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Für Elise, everything. Pippi Långstrump? I doubt she's half as badass and awesome as Pippi Långstrump. Speaking of which, why hasn't Pippi been rebooted/remade (in the states, at least)? Tons of much ****tier children's characters are rebooted/remade all the time, isn't it time for a new Pippi tv series/movie? Pippi is the freakin' best.

That's shameful, even by her standards.

With so many games being remade these days, many of which, in my opinion, have no need to be remade whatsoever, Arcanum is right at the tippity top of my list of games I desperately wish would be remade/rebooted. As said, the writing and the setting are so so good. The actual gameplay is so so bad. Never mind a graphical upgrade (not that I would mind one), just remaking the game exactly as it was, but with non-complete utter **** combat and balance that was at least somewhat sane would make me squeal with delight.

She's not. I believe I remember reading you rescue her at some point in the game (Why is an assassin rescuing a templar? Are they going to do a Romeo & Juliet type deal?), because teh wimmins always be needin' rescuing. Pirate Creed was damn good.

Gotta love Bayonetta with her utterly impossible proportions. Look at how long her legs are! So wrong, yet so right. Gotta love the Luigi plushie. I didn't manage to get a screenshot of it yet, but she's got fire flowers embroidered on the ankles of her stockings. Also, instead of halos, enemies drop coins, and it even makes the Super Mario coin collecting sound when you pick them up. Gotta love the attention to detail.

4/10 Would not bang?

Who's got two thumbs and a copy of Bayonetta and a copy of Bayonetta 2? This guy. Double the misogyny! Double the fun!

I think it is, Nonek, good catch.

But Nonek, look at this latest trailer (which Malcador posted in the The Witcher 3 thread, all credit to him), look at how oppressed Yennefer is in this trailer. The misogyny practically drips off the screen as she's ****ing **** up.

Nice. We got a Yennefer trailer with bonus Vesemir. In a related story, CD Project RED are still the Heavyweight Trailer Champions of the World.

Can you provide links to this? Polygon.Kotaku. Gamasutra. IIRC one of those sites was celebrating record views recently. Sure, because of the hoopla surrounding GamerGate and the smear pieces they've posted, they are drawing in people from the mainstream, from the non-hardcore gamer, or even non-gamer pool (note: I'm using the term "gamer" to mean anyone who plays games on at least a semi-regular basis, because that's the dictionary definition, I'm not using it to just mean horrible, toxic, misogynist, cisgendered neckbeards), hence the temporary boost in page views. The operative word here is "temporary". The mainstream non-gamer crowd doesn't regularly visit video game sites, they may do so occasionally at best, under normal circumstances. They're visiting game sites now because of the media ****storm, but that will eventually pass, whether those sites continue to post smear pieces or not. A new flavor of the month will inevitably come along (it always does) and those people will move on to that new trendy scandal. So, where do video game sites get their regular viewership, the people that visit those sites on a daily basis providing steady traffic? Why, that happens to be the exact group of people those sites attacked and alienated.

Bayonetta & Bayonetta 2

The penalty is 40%, if I recall correctly. In the early game that absolutely makes a difference. When your characters have high level skill, like 9 or 10, especially with high accuracy weapons like sniper rifles, you're going to have 100% chance to hit on a headshot, regardless of the target, especially if you're getting some buff from leadership, unless the target has cover.

That depends on the weapon. Headshot is essentially an automatic critical, it just won't stack with another critical, but it's always 2X damage, regardless of the weapon. Some weapons have a higher crit multiplier (particularly some melee weapons), some weapons have a lower crit multiplier. Hence, for some weapons, not only is it a guaranteed "critical" as opposed to 35 or 40 or 50% chance of critical (or whatever), it's also a higher multiplier. For example, the anti-material rifle has a crit multiplier of 1.6X (I think), hence using a headshot will net you more damage than using a regular shot, regardless of whether you critical on said regular shot or not. So, as long as the 2 extra AP for the headshot don't spell the difference between being able to fire once or fire twice, using a headshot is the superior choice in that situation (provided your skill is high enough that you still get 100% hit even on a headshot).

I was definitely tempted to get Civ:BE day 1, but a pair of factors made the decision easy for me: 1) Comes out the same day as Bayonetta 2 2) Linux (and Mac) version won't be out at the same time as the Windows version. I'll scoop it up in a few months once they release an expansion or two and I catch it on a Steam Sale. I'm definitely interested in feedback, though.

I think that's going to be their excuse when they don't show up on Sunday. I unliked your post just so that I could like it a second time.

I think there is a place for casual mode in gaming. Some people who once played computer games to excess now have much less free time because of a career, never-ending home repair, car problems, supporting a family, &c. They probably want to experience an enjoyable visual adventure without all the time-consuming grinding. Maybe so, but Icewind Dale? The "visual adventure" in that game is pretty bare-bones.

Y'all are right. I need to get some sleep, my mind is making phantom connections.

My wacky conspiracy theory thinking goes something like this, again, keep in mind this is wild conjecture based on nothing more than gut feeling and I'm operating on less than ideal amount of sleep at this moment: SJWs realize their current plan of attack in not working and get more desperate as advertisers abandon their indoctrinated sites. They decide to hit us "where it hurts" since just smearing GamerGate in the mainstream media isn't working. Felicia Day is supposedly beloved by gamers, or something like that, so they stage an ordeal with her. They pressure her (or she does it willingly) to put out the piece she put out about being fearful and whatnot. The next day she gets "doxxed" while that piece is still fresh in everyone's mind. The info released on her is information that's been publicly available with even a small bit of digging, so she essentially "loses" nothing, but this "proves" a point about GamerGaters being willing to attack anyone, even someone "beloved" by gamers. The hope is that this outrages gamers enough to shut this down since now people they care about are getting hurt. Does that make any sense or am I simply reading too much into this and my messed up conspiracy theory mind is connecting imaginary dots?

This whole Felicia Day thing smells a bit fishy, a little too convenient. That's probably my conspiracy theory brain connecting imaginary points together, though, so grain of salt, and all that.

She's voiced several characters in various games, and yes, Veronica was one of them. She's supposedly a "nerd culture queen", or so I've been told. I never cared much either way, I don't particularly like her or dislike her, and this changes nothing as far as that goes. It's too bad she's fearful, I'm not looking for anyone to live in fear, even people I openly dislike, much less people I don't dislike.

It's rather buggy and limited at the moment, as is to be expected, but, sweet mother of draw distance, it looks pretty.

Let's put it this way. If I got heated enough at my boss that I said I was going to kill them, whether it was to their face, to another coworker, or even just to myself and was overheard, and this information got to my boss, I would expect I would be fired on the spot, there would also be at least some possibility that the police would be called and I would be escorted off the premises by them. If I then went back a day later and said "hey man, I was just messing around" the chances of me getting my job back would be fairly slim.

How do you know when it's meant and when it's not meant? Who's going to be the one to make the judgement call "this death threat is for real but this other death threat was just a joke"? I sure wouldn't want to be the person to make that judgement call, given that if my judgement turns out to be off I'd be accountable, at the very least on a moral level to my own conscience, if not on a legal level.

I don't feel the least bit bad for the dev. You **** up you pay the price for it, the price in this case being losing access to the largest digital marketplace in the world. Don't want to pay the price? Don't do stupid **** in the first place.