Quote from: HurtfulTurkey on June 29, 2015, 04:16:04 PM

Quote from: Mad Max on June 29, 2015, 03:44:43 PM

Quote from: PSU on June 29, 2015, 03:32:37 PM

You havent? Just look at 2007.

Bush got just the same amount of hate and even some more.

Stop your white guilt.

I see you didn't bother to read my post. Bush did not receive the same amount of public disrespect, especially from congress.

I'm confused by how you're quantifying this. Bush is the most polarizing president in recent history and was shit on daily by the media and the public. Obama gets his fair share, but I think you're falling victim to self-serving bias.

I'm not talking about the media and the public, I'm talking about other elected representatives and officials. How often was Bush interrupted by yells from congressmen? How often did democrats openly say they were there not to legislate, but to make Bush a one-term president?

Was there disrespect toward Bush? Yes. But nothing so blatant.

Is it a competition? Bush got booed by democrats during a state of the union address, so if we're talking participants in an act of verbal disrespect on the floor of the House of Representatives, then his tally is higher.

Jaws of Hakkon was pretty underwhelming. I hope this is a bit more exciting.

It sounds interesting but the title makes me want to kill myself

I kind of like it.

Scavenging in rebel areas is pretty fun with the right weapons. I generally take a firearm and a knife. If you hide in the shadows and sneak attack someone it's generally an insta-kill.

It's a great game. Challenging without being frustrating.

I'm still a bit confused about the characters' personal traits. I thought the lawyer girl was supposed to be more resilient to negative effects from stealing, so I used her to steal everything from the hospital, but she still got sad from it.

I don't have any firearms yet; did you make them, or just find them somewhere?

I'm on my first playthrough after getting it 75% off on Steam, and so far I'm really liking it. It reminds me of State of Decay, which is one of my favorite zombie games out there. I was pretty confused because there wasn't any tutorial at all, or even a control scheme (so far I assume that everything is just done with the mouse). I'm on day 17, and I've been told that I can expect the war to end around day 40. I started with Katia and Bruno, which is supposedly a great roll, too.

I really like that killing and stealing have negative consequences, though I was annoyed at first because typical video games encourage you to take whatever you can get and kill anyone that might be in the way. My first experience with this was when I raided the house of an elderly couple. I stole all their stuff, and then I killed them just to see what would happen. My scavenger Pavle was sad and later depressed over it, and I had to learn to cheer him up again through books, radio, and booze before he became effective again.

I think 11 Bit Studious could've added more events in the game, as scavenging in the less hostile areas is pretty repetitive. I haven't ventured into rebel areas, but I'm sure that'll present some new challenges. Anyways, really liking this game so far. Feel free to share some stories of your playthroughs.

Update:

So I finished the game after 47 days. Each location was around 80% looted except for the military outpost, which I tried attacking once but decided wasn't worth the risk. Around day 39 I had stockpiled so many supplies that I stopped going out to scavenge except to donate medicine to the hospital to help with some depression one of my characters suffered from killing the traders in the hotel. It was definitely worth the risk, because the supplies in the hotel could've kept me going for 20 days probably. The radio said it was towards the end of the war so I started giving everyone double food to get well-fed statuses, and burned through some supplies to make moonshine to get everyone drunk on their last nights. In the end, all my characters ended with the status 'well-fed, content, & drunk', which is pretty awesome.

All in all I think I rolled a lucky game, because I had three really good characters (a cook, the trader, and the fast runner). I ended up taking in the lawyer girl but she didn't really do anything useful. My locations were also pretty lucky  because most of the ones with variants were non-hostile traders instead of bandits.

I really enjoyed the game and thought it was difficult without bringing along the typical frustration and countless redo's of roguelike games. There's also an option to set your own specific details for the roll, such as characters and locations, and that's a feature I've never seen in these games. On a relative scale I'd give it a 9/10 because it's really fun, addictive, and challenging, but it's also very repetitive in the first half.

Quote from: HurtfulTurkey on June 28, 2015, 07:46:34 AM

Exclusives, online communities, simplicity, etc.

Exclusives I understand, but online communities? Please elaborate.

Simplicity? Please elaborate

Consoles have a more integrated and consistent online experience because it's all organized through the dashboard rather than the game menu itself. Clans, messaging, and parties are all much easier on consoles.

Simplicity means you buy a game and it just works. Maybe occasionally there's some software issue, but unlike a PC game which you can expect to crash every now and then regardless of your specs, it's entirely plug and play. No compatibility troubleshooting, no remapping control settings, no optimizing graphical or audio settings.

Though I own next gen consoles and a high end PC, I really only do it for exclusives. I gave up online years ago.

True scale: 9/10
Relative to the market: 10/10, buy this game.

It's incredibly long and enjoyable. It's a huge improvement from DA2. Tons of content to experience. DLC isn't very satisfying, so far.

On the other hand, the majority of my Christian friends are far more liberal than anyone on this site (near Mad Max levels), my old church was accepting of gays and donated a month's tithings to an LGBT youth homeless shelter, and the worst I've seen is some passive aggressive stuff about how the legal definition off marriage is separate from God's (note: it is). So maybe you just have some shitty friends, but I've got hundreds of Christian friends and I'm seeing very little negativity, and overwhelming positiveness.

I'm sure it'll be a shitshow. Monsanto is one of the corporations that will always be seen as evil, regardless of reality.

This is the gayest thing they've ever done.

If you make your pronoun 'Dr.', do they give you a free doctorate?

TOR combat was better than KOTOR in my opinion, but back in the day that shit was great. Few games age well.

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Quote from: ∫(Dr Torso)dx=ayy lmao on June 24, 2015, 10:14:05 PM

so shaman

Is this a meme?

Wizard = meme
Shamans are like black wizards

My dislike for Mrs. Clinton aside, this is pretty ridiculous. I completely understand that the phrase "Black lives matter" has legitimate significance in today's society and that it doesn't at all mean that only black lives matter, but it was a pretty innocent and (*gasp*) politically correct way of tiptoeing around a hot issue (remember: she's infamous for never answering questions or stating her platform).

A portion of her speech:

"Years later when I was old enough to understand I asked her, 'what kept you going?' Her answer was very simple: kindness along the way from someone she believed mattered. All lives matter". (Emphasis added but she was said this very pointedly)

This speech was given at a church near the location of the Ferguson riots, and it is a black church not unlike the church that was the site of the recent act of domestic terrorism rooted in racism.

So here we have the primary Democratic candidate, the party that makes an art out of pandering to minorities to win votes, saying that every life matters while addressing a black congregation in a speech largely targeted around the feelings stirred up by Dylann Roof's killing spree, and that's not even good enough. Sorry folks, there's no way to win. If the dems can't kiss ass to a vulnerable black, lower class demographic, then nobody can.

http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/06/24/417112956/hillary-clintons-three-word-gaffe-all-lives-matter