Quote from: Septy on December 07, 2015, 08:57:34 PM

I thought Bernie already won

He won the online poll, but apparently TIME removed him from and the option to vote for him from the shortlist.

Lol.

>Cyrodiil was a failed abortion of a game world.
>Graphics are HORRIBLE looking. Fucking Morrowind looks better.
>Had a grand total of SIX voice actors.
>Combat was terrible, even for it's time period.
>Trainwreck of a levelling system.
>Retarded level scaling.
>Even worse story than Skyrim.
>Depth of a puddle.
>Oblivion gates.
>Garbage UI.
>Copy/paste dungeons everywhere.
>90% of all quests were fetch quests.
>Horse Armor.

But hey, at least the Dark Brotherhood and Thieve's Guild were good...

Beer: Shed Mountain Ale
Cider: Angry Orchard
Bourbon: Well I've only tried Evan Williams, so that.
Scotch: Never tried.
Wine: Mead
Rum: Rum is gross.
Vodka: Not a fan.
Tequila: Never tried.

UK's vote for bombing Syria:

Bunch of Muslims.

Quote from: Fruitcake on December 06, 2015, 03:13:42 PM

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Quote from: Batch on November 28, 2015, 08:07:28 AM

Why do games have to be so shallow and watered down nowadays.

Has the golden age of gaming passed?

Uh, yeah.

Twenty years ago.

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt didn't exist 20 years ago though

shillshillshillshillshillshillshillshillshillshillshill

This coming from the guy who was previously one of the biggest shills for TW3.

Woah, Lord Commissar is an admin here?

Who's alt are you?

Is that Mr Psy?

Quote from: Luciana on December 07, 2015, 01:17:07 AM

Quote from: space boy on December 07, 2015, 01:05:15 AM

I don't understand how a game being difficult makes it better. Halo 2 legendary being harder than the rest doesn't make it better than it's successors. Hell, if it weren't for the narrative quality of the game, it would be the worst in the series, IMO. Because it's certainly not the gameplay that made that good.

I never understood the appeal of Dark Souls. I generally like having an interesting narrative to pull things together, and that can generally get me to play games I otherwise wouldn't enjoy (Ie  Mass Effect 1, god awful gameplay but good story). I never particularly cared for DS' gameplay (I'm not keen on rolling simulator 2011) and honestly found it boring and frustrating. The setting was original, and I have to give it points for getting away from traditional western or japanese (Albeit I don't know much about japanese stuff too much) fantasy traditions. Though games like Bloodborne and Lords of the Fallen are making Dark Souls clone a genre now, like Saint's Row with GTA clone. But an original setting was where I stopped finding the game interesting and I never really found the urge to pick back up and play after I turned it off. I might pick it back up again if it's o  XB1 backwards compatibility. Maybe.

Dark Souls isn't a hard game. It's just not forgiving of mistakes. People like it because it punishes your own mistakes and how dark and consistent the atmosphere is. The creator himself was entirely against all that crap with "Prepare to die edition" and Dark Souls 2 message of "You'll die over and over", because he feels it completely skips the message of the game. Basically the message being that you run into obstacles in life that may seem hard. You may even fail a few times. But patience, determination, and adapting to the situation allows you to overcome the hardships you are faced with.

At least that's what Dark Souls 1 was about. Dark Souls 2 just has questionable things to make it more hard, like 6 Gargoyles just because, or adds on bosses.

Dark Souls atmosphere is one of the main appeals of the game and immerses people, along with a story you have to actually investigate and piece together yourself, and with the community that plays it. You may be right about some character or event, or you may not be. There is just enough ambiguity to guide the player down the general path, but not give him the transcript of it all.

They like it because it doesn't insult their intelligence by explaining everything to them and holding their hand for everything. And in today's day and age of the video game industry, that is a dying art. Consider old RPG's of the 90's and how you actually had to read entries to things, listen to NPC's, and actually think. There was no quest marker telling you exactly where to go, or things in the corners of your screen constantly reminding you of something you need to do, or giving you handicaps to help you out if you keep failing.

In fact, that reason right there is a huge reason people loved Morrowind and why everything after has been seen as too bland and uninteresting.

Eh. I've always liked stories with characters, character interactions and a more clearly defined goal or reason for doing something. More traditional storytelling. It's not a bad thing that people prefer the dark souls method but it's not for me.

I thought people liked morrowind more because it's quests had choices and it's weapons and armour system wasn't as shallow as it's successors.

That and guilds felt like actual guilds, and that the setting was truly unique and had shitloads of lore to back it up.

Raul > All.

Meat lover's

Quote from: Iberian Husky on December 06, 2015, 10:52:27 PM

The only thing I see here is a bunch of meaningless Asian names.

>Daigo Umehara
>meaningless

I've got a cap with your name on it fucker

Zezima is the only name that matters.

The

Literally the reason I don't use the radio in New Vegas.

I had this dream where I was eating French fries, then my parents woke me up and offered me some coffee. Me, still being 75% asleep, said "Let me finish my fucking French fries." My parents were very confused and started to laugh, and I am now disappointed that the French fries did not exist, because those were fucking good French fries.

Daily reminder that New Vegas is still the best Fallout game.