Bartimaeus

Yeah, I don't really care how Dark Souls-y or not a non-Dark Souls game is... And I would very much disagree with Dark Souls 2 being "fine": Dark Souls 2 was like...if you took the combat of Dark Souls 1, slowed it down like 25-33%, made most every weapon shorter and slower and consequently more difficult and unfun to use (so much so that I literally never found a single weapon I actually enjoyed using like I did in Dark Souls 1), and you replaced what felt like roughly half of the bosses in the game with Iron Giant-esque bosses: giant (i.e. slow) humanoid bosses that are oh so predictable and not very fun to fight when facing the close to that same boss for the umpteenth time. Probably forgetting some other stuff, but yeah, I'd rate the entire experience as being pretty awful.

That, and Dark Souls 2 was made by the B team while Bloodborne was being handled by the A team - which would perhaps explain (to me) why Dark Souls 2 sucked so hard. Loved the first game, please shoot me in the face if I ever even consider trying to play through the second again.

I watched all of Gran Turino for the first time recently. It seemed pretty good, I guess... I'd seen the last 15-20 minutes of the movie like four times, so seeing the beginning...and middle...did give the finale a bit more weight than the four previous watches, which was nice. Yay for catching up on a movie that I saw commercials for like seven years ago?

Why does Greedo look so messed up at 0:56? Original Greedo: 0:56 Greedo: That is some bad editing.

Browns fans after that game:

I very much disagree. Bayonetta 2, Mario Kart 8, Wolfenstein: The New Order, Super Smash Bros., and Shadow of Mordor were all awesome games. Bayonetta 2 was my personal GotY for 2014, that's a 10/10 game IMHO, freakin' amazing. Heck, Bayonetta 2 is my current frontrunner for Game of the Decade, it is the spectacle fighter perfected. Yikes, with a list like that, it's no wonder I pray for a triple A gaming industry crash.

Well, we have the "man", whom we suppose to be you or to at least represent you, we have the toilet that the man is sitting upon, then we have the implied Obsidian forums to which you are posting to, and finally, we have the level of quality that your posts possess in between all of these different, seemingly unrelated factors. What was perhaps once a mystery is now seemingly illuminated rather quite thoroughly. (e): One day, I will master the delivery of my stupid 'witticisms' enough that I don't have to have a giant "THIS POST HAS BEEN EDITED" sign on all of my posts...someday.

Ah, your new avatar explains so much, Kaine!

But I have nothing else I currently want to change it to...

Packers home games just ain't what they used to be.

The original theatrical release versions? Even with the original female/warped-looking Emperor Palpatine in The Empire Strikes Back?

Putting this person on my ignore list after seeing only their very few first posts in this section (not this topic, but this section in another topic) is seeming very prodigious right about now.

Possibly contributing was the torn labrum in his shoulder that he's getting surgery for ...

That's a pretty significant difference, particularly for the Intel CPUs. (edit): Well, all things considered, even the AMD results are pretty significant. Just that...the Intel results are even MORE significant.

I mean, it looks kind of silly, but swords were designed the way they are for a reason - so your fingers and/or hands aren't bloody sliced right off when another fighter's blade slides down towards your sword's hilt. (edit): although the fact that the image's lightsaber appears to have little bits of the hilt sticking out on the crossguard probably doesn't bode well for its design unless the hilt itself is resistant to...uh...lightsabering,

Really? Do you have any specific benchmarks in mind for me to look over? My general rule of thumb has always been that RAM speed matters so incredibly little for gaming, it is basically never worth paying anything more than a few bucks more total for faster models - say, the price difference between DDR3 1600 11 CAS and 9 CAS. Beyond that, I've never seen anything to suggest it serves any point for gaming...but again, maybe that's changed recently, and I'm happy to learn better. I mean, even the anandtech 6700k DDR3 vs DDR4 benchmarks I've looked at seem to suggest it's of almost zero consequence, with maybe 1% performance deviations on average...buuuut it doesn't seem to spell out the exact speeds of the two different RAM models used, so maybe it's misleading. Again, happy to learn more/better.

"- One obvious candidate would be dropping to a non-K CPU, which also drops the need for the third-party cooler (as K models don't come with one)." Is that a new thing? My 4770k definitely came with a cooler.

It depends on your needs. If you're not doing professional image/video editing, I would say 16GB is already way overkill, but good futureproofing. 32GB is just utterly ridiculous unless you have specific needs.

Yeah, most state flags aren't very good. I imagine it gets worse the more precise the location gets.

Your power supply model is necessary in order to help with a GPU. Case is so up to personal taste, you kinda have to provide a little more wants/needs...windowed or not, LEDs (color?) or not, any specific case color..?

Not the exact image I had in mind, but I can't find the exact image I had in mind. You can see where I was going with that similar weird pitchfork-like shape, though. (edit): lol, I always forget that Mongolia still actually exists, unlike so many other medieval or antiquity empires. Current Mongolian flag: Still got that weird...whatever shape that is. Reminds me of a combination of a crescent moon and a fleur-de-lis. (edit); Apparently, it (and at least some of the rest of the entire design) is called a "soyombo". Cool!

Funny, I've made the connection with that Rebel Alliance symbol to Islam a few times myself, although I never thought of Al-Qaeda, but rather the Mongol Empire or more likely one of its Persian predecessors or successors (can't recall exactly what, but I remember seeing a flag belonging to one of them that looked markedly similar).

I mean, if you've got a bunch of games that you've been trying to give away for months, it makes sense that you'd give them to just about anyone. Everyone has had a fair shot at most of ShadySand's games at this point, for example, so I'm sure he doesn't much care about where they go.

Yeah, and it would be showing intellectual integrity (especially so in the face of some of the reviewers admitting to having never even touched the first two). So screw that, obviously.

Sorry, my point wasn't really that the 3D Fallouts were going to automatically be the best out of all of them, but rather I would say that trying to compare all of them at once is a pretty pointless exercise before you even start to get into any specifics as to why one entry of the series is better than the other: the two game types are just too different to make any useful comparisons (this also holds true for your other examples). At least, they are to me: I dislike the 3D Marios, but I love the 2D Marios...I love the 3D Zeldas (some of them, anyways), but I dislike the 2D ones...but I daren't try to make any sort of comparison between the two quite wildly differing game types, or try to "rationally" explain why one is better than the other. You're free to disagree, of course, but it seems to me trying to compare games that are of different genres (or at least different subgenres) is just not going to lead to very good comparisons...so I would say IGN's first mistake was making it a "best Fallout game" instead of a "best 3D Fallout game" comparison, which makes their lack of respect for the first two Fallouts irrelevant to begin with, as their comparison is already worthless by making that mistake. That doesn't necessarily mean you shouldn't be offended by their idiocy, of course, I suppose.