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Looking better and better for regenerative medicine.
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High end graphics are killing the games industry
pmp10 replied to Bokishi's topic in Computer and Console
Sure we can because they do. In the end it's up to consumer to say that graphics are good enough and force development onto other areas. It just so happen they never say that and given industry driven by release sales graphics have become absolutely vital. Staff and tech are not cheap. A breakdown of costs associated with new characters for skullgirls (2D fighter) was published. Turns out a single character was about 150-200k and most of that in animation costs and staff expenses. You can imagine what a new top of the line graphic engine would require. Why? I mean, let there be pop and let it be heavy metal and such. I'm fine with CoD-like games as long as CoD Crowd is not spreading into other genres I like and spoiling them as they did with DA franchise. Because in this analogy pop sets tech and sales standards that heavy metal can never meet. That's how industry effectively got rid of niche genres that were quite prominent when development costs were smaller. -
IIRC there was a back-stab enabling rapier in the starting dungeon.
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Start off with And don't listen to defeatists. SC2 MP is meant to be competitive. The point is not to spend whole live on it and become a progamer but to put in the effort.
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Nuclear power apparently saves lives.
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The real question is what is so different about Rockstar and Bethesda that they don't get on the annual bandwagon. By now it's becoming the industry standard.
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Went back to Dragon's Dogma and finally managed to reached the dragon. A goldmine of potential wrecked by Japanese RPG standards.
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Can't really agree here. I liked original Bioshock but found infinite to be an utter mess story and setting wise.
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Wouldn't worry about it. Today CEO of Square-Enix had to fall on his sword due to performance of recent reboots. I doubt Thief 4 will see release unless it goes full Ninja Gaiden.
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If only we could blame giant conspiracies or scoring systems for this mess. The truth is that standards in the industry have eroded to the point where nobody will dare to stand against enormous hype.
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I can't believe I now think it a flaw but it dose looks too similar to Bastion.
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Sorry - wrong thread.
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Don't know about others but at least Dead Space 3 topped sales charts.
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Anita Sarkeesian/Tropes and Women in Gaming
pmp10 replied to alanschu's topic in Computer and Console
It's not really beign dismissive, there's actually no evidence, there have been several studies to prove the link between games and violence and none of them have proved it, , for me sarkeesian is in par with the NRA, attacking video games when they have caused no harm. That's a bit of semantic cop-out. There might not have been a study showing causal relation beyond reasonable doubt but some studies have shown correlation between violent games and acceptance of aggression or decreased levels of empathy. -
Anita Sarkeesian/Tropes and Women in Gaming
pmp10 replied to alanschu's topic in Computer and Console
Actually that 'protector' role is due to the simple fact that given human reproduction cycle males are far more expendable. AFAIK it has nothing to do with physical attributes. And you base this opinion on what scientific evidence? On anthropological studies of primitive tribes. The hunter-gatherer people tended to form egalitarian tribes. Only advancement to farming communities allowed growth of so much population that wars could be fought to the point of annihilation. Losing women to war (whether to combat or kidnapping) meant a huge hit to reproductive prospect of the community and weakened it's prospects for the upcoming generations. On the other hand losing men was more acceptable as you could temporarily suspend rules of monogamy and/or incest prohibition and be mostly fine population-wise for the future. -
Anita Sarkeesian/Tropes and Women in Gaming
pmp10 replied to alanschu's topic in Computer and Console
Actually that 'protector' role is due to the simple fact that given human reproduction cycle males are far more expendable. AFAIK it has nothing to do with physical attributes. -
Anita Sarkeesian/Tropes and Women in Gaming
pmp10 replied to alanschu's topic in Computer and Console
Errr, her point with that was that the damsel in distress trope has its roots in early gaming, and she illustrated that the theme of Peach being captured has remained the central motivation for the game in 13 of 14 different iterations of Mario games, and that the trope continues today. Though she does acknowledge that the mere existence of this trope in a game doesn't mean that a game must be sexist. My point is that she took offense at Peach being a DiD because she's a woman too. Were she not, she wouldn't care, just as she doesn't care about fat, accented italians and a whole kingdom of evil turtles. The problem of DiD is not that victim is a woman but that she's being rescured by a male. Whole of new Tomb Raider is a giant DiD plot but since we play a heroine there it's perfectly fine and acceptable. Have you played Bayonetta? Me neither, so I can't say how sexist or not the game is, I can only repeat what I read about it. Bayonetta wears her sexuality on her sleeve, what's wrong with that? She eats lollipops, what's wrong with that? She's an over-the-top parody, what's wrong with that? She is strong, confident, etc. And during special finishers all her clothes fall off. Nothing wrong with that as far as fan-service goes but I wouldn't go pretending there is any other point to that design. -
Black fingernails. Apparently they were in for initial redesign.
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Don't worry about fire hazard in fusion plants. Chances are your toaster will burn the world down before any of them sets anything on fire. The worst that could happen to environment is a mild radiation leak. And don't believe in any fusion timetables either. 20 year is just what it will take to start running proper experiments. In fact we still are missing some crucial pieces to the puzzle and the whole thing may yet prove completely unworkable.
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Tomb Raider. A pretty solid shooter but that's not what I was expecting from the franchise.
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Far cry 3. A great sandbox but a rubbish shooter.
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If anything one of the problems with Witcher 2 was that it senselessly attempted to force references to slavic folklore or modern pop-culture. The end result is only confusion as I doubt many English speakers understood where the 'Elves to the moon' battle-cry came from.
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He said his cd-key got stolen and registered by someone else. Back in the day even EA would issue a new one with proof of purchase.
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That's one way of looking at things but when we talk about personal responsibility why should average tax-payer have to cover medical expenses associated with obesity? If we consider being overweight a personal choice made by individual rather than a eating disorder that needs curing then such expense should be covered by the people deciding to be obese.