Looking for some good Black Friday sales today on Amazon. And so far, only Last of Us for $25 and one of the Saints Row 4 collectors editions for $30-40 looks like the only games I'll be getting so far.
Hopefully, the Cyber Monday sales will have something else worth getting...
BioShock Infinite is 75% off right now on Steam, just FYI (9.99$/6.49£/7.49€)
I'd jump on sooo many more of those Steam game sales if I didn't have such a under powered laptop. So I'm limited to only buying games of PS2/Xbox quality graphics (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)
But I did buy FFVII for $4 and paid $6 for the Euro Truck Sim 2 expansion pack.
I always get a smile on my face playing Disgaea running through Item Worlds face checking dudes with Adell while you level things up. I get the idea the encounter is "sup?" and then some dude gets punched in their shit and you move on. Perfect.
... So, a female game dev tries to release a game for free using Steam's Greenlight and gets [indiestatik.com] castigated by men. That's probably the best thing, ever. So glad I'm not a part of the gaming community.
And before people become shitty and say "don't feed the trolls" take this into account:
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Those "bunch of trolls" constantly seem to crawl out their mysterious hiding spots, though, and in this case it's not even some kind of unrelated criticism that they jump onto, this is pure, undiluted misogyny like you barely even encounter it on the internet anymore. I'm done defending this as "just a bunch of trolls". We tried waiting for it to go away but it doesn't. The videogame community is in an abysmal state when it comes to social issues and it's time we acknowledge that and make it "a thing" that it's time for this to finally stop. It's ridiculous and embarrassing. I genuinely believe that there is a minority but a shockingly, disproportionately big minority which actually thinks so or at least thinks it's "no big deal". Blaming it all on "trolling" is easy but it's not really rare or obvious enough to keep it at that. This is a bunch of people with severe asocial tendencies looking for easy targets to let out their frustration and we can't just shrug this off.
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Some people here are missing the point, I feel. It's simple though: if the person who developed Depression Quest had been a man, they would never have had to deal with harrassment in the first place. Case in point: Actual Sunlight, another game about depression, except developed by a man. Has HE been harrassed? Has he been told that he was a slut and that men can't be depressed, like the screenshots in the article show? No of course he hasn't. Oh, and by the way, I don't think "it's just a bunch or 4chan trolls who will go away if you ignore them" accurately describes the situation here. I mean read the fucking article. She got harrassed on her phone and on Twitter, and apparently it was enough to bully her into removing her game from Greenlight. A simple piece of art that she put out there FOR FREE. To help people. How can you not be angry about this?
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Thank god they added this for the re-release of FF8, the game is notoriously hard as fuck to play.
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If you had troubles with Adel, you are bad and you should feel bad.
Thank god they added this for the re-release of FF8, the game is notoriously hard as fuck to play.
Spoiler text - Highlight to read...
If you had troubles with Adel, you are bad and you should feel bad.
Seems that companies are assuming that gamers are getting worse, not that being good at games is a skill you can brag much about (outside of S. Korea).
For example I am playing the game Risk of Rain currently. Its gotten very polarised reviews, 10s and 9s from many gamers and 1s and 0s from others. The difference is the console gamers that play the game find it far to hard and are unable to adapt to beating the game. One person even said that they couldn't work out how to jump diagonally on the keyboard... and had to switch to a gamepad. Seriously...
It sucks having having such a good (albeit selective) memory sometimes. I remember games I played 10+ years as if I played them yesterday. I wanna re-experience Xenogears like it was my first time playing it but I remember everything.
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Nov 28 2013, 21:54
