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@beyondstrange: " That is the foundation of GamerGate: a personal issue that no one should be concerned with." I disagree with this statement. It stops being a personal issue and becomes a public issue when you have a developer have a sexual relationship with several journalists who then write favorable articles and reviews. Then she slandered people and tried to cover up the truth which ended up getting out anyway. That is corrupt and wrong. In what universe is that an acceptable thing to do?

This incident is what caused "gamergate" to spring up. It was supposed to be about a lot of angry gamers upset with certain elements of the games press. A lot of people with too much time on their hands had their worst paranoid suspicions concerned. It had nothing to do with harassment or keeping women out of the industry or any of those things. At first the media was silent until about a week in there was mass slander over the place. It was an attack on "gamersgate" to destroy their credibility and destroy the message and intent that they had. Even Patrick Klepek who seems like a level headed cool dude was sending out vicious tweets directed at those folks, like they were all a bunch of misogynistic animals. I dont think that is fair for the most part. Now some of this was justified considering some crazies latched onto it and used it as an excuse to harass. Horrible exchanges happened on both sides. There was nothing initially negative about gamersgate at all. Whats wrong with shedding light on ethical issues? The end result is you get some more objectivity and more transparency about things. Doesn't seem so terrible does it? The problem is that the media controls the message and since this was damaging to them they buried the entire movement under a wave of nonsense and misdirection. Most people even think this is some sort of social or political movement which is absurd.

The games industry has a deep seated issue with transparency and "inbreeding" between developers, press and publishers. Its worse than any other media industry and worse than its ever been. Consider that in order to get a pre release copy of shadows or mordor you had to agree to a vast list of bullshit including "not mentioning lord of the rings" "only positive things about the game" etc. So to get a copy to show the game on release or before you basically had to become a shill. I want to hear a persons opinion on a game not watch an advertisement for the publisher. This is the kind of stuff gamersgate is about or should be about. The fact that zoe quinn is female does not excuse her or make any criticism of her harassment. Please don't point your finger at me collective internet media. For the record I thought depression quest was brilliant despite not being much of a game and I have no problem with opinion related content and subjective critical reviewing. The aspects of social or political content in the media seems like a different issue to me. But maybe to people who are actually involved with any of this gamersgate stuff that has become an aspect of the movement. But i'm pretty sure when it began it was not about that stuff.

I like that giantbomb has been open about how they do things. This site is an example of how to do things the right way.

All this talk about harassment and psychos making death threats is about as far away from productive discourse about journalistic integrity or women's issues in gaming as I can think of. Social justice figureheads and rights activists have always been targeted by psychos and its basically part of the job. One side says "see they are deflecting the issue and focusing on a few outliers" and the other side says, "See, now we can see you are trying to silence us!" But I think in reality the actions of a couple psychos are not really worth focusing on.

On the social justice side of things there is just constant whining about harassment and very little criticism and independent thought actually making it through to the general public. Honestly. I dont care about how you were harassed. Its not proving anything about some kind of deep social issue in gaming culture and its not going to make me care about what you say out of sympathy. I'm sick of the manipulation and the way harassment is used to blunt all the criticism of the stupid redundant ideas that you keep repeating.

On the "gamersgate" side of things I wish you people would just grow up and let the other side have their say. You're insane paranoia over what amounts to a couple of blog type articles and videos is disturbing. There is no conspiracy to turn gaming journalism into some sort of feminist propaganda mill. If you are not interested in an article don't read it. If you disagree stop reading and move on with your life. There is no agenda to take away the video games that you like to play.

Maybe at some point humanity will grow up and stop wasting its time arguing about stupid bullshit. Video Games have both male focused sexuality and poor character writing for women because they were traditionally a male focused hobby for a long time. Many games are male power fantasies and it doesn't make a male that enjoys it immature or misogynistic. Video Games are not real life they are for fun. As the game market opens to more women and more cultures the types of games will be more reflective of it. I just play and enjoy games as they are right now. I couldn't care less if my game is not politically correct enough for your agenda and I don't care if a game comes out that is female focused. Sometimes, I feel like the only one who doesn't have a problem with games as they are and doesn't care about people expressing their criticisms of my hobby. I play games. I will buy the games that appeal to me. I will keep an open mind about new games that don't appeal to my gender and culture. I am neither fighting against change or promoting it. Im just sick of the endless agenda driven bullshit from multiple sides that have infested this hobby in recent years.

I have quite enjoyed my time so far in the game. Even though its not the best shooter I have ever played I still prefer the real time combat to any kind of skill bar based system. So the combat in the game and the mobility is enough to make the game fun for me. I am not so enamored with the quest design and the dialog, which seem to be pretty standard for an MMO. I do like the dynamic quest system and helping people out who are thumping. I am disappointed that the crafting takes a long time and find that aspect of the game confusing. The game is free and its seems like it will be fun to play until I get sick of it. Overall, I like the game defiance a bit better which is also free to play. I think the shooting in defiance feels a bit less spammy and more precise which I like. Defiance also has better loot systems and less of a reliance on crafting which I also prefer.

As someone coming from a family of holocaust survivors I would have no problem playing a game from the axis perspective. However, it would need to be done tastefully. Probably it would work out ok to tell a grounded and historical story that just attempts to leave all the politics and stuff out. I think it would be very difficult to really get into the themes, politics and morality without making the game potentially offensive. I'm not a big fan of games that trivialize large traumatic historical events so maybe it would be best to just start by focusing on the battles and the combat from a neutral perspective. I think this would be easy to do with a standard wehrmacht soldier but would become difficult with the SS. Its just the SS was so ingrained with institutionalized racism, genocide and human rights violations that it would be weird to make a game that doesn't address that.

Hi, as far as I know ASUS makes really good quality laptops and it seems like a safe bet in terms of quality and support. Personally, I have an MSI laptop and love it. I think the build quality is a step above most. I'm pretty sure there is an MSI laptop that would be in your budget.

There is no reason your current laptop should be overheating under load like that. Any kind of gaming laptop (has a real multi-core cpu and a dedicated graphics card) is going to generate a lot of heat. Even though MSI has quality heat sinks and fans its just not enough. Also, I clean out the fans and heat sinks every couple months to get all the accumulated dirt and dust out. I was having big problems with cpu overheat before I started doing that and wondering why my games were dropping into single digit frames and then going back up again. It was because the cpu was hardware throttling itself when it reached a certain temp. Also, I use a program called throttlestop to manually limit the maximum voltage of the intel "turboboost". This basically lowers the maximum clockspeed of a single core when it goes under 100% load. Doing this has eliminated any overheating issue for a small performance cost. My gpu temp seems mostly fine even when overclocked.

It doesn't matter what kind of laptop you get, if it has quality hardware its going to have heat issues probably. like I said, the key is proper cleaning and making sure the cpu stays at a stable temperature. Also, I definately recommend you get a 17 inch screen for a gaming laptop. The thing is gaming laptops are meant to be portable but its something that might be difficult to travel with. Also, I didn't realize how big of a deal hard drive space would be. You might want to spend a little extra to get more storage space especially if your steam library has become ridiculous like mine has.

I think that for this game to live up to expectations the persistent qualities and open world exploration need to be on point. They have made a lot of promises but what I have seen so far just looks like an average co-op shooter. I'm assuming that shooting is about 90% of what you can expect to be doing in this game so its a bit disappointing that it looks so familiar. The way the character moves seems too slow and sluggish for me and the way the enemies just kind of mill about in the open while they get shot up seems not great.

This still seems like good game material and I really like the universe and backdrop they have created for this game. But if they spent $500 million bucks to just create what boils down to a regular co-op shooter thats gonna be a disappointing.

I know everyone here is mostly in agreement, but this whole backlash over the farcry 4 cover is completely absurd. Especially considering the antagonist is clearly either mixed race asian or some asian (I guess officially he is burmese). Also, I know this might just be shocking to some people but homosexuality is not a big deal in that part of the world at least in tibet, nepal, bhutan etc. True Buddhist cultures couldn't give two shits about a persons sexual orientation, although there are strongly defined traditional roles for men and women. But the modern himalaya region is one of the most accepting places and full of wonderful people. Its like basically the opposite of texas.

I really think if ubisoft had any balls they would have made the antagonist obviously chinese. But people would either not get it because so many have no idea of the history of the region or they would think it was racist, despite the fact that china has almost ruined the native culture of that area of the world. If your not paying attention think 6000+ monasteries, 1000s of years of historical note keeping and relics, and the sovereignty of the dalai lama destroyed. This is all in the name of selling mopeds, prepared food, televisions etc. and building a rail system into mongolia to get all the copper they are now mining there.

Also I find it incredibly absurd that people picked up on the characters flamboyancy and western affect and were angry about that while the character is sitting on a statue of buddha with his head severed. Interesting imagery there for sure.

That notion leads me to hope that these implied concepts are explored well in the game. I have no problem with it at all but I hope the execution is more deft then in farcry 3. In that game exploring a tribal society and exploring what being a warrior means to those kinds of societies was interesting but it all felt too cursory. About half way through I was thinking "whats the point of this" and then the game goes completely off the rails towards the end. So if they are trying something similar with farcry 4 I hope they just either make it window dressing or go strait for the jugular.

Hey guys if I was fine running Rage at 1080p and max quality (besides full AA) on my PC will my performance be comparable in the new wolfenstein? Because my laptops cpu spec is kind of close to the minimum that they are asking for for this game. I thought that was weird because rage played at a rock solid 60fps and wolfenstein runs the same engine and doesn't really even look better than that game. So if someone has played both let me know if wolfenstein runs slower or about the same at comparable settings.

You should definitely get on the mass effect train buddy, its one of my favorite series. If you get the whole trilogy thats a lot of game. If only I could go back in time and get that magic feeling of playing through ME1 again and exploring a new universe. I want to experience ME2s incredible world building and character writing again. Then there's the tension and dramatic weight of ME3.

For me right now its DICE. It seems like EA has really run them into the ground. BF4 is basically a complete loss at this point considering 6 months in the game is still glitchy and borderline defective for most people. Even if you can get the game working stable its probably the most unbalanced version of battlefield yet created. The game will probably never be in a competitive balanced state and will be full of people using the same overpowered loadouts and cheese tactics forever. Its so very disappointing that BF bad company 2/ BF2 have such solid balance and are still great games. Its also a big problem that DICE seems to not give two shits about supporting their own games. For example, DICE has basically dropped all support for BF3 at this point and have done literally nothing to stop the huge influx of cheaters that are destroying the game. Most good battlefield players have gotten sick of dealing with BF4 and just gone back to play 3 (which STILL has glaring balance issues), but now that game is being ruined as well.

If you have the audacity to try and charge people $100 for the full experience they need to try way harder because this stuff will catch up with them sooner rather then later. Maybe if EA would give them a proper 3 year dev cycle we can get a game as good as BF2 with all the fancy pants graphics too.