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[GaltarDude1138]

I love the part where she says this is harmful to young woman. Because this idiot thinks that we are all sheep, and that all men will become Duke Nukem impersonators and all twin asain girl his willing whores.

Its like Inception with Irony. The first level of irony is the game itself, lampooning the idea of manliness. The next level is Fox blasting the game not because anyone of them really cares, but only because it gets their demographic in a froth. The last level is that people think that what we see in video games is what we become in real life, when pretty much everyone is able to separate the video game worlds we frequent from reality.

But...

What'll we find down there?

This was in response to Fox News calling out Duke Nukem Forever being sexist. A bad joke, I must admit, in comparison to the rather apt and well-thought-out analogy. But I had been frequenting the Escapist for months before making that first post, since I already knew how to post pictures in a post. And it seemed like a good idea at the time

 

[Vault101]

it was to do with the fallout 3 G.O.A.T. test

It was a while ago but I think I got somthing along the lines of "Trash disposal"...everyone else seems to have gotten somthing halfway decent.

strangly my spelling was better back then.

 

[Invadergray]

Anybody else watch "Flint the Time Detective?

A bit self-explanatory

 

[CAPTCHA]

Hire Richard Dawkins.

But should his services be called "Bust-a-God" or perhaps "God-be-Gone".

 

[Atmos Duality]

What a surprise. It was a topic about Project 10 Dollar, and my guesstimation of what it would bring.

Spoiler: *Time Machine ~Woosh~

It looks like the usual "how far can we go" routine.
Of course EA should try to test the waters with something enticing, then pull a bait and switch on the rest of their future releases once they know just how much they can milk this new gimmick.

Some of the other arguements I have seen or thought about..
1) It's bait for gamers to jump on board early. The "lower price" gimmick will work similarly as Rebate logic. EA gets their cut and reinvests it first to generate interest over the shelf life of the game, so 50 dollars at launch (that is, 60 dollars - 10 dollar DLC) will generate more income over time than someone picking the game up used and just paying the 10 dollars for the DLC. The gamble here is that the lower initial cost had better bring in more early subscribers or the strategy fails.
As for the DLC itself, well look at the DLC cost as simply a matter of "upkeep" for the potential loss created by the lower launch price.

2) It will become an excuse to release smaller core games with increasing amounts of DLC.
The ultimate difference here will be that the sum of the parts won't equal the sum of the costs (relative to previous generations of games, anyway). This means that the cost to produce 2 hours of gameplay will be far less than the entire experience for 60 dollars, and they can pace their dev teams better pre-launch if they sell a "shell game"; that is, less "rush time". Sticking to the schedule keeps upper management happy.

Fallout 3 gave me that impression already with Bethesda Softworks' bewildering ability to charge people 10-15 bucks to FIX the original god-awful ending for their game(but not the substantial list of bugs for PC players apparently). As someone has mentioned before, 2 hours of content is not worth 10 bucks. Not EA, but it is an example of DLC content : cost ratios being skewed.

3) This might be EA's attempt to ease the console market into the potential dark future that is subscription-centric gaming. Better known as "The Eternal Rental". In that regard, I hope Project 10 Dollar backfires miserably on them.

Hating EA. How original. *rolls eyes*

 

[Korten12]

Battleswarm: Field of honor. Human sides are TPS/FPS. and if your the bug side it becomes on RTS. Quite fun. its in its closed beta.

Huh... I wonder what happened to that game...

 

[CleverCover]

I'm a Collector then....and I'm dead.

'turns around last second to see light coming towards me'

Yeah, I'm de.....

Wow, it's really been only little over a year? Feels like I've been here forever...

This was for one of those forums just to get people typing I guess. Nothing really noteworthy.

 

[RedDeadFred]

Listening to Gary Jules Mad World. Woo hoo! My first post!

It was a thread about what helps you sleep.

I guess I was pretty happy to be posting.

Edit: and looking through that thread, it seems no one actually formally welcome me

 

[Andy Shandy]

My first post was to do with game soundtracks

Alan Wake had a pretty good soundtrack to it with Poets of the Fall to David Bowie in it...Children of the Elder God is brilliantly placed

I always liked the majority of the songs on the Burnout soundtracks as well

As for original music...Halo's is pretty awesome as is the Sonic games - in my opinion anyways. Anytime I hear Green Hill Zone or Starlight Zone it takes me back til when I was about 4 playing Sonic 1

 

[Lightning Delight]

Is it worth it to even pay attention to user reviews anymore? Both DA2 and Portal 2 have been flamed on every review site imaginable, but I loved both of them. Even something like Yahtzee's dislike of Bioshock 2 amounts to nothing but one user's preference. Sure it didn't have as good of a story as the first, and sure it wasn't as original, but it was still pretty fun. Its probably better just to play the game for yourself and judge it accordingly, and not let some random person who hates the game for a random reason spoil your fun.

As for all of the people complaining about game length, have they ever played Modern Warfare 2 or Star Wars Force Unleashed 2?

Just some talking about when some people got mad at Portal 2 and bombed it's megacritic review score. I still stand by everything I said. Well, I'd probably change a few things....

 

[Tucker154]

SELF DEFENCE MAN,SELF DEFENCE!!!If i dont kill them,they will kill me..........and its just a game......

It was a thread about feeling bad about killing enemies in games. Can't believe I've been posting on this site now for 3 years now .nd I only have 550 posts.

 

[Soluncreed]

I would like to go as No Face from Spirited Away. All I have to do is make the whole costume and figure out how to see.

Wow. That was quite awhile ago. I remember wanting to do that. Shame it never actually happened....

 

[Lionsfan]

Talking about a Mass Effect 2 movie, and wow, has it really only been 2 years? I feel like I've been posting here forever....

There's only one way it would be good, no Bay, no Boll, and no rehashing of the same story we know every plot twist/outcome/consequence to

 

[babinro]

The forum was titled: Since when was this total shit? My post was as follows:

I consider the original Diablo to be all but unplayable these days.

The original Command & Conquer got that feel after having played Red Alert 1, or Generals years later.

Pretty much any pixelated shooter has become a nightmare regardless of nostalgia. Doom, Doom 2, Golden Eye etc.

 

[Zorpheus]

I love how people are seeking mysteries and depth in a PORN GAME.

The purpose of the game is thus:
1) You create something that looks visually appealing to you.
2) You jump through some arbitrary hoops to simulate some semblance of a 'game' including a girl with a basic persona and flimsy inhibitions so it doesn't feel like you're having sex with a cardboard cutout.
3) You have sex with the visually appealing girl and, while you do so in game, stimulate yourself in real life because of, well, the visual appeal.
4) You finish and then put the game away until the next time you're horny, starting at Step 3, or 2 again if you want something or someone different.

Depth? Emotional attachment? Gameplay? A horny male seeks not these things. To look for them in a 'game' like this, I'd sooner call you the looney one. This entire 'game' is really no different than free porn samples on the Internet or magazines under your bed except for a bit of extra input on what you spank to. And if you say this 'game' is bad, you might as well say all pornography in general is bad. Either way, it is best to stop pretending this is a mass market high-gameplay game which should compare to gameplay-centric games like GTA and has 'deep disturbing meanings about human behavior'. Please leave your psychology books closed. You're all thinking way too much.

This was in response to an Escapist article which tried to say there was a disturbing psychological message behind Artificial Girl 3, a porn game from Japan.

What can I say, other than that I like calling things like they are.

Ironically, this is post #150 for me, talking about the first post I made...

 

[twaddle]

the topic was our expectations for the year 2010.

american rappers, instead of speaking up and becoming the role models by raping about politics or social reform or bringing up and working together as a community, will continue to rap about how you have to get yours along with bitches and hoes as well as that getting money and stacks and smoking weed and drinking and partying.(Surprise!) iron man 2 will come out and will be considered...a decent movie. not a great movie but a decent movie.

 

[Vern]

How time flies. The topic was favorite videogame character.

"Doomguy, because he fought off numerous legions of unholy demons from beyond the void between worlds, and never said a word. And then sacrificed himself and stayed behind in Hell to make sure demons would never invade Earth again. Plus he was the original over powered badass space marine. Take that Master Chief.

Followed closely by Caleb, from Blood. Snappy one liners, both original and ripped from army of darkness wrapped in a cool trench coat, cowboy hat, and two sawed off shotguns. Plus he was a zombie, which adds a good 10 cool points. To quote Caleb "It's howdy doody time kiddies, the bad man is here."

And you know, three and a half years later, I still feel the same way.

 

[Jedoro]

SSV Normandy

Thread was about your favorite ship. My answer has since changed to Serenity and I regret nothing.

Also, I think I've had the same avatar this whole time.

 

[Jake0fTrades]

"Well I blame a lot of people for the state of the video game market but not nessecarily me in particular. YES occasionaly I get lost in the madness of decapitating enemies to the music of Linkin Park but all in all a good story goes a long way. Even if the game is repetetive a good storyline may be able to save its ass. Halo 3 I found awful because it didn't keep me interested despite the fact its all adrenaline based action. And the same follows with a lot of games. The creativity is much more important then the action by far."

I used to like Linken Park? Things do change!

My grammar was atrocious.

 

[holy_secret]

There are three things I look at when I see a person for the first time.

1: Eyes
2: Lips
3: Ass

Expressive eyes are so incredibly beautiful I go crazy when I see someone with eyes like that. Like my best friend. He has eyes that were given to him from god himself.

Really. The world needs to know how the worlds most beautiful eyes look like. I'll post a picture of him or something

Something I really like in a woman is their voice. Raspy voices are to prefer (Like Julie Benz).
I never thought the same about men, till I heard Kaidan speak on Mass Effect. Gah <3

It was made in a thread about what attracts you to the opposite gender.

I feel exactly the same way then as now