Oblarg

Ones analogous to the stupid, gimmicky bonuses certainly are.

You're right I did read that wrong, though I still think you're jumping to rather ridiculous conclusions. It's like seeing a joke in a trailer for an otherwise serious film, and coming to the conclusion that the creators obviously treat the whole damn movie as one big joke. It's also important to point out that they haven't injected a gimmicky bonus into the game and expected players to welcome it, they've given players the choice to inject it into their own games. Whether you "welcome" it depends on whether or not you want to input the code. It is no such thing, this is a completely ridiculous thing to believe. How many good, serious films have you seen which have trailers with stupid, puerile jokes in them?

You've explained why you don't like it, but it's still just a case of being something you don't like. The only fact you've offered up here is that you can choose not to use the item. This doesn't make any sense. You cannot feel so strongly about this issue that it damages both your view of the game and the company that makes it, and also have a hard time caring about it. I'm not buying Dead Space 2 so I won't be able to use this armour. I wouldn't use this armour if it was available because I think the helmet looks out of place. It won't exist in my game so it's a total non-issue. I don't care. Despite acknowledging that you can choose not to use this armour set, you have a problem with its very existence and have drawn a very negative conclusion regarding the developers based on its existence. You most assuredly do care. You seem to have a hard time not caring. Re-read the post - it's the game world I have a hard time caring about when the developers show that they themselves are willing to inject out-of-place gimmicky **** into it and expect the players to welcome it. It's almost a vote of no confidence in their own product, in a way.

Well, it's not stupid if you're a publisher, but it is stupid if you're a gamer Would you say the same thing if Oblarg had used the word "gay" instead of "stupid"? It's not gay if you're a publisher, but it is gay if you're a gamer? Nope, "I don't like it" is still a better fit than "it's stupid", "it's lame", "it's crap", "it's gay", or "it's slowtrain". I was referring to the Ser Issac armour, which is obviously something created specifically to be used as part of a promotion. I think Gromnir has hit the nail on the head. The publishers aren't stupid, the promotion isn't stupid, but some gamers feel cheated so they lash out. No, I think it cheapens the experience and harms the immersion. Even if there is no direct appearance of the promotions in-game if you choose not to use them, the fact that the developers are willing to insert **** like that into the in-game universe and expect that a non-negligible number of people will choose to use them at the expense of any shred of immersion harms the game, as it basically says that the developers don't give a **** about the game world or lore that they've made, and if that's the case I have a hard time caring about it myself.

It makes it irrelevant. Or at least it should. You guys are the ones sounding like Volo. Seriously look at yourselves. A whole ton of bitching and whining about something I figured you wouldn't even care about. God forbid it be something you DID care about. I suppose I shouldn't be too surprised. I guess you do care about it. God forbid the entire title not cater entirely to the whims of Oblarg. I'm sure I'll regret asking this, but if it's not something you care for, then why do you actually seem to care? It's something trivial and probably not even that difficult to add. Or is it just because it's not something you wanted? Hey, why don't we have even *more* specials? How about a laser gun if you buy ME3? Or an assault rifle if you bought COD? Yeah, those'll fit right in! Even better, why not just have offer a ****ing I Win button for extra money, and the ability to make your character look like ****ing Master Chief. That'd definitely sell copies.

It's gimmicky and stupid. Would it make you happier if it just wasn't there? Because if it's gimmicky and stupid, it's easy to not use. Yes, it would, actually.

It's gimmicky and stupid.

You know, some songs start off slow and build up to a fury. This one starts off strong and then ****ing explodes.

John Arch is god.

And I thought Mass Effect 2 had too much gimmicky ****. Do people really buy games based on ****ing "exclusive" DLC armor sets? I really hope this isn't the direction games go in.

Your quest was to beat those two enemies. The only cliffhanger was the introduction of Felix as a new enemy, but then he jumps off the lighthouse anyway. No your quest was to prevent the activation of the lighthouses. Which was in no way over, especially with Alex still around. Felix was the one with the stones, so he was pretty much the only loose end, especially because at that point you really didn't know just how deeply involved Alex was.

Bah, stupid internet causing doubleposts.

Your quest was to beat those two enemies. The only cliffhanger was the introduction of Felix as a new enemy, but then he jumps off the lighthouse anyway.

You should play the second one at the very least - great game. The newest one was, overall, enjoyable, but the plot had absolutely no closure at all. So didn't Golden Sun 1. In fact it was worse there. For around a year I seriously thought that my game just bugged out in the middle. Nah, there was some closure in GS1, even though it was a clear cliffhanger. It was much more cleanly done than the end of Dark Dawn.

You should play the second one at the very least - great game. The newest one was, overall, enjoyable, but the plot had absolutely no closure at all.

That blog post was almost irrefutably worthless. Completely bereft of any evidence or even believable anecdotes - just a bunch of lame generalizations about "publishers stink and Obsidian got screwed."

3/5 members of Awaken the Guardian-era Fates Warning have reunited, and are releasing a new album. The project is rather uncreatively titled Arch/Matheos - I guess they don't want to release it under the Fates Warning name, for whatever reason. Regardless, I'm pumped.

Yeah, it's not on a computer or a console, but I need to rant. The game itself was not bad. The puzzles were interesting, the combat mechanics were fleshed out from the first two in the series (though normal attacks still outscale psynergy - you'd think they'd fix that by the third game in the series), and it was plenty long. However... That was the worst ****ing plot I have seen in an RPG in ****ing ages. I mean, from the very beginning your characters' motivations throughout the game are about as clear as mud (it's not at all clear what you're supposed to be doing, as if the writers had about fifty different ideas for possible dilemmas for you to fix and decided to introduce all of them and resolve none of them), and there's an absolutely horrid bit of lampshading about an hour in where they basically tell you "everything you do for the first half of the game is going to be play right into the bad guys' hands," despite which you do just that. And then they don't even bother to ****ing end it - they cram about five plot twists into the last ten minutes of gameplay, and then just cut to credits. They even bothered to tack on a hamfisted cliffhanger in the epilogue after the credits, despite the fact that there were enough unresolved plot threads already to fill about three sequels. Honestly, what the hell.

Better than NV? I don't think so, precisely for the reason he stated, lack of a game world. But may be he doesn't consider NV a shooter hybrid. He didn't like NV much in any case (mainly due to bugs, somewhat ironically). AP was more buggy for me, because cover didn't work properly a lot of the time, and that was a major game mechanic. NV would just freeze once in a while, which was annoying but not that bad. I can forgive an RPG bugs so long as it gets other RPGish things right, unless the game is actually unplayable. I don't think the bad cover was a bug so much as just poor level design. It didn't really bug me that much, though - I only had a few instances of "why the hell can't I crouch behind this?"

How well you can google this to transfer? Profess to a translation to be a horrible thing that this would be the interpreter of the imperfect, but for the this is a "imperfect" is insufficient. (original Latin: Quam bene google hanc traducere potest? Profitetur hoc translatio horrendum esse quod hoc interpres imperfectum esset, sed pro hoc "imperfectum" insufficiens est.)

Sorry, but that's ignorant and bigoted nonsense, unless you address it to that select fanatical minority that hogs all the news headlines. Isn't that exactly who we're talking about right now? Unless somehow the conversation has shifted from the WBC to every Christian in existence without me noticing.

There are a couple issues with this line of thinking. First off, DA is a complete game, without any of the DLC (even the free stuff.) You can play it all the way to the conclusion, they don't ask you to insert more coins to continue the story line. There was likely a specific team working on DLC. This isn't any different than a specific team working on an expansion. The difference is DLC is typically smaller, available faster, cheaper, etc. It can be offered on day one while an expansion obviously would not. Whether it was created after the game was released or not really isn't the point, it was developed to be DLC. Yes, but you could easily argue that in separating their resources between primary game and DLC they're effectively releasing a product missing parts that would otherwise be standard if they had simply assimilated the DLC team into the primary game. DLC, at its heart, is a way to get people to pay more for a product. There's no way around it - they wouldn't do it otherwise.

It's not accurate if you interpret the text fairly liberally, no. But something tells me these people aren't likely to do that. I'm surprised they're not advocating stoning your kids if they're disobedient. It's in the bible, and it certainly seems right up their alley.

I still haven't bought played Cata, even though Blizzard sent me a 10 day free trial. Maybe I'll get over this admittedly pretty petty grudge eventually, but I'm *really* annoyed that their broken ****ing store prevented me from cashing in on the initial economy rush that comes with every expansion, which was the main reason I was planning to buy it in the first place. Oh well.

Carth may have been awful, but Kaiden was fine - much better than Liara, who was absolutely horrid. I didn't get Shale for my playthrough of DA:O. Actually, it wasn't even a playthrough, I lost interest when I reached the endgame because it was just too ****ing bad. This DLC nonsense needs to stop, though. When I buy a game, I expect it to be a complete game, not a game with several elements removed and sold separately.