Recent content by Gennadios

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    The Big Picture: Plothole Surfers

    I realize that I'm probably in the minority on here, but I see aggregate user reviews as a better indicator than critic reviews, and the user scores on Rotten Tomatoes/Metacritic paint a different story. Either way, I'm not shopping for an argument, which one of us is right won't be apparent...
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    The Big Picture: Plothole Surfers

    Any movie out there will have critics and analysis videos, but at the end of the fiscal year the only thing that matters is how the majority of viewers feel about the movie. The majority of viewers won't care about the water tension of the door in Titanic because they recognize it as a primarily...
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    Opinion: The Digital Future Might be Broken

    The funny thing about the Valve/Bethesda thing is that they're parting ways at a time when they are both falling out of favor. Bethesda isn't at the top of their game right now, Fallout 4 isn't being looked back at as fondly as Skyrim, and alot of good will was pissed away with their failed...
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    The Big Picture: MCU-Tants?

    As much as I'm against X-Men being merged into the existing MCU (I actually think mutants should be in a different universe altogether,) I think after the Sokovia accords you could kind of play the "all these people are getting their latent powers awakened, let's oppress them, Rawr" card without...
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    Escapist Under New Management (Again)

    Hope you figure figure out the revenue stream thing. Editorial staff that aren't paid very much; 1) Aren't very good at what they do 2) Become radicalized Gaming press as a whole seems to be struggling, even the likes of PCGamer have turned into complete this year. I'm really only...
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    Forum Parliament, official thread

    You don't create a parliament while the opposition is disbanded. Wait for Saelune to get de-banned first. I vote for EscExit from Defy Media as well as reintegrating exiled GamerGate fighters back into the fold.
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    Zero Punctuation: Fortnite and Dusk

    4 days until the end of January and still no Fuck You, It's January!
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    Zero Punctuation: Top 5 of 2017

    I'd actually place The Surge somewhere on my top 5. It's the only game I'm still playing. I keep meaning to buy one of the Souls games, and then remember that it has mandatory online functionality, and I know how mandatory online functionality works, you can't pay me to play a game like this...
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    Poll: A Drastic Measure to Save the Escapist - Mass Unbanning

    This suggestion is the equivalent of repopulating a devastated city by opening up the checkpoints to let zombies inside. Does anyone keep in contact with former users? Do we know if any of them would actually come back? If someone has contact info, EternalNothingness could be coaxed back in a...
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    Net Neutrality might end.

    The more I think about the internet, the more I'm beginning to realize just how responsible it is for the tail end of the Millennials and Gen Z coming out as fucked up as they are. Good riddance, maybe it'll get people to stop making up genders on the tumbler and twatter and go outside.
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    If you were raised today would you still be into gaming?.

    Well, I wouldn't know about mid 90's shooters, or Sierra adventure games, or the Infinity Engine RPGs. So sure, if I were raised today I'd be an over indulged, too much positive reinforcement baby that didn't know any better and I'd be slurping up whatever poorly written, loot boxed and...
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    Singleplayer games with microtransactions.

    I'm not trying to convince you, you're muddying the waters with unsubstantiating claims and links to things that aren't really relevant and I'm pointing that out for other readers that might be confused.
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    Singleplayer games with microtransactions.

    No it's not, it's a "warranty void of seal is broken" sticker on the back of an xbox. Breaking a TOS is grounds for them to suspend service or ban you from the game. They can't take legal action unless you profit from it, such as reselling the method of hacking to others. I'm sorry, but...
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    Singleplayer games with microtransactions.

    On the one hand, the devs want you to pay for that tat, on the other, you already purchased a license to do with the game as you please. If I buy a 1982 Betamax VCR there's no law that says I *can't* modify it into a VHS player, thus robbing Sony of the royalties that they'd receive from the...
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    Psychonauts in the Rhombus of Ruin

    Only 4mil? It took Timmy twice that to finish Broken Age, and that was an adventure game. Spinoff titles during a mainline game's development usually means trouble. Something along the lines of "please buy this throwaway game so that we have the money to keep the lights on." I'd be excited...