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Drowsy Emperor

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  1. Yes but his comment applied to another competitor in the tourney and people found out about it. Now its no longer just about his right to free speech but the reputation of the tournament itself, from the point of view of the organizers.
  2. So are you suggesting that its not possible to be competitive or play in MP game without saying you will rape someone? Because the issue isn't about competitiveness or the concept of what defines a MP game but rather the usage of certain words. I actually agree. It doesn't matter what he meant, there have to be certain standards for behavior in any official competition. I'm tired of all the "badass" posing and vulgar **** talk in multiplayer games. You're sitting in a chair and pushing a mouse around - you aren't Muhammad Ali to go shooting your mouth off to random strangers (as if he'd do that in the first place).
  3. In other news: this is a recent UN vote. Observe which countries voted no
  4. Oh but he was only 12 years old? Tell that to Michael Landsberry ...... http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/cops-id-12-year-old-gunman-sparks-middle-school-shooting-nevada-article-1.1496283 Common sense dictates that you can't follow the same protocol for a child as you would for a gangbanger if you want to have a sane society in the future. Else everyone ends up living in fear or everyone else and their children. The first mistake was to order him to put his hands up as if they're dealing with a responsible adult instead of approaching the situation in a more casual, diplomatic manner. A case of a kid shooting up someone, intentionally or unintentionally, happens once in a while. As do a ton of other freak accidents. The greatest majority of children, far more so than adults, will never do such a thing. But they will do irresponsible things like what happened here and it is the responsibility of the adults to sort that mess out, not to add to it.
  5. Had to look him up. So he's the man behind Mafia... that was a seriously well made game. His current project looks interesting too.
  6. Yeah I was just talking with a friend over the phone about DA2 and he said the same thing. Apparently everyone is still having nightmares about that cave. While I'm familiar with EA's policies, and somewhat certain that Bioware wouldn't have released it in this state if it were up to them, it is the game journalists who should be most ashamed. The scores are embarrassingly high for a game in this state.
  7. Tried a bit more DA2. EA really butchered this game. I just got to Kirkwall and half the city is made of the same repeating texture. Basically, what little quality models they made they used up on characters and armor because of the constant close up shots, everything else is straight out of 2003. To make matters worse, the game seems to be terribly optimized. Its strangling my laptop quad core CPU (intel i7 3632QM) , taking it all the way to 95c and beyond leading to throttling. By comparison a few weeks ago I was playing Alien Isolation completely maxed out at around 80 or so degrees. The people that control EA must really hate computer games. Anything that can't be made on FIFA's schedule seems to be beyond their comprehension. So I'd rather stop playing it than to potentially slaughter my CPU/GPU.
  8. I meant weapons and basic supplies. I doubt the Russians have been giving them tanks, if they have, it must have been no more than a handful. Its common sense that a large force would lead to the front being pushed westward. Nothing of the kind has happened therefore there is no invasion.
  9. The reporter said he didn't point the gun at the officers. There was a man with a gun in front of the Serbian government the other day, he was pissed about his military pension and was waving the thing about in a very busy street. The police defused the situation and he gave up the gun. That is proper handling. That is what European cops usually do, which is why there are very few such videos from anywhere other than the US. The consequences for cops for shooting anyone in Europe are usually quite harsh and there is little of the ridiculous departmental protection seen in the US. This kid wasn't given the benefit of the doubt. He did not threaten, there was no verbal confrontation and... he is a kid. Kids play games without thinking about the consequences. The imperative is to talk him down and defuse the situation not to fire away like its the wild west.
  10. Well if they are there, they definetelly dont want full scale war, because if they use paramilitary forces no-one can accuse them of being there - and by the way, even russia say there are there, but on vacancy Its no secret that volunteers have been streaming across the eastern border into Ukraine. Probably gear with them as well. But an organized army incursion simply did not happen or we would have seen a massive shift in the front.
  11. It was a 12 year old kid doing the sort of stupid things 12 year old kids do. He did not even point the gun at the police or threaten them. Get a grip man.
  12. The Wolf Among Us - It was fun to experience but not all that much fun to actually play, as there is little...playing.. involved. 7/10 In other news, I gave up on Original Sin (in Cyseal, Act 1). It just doesn't keep me interested. The ratio of fights to quests leans heavily towards the former and it somewhat wore me down to have to fight the same enemies all the time at the rather unforgiving standard difficulty. With no real characters or storyline to provide motivation I was asking myself "why I am playing this anyway"? To make matters worse, I was playing in co-op with my gf and we even got tired of the game at the same time. Child of Light 7/10 - pretty art design but the gameplay is too light for my tastes
  13. Man I wish Eve was really that instead of what it is. Yep, I got the trial ages ago expecting it to be like that. Man what a rude awakening
  14. @Volourn You seem to have no idea how human interests work. I suggest you get on a soapbox and proclaim that you will save the world and tell us how long it took before you found yourself in a padded room. I'm fine with that sort of romanticism in Star Wars because its a film for children. I'm not entertained by it in anything that tries to pass itself as more mature. Its trite, its a cliche, a poor writers cop out and its utterly out of place in anything other than a child's fable. Its easy to write it in such a way that the PC has no choice in the matter, but its still crappy storytelling. The BG PC was hounded by enemies and interested parties ever since leaving Candlekeep and had a credible stake in seeing things through. The nameless one also has a credible stake in his personal quest, why should he hide? After all, much of that story is constructed as a mystery and only towards the end do you discover that you even have a tangible enemy that you could "hide from".
  15. Plausible in the sense that its much easier to walk away from any human organization, especially an implausibly altruistic one than it is to walk away from your own blood or, in the case of the nameless one - "sins". Why would any PC force himself to participate in the thankless task of being cannon fodder for darkspawn? Why would anybody choose to be a jedi or a spectre? Why would such a ridiculous organization even exist in the first place? Its all part of the myth of "knighthood" which is fine in the context of a fable such as Star Wars. Its fine in other stories I suppose, but its still inherently implausible because its so utterly impersonal. In BG its do or die, a pure fight for your own personal survival. In Torment its about self discovery and redemption, again, quite personal. Both motivations make perfect sense in the context the game provides. If you don't like the story that's fine, but your main quest is still adequately justified.
  16. Yeah? It's a BioWare game: does anyone remember how terrible Mass Effect 3 looked when it came out? All the stupid close-ups they did of the super low-res character textures...bleck. And that came out two years later... Yeah the first Mass Effect looked great at the time, the second one still looked good at release but by the third one it aged very badly. I'm surprised that Bioware is so behind in the tech race, the Witcher series flat out crushed anything Bioware has done since the first Mass Effect. Particularly W2 which looks about 5 years ahead of the entire DA series, including Inquistion.
  17. I'm saying both suck. Although being an Inquisitor could have been interesting, if it were not for Bioware's political correctness.
  18. The Grey Wardens were one of the most insipid elements of Origins, mere recycling of SPECTRE or jedi concept from previous games. I don't want to be a part of any pro bono save the world organization. The only reason they're in the game is because that way writers don't have to struggle with providing credible motivation for the PC. Instead your participation in the organization becomes a justification for being the galactic errand boy, for the game feeding you tasks and holding the reigns of the plot. At least in BG you're forced into doing what you're doing by your lineage and fate and in PST by your mistakes your previous life. I understand that a story driven RPG must force upon the PC a certain sequence of events (either that or give up on the story, TES style), but for god's sake, let it at least be plausible.
  19. This thread is becoming more interesting than the game itself. Someone should send a link to Bioware so they can study convincing characters and dialog
  20. All the list shows is the overwhelming influence of the larger developers over the organization behind these awards. Separating independent games is really telling, that way its easier to effectively throw them out of the competition for the only nomination that matters, that being the game of the year. In other words, its just marketing.
  21. Ah yes, the missing auto attack. At least with DA2 its obvious the game is a rush job, dunno what they were thinking this time around. The darkspawn movement animation in DA2 is insane, they sort of run in place while twitching their swords and floating forward.
  22. I played 10 minutes of Dragon Age II and I'm taken aback by how horrible the graphics are. Everything is dark and muddy and low res. This is on Directx11 with everything on the maximum. And the gameplay.... I thought people may have been overreacting at the time, but actually its worse than I believed. Power ranger enemies, console combat.... My first impression is that the game is garbage and I never thought this about any Bioware game regardless of how much I disliked them.
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