Recent content by scott91575

  1. scott91575

    The Quota

    It's not that simple. In order to put yourself in the best position to get a last hit it does take tactics. It's not just standing there, waiting for the creeps health to get low, and then clicking on them. One tactic is to click on the enemy hero in order to aggro the enemy creeps towards...
  2. scott91575

    The Quota

    The mechanic is not flawed. You just don't like. We understand that. My suggestion is for you to not play the game, move on, and stop belaboring a meaningless point.
  3. scott91575

    The Quota

    To the topic at hand, last hitting and denying are important tactics which can lead to more advanced tactics such as lane control, not just denying the other team gold and exp. If it's not for you, ok, don't play the game. Yet I personally think it adds complexity and differentiates the skill...
  4. scott91575

    The Quota

    All attacks have RNG. For Dota 2, melee creeps hit between 19-23 and the ranged creep 21-26. So the lucky side will have a creep left over (it's never the same side, it all depends on RNG). That will lead to momentum for that side (that left over creep will get some damage on the next enemy...
  5. scott91575

    DOTA

    The only piece of advice I can give to someone is don't start out actually playing the game. I know, I know, sounds stupid. Yet if you spend a little time either reading guides like Purge's "Welcome to Dota, You Suck," watching youtube tutorials, or watching some pro games it will be way more...
  6. scott91575

    League of Legends Developer Shows How Raging Loses Games

    Don't forget, correlation does not mean causation. It could be that losing causes more raging, not raging causes more losses. Obviously teams that are losing with have more losses, and when a team is losing players are more prone to raging. I am not stating raging is a good thing, just that...
  7. scott91575

    Movie Defense Force: Transformers

    Sorry Jim, I mostly disagree with you on this one. Sure, no one can hate Bay for being Bay. As South Park put it (in slightly different words) the fact he gets to keep making movies is simply proof god does not exist. Yet this movie is a steaming pile of crap. The robots do look bad, and...
  8. scott91575

    Broken Age Needs More Money

    This is the problem with crowdfunding. Most people don't understand there is a risk you will not see anything. It's an investment, and in all honesty, a poor one. I cannot believe people actually give their money to someone who has little to no accountability to provide anything. You don't...
  9. scott91575

    Escapist News Now: Fans Fight For Region-Free

    Another reason is there are different prices in different countries that take into account demand and they don't want to have to deal with demand fluctuations based on changes in currency exchange rates. With more digital distribution this becomes less of an issue since they don't take up space...
  10. scott91575

    Jimquisition: Why PC Gaming Gets Away With It

    My bad, I thought you shifted to why digital distribution took off after making a point about used games (guess I read it too fast). Yeah, used PC games were never big, ever. In the early days people used to just make bootleg copies like people would do with CD's and tapes. It was incredibly...
  11. scott91575

    Jimquisition: Why PC Gaming Gets Away With It

    That logic is pretty flawed considering DRM doesn't stop piracy. BTW...I lounge in a comfortable chair in front of a big tv while PC gaming. You are doing it wrong.
  12. scott91575

    Jimquisition: Why PC Gaming Gets Away With It

    I can't really speak for Gamestop 10ish years ago, but I know my local Best Buy used to have 2+ isles of PC games 10ish years ago. It was bigger than any current console shelf space (of course the PS2 was the biggest area since they dominated consoles at the time).
  13. scott91575

    Jimquisition: Why PC Gaming Gets Away With It

    Now I understand why Jim sounds so frustrated. It's not that DRM and no used games are part of the things he listed. It's the fact the plusses allow them to add in some negatives and still have it a net overall gain for many users vs. other platforms. It may not be ok for you, and that is...
  14. scott91575

    Jimquisition: Why PC Gaming Gets Away With It

    I left that out of my reply because you could do the same thing with new consoles (buy an old game made compatible for the new system). The point is buying the game new and play it forever without having to buy it again for the new compatibility. Buying from GOG is not the same. They have...
  15. scott91575

    Jimquisition: Why PC Gaming Gets Away With It

    If you have an old copy it won't run well on a modern operating system, but you can still get a copy of a current operating system that allows compatibility mode. There are ways to do it. It's not always easy, but there are ways. For consoles it's impossible. Just simply not going to happen...