I (rightly) assume that anyone that mains Genji or Widowmaker on console is a piece of shit. Hanzo I can forgive for his broken scattershot, radar arrow, and ult.

Legit some of the ugliest things you can put on a shelf.

People that "collect" mass-produced bullshit are bizarre.

The media is biased, but he really is that bad.

Quote from: Big Boss on April 29, 2017, 11:55:44 AM

Quote from: Luciana on April 28, 2017, 02:10:07 PM

Melee is usually regarded as harder because you actually have to roll/block things, where as mage you take things out from a distance.

I can vouch for that. I play with a 2-handed Zwei/Claymore 90% of the time and you really do have to learn to roll the fuck through everything.

Do you actually believe that you avoid CQC at all as a mage? I swear I'm somehow buying complete completely separate games from literaly everyone else on this site that just happen to have the same exact name.

Any damage that can be done to an enemy without being hazardously close to it is an advantage melee players don't have. Of course magic users sometimes get in close, the difference is that a quality or strength build will never get that advantage. It's an intrinsically easier playstyle, but that doesn't mean it's not difficult or respectable.

I get that the whole bit is reincarnation and how two souls touch time and again over the course of many lifetimes, but what really is the point?

Why does a novel need more of a philosophical point beyond creating a unique narrative about intertwining souls and struggles? From the author (wikipedia):

Literally all of the main characters, except one, are reincarnations of the same soul in different bodies throughout the novel identified by a birthmark...that's just a symbol really of the universality of human nature. The title itself "Cloud Atlas," the cloud refers to the ever changing manifestations of the Atlas, which is the fixed human nature which is always thus and ever shall be. So the book's theme is predacity, the way individuals prey on individuals, groups on groups, nations on nations, tribes on tribes. So I just take this theme and in a sense reincarnate that theme in another context...

What, philisophically, was I supposed to take away from Cloud Atlas?

The book focuses on how characters confront injustice. It displays overt acts of oppression beside subtle, even humorous acts. Timothy Cavendish and Sonmi-451 mirror each other, but Mitchell uses their vastly different stories to attack it from multiple angles. I can't tell you what you, personally, should take away from the story, but it made me consider more deeply whether I am complicit in oppression of others -- I am -- and to what extent I can tolerate it.

Quote from: Turcuck on April 28, 2017, 03:10:15 PM

With VPN:

Got one without or not going to do that?

I was going to, but it was only a few mbps slower, so I decided it wasn't worth posting.

I need a 2 hour video essay delving into a meta-analysis of the lore implications of the hairstyle of Jack Torrance throughout each act of The Shining.

So you're rolling an overleveled, poised-as-fuck quality build with broken weapons and you're complaining that it's easy...? Part of Dark Souls' appeal is the option to have self-imposed difficulty, or make the game super easy by using easy builds. Regardless, I wouldn't expect any part of a Souls game to be difficult for experienced players. I personally enjoy pyro the most because of its mix of short range magic and melee.

Finally got the game and have been hooked on it for the past few days now. Unless Bethesda can somehow get its shit together and pull another Morrowind out of it's ass with TES VI, I don't think there's any game that can even possibly challenge this for GOTY.

TES VI isn't coming out anytime soon, unfortunately.

tbh Chally I don't even know why you're arguing whether every single person should enjoy higher graphical quality. There will obviously be contrarians or true art aficionados such as Verb that will disagree, because enjoyment and art truly are subjective.

No, I wouldn't, but your proposition is missing the word "most."

I wouldn't say it is. You could make your game using old technology, resulting in lower quality graphics than par for the time; if users deliberately lowered that graphical quality, or were otherwise inhibited from experiencing your content at the precise quality you intended, I imagine you would not be satisfied. Or maybe you would be, to spite me.

Anyways, the whole thing seems to be reflective of your stance that games should be experienced on its default difficulty setting, as that is what the developers intended.

For a game like Breath of the Wild, I would have really liked better specs on the Switch or Wii U because it launched with blurry textures, huge framerate drops in towns and combat, bad pop-in, and embarrassing draw distances.

Quote from: Töqi on April 26, 2017, 02:09:18 PM

Quote from: challengerX on April 26, 2017, 02:04:32 PM

I thought you were part of the master race.

Did you download all the updates? Maybe one of the updates is corrupted.

Yeah but I'm renting it. I'll delete the updates and just play offline, which is unfortunate given the Souls-y online content.

Yeah you can get quite a bit of XP and a lot of consumables from corpses. Why aren't you playing on PC?

Full price vs. Gamefly subscription, for a game I imagine I'd only play once. Is it worth owning?

Quote from: Töqi on April 26, 2017, 12:00:27 PM

So are the settings menus supposed to be fucked up? They're total gibberish. How do I fix this?

pic

PC or console?

PS4



Not my pic, but it's the exact same issue. Supposedly it's due to a bad patch. I thought it was some gimmick at first.

Western self-help spiritualism is laughable, but this guy's attitude is fucking obnoxious.