Keyrock

Remember when they made awesome games like Killer Instinct, GoldenEye, and Banjo Kazooie for Big N? That seems so long ago. /cries

I would argue that it never really lived at all. It's entire lifetime has been a steady diet of getting outsold 4 to 1, 5 to 1, sometimes 7 to 1 by the 3DS. So far this has been satisfactorily hilarious.

How about Better Than Gorth or BetterThanGorth or Better_Than_Gorth? (not sure if they let you use spaces)

GRID 2. I'm into season 3 and starting to get some pretty fast vehicles. At first I got scared when season 3 started because it was initially centered around Asia, so I figured they'd make me do drifting races, which I am not a fan of. I was extremely pleased to find out that they wanted me to do Touge races instead. I love me some Touge. Not only is it NOT drifting, it's only me and one other driver going mono a mono which has the added bonus of removing all but one of the 8 or 9 other drivers I have to go through to get to the front normally (it wouldn't be such a problem if the races weren't so short, but they are which means I don't have time to pick and choose my passing areas). I'm sure they'll make me do some drifting somewhere in there, but at least I now know that won't be the whole season. Hopefully I get to use the sweet Nismo R34 GTR Z-Tune I scooped up at the beginning of the season for most, or better yet all, races.

Well done oby, this troll thread has managed to go on for 13 pages and there is still heated discussion. I haven't been here long enough to know if this is a record for one of your threads, but it's an impressive achievement either way. /pats oby on the back

I'm guessing the 1.5 GB download was a pre-download for either the upcoming balance update or, more likely, the live launch including the Gauntlgrym content as nothing really changed in-game, plus the patching happened after I left the game rather than upon launching, like it usually does. In other news, I got my mailsmith up to level 18. 2 more levels and 2 dragon eggs and I'll be able to make a purple scale shirt and purple pants for myself. Also, I now have 4 rank 6 dark enchantments, but I'm going to look to get some preservation wards on the cheap to make sure I don't waste any trying to fuse to rank 7. Rank 6s are expensive and/or time consuming enough to acquire that I'm not leaving things up to chance. At 40% success rate of fusion, the odds aren't in my favor anyway. I also got a couple shard types up to 4 each, so I can fuse them into lesser enchantments, but I need coalescent wards for that. Gah, so many hoops to jump through.

This is the wrong type of game for new game+.

Yeah, on the mobile front, Haswell seems to be truly a big step forward.

Eventually, Bethesda won't even bother making a game at all. They'll just throw out a mod kit and a few slapped together assets and have the modding community make the game for them. The upside is that there's a good chance we'll wind up getting a better story and more character depth.

Point to raise about Obsidian: every single female in the Fallout New Vegas arc is a completely identical C-cup. It's a little immersion breaking. But it's about as close to asexual as you could get without having to explain yourself in the world building. The one size fits all female bodies in F:NV are likely a product of budget/time constraints more than anything else. Besides, as Bruce already wrote, if someone wants big boobies and/or brazilian ass, they need look no further than the modding community

Is that Philosophy or just good old weed talk? I for one am in favor of a stoned thread. Concepts like stoned don't exist. The fact is that, much like all of you, I don't exist, never have, never will. This is all just a feedback loop of self-delusion. The loop keeps going as long as there is a shred of doubt in my mind. The instant I could wrap my mind around the fact that none of this, myself included, truly exist, not in a physical way, not in a philosophical way, not in a spiritual way, I would cease to exist, because I never existed. Concepts like stoned, happy, sad, angry, and so forth, are all just self-created delusions by a self that doesn't exist in a desperate attempt to keep the illusion and the feedback loop going. There is no stoned, there is no you, there is no me. There isn't even nothing, for nothing is yet another fictional concept created by a self that doesn't exist.

You're all just figments of my imagination, so if I were to discuss philosophy with anyone, I'd just be discussing it with myself, likely different aspects of my personality or manifestations of ego. In the end, said conversation has already happened, is happening, and will happen all at the same time, since time is just a figment of my imagination also and therefore exist but does not exist.

Agreed about Postal, but in fairness, we don't know if Dragon Crown is a crappy, mediocre, or good game yet. If it winds up being a good game then I wouldn't let the art style, which I find ridiculous, stop me from buying it. I'll let the fact that I don't own a PS3 or Vita stop me from buying it, but if I owned one of those devices and it was a fun game that appealed to me, I'd likely wind up getting it and putting up with the art style. Conversely, I'm highly unlikely to buy a game on art style alone, even if I really like the art style. Art style does add or take away from a game a bit, but it's very far down the list for me and it certainly won't trump story, character depth, or gameplay.

It does but it is a creation of my imagination, as are all of you, the Earth, the universe, etc. The entire multiverse, including these boards, every person I have ever "met" or heard of, every solid, liquid, and gas, heck the very concept of solids, liquids, and gasses, they were all created by my imagination as a self contained universe. This is my own private playground, or my own private hell. Outside of me, there is nothing, or everything, or a completely different concept that cannot be defined by nothing, everything, or anything. I'll never know, because this self contained universe is all I'll ever know.

Personally, speaking strictly of fantasy art styles of scantily clad women, I prefer something more, and I hesitate to use the word, realistic looking, like the work of Boris Vallejo: Note: I had to search a good bit to find Boris Vallejo pictures that I could actually post here, most of his work feature ample amounts of nudity. Anyway, I find pictures of women with realistic proportions far more attractive and arousing that the ridiculously exaggerated style of something like Dragon Crown. But hey, if people like that kind of extremely exaggerated style then that's their prerogative.

Dragon Crown can use whatever art style they want. I personally don't find it the least bit appealing and think it looks ridiculous, but I'm sure there are those out there that think it's cool. At the end of the day, rather than go on a crusade, I simply vote with my wallet. If a game doesn't appeal to me, for whatever reason, I just don't buy it.

Obviously, this means the moon is hollow.

Ooh, it's in the middle of downloading a 1.5 GB patch. Could this be the long awaited balance update? Surely it's not one of the regular patches, those are usually like 50-100 MB.

Here she is on another box cover, this one significantly more tame: Check out those astounding hardware requirements: "Supports EGA, CGA, MCGA, VGA, and Hercules monochrome graphic cards". VGA!? What sort of billionaire has one of those?

Me likey. That last, pure scenery, picture is straight up breathtaking: I would love to have a high res version of that.

It's one of the more infamous box covers in video game history: Roberta is on the far right, for those wondering. She was quite attractive back in the day. More importantly, she created one of the most iconic and beloved video game franchises ever. Another fun fact, this was so far back, they weren't even called Sierra yet. Sierra On-Line, I miss you so much! /sobs uncontrollably

I personally am neutral on KoA:R's art style. I neither like nor dislike it. I like the gameplay well enough, unfortunately the world is just so dull, which is why I generally lose interest rather quickly.

I prefer to leave my helmet on, but it's nice to have the option. Helmet on: Helmet off: Hopefully some day I find different armor than the ridiculous boob plate I'm wearing. It will almost undoubtedly still be boob plate, but hopefully it will be cooler looking boob plate.

There actually was quite the uproar when Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of Lounge Lizards (LSL1) came out. Ironically, it's that very uproar that helped launch the franchise. When it first launched, LSL1 sold quite poorly and it looked like that was going to be the end of the series right there. Then rumors and accusations got thrown around about how shocking and offensive and pornographic the game was. Media outlets ran with it without doing their due diligence (Leisure Suit Larry was NEVER a porn game), as is customary for them (because who needs research, right?), and the attention created a buzz which spurred the sales of the game to take off. Long story short, the game wound up selling very well in the long run and started a beloved and very successful franchise. You have to have tittays/boobies/knockers/honkers/bazongas/headlights in Leisure Suit Larry, it's crucial to the game. In fact, it's pretty much what the entire game is about. Leisure Suit Larry is about a horny lovable loser with a wildly inflated opinion of himself on a quest to get laid. That's the premise of every single real Larry game (read: LSL1-LSL7). Larry meets a wildly attractive (usually voluptuous) woman. The wildly attractive woman won't give Larry the time of day. Larry finds out what she desires and figures if he gives her what she wants she'll give him what he wants (nudge nudge, wink wink, know what I mean? say no more). Larry sets out to acquire what the wildly attractive woman wants. Hilarious antics ensue. That's the script of every real Larry game. Sexual desire and the female body are the central theme of the game. The point is this, I feel it's quite fine to have cleavage, ass, even full frontal nudity or straight up sex scenes in a game where it fits appropriately with the plot, setting, and/or theme of the game. What irks me is when cleavage and ass get shoehorned into a game, crammed in there with no sense or reason other than attempting to entice the horny guy beating off in his mom's basement demographic. I don't find it offensive, I just think it's cheap and trite. If you have a character who is a harlot, then by all means have her be falling out of her dress, it's how she makes her business. Likewise, I have no problem with a scantily clad amazon who relies of quickness, agility, and the ability to quickly climb trees when hunting or fighting for defense, rather than armor, or a sorceress who relies on magic for protection and might find the seduction and/or distraction factor of LOOK AT ME BOOBZ of greater advantage than a cured hunk of leather between her and a sharp blade. On the other hand, trying to pass off a chain bikini as "armor" is just plain ridiculous. Boob plate is a little better, since it actually does put a piece of steel between you and the aforementioned sharp blade, but the very nature of its design would cause blows to deflect toward your sternum (read: bad for your health), rather than away from your body (read: good for your health).