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Started a NewGame+ in Dark Souls 2. It's funny how in my first playthrough I needed hours for the chapters and now I am burning through them in 10 to 15 minutes. My character is lvl 225 now and the savegame says 112 hours played...

Yeah, it does look interesting, but imo it suffers from the same problem that any other game of that genre has: You've seen everything soon, and then the game gets boring and pointless. In case of The Long Dark, it's a huge problem that most of the time you are looking at a loading bar (when looting). It's a slow and boring mechanic. A small village with 5 houses and many shelves looks like this: Loading, Loading, Loading, Item!, Loading, Item!, Item!, Loading, Hey now let's check out this other house - wooops a wolf! - Ok, we made it to the next house. Loading, Loading, Loading, Item!, Item!, Loading, .... You get the point. The landscape looks awesome at times, but it also is lacking important looking landmarks quite often. I'd like to compare such games always with what one of the Fallout: New Vegas developers said about the worldmap. Here they wanted the player to see at least one of the few huge landmarks that are on the map at any time (Helios One, Dinky the Dinosaur, the Black Mountain radio stuff, the NCR and Desert Ranger statue at the Mojave Outpost, etc.) and this made it look interesting. Didn't matter where you've been, there was always a point in the distance where you thought "hey, I totally want to check that out!". The Long Dark *does* have such cool landmarks too, but usually you only see them if you are right in front of them (that huge train bridge was awesome, and so is the hydroelectric power plant). But yeah, that's it so far. Rest of the time you walk through mountain corridors that all look the same, hoping not to meet any wolves and if you do, that there is a house where you can rest a day and heal up without running out of food. Last but not least, the game gets super repetitive fast (if the "loot loading" didn't destroyed you yet), because you do nothing else but walking around, trying to find food items. Yeah, "survival!" etc. etc. but let's face it... it's boring after a short while. Even if you could do stuff like partially building your own base with placing custom house parts and so on. For me, such games need a real point of some sort. Scatter around notes that tell me stories, give me real tasks to do like "find parts to repair a radio" or w/e... Let me progress in some kind of way other than "find the best clothes and keep them at 100%" and "find a rifle to make getting food easier" or "increase the 'days surivived' counter as much as possible".

Well, I've only read what was posted here.

Doesn't read more sarcastic to me than other tweets that had been posted here, tbh.

Aha, on page one of this thread people where all like "who cares" and now it's not an issue anymore. :>

Somehow I find the COD games all way too stressful to play.

Pointing out that a problem someone is experiencing isn't widespread is talking down to someone? Okie dokie. I find it more weird that there are other people who actually support what she posted there. "@Spacekatgal Actually, it's about ethics in games journalism." "@Spacekatgal That Retweet you just posted...Jesus, what's wrong with these people? " "@Spacekatgal God you're a badass Smart women are the best people."

Can't get more awesome than nazis riding dinosaurs.

Pretty sure it's ... a) So they can post news about Witcher 3 every week for 8 weeks (2 DLCs per week) and b) So people will buy the game instead of just downing it. If you want all the "DLCs", you've got to download some pirated stuff / patch every week, and people might get so annoyed by this that they buy the game instead. Also it appears to be rather cheap stuff, like Oblivion horse armor level. So don't confuse this with e.g. Fallout New Vegas DLCs.

The first one was boring, imo. Second one was better. Let's see how the third one will be.

Would be funny if absolutely nothing happens.

I remember a few cases where people who posted on 4chan turned out to be murderers. Some even posted pictures of their shait or hints about the locations there, etc. If I remember correct, there was even a wiki page with a list of all these events somewhere on the web. It's horrible, but once again, you can hardly blame everyone for the actions a few nutjobs. And drawing a line to GG because of this is as stupid as saying the last school shooting was because of GG less than 24 hours after it happened.

I don't get this 29 Palms joke.

Had the same thought when playing the beginning. Flashing lights and stuff all around, couldn't see anything, didn't even realized the game was going already. Will seriously need to get used to that first. On the other side, I had a similar feeling when playing Unreal Tournament 3 for the very first time. There had been so many objects and stuff in the maps, it was so hard to look at anything important, because my brain wasn't used to all the details on screen.

I wasn't softbanned (how do you get that anyway?), but in the DLCs are rarely other players. It's probably also getting into the calculation that I am lvl 192. It's probably a lot higher than other more or less generic players.

Only if you buy into this nonsense about GamerGate being about misogyny. I believe that back when this was only about Zoe Quinn that I made my position on her as "someone who doesn't matter" quite clear. She's not the problem. Wu's not the problem. Sarkeesian isn't the problem. Well, I don't buy into this "GG is about misogyny" stuff, but I also find the other side hilarious. Both sides make it easy to lol about them, especially because both sides can very easily be manipulated by generic internet trolls. People are trying so hard to argue in a serious manner with trolls, it's almost as if everyone is new to the internet.

Well, going by that, then everyone shoud have ignored all this stuff already 2 months ago.

While we are at it: http://gamergate.community/showthread.php?tid=659

Oh no, and then it is even the weakest Fallout game. Well, if you rule out Fo3 that is. Herve Caen is pleased you liked FOBOS more than FOT and FO3. Well, this game you apparently speak about, as far as I know it doesn't even exist.

Oh no, and then it is even the weakest Fallout game. Well, if you rule out Fo3 that is.

Just beat the third Dark Souls 2 DLC. Have to say the DLCs are kind of annoying when it comes to coop play. They seem to be more crafted towards multiple players doing it, but as I was unable to summon human players most of the time, I had to rely on the bots, and they just suck at everything. Now I dunno. Probably going to toy around with some of the left over optional bosses, and then I'll look into NewGame+. I am lvl 192 right now, and my savegame says 87 hours. Holy fu. Guess it is time to start doing something else again... but then again, NewGame+ ....

"leader" :>

Had a few people telling me to write a book too, because I've got some crazy ideas every once in a while. I would love to write something big... but truth is, I suck at writing. I can write like maybe 500 words and then I've said everything I wanted to say and my brain feel empty. Much sadness.

Wow, this dude is pretty good at pretending to be a woman.