You are definitely not qualified to say the main character lacks agency at this point.
What you heard, apparently:
You are not qualified to criticise [Detroit].
You are not qualified to pick a bone with this trailer
Might want to ratchet up the reading comprehension and ratchet down the rhetoric. As for your third paragraph, where you finally got to what I actually said:
You're right in that I don't know how much agency this character will have
All that fuss only to agree with me...
Oh, and the bonus round:
...I'm going to assume...
Which is exactly what I was getting at the in the first place. You are assuming a lot based on very little. And like I said, I'm not defending QD. I never played Heavy Rain besides a demo like 8 years ago, never finished Fahrenheit and never even bothered with Beyond. I think Dah*veed Cage is a silly French fucker who makes silly games that look nice and seem to have terrible voice acting. I was merely pointing out that by assuming all this baggage before literally anyone (let alone you yourself) even plays the game, you are prejudging the game unfairly, which, going by all evidence thus far, I'd bet is the type of behaviour you flip your shit over when someone else is the culprit.
@the_nubster: I'm not even a big fan of QD, but you saw all of 5 minutes of a game with almost no context. You are definitely not qualified to say the main character lacks agency at this point. It wasn't about the android because it's not a story trailer. It's the "mood setting/check out our world" teaser for a game that's probably at least a year off. FFS...
The glass pyramid Dan is talking about is the entrance. There are escalators going underground from what I remember. I can't believe Dan knew more about The Louvre than apparently Jeff or Brad.
It's funny to see Drew stand there not even taking cover while reloading in a firefight, just standing out in the open, no crouching or anything, and then look all dejected when he gets killed. I just want to say "Dude, you know how you play Halo on Legendary? Play this like that." Or, you know, do some stealthy shit. I don't even care that he constantly uses the sneaking suit in the day (Hell I did that and barely ever raised alerts) or the same load out all the time.
Dan's advice is also getting progressively worse too. "Oh let's do this mission where we can get an interpreter!"
::5 Minutes later::
"Blow up that red barrel next to the interpreter and the other three guys!"
@excast: Well said. The moderates are the people too busy playing games and generally having fun to read or care about either sides' bullshit, so the shit merchants have to either appeal to the extreme right that think girls are icky or the extreme left that thinks everything is racist and misogynist because that's who's out there "buying". It's American politics to a T.
I understand that as an organization, SXSW doesn't want to be the one that receives threats related to shit like this, ignore it and proceed only for something to actually happen and then they are culpable, but honestly, someone has to do it at some point. Continuously caving to this kind of shit only solidifies the notion that such tactics are viable and that they work. My guess is Austin is right and SXSW just saw the threats and thought "Fuck it, we don't want this wasps nest to blow up in our backyard! Cancel all related panels!" but that's a real chickenshit way to handle the problem IMO. I'm not sure what kind of threats they received to where they cancelled a panel featuring, if not directly about, anti-GG personalities and a pro-GG panel as well, but my guess is they were vague as fuck and almost assuredly trolling assholes that don't give a shit about either parties' politics and just want to giggle themselves silly at the fallout.
You definitely do not need to listen to the tapes marked yellow to unlock the last mission or for percentage because I never listened to any of the tapes in game. Found a YT video that just did them in order (roughly 5:30:00 long) and listened to them all that way. If I never hear the voice actor that voiced Code Talker say "Wolbachia" or "vocal chord parasites" again, I'll die a happy man.
Does anyone know if there is a way to make grenades explode more quickly after throwing them? Especially the sleep grenades. They seem to take so long to go off after throwing them that the enemy has plenty of time to get out of the area.
Maybe the fuse gets less as you upgrade because I have the Grade 6 ones and troops rarely get away from them, unless there's already an alert. They mostly duck and cover and by the time they realize it's not a frag, it's ZZZ time. You can also buy a grenade launcher that does sleeping gas too. Those go off on impact.
Also, not that I'm complaining but I feel like this is going to be the longest Metal Gear Scanlon to date if the mess around with Side Ops too much. Again, not complaining. By all means, 100% it Drew! :D
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