Cretaceous_Bob

I can't help but feel like releasing re-done versions of DmC and DMC4 is testing the waters to see which game people would like to see a sequel of, which is why I've never bought DmC and never will, and will buy DMC4 for the third time.

Mid, off, and safe lane all present different challenges which are not simply overcome by being a support or tank or whatever. There are supports that are terrible mid-lane, and there are supports that are terrible offlane. They're both supports; the "convoluted terminology" regarding the lanes is about a very important game mechanic and is not adding a layer of complexity simply for the sake of it.

It's not as complicated as it seems, either. Think of it this way: if you played one single map in a FPS for years, you'd have some very specific terms relating to different sections of the map and the unique problems you'll face there.

I'm 26 and I have never had my hair cut by anyone as an adult. Best way of doing things.

@kcin said:

Yeah I agree with all of this. Joystiq was where I went after I couldn't possibly tolerate Kotaku anymore once they started blasting their front page with pictures of a mass shooter as fucking crass clickbait. If that's what I have to deal with to read about video games, then I don't give a fuck about video games. Joystiq was doing it right for a long time, so of course somebody couldn't let them keep doing that.

Literally zero guys at Joystiq kept their jobs. Only one woman did. The company that owns the name Joystiq decided to keep using it for precisely your reaction right there, where you think just because something is called Joystiq it's the same thing as the website they just fired everybody from.

Edit: Also the word is "duped"

What the fuck? Come on man. No, come on, world.

That's how people decided to make games back then and that's what people wanted to play. Point and click adventure gameplay has always been sweaty dog balls to me. Quite frankly, though, I've got more games with solid gameplay than I can play, but I've never had enough games with the artistic merits of Tim Schafer's games. I thought the gameplay of Brutal Legend was pretty boring, but I consider the game a phenomenal work of art. I don't want to play Brutal Legend, but I love Brutal Legend.

I haven't listened to everything from 2014 I want to yet (like Agalloch), but I've heard enough to know Edguy and DragonForce continue to not really be any good anymore, but these are the standout albums of the year for me so far (I'll link some Youtube songs with the name):

Twilight Force - Tales of Ancient Prophecies
Third Dimension - Where the Dragon Lies
Freedom Call - Beyond
Equilibrium - Erdentempel

After my first 8 hours of DAO I thought it was pretty generic, had a lot of MMO stuff, and the characters weren't very interesting. The first 8 hours of DAO are not significantly better than those of DAI. I don't think any specific 8 hours of any RPG ever actually give you a good picture of the quality of the overall game. The end of DAO where you're saying goodbye to everybody would have been total crap without having spent the last 50 hours with them. RPGs are cumulative.

Most of the things the OP said are things that very much could have been applied to Dragon Age: Origins in its first 8 hours. If they truly did make another great game like Origins, you literally wouldn't be able to tell, because 8 hours wouldn't be a large portion of the game.

What's more, DA2 was so god awful across the board in art, design, and writing, that I cannot imagine how anything could be disappointing compared to it. In fact, my biggest complaint about DAI so far is that it is a sequel to DA2. Everything DA2 did was stupid, so having them continue from all the stupid places that DA2 took us is the worst part of this new game.