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Back dashing or de-locking and running away is sure fire way to get got. Dashing has a huge window for guard breaks and fast characters like the Peacekeeper or any class with a good charge attack are going to punish this hard. Throw out a light if you see anyone trying to just walk into range as itll pre-empt a guard break. Or play the Nobushi and counter guard break spammers or overzealous Peacekeepers by bleed poking from range.

For 1v1s audio cues are huge. The timing on parrys and guard breaks is so much easier to hit if you listen closely. The window for these moves is actually somewhat forgiving but the animation is often misleading. The advanced tutorial is a great way to practice this as theres a whole section on parrys and guard breaks with AI dudes.

To be honest the things I'm finding the most broken are stuns into unblockable combos which the Warlord in particular is REALLY good at. Currently it makes any high level engagement devolve into a game of "who can land their one best combo first"

@bisonhero: Yeah didn't weekend badges for East 2015 sell out in something ridiculous, like 9 minutes? Faster than the site could tell people it was sold out if I recall. If that's any measure these will almost certainly be gone within the hour. I wonder how many additional people the event could handle. 15,000 seems low given how big the LA convention center and that past attendance is somewhere around 50k but I imagine the rest of the attendees might get upset if they let, say 30,000 in. Significantly more people, especially in the first year where its kind of a novelty might make getting around a total dog show, even more than it already it.

@gaff: classic extra zero. Thanks for the catch.

Yeah this is mostly in line with what I think. With conventions like PAX bringing pretty much all of the same games around to various parts of the country multiple times a year and keynotes being streamed live I don't see that much of a point in attending E3 personally. To me, something like PAX is far better value for money seeing as it's less about the playing all the latest games and more about the community.

As the ESA announced this morning on Gamespot, E3 2017 will be open to the public for the first time. Beginning February 13th, 15,000 'consumer' passes will be up for sale at $250 a pop ($150 if purchased early). The consumer pass allows access to the show floor, panels and some still vague Geoff Keighley organized 'gamer events'.

In addition a Polygon article mentions that the ESA is encouraging leading streamers to register for press passes which allow access to closed-door demos and interviews.

Traditionally E3 has been closed to the public though in recent years with the democratization of games coverage we've seen attempts to open up the event or at least extend the definition of 'press' to include media personalities, namely from YouTube and Twitch.tv.

How many of you would be interested in attending this years E3? How do you feel about the cost to attend? Now that E3 has consumers and streamers directly on the floor, do you think we'll see the return of companies like EA and Activision who left in favour of hosting their own events and broadcasting them directly to the public. With almost everything about E3 being beamed directly to any internet connected device, is attending the show in person still relevant?

Since this is the internet we've already got some real reactions only:

@puchiko: I'm okay with that Tanya being so different from the rest of the show since a) she's the main character and b) we don't really see other kids so maybe that's just what children look like in this world? Viktoriya kinda breaks that theory though and so their weird designs compared to the rest of the fairly normal looking cast make the girls look like they are from a completely different show.

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I hadn't originally planned to watch Youjo Senki but I picked this show up after you all talked about it here. I think the premise of the show is interesting and there is some good humour from seeing the main character to scheme her way out of seeing actual conflict much like a cute-girl version of Blackadder goes forth.

Gundam IBO update - This show continues to be a wild rollercoaster of tonal shifts. Seriously it's all over the place. The whole thing of human debris and the morality of using child soldiers to fight conflicts is often touched upon but never actually explored. They toyed with the idea late last season in the Edmonton arc where after several episodes of voicing dissent I was sure Merribit was finally going give Orga an ultimatum, but no. At this point its starting to feel a little exploitative as we're seeing shots of kids being crushed inside their suits or impaled and yet everyone's cool with it. I dunno man.

Little Witch returned to regular form this week after the amazing Lotte episode we got last week. I really like how we're seeing more of the students in each episode who are unique and interesting characters in their own right but I think it came at the expense of developing the main characters who some may have only had 1-2 episodes to get introduced to. I also love Trigger's willingness to constantly subvert the world so that this week we see the badass Contanze (ō_ō) straight up pull a magical gun on some fools. The exchange near the end with Akko and the dragon was interesting as it framed magic in their world as something that was a pretty niche thing and likely to die out fairly soon as people become less and less interested in it. When Akko scolds the dragon for being overly cynical and the dragon wistfully glances off the side, I half expected a flashback where we see how he lost his child-like sense of optimism being teased for liking magic by friends or perhaps being scolded by his salary-man dragon father to give up on magic and do something profitable. Did I just write some LWA fanfic? This show is that good.

Memes aside I doubt most of the people yelling at EA would actually pony up $60-$80 for a new skateboarding game. Skating underwent a huge boom in popularity in the 2000s but that era is mostly over and, it's moved out of the public eye. Finally I imagine THPS5 probably put the last nail in the coffin for traditional skateboarding games.

The only way I can see it coming back is in a game that incorporates that kind of movement and trick system but isn't itself a 'sports' game the way Tony Hawk's basically were. In many ways I kinda thought Steep would be that game but it seems like that game is much more about racing and exploration.

Kind of funny this guy in the video is trying to dispute a wonky claim made by a marketing company whilst simultaneously having a suitcase full of "gaming mints" sitting right next to him.

Yeah, a basic understanding of high school science should tell anyone that simply covering a hot thing makes it hotter. You need to make contact with something if you want to conduct heat, this shield doesn't make contact, so it ends up insulating it instead, same as if you were to improperly seat a CPU cooler.

@expensiveham Don't you think that's kind of a big generalization? MSI's GPUs and Motherboards are generally well thought of and competitively priced but unfortunately few 'pc parts' companies are immune from the occasional bogus marketing claim.

To be fair, you played it 6-7 years after release. HL2 was groundbreaking at the time but many of the things that made it so special then have long since been incorporated into thousands of games in much more refined forms. It's akin to saying Bad Company wasn't actually a great game because in 2017 we have things like Titanfall 2. Games don't stop being great just because later games borrow their ideas and iterate on them, if anything that is usually what defines a really great game.

Rap man about to see a little bit of that gallery money

As long as it's not a slideshow or jumping wildly between framerates I don't give a shit. People like what they like but to me the people making the 1080p60 or die argument come off as a little entitled.