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    Games that haven't aged well.

    The notion that games can't age is idiotic. We improve our art, refine our tech, and do better. When you take Sly Raccoon and do an HD re-release, and fix the 1st game's camera, you have improved it. Moreover, you should improve it, because we've discovered better ways of doing things and can...
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    Games that haven't aged well.

    "He doesn't like things I like so I need a way to easily dismiss his opinion." - The Internet, 2017 Quod erat demonstrandum. Apparently not liking something a lot means that I'm just doing it intentionally to disagree with others, and doesn't mean that Ico was always a steaming bag of...
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    Games that haven't aged well.

    Oh gods, you were playing the original, not the Enhanced Edition? Why would you do something like that to yourself. Even in Enhanced that game's controls are still clunky, but mouse-look does make the affair much more bearable. I still love the game, though. There's just something about it...
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    Games that haven't aged well.

    Might I add "almost everything on the NES" to that? Much as the ideas from the N64/PS1 were refined into excellent games on the PS2 and its compatriots, the early "wild west" development on the NES led to an awful lot of utter garbage, whereas by the SNES we had a much better idea of how to make...
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    Zero Punctuation: The Last Guardian

    See, I thought Ico was an absolutely appalling game, so all these comparisons to it in both setting, controls and narrative do not bode well for me. You can coat your game in as much vague "atmosphere", as many camera sweeps and as much eye-searing bloom as you like*, but if your controls are a...
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    Agents of Cosplay: Just the Facts About Furries

    The video's not bad, but the tagline irritates me. Since when are we a cosplay subculture? Only about 20% of furries have suits, you know. There's a lot of other aspects to the thing. Additionally, I'm gonna go ahead and guess that most of the people spoken with in that episode ain't furries...
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    These Films Should Have Won "Best Picture," Rotten Tomatoes Says

    Ho-boy, you pushed my nuclear button there. I loathe Crash. That it got any kind of recognition beyond a "Can you believe this shit?" award is fucking astonishing to me. It's one of the least subtle movies I've ever seen in my life, and I'm including shit like Reefer Madness and Birdemic. The...
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    What has been your impression of bronies?

    I am indeed a furry type. I don't know that I'd say I was "driven to it", it's just a useful label. While generally speaking I try to define folks by their individuality before any particular label (and I often get irritated when people judge me by what they attribute to a label, rather than to...
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    Should I get Killing Floor 1 or 2?

    I would say go with 2. I've got ~500 hours in the first game, and to me it's a classic, but it's also coming to the end of its life. KF2, despite being built on much more recent tech, runs way better than KF1 does. It looks better, sounds better, is less glitchy - the only downside is it doesn't...
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    What has been your impression of bronies?

    Unintentional. I'm originally British, it just flows naturally. :-D Fair point, but given that some of the replies in the thread are "they're all fat sweaty creepy manchildren", etc, etc, I'd be remiss if I didn't offer at least some counter. Good! I am in total agreement with your...
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    What has been your impression of bronies?

    ^This guy, right here. Hello Escapist, I'm a brony. Le gasp! I'm male, pushing 30, and very much a fan of a cartoon show intended for the marketing of small plastic-coloured ponies. I can go into why, if anyone's interested, but I doubt that's the point of the thread. I'm pretty heavily...
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    Worst game you ever played that wasn't full of bugs/glitches?

    I'm probably going to get some shit for this, but I have two that I just can't hold in. First up... I fucking hate Ico. Before you start, I loved Shadow of the Colossus....mostly, but its predecessor is a dreadful game that somehow got lauded and praised beyond all belief. What's wrong...
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    Zero Punctuation: Batman: Arkham Knight - Being Rich Is a Super Power

    Actually it runs rather nicely for me, especially on Linux. For those of us in FOSSland, it's a welcome upgrade. It's rather a pity that the adverts have started blocking content, but I think priorities on this site are becoming pretty clear.
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    NX already up for pre-ordering

    Didn't stop them making the 2DS obsolete after nine months, or bringing out a new DS model every time they sneeze, or breaking compatibility with the DS range and basically not telling anyone in any significant fashion until the new console's sold ten million units and the punters have all...
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    What country's armed forces would you feel most comfortable fighting and killing in a video game?

    So long as the storyline gives what you're doing context, does it matter? I didn't mind killing Americans in The Line, I didn't mind killing Koreans in Homefront, and I didn't mind killing fellow Brits in Resistance because fuck my homeland. ;-) So long as there's a narrative justification for...