Febuary 2014
That's what the person I was actually responding to was advocating.
I don't have to to be aware of the horrible performance problems either in general or on specific hardware, incompatibility with mods, forced v-sync, ect. I do this thing called research before I buy games.
If you're not willing to tell companies to ****k off when they do things you don't like, you are the problem. I'm not dealing with EAs or Ubisofts online only DRM masquerading as a client requiring me to be online for single player experiences.
GoG is flat out better in just not allowing DRM, but at least Steams offline mode actually works for everything that isn't an mmo and clearly marks online only games so I can just not buy them.
It has nothing to do with the logo and everything to do with Origin (and Uplay) as clients. I strongly prefer GoG because the client is a non-issue, I use it if and when I want. Origin is infested with games that only work online, I refuse to support such a practice.
No. No, no, no, no nononononononono.
I did not buy a $900 PC and I do not continue to upgrade and maintain said PC so that I can be stuck with unmofifiable (and poorly working) UWPs and controllers in a locked down MS environment.
I'm not installing Orgin no matter how hard they push. Either it's on GoG or Steam (in that order) or I don't buy it.
BS.
No, it's not a privelage. If straight people get to be married and legally become 1 family so then under the 14th ammendment (equal protection under the law) then so do gay people.
That doesn't change that 40% of the US is against gay marriage and with whatever the new supreme court justice is they have a reasonable chance of actually overturning that ruling.
There is a reason I said to greator or lesser extents and the &q...
The same rights everybody else has?
Marriage in the specific case I'm talking about at 40%, but also housing and work (in like 22 states it's legal to fire or evict people for being gay and 38% of people are against laws to change that,) to serve in the military, to not be thrown in prison, to not be thrown out of stores or restraunts, in extreme cases to be allowed to live. You know, the basics, which large percentages of the country are actively trying to deny lg...
No, you're wrong. I'm not one for playing into a victim cult but about 40% of US citizens are against gay rights. A majority don't care maybe, but to claim a vast majority is factually incorrect, at least here.
Some of them are. I have a cold right now. But then some straight people are sick too so I'm not sure what your point is.
Unless you mean to say that being LGBT is itself a sickness, in which case you should know that just about every scientific body that studies medicine disagrees with you which means your opinion is likely factually wrong and even more likely uneducated.
Do you mean the people who wrote the article, the people who figured N4G was the best place for it, or the evil bastards atempting to turn what should be a force to bring people together into a tool to divide and oppress?
I have a dim view of all 3 for very different reasons. We should be less upset that they're desacrating jigglypuff and more upset that they're open bigots litterally advocating that we put lgbt people to death, why is this on a gaming news site whe...
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It's more important to me to explain why I disagree than to merely state it. That I disagree is not useful information to anyone, but why I disagree (wether I'm correct or not, though in this case I am) is useful information to anyone interested in the discussion and perspectives. I've never once clicked the dislike button (or downvote or neg rep or whatever system that whatever site happens to use) without explaining my point unless someone else has al...
You know they can just scale down the encounter rate of low level enemies as you level up so you don't fight enemies that are just a waste of time?
yeah, I'm not reading all that. It's very clear you have a huge issue with basic forms of reasoning. I'm just going to disagree with it without reading it.
People didn't paint by choice, they just didn't have cameras. Or maybe, they painted to create the best art they could *BY PAINTING* and photographers are doing something completely different. If we'd had cameras earlier then some painters might be photographers instead, but we wouldn't have g...
Riddle me this condescending douchebag man: What technological limitation was necessitating turn based ecounters over what Zelda or First Queen did in the 80s?
Answer: There wasn't one. We've had the tech for in field enemies, AI parties and action combat for 30+ years. It hasn't been a technical limititation since like 1985, it's been a deliberate choice to provide a specific type of experience. They decided the turn based systems were a better fit for the...
Hi, I'm Dragon Slayer 2, I've had real time combat since 1986. Hi, I'm First Queen, featuring AI controlled party members since 1988.
Why more than 20 years after these games used tech to invalidate any need for turn based combat even in party RPGs do games still use it? Good question. Maybe it's because it has something to do with being a design choice to provide a specific type of experience.
You do know that's an issue with encounter rates right? Not every game with random encounters is Skies of Arcadia levels of obnoxious.
Also battles that aren't random =/= enemies you can see on the field. Chrono Trigger, for example, regularly hides enemies so you couldn't have known they were there until they jump you, but doesn't have random battles.
No. Random battles are a design choice. Games like Persona (and Tales and probably many others) have been using amorphous blobs to represent on the field enemies for over a decade, Chrono Trigger only had battles in specific places and no random battles at all, ect. There are specific reasons to go for random battles, just as there are specific reasons to go for the amorphous blobs.
1) They're random. It's far, far, far easier to keep combat encounters interesting a...
All of those arguments can and do apply to non-random encounters, it's a simple matter of enemy density.
Also no, any decently balanced RPG is careful about EXP per battle ratios to avoid the need for much grind (and yeah, despite their reputation most games with random battles have been pretty good about that since like 1995,) so the EXP is almost always worth it.
It's already playable people. I could go buy the disk right now, put it in my PC and play the game, it's just that the sound doesn't work. If you disagree you're just being stupid.
Seems like a low bar tbh.
Granted I've only played Symphonia, but people like to scream about that being the best and it was impressively mediocre.