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@moywar700 said:

@TheSouthernDandy said:

I've never liked "gamer" for some reason. "video gamer" makes me wanna kick something.

How about video-players?It would be akin to book readers or movie watchers.

Wouldn't game-player be more appropriate? VLC plays videos, I play games.

@StarvingGamer said:

Was going to make some sardonic post about how stupid this thread is...

...but it seems everyone else beat me to it.

You should blame EA for that

STAR TREK

I went through the links and none of what he said sounded particularly controversial.

A little full of himself perhaps, but for the most part I agree with him or aren't well enough informed to make an opinion

• Dragon Age 2 was fantastic,
• The first Assassins Creed game was fantastic
• Half Life 2 is dumb
• Valve is overrated
• EA Origin is okay
• EA isnt as bad as most people say
• Ubisoft's DRM policy for PC games is partly a good thing
• Arcade machines are irrelevant and boring
• ME3's endings were dissapointing and dumb, but acceptable
• All the Star Wars movies suck, not just the prequels
• Riker was also cool without a beard

avocado, mozzarella, smoked chicken, cranberry...

I WANT IT NOW!

@kevingadd said:

@Cybexx said:

@ShinAli said:

Because PSM is pretty terrible. They've done a terrible port of the Mono runtime, so it runs really bad; not to mention omitting and restricting things on the Vita like texture compression, 96mb memory limit that is split between heap and "resource" memory (textures, sounds, etc).

Ah I see, good to know. I had not had a chance to try it for myself yet, it seems geared more towards the android devices. And since its C# your going to run into the standard garbage collection issues, usually the amount of memory you need to de-allocate to trigger it is kind of small which restricts the use of local variables. C#: amazing code hinting, clean language, nasty optimization issues.

People building terrible runtimes isn't really an issue with C#. The language actually has a bunch of features you can use to write apps that don't create garbage; it's just that most libraries aren't designed for that, including the ones that come with XNA and PSM. The garbage collector that comes with MS's runtime is really good, and the one in Mono is getting better also to the point that you don't need to worry about garbage very often.

For example, the content management stuff that comes with XNA creates tons of garbage, which means it's impossible to avoid GC pauses when loading content. This is a pretty stupid oversight that MS could have fixed easily but didn't bother to (and it's part of why Fez had pauses when loading levels).

Unfortunately, in general vendors don't care enough to do a good job with runtimes. The PSM runtime, for example, takes ~50 milliseconds to sort an array of 1024 elements, and crashes if the array is bigger. Yes, that is 1/20th of a second.

lololol, any more than 1024 and it crashes!?! Thats deplorable

@Jimi said:

PC because fuck consoles amirite guys?

No but seriously PC cause that's what my friends are getting it on.

Yea fuck 'em!

I purchased the 4 pack on Steam when it was on sale, so me and my boys got it for cheap

@SavageManLove said:

Wonder which class will work best for solo play? Zero looks kinda cool as a me lee ninja guy but wonder if that would require lots of strategy to not die a lot getting up close.

It looks like the right hand skill tree lets you kill enemies quickly using deception. The Execute and Many Must Fall skills compliment each other nicely, and the Grim skill would make it faster to get back into Deception.

@mrEkli said:

Emulation is Piracy. Furthered by the fact that old games (most of the ones people want to play too) are being sold on modern systems.

Emulation is not piracy, it can facilitate piracy. There is a big difference