Yeah, but that goes for anything. The point isn’t to stop people from gaming the system, only to mitigate it as best you can.

Another worthwhile tactic might be to have reviews pegged to a development iteration. Ideally, EA games would be set to some kind of standard nomenclature for iterations and then reviews would be voided once the new major version launched. Keep them worded with a version disclaimer, but drop them from the +/- pool…

er, shit. There was a discussion that went into Kotor territory above this one and I apparently didn’t notice the shift in conversation strands.

The second game, however, has a far more interesting cast, and generally better writing as far as talking to your companions goes. Although, it does help that HK-47 was carried over along with Canderous and T3-M4. Still, I’d say Kreia’s writing stands head and shoulders above that of all the other characters.

Unless,…

Zeta is not the darkest UC Gundam by a longshot. Victory is and Uso 13.

“Kim Kardashian’s aborted Nazi zombie fetus”

The problem with Paradox’s DLC/patch strategy is that, even if they went out of their way to make good tutorials, they’d be absolutely worthless within the year. The games change far too much far too often for the tutorials to actually matter.

As a preliminary exercise, the best thing to do is to watch a let’s play.…

You’re right about breadth and longevity being issues when rating PC games. Honestly, top X’s or Best of lists for PC only really make sense when contextualized with a period in time (say, this year) or with a genre.

I wouldn’t say that I’m not excited, just that I’m excited for the second or third iteration of this renewed Battlefront.... or this Battlefront in two years after DLC has fleshed the crap out of it. As it stands right now, it just doesn’t seem like it’s worth full price, and I’m not in any rush since it’s not like…

Maybe if they included penny-slots. Teach kids how to gamble their tokens away for more tokens. Pokemon did it.

Yeah, I’m kind-of okay with the idea of a virtual arcade that operates by arcade rules. Granted, seeing as Nintendo doesn’t have physical overhead, I’d prefer something like ten tries for a dollar rather than five, but whatever.

Thing is, even if they’re not rendering in detail, the skeletal and muscular accuracy for the in-game models should be drastically better. Obviously bodies differ highly, but just look at the bone structure differences between the computer model and the scanned one - everything is just wrong. The slope of the chest…

On the point of Overkill having bills to pay, and the increase in their staff, I have to wonder if the “we went from 25 to 75” actually has anything to do with Payday 2 content. A cursory glance at their website shows 4 games listed; two of them, Walking Dead and a Sci-Fi game called Storm, are still in development.…

A better example would be John Wick as a “reward” when the character is clearly an ad they were paid to do. I got nothing against the character’s inclusion in the game, there are some weirdos out there who rail against the idea of adding more playable characters, but ffs, that’s a licensing deal not a free reward for…

Maybe I’m just weird, but I feel like I will eventually get an Oculus (probably the 2nd consumer revision) and just use it for regular games. Honestly, all I want is a super high-res viewing experience coupled with really nice audio; if it can do fancy VR-exclusive shit then I guess that’s fine, but I really just want…

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What country is slave a name in, exactly?

So, one of things to keep in mind is that VR exists along a continuum of interactivity and immersion. While I believe that you’re right when it comes to full body full-immersion VR, because I don’t see anybody buying those little pod things that you fucking walk in or emptying out a large room for a game, we have to…

Yeah, the number for Rome seems a bit inflated; the inclusion of tributaries (possibly not shown on the map) might account for the difference... not sure why Persia is highlighted as blue though, I don’t recall them ever being subservient to Rome in any manner.

That said, if we go by the Wiki numbers then Rome vs.…

While I appreciate that Africa is a big place, this appears to be nowhere near the size of the Roman Empire. Actually, using the date found here , Mali’s empire was ~1/5 the size of Rome

The first thing to address is that there really isn’t an “Africa,” just as there isn’t a singular European or Asian experience/culture/history.

The second part to address is that influence from the outside well predates European colonization, with areas as far South as Tanzania (and possibly beyond) having been part of…