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I think this is a British thing, I noticed it while watching Doctor Who a few weeks back when the characters kept saying they were "in hospital."

I think the problem is that TW3's emotional impact heavily relies on having firsthand experience with the previous games and books, and a lot of people are coming into the game without that.

I'd absolutely agree that TW2 is a better self-contained story, but in terms of the overarching narrative there's just no contest. TW3 is one of (if not the single) greatest RPGs of the last 20 years.

@n00bs7ay3r: Ah, I was a Comp kid. Technically I moved there in 9th grade so I also went to Greystone for a year, but I guess that doesn't count (highschool was 9-12 up north)

Ayy, I check off pretty much all of these boxes. Grew up in Fort Mac, went to high school in Spruce Grove, currently living in Edmonton. <>

Back when I lived in Spruce I used to just tell anyone outside Alberta that I lived in Edmonton, because literally nobody knows where it is (or if they do, they don't understand the distinction between Spruce/St. Albert/Sherwood and think it's all just Edmonton anyway)

I feel like "80s-inspired" is the aesthetic people use when they literally can't think of anything original.

What a ridiculous overreaction. DotaPlus is absolutely not P2W; all the information it tells you is freely-available in the API and anyone who cares the slightest bit about improving their performance will be well beyond the point where its rudimentary suggestions matter. Preliminary reports from people that have used it suggest it's basically useless for anything above 2K, as there are factors of the meta that you just literally cannot measure through any real metric.

See that's the thing, item & ability suggestions have existed in the game for years now in the form of the community-driven Guides system - they've just been things that players have to manually enable and update based on the current patch. This is basically just an automated version of that, adding onto it a "suggested hero" feature for drafting (which, as mentioned, will be absolutely useless at all but the most basic, tutorial-levels of play)

This is a monetized tutorial, nothing more.

Knowing Kojima, all these interesting ideas and designs will just turn out to be some awful, hamfisted metaphor for social media or nukes or something. He's a master at writing stories with the depth of a puddle and fooling people into thinking his pretentious, surface-level social commentary is an ocean.

Criticism of NeoGAF doesn't make someone any of those things. There were very real issues with the way GAF was run and the culture behind it, and if you go over to Kotaku's article you'll see that NeoGAF had a history of blatantly suppressing women and minority voices in the community. It was anything but the progressive safe haven people like to say it was.

And before you say it, this wasn't just Evillore. The fact that moderators knew about his behavior for years but stayed silent until now speaks volumes about the overall culture of that place.