Recent content by mgs16925

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    Toys - A Fairy Tale about Drones, Surveillance, and Escapism

    "When Leslie finally decides to do something about it, he sneaks into the cordoned off area and finds dozens of school kids playing what appear to be advanced videogames. These kids are piloting the drone fleet built by the general. They are blowing up cars and houses, racking up points for...
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    Rumor: No Single-Player DLC Coming for Mass Effect: Andromeda

    Huh, I'd always assumed they had lots of story DLC planned. The story in the main game doesn't really get started until almost the end, I thought it got cut out to be sold back later.
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    BIoware Says "Something is Happening with Dragon Age"

    I'm fairly certain that was the joke.
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    Bioware's New IP is Shared-World Action-RPG Anthem

    So is the Dragon Age Bioware, the Old Republic Bioware, or the Andromeda Bioware? I lost track when half the original team left and they gave the name to three different studios.
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    Destiny 2 to Ditch Grimoire Cards, Keep Lore In-Game

    The stuff they mentioned in the Cracked article is mostly from the Books of Sorrow cards, just google it. It gives the Hive's backstory mostly. You should probably take the Light vs. Darkness/Deep thing with a grain of salt though, the game and grimoire both make heavy use of unreliable...
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    EA "Embarrassed" by How Good Its 2017 Releases Will Be

    Ok, a lot of people seem confused by this so here's the explanation: They didn't randomly skip 2016. These games are all coming out in 2016 or early 2017. EA's fiscal years start in April of the calendar year before. The Gamespot article which is linked in the end of this article as a source has...
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    Ashes of the Singularity Preview - RTS to the Core

    It's 49.99 right now, so nope.
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    8 Bit Philosophy: Does Science = Truth?

    You know, Nietzche did have further thoughts on this. Almost the entirety of his work, in fact. Ludicrously simplified version: objective meaning doesn't exist, make something up.
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    The Big Picture: Age of Heroes

    Honestly, what I think is going to kill the genre is the budgets. One of these doesn't have to bomb to make a loss, it just has to not be a worldwide super hit.
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    Game Theory: Why Final Fantasy is Anti-Religion

    Killing false or evil gods is a standard sci-fi and fantasy story. Hell, the Stargate franchise is built on it. Doctor Who does it at least once a season. The Archdemon from Dragon Age is a god, the Reapers from Mass Effect are insulted by the comparison, and the entire Greek pantheon is wiped...
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    Beauty and the Beast Getting a Live Action Adaptation

    So after they made Maleficent into a *SPOILER* rape revenge epic that completely tore the original Sleeping Beauty into little bitty pieces I assume this movie will be a disturbing look into the Stockholm Syndrome implications of the original. Honestly that sounds awesome, sign me up.
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    The Big Picture: With Great Power

    Just because the mainstream is currently looting nerd culture for entertainment IP doesn't mean anything has changed. We're not the new arbiters of culture, we're the people who liked Disco before it was popular and soon will be the ones seen as living in the past because we still like it when...
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    Mass Effect 4 and Dragon Age: Inquisition to Share "Core Systems"

    Dude, the Templars were all insane or incompetent too. Their crackdowns mostly hurt the innocent, while the real nutters got away easily and it fell to a band of mercenaries (the player party) to take care of them. The entire point of the story was that sometimes situations are so fucked even an...
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    Poll: Dragon Age Origins - Which companion did you romance?

    Sten. It's there, you just have to know what to look for (and Qunari don't associated love with sex). He has a side one with Shayle though.
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    How can WoW still justify a subcription model?

    It took you twenty years into a franchise that started as a blatant copy of Warhammer to notice that it's creatively bankrupt? It's never been all that creative, it rips off dozens of sources and mixes them up regardless of whether it makes any sense. We just don't care because it's AWESOME.