carlthenimrod

I did my first run as Leon on hardcore. It was a decent challenge(I died a lot) but it wasn't impossibly difficult. I generally jack the difficulty up on games, I find modern games tend to be faceroll on default difficulty.

I will say if you are having fun on Hardcore I would maybe stick with it or even start over on Hardcore if you feel you are truly boned. If you are having fun then finding an excuse to play more RE2 isn't necessarily a bad thing.

It sounds like you are having the ultimate survival horror experience so I would just keep trucking.

Question: What are you basing that on?

I would argue the true competition for Valve has always been consoles and their digital storefronts. Stuff like GOG and Windows Store have been around but what keeps Valve honest is consoles. As far as what I can tell from my 5 hardcore minutes of googling is that they charge 30% which is basically the standard. I would also argue Valve offers a superior service to consoles and doesn't charge you a monthly/yearly fee to access any of it's features. I'm open to hear the arguments they charge too much but I would need more data to be convinced they are over-charging developers/publishers.

The thing about Epic is that they are currently charging less but are also offering less. It is also very possible they will raise their costs when they add more features and gain more of a foothold in the marketplace. It's a very common practice to do so and easily justifiable by pointing at the competition. I'm definitely making an assumption here but I guess you could say I am highly suspicious of a company that used to gouge developers to use the Unreal engine.

All things considered I don't see how this will benefit PC gaming long term. Having to maintain separate accounts is a pain. As an enthusiast I really don't like doing it and I foresee more casual users opting to use consoles instead.

Booing and sarcastic questions seem like a perfectly valid way to voice your displeasure with the direction a company is taking a franchise you care about.

Seriously, people act like the person in that clip used a racial slur and then hurled a battery on stage at the developer. Let’s keep things in perspective here. Perhaps a bit rude but it wasn’t all that bad all things considered.

No.

If employees/ex-employees feel like they have been mistreated it is on them to seek compensation. Not gamers that have no actual insight with regards to the working conditions.

I would like Microsoft to release things on Steam also but I’m just happy they release all their 1st party stuff on PC to begin with. Saying it is anti-consumer is a little backwards to me as if this happened 10 years ago and you didn’t have an X-Box you would no longer be playing Obsidian games.

It took me all of 45 seconds to purchase Forza Horizon 4 and get it downloading. It’s not my first choice to buy games but it has a search box and the download speed seemed fast.

I haven't played VC2 but why does that say that about women as a whole versus just about those characters?

I think that is where this breaks for a lot of people. I generally take characters at face value and don't attribute a deeper hidden meaning to them. Giving video game characters flaws or insecurities gives them weight and makes them actually believable to me. But I don't believe that always has to say something about society as a whole or what not.

Again, I haven't played VC2, maybe that game does a bad job and has bad characters, or maybe it is straight up sexist, but I do believe people are too quick to attribute some deeper hidden meaning to this stuff. Having characters with negative traits is important and those negative traits don't always need to be overtly confronted one way or the other. People are imperfect.

Wii Sports Bowling or Peggle

I would try avoiding handing him a PS4/Xbox controller altogether. All the buttons are intimidating.

I would avoid most modern games unless you are there to guide him.

Someone mentioned Donkey Kong on NES, you need to think more along those lines. RBI Baseball, Pac-man, etc.

Sports games are good because if they are a fan of the actual sport they will have an idea already of how the rules go.

@fatalbanana said:

I'm not sure if you are replying to me, but I never mentioned women being a problem personally. I mentioned that I was looking for something slower and tactical.

With that said, if you are trying to sell video games to as many people as possible, telling people to not buy your game is generally a bad idea. They might listen.

It is perfectly valid to want more authenticity out of a game based on World War II. Some people don't care about some of the wackier cosmetics which is fine, but some do which is also fine. Some people wouldn't care if you could mount unicorns and swing laser swords. That line that breaks immersion is different for every player. A large portion of the people that saw that initial trailer didn't like what they saw and they let DICE know.

The controversy however was created by DICE. They didn't respond appropriately to peoples' complaints going as far as to call them 'uneducated' and instructing them to not buy their game. They were coming into this with an already shaky recent history since Brokenfield 4 (get it?!) and this was the straw that broke the camel's back for some.

Personally, I want something slower and tactical. BFV is an easy no buy to me. It's really crazy because I am one of those people that was excited to go back to WW2 but I ended up completely passing on both COD and BF. I just think they both whiffed so hard on what people actually want but I digress.

Disclaimer: I beat Mass Effect 1 & 2 (not 3) but my memory is shitty so I don't remember the particulars of Ashley.

What I will say however is that Archie Bunker from "All in the Family" was a bigot who said terrible things. But he was also a very likeable character because he was actually a decent person despite some of his outward flaws. His humanity made him a believable and compelling character to watch and it led to a lot of funny/interesting moments when his bigotry was challenged.

Again, I don't remember the particulars of Ashley, but I don't remember her doing anything irredeemable along the lines of murdering a group of innocent aliens or what not.

I think this post nails it.