Recent content by Netrigan

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    New Tales from the Borderlands trailer

    Pretty much there to provide a bit of context and the odd laugh. It's designed to be a multi-player game, so there's only so much time players are going to want to deal with the same cut-scenes over and over again. For my tastes, the first Borderlands was just too light on story. It rarely...
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    New Tales from the Borderlands trailer

    From what I gather, TPS happened because they literally couldn't shove anything more into Borderlands 2 because of technical limitations. It's not unlike Halo: ODST in that it's a bit of a place holder. Gearbox didn't want to do Borderlands 3 too early in the console because of the smaller...
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    New Tales from the Borderlands trailer

    The trailers tend to be about the silly. On a side-note, of all the video game universes, the Borderlands one is the only one that makes me tempted to write fan-fiction. I like that it's not terribly well-defined, but has written itself a license to do pretty much whatever they want. One day...
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    French Politician: Assassin's Creed is "Propaganda Against the People"

    My read on the French Revolution (and the Russian for that matter) is the aristocrats were largely taking their lofty position for granted, ignoring very obvious problems facing the people, and not caring one bit about their lives (or deaths). Historically speaking, it was the nobility's job...
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    Ubisoft Responds to AC:U Criticism - Will Change its Review Policies

    Giving critics a look at your work prior to release is part of promoting the work, regardless of industry. Usually they follow the "there's no such thing as bad publicity" model and just use reviews are free advertising, since it let's everyone know their work is now available. The length of...
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    Poll: AC:Unity MACROTRANSACTIONS

    With skill points earned through missions.
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    Poll: So... Assassin's Creed

    So far, I'm enjoying it. Some issues, but no where near the bug-fest of the Fallout games. Free-running and climbing feels a bit sloppy, but they redid the controls and now that I'm actually using the right buttons (one button makes you go up, another down), I'm finding my problems with that are...
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    One Simple AC:Unity Question For Ubisoft

    Where do people get off trying to pass off an English actor as a French character? :) This reminds me of a complaint I saw many years ago when Garth Ennis was doing The Punisher. The Russian had showed up and was using English slang (notably "bloody") and a bunch of idjits got up in...
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    Just Cause 3 confirmed

    The second game had a shit-ton of DLC. Most vehicles, but some weapons, too. I think we'll be seeing that kind of thing... a lot. Saints Row III & IV and Borderlands 2 are dirty with it (guns, cheats, skins, etc.), but the core game still stands up without them. We're just going to be seeing...
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    The Big Picture: Don't Censor Me!

    More like a word we all agree to misuse... until somebody is trying to "win" an argument and trots out the technically accurate definition. Such as, disabling comments would fit the basic definition of the word... but then so does boycotts and the targeting of advertisers. The later two...
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    So that Borderlands: The Pre Sequel Ending (Spoilers)

    Doubt they go MMO, but I figure we'll see a multi-planet story with even more playable characters. I think Gearbox has said they don't have any firm plans, just that it has to br bigger and crazier.
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    The Big Picture: Remembering the Real Jack Thompson

    There's like 18 coversations going on. No one is ever having the one you want. I talk about game reviews, the other guy is talking about Sarkeesian. Someone is talking about harassment, the other person is talking ethics. Its a flame war writ large. As for it being the core demographic...
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    The Big Picture: Remembering the Real Jack Thompson

    There's been two years to pick sides. They've likely made their position on diversity known long ago (should be the same general mix of liberal and conservative in gaming as in general population). Several of these sites are decidedly progressive. Such as, its no surprise MovieBob sided with...
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    The Big Picture: Remembering the Real Jack Thompson

    On phone so I'm only responding to this bit. I actually haven't read the rest of your post so I may or may not respond later. I personally don't find 24 hours to be too little time for people to respond to the first articles with articles of their own. We'd been having this conversation...
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    Jimquisition: The 100% Objective Review

    One day, when you least expect it, Tiny Tina will hit you with her dildo laser for that. Then she will force you to eat Oatmeal Raisin cookied which you thought were chocolate chip.