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No I believe that was the Escapist (but I think they do a 5 point scale). Their words in fact were;

Bottom Line: A pinnacle of role-playing games with well-designed mechanics and excellent story-telling, Dragon Age II is what videogames are meant to be.

Lets all take a moment and laugh at that Then watch the video and laugh some more. "They improved literally every game mechanic." Hahahahahaha.

I don't think Yahtzee or Jim Sterling for that matter are Escapist employees. They just contracted to exclusively release their content on the Escapist website. I always figured the Escapist will publish anything if it'll get them money. They don't care what it is

I would think they'd cope to it if it was sarcasm, as that review did significant damage to their reputation (go the Wikipedia quick and look up all the awards they were getting up to 2011).

 dogma wrote:


I really hope DA3 doesn't suck, but considering the quality curve of the ME series I'm not holding on to much hope.

ME3 was an improvement for me over ME2. Not the perfect improvement, but a much improved improvement Yeah the story was still bad, but at least ME3 had a story (as opposed to Side Quests the Game). I'm waiting for reviews, but yes my faith is weak. Even after it releases, it would require me to redownload Origin, which I will happily do when they give me back my ME3, which I still can't play because Origin is a piece of trash!

I have a friend whose also been having trouble. He logged in one day and his Battlefield 4 was gone. He called customer support who restored his Battlefield 4 but then his ME3 was gone! And when he got his ME3 back his Titan Fall disappeared.

Honestly, the bright side is that my dream, my one dream, that EA's servers will implode and suck their entire offices into the abyss, might actually happen

 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:
Leliana was pretty godamn awesome in the Sacred Ashes trailer.

Imagine my disappointment when I met her ingame.

Blur studios can make anything awesome.




if they can make something as utterly boring as Planetside 2 look that good, they can make anything look good

 Desubot wrote:
Cant watch vids at work but what does this have to do with burger joints? (honest question)

It's a joke; Five Guys Burgers -> She has been accused of exchanging favors with five guys

There's no evidence for media such as books, music, TV or video games to have a direct relation to a change in character / attitude and therefore

So you're argument is that reading a book never changed how anyone thought about the world around them? Or that a TV show effected how someone spent their money?

Media effects people, and when people talk about those effects they're not talking "just killed 20 cops in GTA, better go run over some hookers." They're talking "man this story about the dad taking a hospital hostage to get a heart for his dying son is sad. HMO's are donkey-caves."

Spec Ops the line didn't get recognized? God, good to know that hours upon hours of people talking endlessly about how incredible the game is everywhere I turned were just in my imagination. BTW I also got the game after all the hype and all I saw was a trashy shooter whose only claim to fame was "omg you've killed civilians, LOOK WHAT YOU'VE DONE!" Been there, done that. Modern Warfare 2 was a better game <- and that's just damn sad.

You want to know why the game didn't get media coverage? The answer is 2k Games and Take 2 Interactive. The only game they've ever made that I saw any major media coverage for contain the names Sid Meir and Borderlands in the titles (and Bioshock I guess). These guys just don't advertise. Just because there's one conspiracy, doesn't mean everything is a conspiracy.

Do you know how much media coverage EA gave Dragon Age: Origins prior to it's release? None. They didn't even make a commercial add for it until the sales blew their minds away. The game had been out for weeks by the time the first commercial hit TV and the Net. Sometimes companies just don't advertise.

Modern Warfare 2 never, in its life showed us the consequences of your actions. For killing those people.

Killing those people, started the entire storyline of the game which include essentially WWIII. Just because the consequence isn't thrown into your face by a voice screaming "you're bad and you should feel bad" doesn't mean we didn't see the consequence. We spent the rest of the game dealing with the consequence.

 Asherian Command wrote:


Spec Ops: The Line had the character go from a badass, to a husk.

All I saw was a rip off of Charlie Sheen's character from Platoon. A poorly implemented rip off hat made me laugh more than anything.

Sorry. Pretending to be a deep emotional story doesn't fly past me when the story is neither deep or emotional

 Ahtman wrote:

 Asherian Command wrote:
Yeah but the character doesn't.

Isn't the character murdered/executed shortly after participating in the events that are the impetus for the storyline? It seems like it would be hard to see the consequences when you are dead.

Hey man, he's watching in heaven (he says "my bad guys" btw).

 dogma wrote:

 LordofHats wrote:

Do you know how much media coverage EA gave Dragon Age: Origins prior to it's release? None. They didn't even make a commercial add for it until the sales blew their minds away.

Well, aside from Sacred Ashes.

Sacred Ashes didn't appear until October (a month before release) and only appeared on EA's site and Youtube. Most games have a trailer available months out. EA basically announced the game in 2008. Forgot about it. Mentioned it again during E3 2009. Forgot about it again. Had a trailer made and released it in October. The Sacred Ashes trailer didn't start hitting ad venues (as in banner ads, tv, etc) until after the game released.

Well lets be fare. Call of Duty and Infinity War/Treyarch rips all their missions and story lines from movies too

I had to giggle when playing Black Ops and realized they'd ripped entire scenes from The Last Castle. They were really scrapping the bottom of the barrel there.


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 Asherian Command wrote:


The First oh crap moment was in Call of duty 4 with nuke.
modernwarfare 2 with the airport scene
Modernwarfare 3 with the child scene (Oh wow, I was actually expecting an emotional reaction)

Incorrect. The first oh crap moment was in Call of Duty:United Offensive, when Captain Price died to blow up the Tirpitz *salutes*

Agreed.

Go ask Total Biscuit what his email and youtube comments are like. He won't be able to tell you. He started suffering physical symptoms from handling his own mail, and has spent the last few years paying someone else to deal with all of that crap for him.

 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:

 LordofHats wrote:
Go ask Total Biscuit what his email and youtube comments are like. He won't be able to tell you. He started suffering physical symptoms from handling his own mail, and has spent the last few years paying someone else to deal with all of that crap for him.

And here I was thinking it was his cancer that was causing him to suffer.

Different incidents (This one happened between cancer one and cancer two). He was getting so many death threats and flame mail his doctor went so far as to put him on anti-depressants cause he just couldn't handle it.

The internet is a cruel place.

 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:


Well thats fethed up. Got a link? I've never heard of that.

Oh lordy... He did a video about it, but he has soooo many @_@ Think its in one of the cooptional podcasts, but there's over one hundred of them, most a few hours long, and I have no idea which one

There might be an article about it somewhere but there's so many of those too (or might be buried somewhere on his Twitter). For once, I actually want to go find the damn thing to refresh my memory but dear lord my google foo is too weak.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Apropos...

I actually scrolled down to the comments just to see if anyone was saying anything awful. Unfortunately the irony gods were not with me

 Slarg232 wrote:
I think the real question is, is if people are this stupid is it illegal to make a couple of accounts, pose as a woman in them, and try to reap the benefits of the Feminists Charitably?

That's what I wanna know. Wouldn't be my fault if they didn't do any research on it....

You haven't heard about the white guy who got elected to the city council pretending to be a black man?

 ZebioLizard2 wrote:

If you are going to throw around an accusation like that the least you can do is also back it up, otherwise it just seems like "internet lie I believed".

http://femfreq.tumblr.com/post/58161053721/spider-man-recruits-the-help-of-anita-sarkeesian-to

“That’s for Aliens: Colonial Marines.”

Worth.

 Ahtman wrote:


Indeed, but it still doesn't seem to qualify showing hypocrisy, unless you are unfamiliar with her or just have such a hate on you can see things that aren't there.

I can still enjoy a genuinely funny story. That punchline is brilliant

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Or neither, because it's unlikely to actually be true.

Yeah. That's a crazy scam even by internet scam artists standards

I can believe pretty rotten things about people but that one is a bit too far fetched

 Goliath wrote:
It's ridiculous to the point of a Tom Clancy novel.

Nah. See, if Tom Clancy had come up with it, that post would include a description of the brass knuckles being used, where they came from, who has famously used them, and their technical specs

 Slarg232 wrote:
Brass knuckles can have specs?

If Tom Clancy is writing it, then it has specs

 Slarg232 wrote:
That's why I tell no one anything, especially about my Doomsday Devi-


Can I have all of your addresses, please? For no reason in particular.

Puhlease. Like you're the only guy on the internet with a doomsday device;



I push that button, and it gets itchy. Super itchy. All the time. Everywhere.

And no amount of scratching will alleviate the torment!

I think they're more focusing on how everyone blames them for things (cause you know, the cesspools of the web are the real victims here ) but some weird stuff has been happening on 4Chan /v/ the last few weeks since this started.

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/vivian-james

This campaign and its related issues have been on the sidelines this whole time, but it is very un-4chany thing for 4chan to be doing. 4chan now has a movement on it's board that actually cares about the sites image rather than reveling in its negative reputation. Very strange indeed.

 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:

I am confused. How come 4chan has not yet sprouted thousand of the most vile rule34 images on Vivan James? Is that even possible?

Oh they've produced a few. But just the character's basic design is so reserved and unsexified that it seems a step above their usual flavor. Add in that part of the FYC campaign ended up hacked at the hand of feminists hackivists and you have an extremely bizarre reverse of how things would normally be expected to go considering 4chan's involvement

 Sigvatr wrote:
4chan and /v/ doing a honestly good thing.

What is this?

The end of all things.