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.

If you mean you haven't seen them in the series yet... then... yes, several times... or in the video, lol... yeh he falls off the horse halfway through? 1:25ish

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.

Of course, other nations don't employ this "fiction", yet they've found ways to cope with these challenges.

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,…

Yeh, that's what I remember. I thought he was always really skinny, maybe it's just an awkward neck scrunch, heh.

I haven't seen him recently... is it me or did he gain a lot of weight?

Isn't this just a deflection? He's getting us to talk about how we may have been representing CO2 unfairly... so... yeh, deflection.

Perhaps they have yeh. Thinking a bit more on this, it may just be because they're trying to play the public opinion game in a way they're not used to. Knowing how strong the opposition is, perhaps they've mistakenly decided to play the game in which bringing a nuanced position to the table will just be wiped right…