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  1. Posted

    7 hours ago, Kolzig said:

    Isn't Steep already out on other platforms? Kind of weird if it isn't coming out in the launch window. Ubisoft doing a classic EA move there?

     

    It's definitely on Steam. I think it's in official 1.0 now? I feel the same way about Skyrim, but even more. That game's a billion years old, there's no reason it shouldn't have been launch. I mean, of course there are a billion development reasons but logistically for the health of the console it should have been March.

     

    I don't know if they're trying to spread the games out so either the lineup doesn't feel so painfully thin OR so that people will be less likely to say there aren't any releases coming down the pipe, but the software situation feels even more dire to me looking at that infographic.

     

    Actually the Eurogamer article rings very true to me - it seems like a solid piece of hardware for what it is, but negatively compromised in like 4 different directions in a way that's so uniquely Nintendo, and then no software for it. I don't think it's going to be able to breathe like the 3DS did to eventually become a real juggernaut after an absolute crisis at launch.

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    Help I reinstalled Elite yesterday.

     

    I'm asking for the sun and the moon and the stars here - Is there any place that has a list of all the things that were added for Horizons? I don't need in depth descriptions or annotated change logs or patch notes, I'm just looking for "Here is what you can do and exists in Horizons that you can't do in base" and then I can dig into that stuff on my own.

     

    A secondary question is, I got a python and reasonably outfitted it and at the time they made that AI change I could not even be in low danger RES sites without getting my ass absolutely HANDED to me. From cursory looks, it seems like people are saying "Get a combat ship to do combat". I am not sure I want to deal with the power juggling of a Vulture, but I have and can get the resources to field a smaller scale fighter for bounty hunting. I'm looking for a recommendation. Should I fit up a Viper again? Should I refit my Asp for combat instead of the now-dead long range smuggling? Should I get *something else*?

  4. Posted

    I was definitely on the exact same Westworld trajectory as you all, but the last few episodes of the season definitely pulled it out of what could have been a catastrophic tailspin. I think they could have done the same composition of the world and the plot without some of the storytelling elements that were plainly unnecessary, but questions were answered and motives were explained in a way that satisfied me and made me interested in continuing to watch. So I end up disagreeing that it ended up overall being Bad Robot, but I'm also not in the same orbit of prestige television as you thumbs.

  5. Posted

    1 hour ago, SecretAsianMan said:

    I was excited to catch the start of the awful games block since it kicked off with my favorite runner PJ but part of the way into the run we had a power outage and I ended up missing everything :(

     

    Batman Forever was bad in exactly the good way you'd want.

  6. Posted

    You're playing two of my favorite games as a teenager back to back and your reaction is shocking me.

     

    You definitely should be able to deflect blasters with the lightsaber. I remember being essentially unkillable in the back third of the game, and it was more about how to force ballet your way through the game.

  8. Posted

    15 hours ago, Ben X said:

    I was asking badfinger what lines "allude to the desperation of getting the Death Star info in A New Hope", I don't remember any...

    I was convinced a non-bothans line was in A New Hope during the planning phase after they retrieve the death star plans, but I will grant that it's only my memory and I might have been filling in the dialogue myself.

  9. Posted

    On 1/6/2017 at 6:34 PM, James said:

    Pet peeve: They rely way too much on the phrases "it doesn't hang" and "it doesn't stick the landing". I know that it's hard, when talking at such length, to avoid falling back on convenient set phrases, and I'm sure I unknowingly am similarly repetitive, but when you notice it it does grate a little.

    I was less annoyed that they were saying it, and more annoyed that they just left it at that. "It doesn't hang with WHAT?" is what I would rhetorically ask my phone.

     

    Titanfall 2 would have probably won for me in many years. It's a great game that I keep playing. Maybe not last year, the Witcher inspired near-DOOM levels of enthusiasm in me, but definitely the year before.

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    In november I predicted 1. Doom, 2. Hitman, 4. Overwatch and 5. Titanfall 2 with the Witness on the list somewhere (with some hot mover jumping to 3 on the list), so this was weirdly something of a foregone conclusion to me. Obviously I didn't actually get those bang on correct, but if you hadn't listened to their deliberations and had just asked it has the air of believability. The way they selected the list made it seem like somewhat of a foregone conclusion to them as well.

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    8 hours ago, twmac said:

    I just finished all five days and overall I loved it. The passion about Lucky Palmer struck me as an important point to make especially among the GB fanbase that do have a lot of lulz types that probably think it is great that Palmer spent loads of money on that stupidity.

     

    The top ten was pretty painful but I appreciated how much our tastes differ. I hated TF2, I've not played Overwatch, and I thought Hyper Light Drifter was a complete missfire. That didn't stop me smiling as Dan tried to defend Star Dew Valley, despairing when people changed their votes for Overcooked as they realised it was getting too many votes and one of their other favourites might not make the top ten, and the horror that they were talking about removing Inside.

     

    Good fucking times and a great way to start the year.

     

    I thought HLD was a good to very good game that asked you to be pixel perfect but didn't hold up its end of the bargain. It was so close to being incredible but just didn't get there.

     

    The Palmer Luckey thing rang true to me. I know people have been on GB for not always being as progressive as they'd like to present, but having followed the site since 2010 they have made a lot of strides forward towards inclusivity and also for saying so out loud. Not all the time, but when things happen that need to be commented on they do so. I'm sure there are plenty of literal kids in the audience for them, but they don't seem interested in trucking with that kind of behavior.

     

    Now hire a lady.

     

    I also thought it was a crazy travesty that Doom didn't win GOTY, for them specifically. If it literally just had a single player it would have glory killed its way past any argumentation, but because id included multiplayer which was Just OK (not terrible) and snap map which is legitimately ambitious but doesn't quite hit the mark, there's somehow animosity even though they unanimously agree the campaign is the best FPS in literal decades. It ended up as #1 on either 3 or 4 of their personal lists. It's a very weird thing.

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    I would kind of love to see a full play of HLD rather than a speed run. There is obviously SO MUCH stuff I haven't seen even though I beat that game with more than the minimum necessary.

     

    The speed run will also be fascinating, but there are so many mysteries.

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    I'd agree for the most part. The skill of standing right between two textures or doing frame perfect walking forward out of bounds or freezing a menu to make a finite item infinite is more or less "invisible" skill that has to be experienced to fully appreciate. The glitch runs I appreciate most are the goofy stuff in between when there are 5 minutes to kill like the Mario Warp glitch trick or literally loading the ending of the game into memory by standing in the right block in Super Metroid.

  17. Posted

    On 12/31/2016 at 2:24 PM, Ben X said:

     

    Arrrgh! People keep thinking this is the story about many Bothans dying to get the information! That was regarding Death Star II (Mon Mothma says it in ROTJ).

     

    itsamoose - that video takes 6 minutes to say one thing, but the splitscreen of all the movies with the exact same fakey emotional moment was v good.

     

    They also allude to the desperation of getting the Death Star info in A New Hope, it's just not That One Line.

  18. Posted

    Ooh DOOM should be very cool. I saw a dude who routed any% nightmare inside of 90 minutes within the week it came out, so that's going to be absolutely fascinating.

     

    Looks like they have an interesting Ori run potentially set up based on Bid War. I'm also curious to see Salt and Sanctuary because I bounced off that game so hard.

     

    e: oh SNAP this is happening in the same place that SmashCon was in the summer. This is close enough I'm entertaining thoughts of going for a day.

  20. Posted

    On 12/31/2016 at 9:46 AM, ratamero said:

    Also, Dan is a 65-year old man when it comes to dancing. I found it almost adorable.

     

     

    Dan has the worst voice of anyone I've ever heard in my life who was singing earnestly.

     

    I agree with Brad, I was excited to have some Top 10 positivity, but they ended up having a teeny-tiny list and were struggling to add games to it on the third pass. I know it gets cutthroat but I like games being recognized, which is why I like what Alex does and goes to bat for their moment in the sun before being removed.

     

    I did think Alex's strategy of recognizing rather than fighting ended up biting him in the ass multiple times, but when I asked him on Twitter he said that wasn't the feeling in the room. He was there and I wasn't!

     

    I wasn't a huge fan of the yearbook stuff. I had to do extra work to explicitly avoid the fanfiction, there wasn't much substance (which is frankly what I go to waypoint to get), and I didn't like that.

  21. Posted

    I don't remember any particular difficulty spikes from MoH:AA, but I am literally humming the music to it. It does get tougher towards the end. I remember the sniper level, and of course Tiger Town.

     

    Are you going to play the first Call of Duty? It's a different take on a campaign from the same developers. I remember moving almost seamlessly from one to the next.

  23. Posted

    We saw this on Monday, and I think this is now an irrevocably locked and important part of Star Wars. Outside of the completely ludicrous against canon omg!!! way that there was a corvette attached to a Mon Cal cruiser as an escape ship, the way it weaves this story into the literal moments before A New Hope is brilliant. I disliked Darth Vader being sassy in his volcano fort, but his Darth Vadering right at the end of the movie was peak Vader and one of the best linking moments to the original trilogy. It felt very right and on tone. There's some contrived stuff in there- they play pretty fucking fast and loose with Star Wars' own admission of how hyperspace communication works, and the tension ratcheting of "our secret mission covert ship didn't respond for 35 whole seconds SCRAMBLE THE FIGHTERS" was weirdly out of place in retrospect.

     

    All in all though, great movie.

  25. Posted

    Auto Hosting is on your dashboard. I'm sure there's an easier way to manage this stuff, but this is the fastest way I've found to get to it. It's on the bottom right there. Hit the gear to manage your auto host options.

     

    You can literally autohost anyone. I could choose the top 50 streamers and autohost them if I wanted, as silly as that might be.

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