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'Soulsian' reminded me of this video which tries to introduce that word

It hasn't influenced the gameplay? My second hand impression was that it had. I would hope that it would to some extent, but at the same time I think that's more about capturing the feel rather than being nitpicky about this or that weapon (which again of course has its place).

I don't know why anyone would expect historical accuracy from Battlefield. Using late war weapon prototypes is pretty much the name of the game. And don't take that to mean you shouldn't have high expectations for certain things, but historical accuracy isn't necessarily good or bad and considering the type of ridiculous game that BF is I think it's a misplaced expectation.

In German there is the word Beißkorb which doesn't mean what a Swede would think it does haha (it sounds like bajskorv which means turd lit. shit sausage). Also the old meaning of rolig still exists in a way in orolig (worried). I moved to Austria this month and have been trying Duolingo myself to brush up on my German. I'm not sure I like the way it tries to teach you grammar through pattern recognition instead of being more explicit about the rules. I've heard the website version is much better, but unfortunately I'm without a computer for now so I'm stuck using the app. The biggest issue is that it doesn't make you write enough, which I understand because typing on a phone sucks. But it's really not good at helping you remember the genders of nouns, which you need for every conjugation. Memorising the conjugations is a much smaller task than the genders IMO. Memrise is better for that but I'm not loving either. I think I learn more from textbooks, translating newspaper articles etc. I mean, the sort of passive learning Duo tries to do totally works but it requires a lot of volume and I'm not sure it can provide that. At least the app can't because it's kinda frustrating to use for long periods of time. Gonna try to start a course asap, just want to be competent enough to start at A2 or something so I'm not wasting my time and money.

Bought my ps4 last year, no way I'm buying a new one already. I would much rather spend that money on PC parts. The thing I'm most interested in is how this will affect the performance of games on regular ps4s going forward.

Over the years I've become more and more convinced that Spector never had as much to do with Deus Ex being great as people tend to give him credit for. The way he talks about his work just gives me the feeling that he's out of touch with what was great about it. His involvement in this makes me more worried than reassured. The last two games he worked on weren't exactly stellar. Idolising designers is a bad idea anyway and is probably part of why Ion Storm failed. To be honest though I'd be more excited about John Romero's next game because he had to live down his failures and has something to prove.

How are the NPCs in this game? I watched some of the original recently and all the bums and beaten down characters stood out to me, in a good way. They're not there to service the player or the plot, they're just ambiance but it works really well. You don't see 'ugly' characters like that in games a lot unless they're a major character, you know like the drunk guy singing in Battery Park. In Human Revolution it felt like every NPC had something to say about augmentation, and it was too on the nose, in classic video game fashion. They weren't a part of the world, they were a part of the game if that makes sense.

I wonder if Multibowl could argue fair use if they only show short snippets of old games. Mass Effect 3 had a slow piano + horn song.

I think the simplicity is nice too, but in such a long game you start to miss some of the stuff they removed after a while. I'll be curious to hear what you think after you're done with it.

Video talking about why Deus Ex is good and stuff if you're in the mood for that

You're right and I don't think someone should be crucified based on circumstantial evidence. My takeaway from all this is just that I won't trust what Murray says in the future. To be honest, I didn't trust him when he talked about multiplayer over a year ago. Who bookends every statement about the multiplayer they claim to have with the suggestion that no one will ever see it? What 15 man development team spends their time implementing multiplayer that no one will ever use? Not only is it a huge waste of resources, it seems like a QA nightmare as well. In the end, we all have to make up our own minds and when I read the quotes in an article like this then look at when it was published I know what my takeaway is.

Nice, gonna read that tomorrow. I came across this video on Dark Souls, making an analogy to Kafka (actually found it by googling Dark Souls and Kafka haha). I'm not 100% on board with everything he says but I think it's worth watching.

I tried to watch that launch trailer the other day and I had to turn it off half way through. Just made me feel disenfranchised with the whole video game business, like it's really not for me anymore. I'm guilty of being too quick to judge things, but the few lines delivered in that trailer were enough to put me off and dismiss the writing in this game. Now the reviews are out and people don't seem happy with that aspect of it. Look, I know Deus Ex is in many ways a mess of a game, with some atrocious voice acting and writing that sometimes is almost comically bad. However, it was still a much smarter game than DX:HR and, being the cynic I am, I'm convinced that it'll prove to be smarter than DX:MD as well. It also had a lot of personality, and quirky stuff that actually made some of the bad parts endearing. It's been 16 years since it came out, I want to play games at least interesting as the ones I played when I was 13. I'd like to think today's 13 year olds are interested in playing something thought provoking as well. Maybe they're not. I watch that trailer and I honestly don't know who this game is for, which probably means I'm out of touch. I complained about it somewhere else and the post above me had a gif from the trailer and said something about Jensen being a badass. Someone wants that I guess. Me though, I've had enough power fantasies for a lifetime I think. I grew up, but the games didn't. Not these ones anyway ( ). Am I just the old man yelling at clouds? Despite all my whining I know that this will probably be one of the more mechanically ambitious AAA games released for a while, but that only makes it worse.

If you are willing to give him the benefit of the doubt, then the vagueness could be what they talked about on the cast; the game simply being hard to describe. I get why the thumbs crew would be willing to grant him that, but I find it hard to in the face of all the other stuff. Why go on stage at E3 and explicitly say, unprompted, that you're picking a planet at random when in fact it is pre-made? Why? Why put your not at all representative trailer from two years ago on the front of your Steam store page? I can neither understand nor stand that kind of lying. Maybe it's just a personal hang up I have about lies. Anyway, I also think the ways in which they talked about the game being a simulation seem disingenuous in retrospect. I find it hard to believe that they were actually ever making the game where the planets' orbits are simulated, where each star in the night sky is a solar system you can fly to, where the warp drive isn't just a loading screen but actually simulated traversal etc. If you're making a simulation then even if you end up having to strip some things out, there will still be signs that you were making a simulation because it's a pretty different approach to making a game. This is game with static planets and where the sun is part of the skybox. Now that might not matter all that much in terms of the play experience, but don't try to tell me it was ever anything but that. The reason I think it matters is because of the possibility space that deeply simulated games have, and that is what they were trying to sell people on. If they simulated planetary motion someone would at some point see a solar eclipse, they'd put that shit on youtube and just knowing that it could happen would increase other people's appreciation of the game.

Anyone here picking this game up? It's a new city builder from the people who made Cities in Motion that comes out today. Everything I've heard about it so far sounds great. As to be expected from those guys it seems like it has a big focus on making traffic flow well. Sadly I think I need a CPU upgrade before I can play it, otherwise I'd be jumping on it. The only discouraging things I've heard is a slight lack of building variety since it's made by a small team (there's steamworks support though) and apparently there are no disasters. Boo! Can't have it all. Here's a review And a neat roundabout: Some additional screens:

I still browse the web like it's 2005. I barely use any browser extentions, don't use a password manager and recently I found out that a lot of people sync their bookmarks and even their tabs between different devices. Maybe that's useful, I dunno, but I hardly ever use bookmarks and I'm not a fan of keeping a gazillion tabs open at once anyway. Am I getting old, or is it just that I don't take my browsing seriously enough? I only visit the same half dozen sites over and over.

Hah, well that footage still plays on the Steam store page

Had to haul my CRT out of my apartment because I'm moving (yes I still have a CRT). Damn thing weighed 26 kg lol

They didn't pitch it that way though, did they? (I'm asking)

So Clyde, what k-dramas would you recommend?

There's actually a free game on Steam called Endless Sky that is more or less a copy of Escape Velocity

It was a good final. The VOD is on youtube now:

I think to enjoy a game like Morrowind you have to get sucked into the world and I think that was easier 15 years ago when a fully explorable 3D world like this was a mindblowing thing. It's a pretty big step up from just playing with your own imagination. Playing it today though there are so many impediments to getting immersed. I don't think it's hyperbole to say that Morrowind has some of the worst combat in any (otherwise decent) game ever and it has a leveling system that encourages you to spam jump until you get carpal tunnel.

Yeah, IU has a good voice. I remember seeing this video of hers ages ago I like how she's just mimicing the sounds, because she doesn't know enough English to sing the actual lyrics. Takes me back to being a kid and singing along to stuff on the radio It doesn't seem like a problem unique to k-pop, but rather an issue with how they treat their kids over there and the expectations they place on them. They have the highest rate of suicide in the developed world. Anyway, Korean is on my list of languages that I want to learn. If only it weren't so long :[