What's your pet peeve in RL?

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He was actually dead-on about EA, but once he got past that part it was just so factually wrong the video kinda fell apart.

It would take a nuke squarely landing on Nintendo and anywhere they held money to remove them from the industry, they have a warchest that could keep them going for 70 more years just based on how they produce games right now. Meanwhile Sony is selling real-estate to cover its massive debts. Additionally, used games make up about a quarter of Gamestop annual revenue, they recently reported as much. that's a bit less than his anecdotal 75%.

I don't think there will be an industry crash so much as a AAA crash. Dead Space 3 and Resident Evil 6 are considered financial failures when they sell 5 million copies. Nintendo sells 400k+ copies of Fire Emblem Awakening between the US and Japan and it was already a success before it left Japan. Atlus and Xseed can sell 50K of a game and be fat and happy and indies can skew even lower than that. It didn't take much for VVVVVV and Super Hexagon to make their money back.

I think its fair to say you could make a successful RE game on the budget you had for the series back on the PSX. Silent Hill and RE did better back in the days they had less horsepower and less budgets to play with.

Do you think budget has much to do with why stories in games seemed better than they do now? Seems to me that graphics are always the focus point now when some of the more enjoyable games I've played were indie platformers.

[Ketaru]

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Do you think budget has much to do with why stories in games seemed better than they do now? Seems to me that graphics are always the focus point now when some of the more enjoyable games I've played were indie platformers.

I often wonder to myself how well a game like Mario would sell if it were just made today. Many of the series' defining characteristics- Yoshis, Goombas, Magic Mushrooms, and the like- have the benefit of history behind them and are cultural icons. But if they were just made today? They would appear rather silly. As silly as something like Angry Birds. If Mario were made today, he'd probably be an indie platformer too.

To be fair the beginning and ending of a piece of media tends to hold greater weight than the stuff in the middle. The ending is the last impression you get of the game, so it tends to be important.

That is true. Still, I just find it amazing that the video used the series ending as the sole indicator the game itself is poor quality. Even including the ending, I think the series as a whole still has great replay value, which shouldn't be discounted for a playthrough that can take over 100 hours. It would've done better to focus on issues like Day 1 DLC's, which is a rather blunt solution to the problem of Used games.

[Yygdrasil]

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I often wonder to myself how well a game like Mario would sell if it were just made today. Many of the series' defining characteristics- Yoshis, Goombas, Magic Mushrooms, and the like- have the benefit of history behind them and are cultural icons. But if they were just made today? They would appear rather silly. As silly as something like Angry Birds. If Mario were made today, he'd probably be an indie platformer too.

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You're assuming in that scenario that Super Mario released into today's market with the same graphics as the original release? Or course it would be received as a wonky indy platformer. Today's gamers feed on ultra high graphics settings. Unless you can see Mario's plumber's crack and the individual hairs on his stress-induced receding hair line, the general populace is going to turn their noses up at it.

Unless the game released like this that is.

[Aksannyi]

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I'm on hold with USAA.

This is the second company in 2013 to arbitrarily remove my auto-debit, thus making my payment late.

Infuriating.

[Firewind]

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I can't remember anything from Friday night until now. Somehow I've managed to lose an entire week and have no idea what I've done since then.

[Armando]

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Sounds like the plot for a The Hangover movie.

[DakAttack]

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I can't remember anything from Friday night until now. Somehow I've managed to lose an entire week and have no idea what I've done since then.

Quoting just in case you've forgotten that you've forgotten.



Seriously, you should talk to a doctor about that.

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

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Do you think budget has much to do with why stories in games seemed better than they do now? Seems to me that graphics are always the focus point now when some of the more enjoyable games I've played were indie platformers.

I think the whole problem is everyone's trying to beat Call of Duty when that's just as problematic as trying to beat World or Warcraft. You can't beat something by being so much more like it. It never works. EA fucked up Medal of Honor's reputation to make it more like Modern Warfare rather than keeping it true to MoH's focus on WWII and historically accurate environments, a great single player campaign and multiplayer. It should have stayed that since CoD strayed from it.

Battlefield is a series that is different enough from CoD to do well in the face of it. It always had a focus on vehicles that CoD doesn't have and it something they continue to use and expand on. Its an excellent difference.

But what does RE gain by trying to have an entire leg of a campaign be like CoD when you play Chris Redfield? It gains nothing - it just moves it away from being Resident Evil.

[Ketaru]

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I can't remember the last time I called out sick. Always so much to get done at work, I often go in when I feel under he weather. Well, I called out today. Would have yesterday, but there was an important department meeting.

I feel guilty. Like I'm playing hooky or something.

[cidbahamut]

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Don't.

Lord knows we all need more days off than we get.

[Aksannyi]

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If I called off, I wouldn't feel guilty about the workload, I would just feel fear about my paycheck. I can't afford to call off or be sick, luckily, I am pretty healthy so it's not an issue.

[Ketaru]

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Ah right, forgot about something that happened yesterday. Was at a friend's house and his dog mangled my sneaker. I really liked that pair of sneakers too...

[Melody]

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I can't remember anything from Friday night until now. Somehow I've managed to lose an entire week and have no idea what I've done since then.

Sounds like a dog's life when they walk into a room, forget that they wanted to--Nevermind, wrong concept. But yes, get that checked out.

Pet Peeve for today, someone arguing how the Call of Duty and Battlefield Franchise are better than old classic arcade shooters such as Serious Sam, Doom Series, Quake Series, etc etc. That really bugged me, he kept basing his facts off the over pumped graphics and the gameplay style on how real it was compared to some of the Sci-Fi scenes set for those games. He also tried to say Veteran on Call of Duty is harder than Doom's last difficulty which is Nightmare, where enemies constantly respawn, move fast and you can't use cheats. I could go on, but I'll let someone else pick this topic up if they wish to.

[DakAttack]

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Pet Peeve for today, someone arguing how the Call of Duty and Battlefield Franchise are better than old classic arcade shooters such as Serious Sam, Doom Series, Quake Series, etc etc. That really bugged me, he kept basing his facts off the over pumped graphics and the gameplay style on how real it was compared to some of the Sci-Fi scenes set for those games. He also tried to say Veteran on Call of Duty is harder than Doom's last difficulty which is Nightmare, where enemies constantly respawn, move fast and you can't use cheats. I could go on, but I'll let someone else pick this topic up if they wish to.

I don't know who you were talking to but they've made me sad, angry, and bewildered in short order. I don't even know how to formulate a response to this. I can't stop worrying about this planet's future knowing there's people out there with such ill-informed and inexcusably wrong opinions.

[Aksannyi]

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Wow ...

Oh, I can get dental through work you say? Sure! At only $21 more a month than a field Officer! So not only do we make less than the Officers, but we also pay more for benefits. Um, what? That's bullshit. I get that as a collection of agencies (Ops works for the admin agency while the Officers work for the actual security agency, for liability reasons), we're under different rules and regs - but don't fucking send the Ops people the e-mail about both dental plans! Send us the one that applies to us!

Put it this way - $546 more a year for the exact same coverage. That's complete and total bullshit, right there.