Also known as snooggums on midwest.social and kbin.social.
We had a silly mod for Unreal Tournament back in the day for LAN parties that switched out the headshot theme for crotch shots. Whoever did the voice was spot on with the game’s announcer.
CROTCH SHOT!
CROTCH SPREE!
CROTCH RAMPAGE!
CROTCH DOMINATION!
Yeah, at the time I assumed that the people intentionally spreading in game were just trolling because there was no actual danger to themselves. Reality proved that tons of people are fine with harming themselves as long as they harm others at the same time.
Apparently the announcement was made in stealth mode.
I’m so sick of action rpgs including crafting or an endless list of slightly different weapons. Give me a small mix of situational weapons at most and let the gameplay be how difficulty works.
While additional cosmetic options can add variety and personal expression to the game
I guess if bragging about spending extra money to advertise for some company is personal expression, sure.
Yup, same bullshit they tried to use to justify forcing it on HD2 after release.
Unattainable achievements aren’t achievments, they are lies.
Some might be extremely difficult or tedious though.
An article about Joker 2 has the novelty factor of bombing as a sequel to Joker, which was a massive hit. They will got a lot more views on any one of those five Joker 2 articles than they will from multiple articles about a game nobody heard about.
More views = more money. It doesn’t matter whether something is more ‘worthy’ or not.
My point is mostky about people’s expectations and that people who want news on games probably aren’t interested in gaming articles from papers/major news sites and companies in general aren’t looking to advertise on gaming articles in the same way that makers of fashion would want to advertise in the theater section.
I really like this post btw, I never really thought about how sparse reporting on games is outside of dedicated sites.
That has more to do with New York having a thriving theater scene and a NY newpaper promoting a local thing that is popular with its readership and the companies that pay for advertising. It is something that sets NY apart from a lot of other locations, even if theater is pretty common in most areas.
Kind of a chicken and egg when it comes to games, since readers won’t be expecting games news in mainstream sources they don’t dedicate resources to writing the articles. That makes business sense because most people who are looking for game news already have a number of web sites to choose from.
John Carter didn’t get that much attention either, and what it did was mostly about the leadership changes in Disney tanking the advertising and not about the movie itself.
At one point I decided to get all the cars that I didn’t already have and used the auction house to get what was left. While i got most in under a week, there were still two cars that took a couple more weeks to find available even at 20 mil when checking twice a day.
Holy hell the interface is so terrible, and probably contributes to even more bots than if it was fairly straightforward to use. Car names aren’t consistent with the list of cars, there was no ‘cars not owned’ filter, and the nine buttons to place a bid plus the delay every time anything happened including being outbid made trying to get a deal nearly impossible.
Yup, streaks exist to encourage the feeling similar to a sunk cost, just like rewards programs.
It will benefit those that care and won’t negatively impact the experience for those that don’t.
Win, win.
“People who keep buying from McDonald’s despite an e coli outbreak are the real problem!”
Can’t even blame Blizzard, it’s the people who keep buying this shit that are actually the problem.
Blizzard is the problem because they are implementing the macrotransaction. The people who buy it are enablers but not the real problem.
Focusing too much on image detail improvements over game play is definitely a problem that most AAA games have.
What sites are still using image captchas and not “Click here if you are not a robot”?
I just realized I don’t surf the web randomly anymore, mainly because of crap like that.
This would work for a short while as long as the user knows their hardware.
That’s a good 'un!
Juntax? Who you want me kill?
It’s been a couple decades and I don’t know how it was spelled, but that’s what I remember hearing. Loved playing the Horde.