MrSlapHappy

I know I have done this...many times, but like many others I can't remember with what or where. I do remember the moment where I figured one of these instances out however, since it was particularly dumb.

I was playing a steam game of some kind and utterly frustrated with some mechanic of the game. So much so I commented to the people in the Ventrilo channel I was idling in, something to the effect of "Man, fuck this game, these damn ____ are making it impossible to do ____". Followed by a choir of people saying "What? Didn't you know the ___ does ___" and my response of "The ___ ...does ___... OOOOOOH. Well, that will make this MUCH easier." The final response was "Well, no shit."

I bet it will run fine with less or will still look amazing on lower settings. Those requirements are just for bragging rights for the guys that can afford to deck out their systems. After all no matter how crazy it looks, it still has to be DX9 compatible and has to run in some form or fashion on the consoles.

Would be cool if they could patch it down the line to optimize it for lower spec systems.

Sweet, thanks for the post!

I watched the first one with interest for months and then forgot about it. About two years later it showed up on steam for two bucks. I had my fun with it and am curious about the next one, but not enough to buy it on release. I hope it is awesome because while the first one had its issues, nobody has done sniping like this series. Even those ghost warrior games were more like the COD4 sniper level than simulation based on what I played. I did enjoy that one too until they locked me out of my account somehow.

So the question is "What game series or entire genre of game am I glad that I didn't play so I don't have to buy them blindly or stop playing because they are no longer the kind of games I like?"

Games evolve and things change, it happens. Enjoy the ride or go do something else.

Yeah, it sure looks like marketing to me.

1.) Frustration leading to my "rage quit" (ie, turning off the game in disgust because I am getting mad at a video game) can come from any genre. I play mostly first person shooters online where the idea of rage quit happens the most.

2.) Team Fortress 2, Call of duty 4, Counterstrike specifically come to mind but as above, any game can do it.

3.) I quit or "rage quit" whenever I feel that I am up against an unfair advantage in which I lose before I even have the opportunity to compete. Grenade spam, spawn camping are a few concepts from online shooters that are constant offenders. Typically, getting boned by a glitch or a game crash in a singleplayer game will cause me to put it down and come back later as well.

Well, looks like I need to boot up Borderlands and get back to dumping hours into my Hunter again to get warmed up!

Well they have two options really:

1) Ride this concept into the ground so hard they are remembered along side the likes of ABC primetime series and then come up with a new idea to rake in the cash of the masses, all the while swimming in cash.

2) Do the "honorable" thing and not try to milk this dry like filthy corporate thieves, instead slowly fading into obscurity.

Its awful, but damn man, ride that train into the ground and then walk away!

I lost Thane in my playthrough, I was upset because things had been going so well up until then. After I let it rattle around in the back of my mind for a while, during the rest of the session until my next save, I decided I wouldn't reload to fix it. I figured that if Mass Effect were a movie, Thane would have been the one to die saving another character (see Bruce Willis and Armageddon), it just seemed fitting.

Now working my way through one and two with a character I plan to import through the 3 games (previously a switch to PC after the first one prevented this) I am struggling with the idea of whether to try to keep everyone alive or to make sure Thane bites it again so I have the continuity that feels right. Although, I do plan to rework the other aspects of my ending so the Normandy isn't a ghost town when I triumphantly return from the ill-named "Suicide Mission"... That was more jarring than my loss of Thane...