Quote from: Tyger on August 27, 2016, 10:25:19 PM

Can you give an example?

Like me saying you can't judge Pokemon red by today's standards because they've had 20 years of refinement and at the time it was amazing?

Or somebody saying it's okay destiny was a shit show on release because "10 year plan"

Yeah, I was thinking along the lines of Pokémon and other older, long-standing franchises like that. Anything that began in the 8-bit era, or maybe during that awkward transitional period between 2D and 3D. Because the industry works a little different now--if your first installment sucks, literally nobody ever gives it a pass. We're pretty unforgiving these days.

I gave Pokémon R/B a 6/10 in my last review, but some would argue that I should be more generous and give it something crazy like a 9/10. Because without Red and Blue, there would be no other Pokémon games, period. I do tend to disagree with that logic, because I believe the sole purpose of a review is to discuss the game itself and not the game's overall importance to the industry, or the franchise as a whole, or whatever.

If I had to rate Pokémon R/B's importance to the industry, I would be remiss to give it anything other than a 10/10, right? But I gave it the score I did because I don't think it holds up to today's standards, and I think "today's standards" are the only relevant metric to go by. No one cares how good a game used to be--is it good now? That's what people care about when they're reading a review.

just to clarify how I feel, I disagree with the last like because Pokemon red isn't really contesting with modern games. A review score should be comparing products contesting with each other.

That would be like giving a model A ford a poor review because it didn't gave anti lock breaks when they hadn't been invented yet but it's a standard feature on even the shittiest cars today.

you say new bad games don't get a pass now a days but that's because they're bad now, while they're new. Pokemon red was good when it was new.

That's just the way I think about it

Can you give an example?

Like me saying you can't judge Pokemon red by today's standards because they've had 20 years of refinement and at the time it was amazing?

Or somebody saying it's okay destiny was a shit show on release because "10 year plan"

World War Z. Fantastic book. I love the style of being interviews with survivors, you can just hop in anywhere and pick it up.

EASILY the worst book I've ever read

hehe xd

stop or I will verbally harass you xd

Man you missed out on a lot of memes my friend.

lord kek frowns upon my cowardice

I occasionally get ads for women's underwear

I blame Tru for that one

I got these but that's because I bough women's underwear

tfw the money collectively spent on Destiny could've been spent on a good game instead and have enough change left over for charities to cure Cancer, Aids and eradicate World Poverty

you have 23 days played

Yeah all those guys suck

Quote from: Dietrich Six on August 27, 2016, 03:19:59 PM

Quote from: Desty on August 27, 2016, 03:17:02 PM

I was gonna make a post about how your suffering is music to my heart, but jesus fucking christ can you two stop?

Desty, this is grown up stuff, close your eyes.

he's just mad because he secretly has a crush on me too but refuses to admit it

see now that this secret is out he wants the thread Locked

Hanjo is my hero

plot twist, the guy wasn't actually trying to hit rank one but he was embarrassed he made up this story

Haters will say it's fake

This has started to be the downpoint of my LIFE

Like, I now hang out with friends, go to the city, buy shit, eat food, wear cool clothes, workout, and talk to lots of people. I'm the king of the world... and then I come on the internet and argue with the users here; half of which opinions I don't care about, a big chunk I straight-out dislike, and people who don't wanna argue. The memes are okay- not great.

don't lie you hate yourself and your miserable existence. I'm the only thing keeping you going

It doesn't matter what game it is I think raising that much money for Saint Jude's is cool

Quote from: KawaiiKilla666 on August 26, 2016, 02:01:01 AM

Nothing like it

both are red

Quote from: Big Boss on August 26, 2016, 05:27:37 AM

Pokémon Japanese Website has announced that the Gold Bottle Caps in Pokémon Sun & Moon will increase a Pokémon IVs to maximum

In Japan the Gold Bottle Cap will be given via serial code, the code will be located in the Pokémon Sun & Moon Official Guide Book

I'm not sure I like where this is going. Thank fuck I have a good setup for breeding.

you can hyper train for IVs too. I think bottle caps just skip that process

IVs are stupid anyway