one-x-review-an-exclamation-point-for-hardware-a-question-mark-for-software/

It really depends on the PC. If a steramer or reviewer says, that the performace boost is negligible, it´s because they are using top notch stuff. Unfortunatelly very few gamers are able to have 12k EUR computer as pewdiepie. So the loss of performance for them is much more notable...

I don't understand, how is this killing the ww2 mood...

Anyone who says that additional layer of code on top of the base package of software does not have any performance impact is either liar or Fortran god. And I highly doubt that in this case, the latter statement is the more probable one...

But you'll miss so much on the spectacular loot box drops!!!

Still enjoying it more than Lightning Returns

I am alternating between Mortal Kombat X grind (for last Trophy before platinum), Project CARS 1 (where I need 2 more gold accolades to get the platinum) and Final Fantasy Type-0. Type-0 is actually very interesting concept of a game, but I hate the action combat It is kind of overworld map running with FFVII-Crisis Core style missions, and with some added missions, where you are helping your armies to fight against enemy armies in bigger scale conflicts. Though combat is worse than what I remember from Crisis Core :/ Not looking forward to FFXV, which I have still avoided like a plague, because of the silly shift to gaming as a service model being tested on that game :/

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I wish my misery would be valued as much as Star Citizen's development :-P