My god what is wrong with that FoV, it's like it keeps changing.
Looks like image stabilization to me. Possibly even Youtube's own automatic stabilizer, if the person who uploaded the video was being too scatterbrained to realize he left it on. In any case, it's not the game's fault.
The change of tone really caught me off guard... I had a lot of fun with the very early builds, when it was one man and his rifle against another, digging trenches and building towers all over the bleak, slowly deteriorating landscape. I remember the preview that convinced me to play it describing how strangely visceral and unique the primitive trench warfare was, seemingly delivering some sort of scaled down but accurate WW1 experience with soldiers frantically digging trenches to safely cross an open field with instant death bullets hailing over their heads. I sort of fell out a bit when the predictable, colorful custom maps became so prevalent over the randomly generated terrain, and now I guess there's jetpacks and drills? I guess I'm glad I caught the game while it was still interesting to me.
I don't know what it was about his face during the broken internet ordeal at the beginning of the WiiU BLOPS 2 video but something about it was screaming Hotline Miami to me.
I keep coming back to that picture... Absolutely chilling. I showed it to a friend and he described it as "filthy".
Since I bought Battlefield 3 Premium for the sake of getting the expansions for cheaper, I one day also decided to look at some of the premium exclusive content in the form of "strategy guides" for two of the expansions. Those things are exactly what manuals once were, with clumsy maps, lists of what vehicle is featured in what level and on what mode and moderately descriptive blocks of text that sometimes weren't even correct because the game was updated after they were, um... "printed". That made me nostalgic. Although completely useless from a content standpoint, they were long enough that I wish I could have physical copies of them. Maybe throw one on the night stand and another in the bathroom for emergency reading. If I could, I would have printed them out to do just that, no joke.
So clearly I miss the days of manuals. I appreciate games that don't need written instructions (I recently played Halo 4 for the first time and found it does a good job contextualizing everything you need to do, and has its own little mini instruction booklet in the form of the Back button which pops up a window succinctly describing the current weapon and armor ability you're wielding), but a manual in itself can be a valuable piece of content. I vividly remember finding Nox for cheap at the local convenience store one lunch break at school and spending the remaining time between classes paging through the manual and trying to memorize the many different spells and abilities in the game. There were pages of them, each spell listed with a little icon and a brief instruction on how it works, everything from harpoons to summoning traps to teleportation, magic missiles, calling down giant fists from the sky (why does that sound familiar?) and creating magic walls. And I imagined, and I longed. I sincerely think that such of out-of-game content for referring to when you can't actually sit down with the game can be valuable, and perhaps even important, for learning to understand and appreciate a game. Even if it's really not doing anything but whetting your appetite. Still, this is all wishful thinking, manuals aren't practical and never will be practical again. The world will be a better place without them... But one can dream.
"Oh boy, remote bomb launcher with a built-in motion sensor? That sounds freaking rad! I hope it's featured in the campaign... Surely it must be, if it's in the game at all. I can't wait to get up early tomorrow so I can try it...!"
Done, for THQ's sake. For the record, since Saints Row is their pay-above-average bonus, you get a separate Steam key for that game. So if you already have it but would still like the rest of the bundle, you can always give that key to someone else. Someone else who deserves to play Saints Row. Can't wait to finally dig into it, myself.
Just out of curiosity... As someone who hasn't followed this very closely but did read both articles on this site... What the hell do those hashtags even mean? One reason why what? One reason to be what? One of them is bad and one of them is good, but they're worded the same and they both seem to omit the same part, so... I mean, just... I dunno, maybe it's just me, but I like things to make sense, and I haven't found any place that explains what those actually mean and what's supposed to differentiate the two, so it kinda bugs me. Even though I obviously get the intent, reading about them after the fact.
Sexism happens both ways and everywhere. Try picking up a relative/friend's kid from kindergarten as a guy.
People need to stop giving a shit.
This times a thousand.
are you retards really arguing that sexism happens against men
because lol
Are you saying it doesn't?
Bronies.
Not exactly pure sexism, but still a case of adult men getting incredible amounts of grief for being into something adult men aren't "supposed" to be into. Gender roles in society leading to excessive hatred and in some cases violence. Kinda fucked up, all of this.
Shit. I'm sweating bricks over here just reading about the fate of that company and how much worse it just got, and I'm about as far away from any of it as you can get. Somewhere on the other side of the world, some poor soul who has to sort all of this out must be dying from a heart attack right about now... Not cool. Not cool at all.
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