I saw an Alpha of this game at gamescom last year. Looked really fun back then already., with lots of destruction and chaos just like in Just Cause, but in a more cinematic feel from JC2. Was wondering where it had disappeared off to, heh... Really hope it's there again next month!

Whilst I agree running away isn't a solution, accepting the problem as some de facto reality isn't a solution either. I find it mind boggling how some people can be on the internet (or in general... I can be a cynical misanthrope sometimes), and I'd really like to think we can create a future where that happens less.

Don't forget the only good 15 minutes of The Other Guys.

40 minutes driving like a mad man. Wonder how long it would take if you drove normally, heh...

I watch and play bot matches to get to know the heroes better. But that knowledge is only so I understand what's going on at a glance.

Hey, that's a former classmate of mine. Really cool to see it featured here. His recent work combining surrealism and virtual reality is quite fascinating. He's going to be at gamescom in Cologne next month too, if anybody else is going.

No car reflection. 1/10 wouldn't play.

Just like last year, the general reaction is that this is a little on the high side. Why exactly is anyone's guess. Perhaps because a lot of the respondents live in areas with higher-than-average living costs? (Cali, Silicon Valley, perhaps)

I'd have to check the statistics, but even though the heroes were picked often, they still lost a lot of the time. Many of the teams that picked very diverse line-ups were sadly eliminated early (C9, LGD, NaVi)

Knowing 4chan, I'd give the counter-argument "they probably made a post for every possible outcome" more credit.

Same picks? Were you watching the same tournament? Pretty much every hero in the game was picked throughout the playoffs and main event.

Indeed, which is especially weird given the amount of great matches before the finals. Maybe it was just these two teams that always match up like this, but it was kind of painful to see VG get their draft weaknesses read so badly.

The problem I think is that VG drafted for early dominance, and were basically denied that dominance. They did not have anything to go late, so they basically failed the draft twice (game 3 & 4), not giving Newbee enough respect to stand up to it.

Dota2 snowballs more due to players being penalized for death and such, but there was a base-race just last night and one before that as well. It really depends on the team's strategy. A lot of teams don't strategize for late-game at all, and you'd only really see a base race if both teams went late. But even then,…

I've never been in a situation where I had to do a job that I really didn't like in order to make ends-meet. I don't have a fat pay check either, but that's because the jobs I've chosen to do (indie game development, game programming instructor) don't offer the kinds of pay I could garner with similarly skilled jobs…

The pretentiousness is awful indeed. I do love to learn how to pronounce concepts and names (such as for cities) in their original languages properly though. I really enjoy learning the intricacies of pronunciation. It's the best part of learning a new language for me, and the first thing I do when I come into a new…

We all have stories like that, right? It's always worse when you're younger, don't know what you're doing, and are still working out unrealistic societal pressures that tell guys they have to be experienced Don Juans and women that they have to be immaculate bastions of purity.

For me, suicide is not about wanting to die, it's about not wanting to live.

Agreed. Anything under 3.5 average is pretty abysmal on the App Store.

QUOTE | "It will start to tail off because the people who play the games will recognize when they're about to be nickled and dimed, and stop playing them." - MMO pioneer Richard Bartle, arguing that free-to-play games have a "half-life" and will soon start to fail.