Hey give us an animu board and we'll hang out there. The thread was dead with 0 responses before it got weeb'd on. Which I basically asked for. You wouldn't have seen it otherwise. Personally I don't really care if people don't like the memes.

Woah now, ease back a little. Why a board when a simple "Official Weeb-Banter Thread" would do it just fine?

Looks interesting, though it reminds me far too much of Bioshock with the masks and idealistic 50's theme. Hell, even the art direction looks pretty similar to me.

I'll hold my pessimism for now though, and wait 'til I hear more from it.

Seeing as the political race is about to start in the US, and the UK's is in full swing...

Which party would you vote for (US/UK), and why?

InB4NickGriffin/SarahPalinIfSheRunsAgain.

That sounds like a smart thing to do.

And in regards to your freedoms... you have the freedom to refuse it, just as much as the government has the freedom to deny you from infecting everybody else, by removing you/your child from their establishments, seems fair enough to me.

Commodities going down is probably due to the impressive number of bots in the game, as came with the release of f2p.

-Iron Ore is constantly powermined/banked for it's low level availability (15 mining, and virtually everywhere, particularly near banks)
-Oak logs, with it's use for planks (profit), xp at low levels (15 wc) and proximity of certain areas to a bank (e.g. Draynor)

I predict that with the 24hr trade limits and the invention of Ironmen, lower-level items will also decline in demand (pretty much anything Iron equipment or below), while harder to acquire items should go on the rise as bots focus on lesser ores to mine, leaving less inputs of mithril and adamant. Not sure about Yews or other higher level items as I haven't dabbled much (atm I'm mining the shit outta everything).

And something totally unrelated, is that fisher on Karamja Island there to turn items into notes? He was a great asset when you could catch swordfish or lobsters and save teleporting or taking the boat back to bank them for selling later.

Quote from: LC on March 02, 2015, 12:01:29 PM

But they lowered the skill gap immensely by adding in starting weapons that take no skill to use while still out preforming the ones that do which basically thew the competitive aspect of the game into the garbage bin.

The Retro Lancer and Sawed-Off? I can completely agree on that, as can most Gears fans. I am pretty sure those will not be returning, and if they do, not as starting weapons. I always use the Hammerburst and the Gnasher.

But dat recoil tho.

I would love it to return with some modifications (e.g. adding recoil every random bullet or lowering damage during burst fire to stop me from killing dudes at ranges of the Hammerburst). As for the bayonet I think they got that spot on.

I think it would be better if they toned it down a bit, real laughter or not.

That said, Father Ted and The IT Crowd have it and it's barely as noticeable (nor brings a seething hatred of it) for me.

Found this on a site rather critical of the gaming industry, and this video surrounding The Order 1886 came up. As I haven't played the game or followed much of the info spreading around it myself, I can't comment on it...

...but goddamn this guy's laugh. 

But for discussion for those of you who have it, what do you think of it? Although it's a joke, could this video apply to most Triple-A game devs of today in regards to the quality of games, the mass-production of (some occasionally useless) DLC's, and other potentially underhand business tactics?

I for one agree. Apart from RPG's like Skyrim which rely on the singlelayer only, most games today have a very short campaign and rely solely on the multiplayer side of things, which in turn needs constant additions to keep the playerbase happy and playing (and paying). That means in some cases useless aesthetics like camo packs for guns (See Gears of War 3, the more recent CoD's, as well as BF3/4's Premium Camos and Battlepacks). Some go even further and delve into the campaign, sectioning chunks out behind a paywall (Mass Effect 3, I believe?), limiting campaign difficulties and weapons to Limited Edition versions or adding them as mini DLC's (Metro Last Light), or even adding microtransactions for basic campaign equipment like ammo and upgrade slots (Dead Space 3 had those initially, though I'm not sure now).

This is a dire time for video games, with Devs giving less of a shit about your enjoyment or how long the game will last and more about whether you'll buy that golden digital camo for your gun or horse armour, or if any customers would notice DLC being made before the game is finished. That said, there is hope in indie games or smaller lesser known devs who rely on the quality of the game to survive, but that brings their own problems like many of the kickstarter-based games have (where many have accrued tens of thousands of £/$'s only to drop off the radar and the dev suddenly disappear to South America).

Quote from: Mr Psychologist on March 01, 2015, 02:09:58 PM

Quote from: SuperIrish on March 01, 2015, 02:08:24 PM

>Finally able to get out of that Ironman bullshit
>Realises I still can't trade or use the GE for another 10 hours...

Welcome to my world ;_;

tfw have to go to stores and buy things instead of spending all your time at the ge

Or even worse... fishing/mining/cutting/smithing/crafting them yourself

I've a Fallout hoody, but that's it.

There is two types it seems, though this is the most prevalent:


The latter, though less common one is far better imo:

None, really.

You were just people in a forum I talked to at the time, though that has changed since.

Cheers for the elaboration, never really understood what suddenly started it off since I always thought the gaming side of journalism was iffy.

This is more the fault of the publishers than that of the journos.

While that is true, there's a part to play for the reviewers. They should be in a staunch position against what is essentially bribery, rather than just lapping up the goodies and spouting bullshit about a game.

Pardon me for sounding ignorant, but... who?

Must be someone from before my short time.

Quote from: Luciana on February 28, 2015, 10:06:50 AM

Does every kind of scandal need a "gate" at the end of it?
Spygate
Deflategate
Gamergate
We get it, watergate happened. Shut up already.

Exactly. And the place was called Watergate. Not watergate-gate. and It wasn't named water. Its stupid how they add gate on everything these days.

Relevant:


But in regards to the OP, I constantly forget which side is which. I understand it was originally to do with ethics in journalism regarding video games (and later got moulded into a sexist debate to dodge the bullet), so is this good news or what?

Even if this is good for video game journalism, I still think it has a long way to go. It's nearly been 2 years since DICE was found to be using incentives with popular reviewers to make BF4 seem better than the reality, and although they aren't strictly "journalists", reviewers have far too much influential power in the industry to be ignored too.