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Call of Duty campaigns are significantly different in form from something like Mass Effect. There are no substantial character relationships. It's more similar to a Borne movie. There is lots of military-jargon mixed with secret operation reveals and bombs to diffuse and such. It's JSOC-fantasy with super high-end military equipment and small clandestine squads.

Game Critique Club has been hosted over on the makega.me forums, but that forum is shutting its doors or changing its administration. Either way, we needed to move elsewhere so here we are. We've gone through two submissions thus far: April 1st-14th: Cartas April 15th-29th: Leaving Ur The remaining submissions are scheduled as such: April 29th-May 13th: @marek May 13th-27th: @racarate May 27th-June 10th: @SuperBiasedMan June 10th-24th: @GerbilsInSpace June 24th-July 8th: @sergio The plan is to used this thread as a hub for organization and administration and to link to the individual submissions and their discussions. As a reminder, you do not have to submit a game in order to contribute to the discussion. Onwards!

You know what would be awesome? Let me tell you what would be awesome. What if you could record map-specific routes you take in your titan and then you can replay that route when not in the titan. Basically you could set up crazy stunt paths where you jump out of your titan, run through a few buildings and jump back into your titan if you time it well. Just being able to make a way-point for your titan to go to would be nifty.

Have they said anything about improvements to the Attrition mode?

R.I.P. CoD

http://www.vox.com/2015/10/19/9565119/democrats-in-deep-trouble

This is a useful discussion for me.

I kinda view the Green Party vote this way. It sounds like I'm joking, but I'm not. I voted for Cynthia McKinney in 2008 because of my disillusion with politics.

What would be the point in voting with a blank ballot?

I'm playing a game of Civ5 right now and enjoying it again after a pretty long break. I'm basically a 4-city nation bordered by the northern pole. We specialize in fur and culture. Every city has an opera-house because we love music. My favorite story from this match started when I ended up at war due to a defensive-pact. There were two great prophets from a foreign religion in my borders when the war started so I immediately captured them thinking that I would be able to use them to spread my own nationalist religion. Nope, even though I gained control over them, they maintained their faith. So I ended up sending them to the other side of the world to proselytize to the holy-cities of other powerful religions. Vienna's religion has now been spread across the globe largely because of this series of decisions. I love that there is an island city-state that has no allies that is now following the religion from a country they would have never known about if not for my banishment of these great prophets. Faith works in mysterious ways.

Is it always the same debate? I'm really concerned by how willing she seems to be to use the military to overthrow foreign leadership. I'm still going to vote for her, but I'm distresssed by this compromise. Is that the issue Bernie supporters usually bring up about why they don't like Clinton?

Do you feel like you are getting stomped both when queueing solo and when in a group Dewar?

Here's an interview that talks about the upcoming ranking system, balances to D.va and McCree, changes to pog, and the pace of new heroes and maps. http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2016-06-07-overwatch-blizzard-answers-the-big-questions

Does everyone sound stoned when you slow their voice down? I didn't know that.

Here's a video of the match against the army of Mei's. Sorry that the sound is low, I didn't know I would want to record before the match started so I didn't set the levels correctly.

I just played a game where the defending team on Numbani all played as Mei. It was hilarious. They won. Not everyone was happy though. I'm looking forward to a ranked-mode so that people that take the game seriously don't have to play with casuals like myself.

I enjoyed that discussion about the use of the term "anime" in critique. Looks like it took a lot out of y'all, but I learned a lot. Thank-you to all who participated. Also in case it is unclear this is not a sarcastic comment. I hope the clarification doesn't sound sarcastic. Oh well.

For what it's worth, when I watched gameplay videos it looked way too fast. When I play it feels like a managable speed (with the exception of playing Genji and Tracer). I don't know if you'd like the game, but that was one personal misrepresentation I had based on watching videos.

https://gfycat.com/SimilarUltimateAmericanwigeon I did not know that Lucio could do that. Also I just found out that A.I. matches include random people on your own team. That's a nice option

Hanzo's ultimate?

I'm in the perfect mood to play through Perfection this morning. I started watching episode 1 of Agnes Varda's and quickly became overwhelmed by the intensity, awareness, and significance of her work and the work of those she involves herself with. Then I came across that has an artism to it without the timeless quality of Varda's observations; it still has a lot of intention to it like a student art-film with a budget that got lucky with their soundtrack. I then wanted to share the music-video without fully recommending it; this is an emotion I feel frequently as I find myself appreciating work that has something to express without the tools and/or ability to capture and communicate it fully. I'm not suggestion that Perfection is such a work, I'm suggesting that this morning-coffee experience of bouncing around the spectrum of artistic-worth with personally verifiable feelings but no empirical foundation, is relevant to Perfection.The protagonist has a name and it's implied that Sam has a past, but for the most part Perfection is made out of generalities about creative-process mostly consisting of platitudinal terms of encouragement and nihilistic psuedo-rationales for dismissal. Instead of progress in the game consisting of details that fill out whatever Sam is manifesting, we know we are making progress with a new set of unspecific ambitions and a set of summarized self-doubts; neither set tells us anything about Sam or the work, everything we learn is from the format and theme. Choosing a perspective that sees the current state of work (within terms of glamorous depictions of an artistic genius) rolls us into another moment where we have the option between it again, or cynicism. Choosing a phrase that depicts a moment where Sam has lost momentum resets the game entirely. The results of the dichotomy weights it heavily. The good-ending suggests that all of these failed cycles are informing another attempt. This is never the actual case within the game though; It's implied that I should be encouraged, knowing that the next attempt is informed by all the previous failures, but in reality I know that I'll end up going through another non-conclusive cycle that results in nothing but increased experience within that cycle. I never end up with a sense that something is actually being created. So in essence, Perfection is communicating to me that the relevance of artistic work is purely the sense of progress during the process in which nothing can possibly be produced.

I stopped saving up for skins and just started buying non-skin stuff I like. It feels nice to personalize my characters a bit.

I'm wondering if the diplomacy in Civ 6 will be much different. I don't want complexity as much as I just want a sense that the heads of the other civilizations have a lot of personality and I want to discover bits of intrigue that genuinely surprise me.

Reaper needs voice-lines like "Sticks and stones will break my bones but words... will never hurt me." And "I'm rubber and you're glue, whatever bounces off of me... sticks to you."

I played the all Hanzos and Genji Arcade-mode on Hanamura. It was interesting. I am not very good with Genji, but I did some stuff with Hanzo that felt bad-ass. Also one of the POGs was Genji deflecting Genji shurikens from two Genjis and killing them both with the deflect.