I'm checking out that list and think, "Man Sony has some stuff.." then I see Titanfall... and to me, the PS4 doesnt have that crack addiction like Titanfall (also wanna toss in Killer Instinct as well) in terms, of one more match, one more game, and something I can play with friends. It was kinda the thing that swayed me toward the XOne. I will get a PS4 eventually, while it was games I want to play, it has nothing I want to play NOW (if that makes sense)
I would agree with everyone and say wait for E3, but I feel like I have to mention that the Xbox One is larger, more expensive, comes with a peripheral that most people seem to dislike, and is numerically less powerful.
But you should be swayed by the games offered rather than something an asshole on the internet thinks.
This is fair. There is an element of consumer advocacy/protection that comes into play with the Xbox one. It is objectively a questionable investment unless you fall into a very specific demographic. And this narrative that it "has more games" is... Well, take a look at this:
http://i.imgur.com/gT5kpTb.png
That's a list of releases per month between both systems. It's... Eye opening. The Sony platform clearly looks like it's aiming to be a highly curated Steam, with the best multiplats and more first party studios. That's an interesting list.
It seems obvious, and not that big deal, but that fear has stopped me from trying a lot of times, instead of putting in extra effort, I just do the minimal, which doesnt work well if you want to advance in a professional or personal level. Alot of times, I spent kicking myself b/c I never even tried to tell a female how I feel about them, eventhough I KNOW that we were a great match, but hey dont try, dont get hurt, you can't fail?! And I get to sit back and watch them be happily ever after with some other douchebag.
Is this the obvious conclusion, or am I on the fringe for thinking that maybe they actually DID go with the "using The Streak to elevate a younger guy", just indirectly? Keep in mind, I'm new to this stuff (and also haven't actually watched RAW or Smackdown, just perused the recaps), but it seems like they're using Heyman to funnel some of that prestige to Cesaro. In hindsight, that would make a lot of sense, because Cesaro gets the boost of getting picked by "the manager of the guy that broke the streak" without taking the heat of being "that giant baby-looking motherfucker that beat up an old man".
But again, maybe this is all super duper obvious if you actually watch the shows or know any background information.
The streak was for Heyman, WAAAAAYYYYY more than Lesner.
It's a feather in Heyman's cap, while Lesner eats and sleeps, before finding a thing to Conquer (most likely DBry's title) again.
I'm ... not sure about this Threes thing. It's not exactly the first time a blatant copy of something gets pretty popular and where the original doesn't get the credit it may deserve, even if the most popular people copying it are trying to be open with it. Minecraft is a pretty famous example, Notch was always pretty open about it being based on InfiniMiner, yet that got lost in most of the reporting and very few articles talking about the popularity or even history of Minecraft do what it seems Patrick and Max expects out of these journalists, that the fact that it's a clone has to be mentioned. Hell, Call of Duty 4 constantly is mentioned as the game that created the multiplayer unlock system, despite that being a thing in Battlefield 2, three years prior (and even BF2 may not have been the first to do that). Should Spelunker have been mentioned in any of the Spelunky coverage we've had on Giant Bomb?.
This entire Threes thing, just make me feel... uneasy about the whole thing. Like it's a mistake, but the reaction to it SOOOO overblown, I just stop reading. Like what does berating the guy do, yeah he could edit it and fix it, but the damage is done and the shaming has been done.
Is he gonna throw himself on the cross for something that EVERYONE in the know already knew about?
I will never get the craze over the rage at pre-orders. If you want it, you want it, I'm not gonna tell an adult what to dowith their money.
If the game sucks then well... THAT game sucked, I got burned on Pre-ordering Thief,but I made out pretty good on South Park and Dark Souls II, so it's pretty much a crap shoot.
So you're saying that pre-ordering is a good way of buying games because it doesn't 'burn' you most of the time? If you didn't pre-order any of those games and just bought the one's that still seemed purchase-worthy a day or two after release, you'd probably get burned zero times.
People seem to pre-order because of pre-order bonuses but pre-order bonuses exist because publishers want you to preorder. It's basically a self-perpetuating scheme that doesn't help anyone but the publishers who want to make you feel like you're missing out. Take the tiny hit of missing out on pre-order bonuses, which are usually very trivial anyway, and the problem of having to miss out on stuff automatically goes away for everyone in the long run. If a product isn't literally a limited edition or made from something that is actually scarce, there is absolutely no reason to give a company money without getting anything in return.
That's why I feel like it's kinda pointless if you're gonna buy it day one, then why not?
Most games I pre-order have no real bonus, I just use it as a checklist of what is coming out and do I have stuff to trade in to knock down the cost?
If you don't want to, then don't.
Also as an aside, "isn't literally a limited edition or made from something that is actually scarce", tell that to the people who couldn't find Bravely Default in a store for like 3 weeks because we live in a small town and most stores got like 3-4 extra copies onfthe game that weren't preordered. It does happen, depending on where you live.
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