Gas has had a lot on his mind lately.
And less in his wallet, presumably.
--Patrick
Random Video Game Crap
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And less in his wallet, presumably.
--Patrick
WHAT? I'M SORRY. I CAN'T HEAR YOU OVER MY AMAZING VICTORY.
figmentPez
Staff member
I am getting so fucking sick of "Community content for this product may not be appropriate for all ages, or may not be appropriate for viewing at work." I'm trying to follow several threads about controllers suddenly not working in Saints Row 4, and every single time I go back to check a thread, I have to click through that page. If I open a thread in a new tab (my usual process in forums when there are multiple threads I want to read), every new tab makes me confirm yet again that I'm okay with seeing adult content. It's absolutely ridiculous. I can hit up my Amazon Prime watchlist and start an R-rated movie without so much as a "the following movie is rated R" splash screen, but Steam won't let mew view a page of text posts without making me click "Continue"? Why?!
Yeah, that gets really annoying at times. I don't understand why they don't have some kind of recognition for your age on the entire app for us older fogies.
figmentPez
Staff member
It's not even consistent. I can view the community pages for some M-rated games (like The Wolf Among Us) without having to say "yes, I know I might see boobies". And I don't have to go through that confirmation page if I'm in Steam itself.
I looked in the Steam forums to see if there were any discussions on the matter. There are... with some really stupid people defending it as necessary. They claim: the ESRB requires it by law (the ESRB has no legal authority), Valve would get sued if they didn't have it (I don't have to confirm my age to run the damn game), porn sites have age gates...
Yeah, just go to that games subreddit like a normal person
GasBandit
Staff member
And the few times that hasn't worked, the devs have maintained their own community forums on their own website (IE, Space Engineers, Empyrion)
I just discovered this YouTube channel. They take full control of a game's camera, clip through the walls, and peel back the layers of games and see what's going on outside of your view. Like Killer Croc's model disappearing after he walks off screen, then the whole room, to save on memory. It's pretty cool.
Dunkey's surprisingly reserved in this video compared to his other videos. There are jokes but it's mostly his honest opinions.
GasBandit
Staff member
I don't know how to make a game recommendation to you without spoiling that particular twist.
figmentPez
Staff member
You mean like Overlord?
No, wait, that's almost the exact opposite.
Yeah, there are at least two games that I can think of that make you ask that question, though maybe not quite a starkly as the game Fade mentioned, but I don't want to spoil them anyway.
GasBandit
Staff member
The two that leap to mind for me are
Braid and Spec Ops: The Line. Edit: Oh, and Prototype... and most people's first playthrough of Undertale
Are those the ones you were thinking of?
figmentPez
Staff member
You got one of the ones I had in mind:
I was thinking of Spec Ops: The Line (though it's pretty obvious you've come unhinged well before the end) and Far Cry 2 (though you're never really the good guy; it just waits until the end to kick you in the stomach that the game is going to make a point of what a violent asshole you've been.
And then there's the moral quandary of the Left 4 Dead games, which I'll just post without a spoiler box, because they're not really story driven games. You're not the bad guys in those, but you're still carriers of the infection, even if you're immune, and you've unknowingly infected others during your travels.
And does it count if the second game in the series takes place in a future where the heroes of the first game have become corrupt despots?
This could be Prototype, or Torchlight, or some other games I can't quite recall right now...
GasBandit
Staff member
Ehh, you kinda know you're on the side of the bad guys from the start in that one, don't you?
GasBandit
Staff member
I think even the first game in the series, X-Men vs Street Fighter, had more characters than that. Now it's basically "MCU vs a few Capcom stragglers"
figmentPez
Staff member
Going by the Wikipedia entries:
X-Men vs Street Fighter: 17
Marvel Super Heroes vs Street Fighter: 17 + 6 palette swaps = 23?
Marvel vs Capcom: 15 + 1 secret character + 5 palette swaps = 21 + 20 support characters
Marvel vs Capcom 2: 56
Marvel vs Capcom 3: 36 + 2 DLC = 38
Ultimate MvC3: 48 + 2 DLC = 50
Marvel vs Capcom Infinite: 22 + 2 DLC = 24
GasBandit
Staff member
Well, then, I stand corrected. But it's still a step in the wrong direction IMO. Not that I've played a MvC game since MvC2.
There's also only like 3 or 4 female characters.
Really emphasizes how significant the X-Men have been to the Marvel universe.
From that screenshot above, I counted 17 mutants or X-Men villains. Yikes, that is a lot!
Wayside Productions is doing another small Fallout: New Vegas series. 3 episodes.
Now that my wife has finished Persona 4, she wants to play Persona 3, so I went to download the Portable version, and the store's busted. I check the online complaints and they'd started withing seconds of my looking it up, so likely hit everyone at the same time, perhaps mid-game.
FFS Sony ...
Two minutes. You couldn't have waited two more minutes to break your stupid network so I could download a game for my wife.
Every time something like this happens, I wonder if they've been hacked again. But I'm only most right.
FFS Sony ...
Two minutes. You couldn't have waited two more minutes to break your stupid network so I could download a game for my wife.
Every time something like this happens, I wonder if they've been hacked again. But I'm only most right.
I miss the days with Sony/Playstation was a little more fun. Hell, I'll say it. I miss Kevin Butler.