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And that's kind of industry standard anymore, honestly. FIFA 2011 was 60 until 2012 was on the shelves, iirc.
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Games on Demand pricing is bad because Microsoft is afraid to undercut the SMRP on physical copies of discs. It's a combination of THQ not lowering the price of the disc and MS being afraid of Walmart basically.
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gently caress, can we change ME3's FOV at all? I feel like puking!
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After years of being curious about the enigmatic Protheans I finally discovered they are casually racist fascists with Jamaican accents Goodest of games though.
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smashpro1 posted:It's not two years old, it's one. My mistake, I guess I was thinking of the release date of that Wrestlemania game from a few years ago. Save Russian Jews posted:And that's kind of industry standard anymore, honestly. FIFA 2011 was 60 until 2012 was on the shelves, iirc. I understand, but 'Raw vs Smackdown' came out a year and a half ago and it's still $40 not to mention the most recent edition ('WWE '12') being six months old itself. They can't possibly be selling enough copies of 2011, so why not bring the price down and actually make a profit? FishBulb posted:Games on Demand pricing is bad because Microsoft is afraid to undercut the SMRP on physical copies of discs. That's understandable as well, but then you have games that came out less than a year ago like 'LA Noire' down to $30 in the stores and on the Marketplace. And, if I'm not mistaken, they were much more favorably reviewed and sold a hell of a lot more copies. But then again, something like 'Noire' had practically no replay value. I'm babbling at this point, I'll shut up now.
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Pope Corky the IX posted:I understand, but 'Raw vs Smackdown' came out a year and a half ago and it's still $40 not to mention the most recent edition ('WWE '12') being six months old itself. They can't possibly be selling enough copies of 2011, so why not bring the price down and actually make a profit? Stores would revolt, for one. Out of the $60 price for a new game, maybe $55-56 of that goes right back to the distributor the store bought the game from. Publisher-mandated price drops are essentially telling the store, "That game you paid $55 for? Sell it for $30." Places like GameStop would have been bankrupt years ago if it weren't for their used game business.
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I think I heard that when a publisher tells a store to drop the price on a game they give the store a credit to help soften the blow. Not sure if that applies for every single store or just the big chains.
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The publisher/distributor/store relationship isn't just a straightforward 'you pay this for this and we give you so many copies of this' thing, its complicated with credits and preferred pricing on future things and returns and blah blah blah. And it vastly varies from store to store and chain to chain, mostly based on volume and geographics.
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FishBulb posted:The publisher/distributor/store relationship isn't just a straightforward 'you pay this for this and we give you so many copies of this' thing, its complicated with credits and preferred pricing on future things and returns and blah blah blah. Yeah, I was oversimplifying things a bit, but the point still stands that stores don't generally like to drop the prices on new games if there's still a chance of moving units at the original price. Of course, it used to be a lot worse for the publishers. Nintendo originally had to give full buyback guarantees to get NES games on store shelves.
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FishBulb posted:The publisher/distributor/store relationship isn't just a straightforward 'you pay this for this and we give you so many copies of this' thing, its complicated with credits and preferred pricing on future things and returns and blah blah blah. And it's probably worse when a publisher (THQ, in this instance) is having financial troubles.
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Kiwi Bigtree posted:After years of being curious about the enigmatic Protheans I finally discovered they are casually racist fascists with Jamaican accents That's a very West-African accent, actually, you loving racist piece of poo poo
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Bocc Kob posted:There was an LP by a guy who got banned, but still finished it on a blog. I feel the same way he did, but with more anger. Do you have a link to this blog? I was following the thread right up until it got gassed.
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http://gigglesquee.blogspot.com/ One of the best LPs ever. 
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Bocc Kob posted:http://gigglesquee.blogspot.com/ A fun LP, but the thread was terrible
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Yessss, thankyou. And gotta agree with Oatgan. That thread was a loving roller coaster of peaks and troughs of quality.
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I maintain the hate could have been properly channeled where it probably belonged had people been capable of shutting up about loving Mass Effect. 
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Oatgan posted:That's a very West-African accent, actually, you loving racist piece of poo poo I don't have an ear for accents then I guess. Sorry duder. EDIT: Maybe the Voice Actor is Kofi Kingston? DID YOU THINK ABOUT THAT HUH???? HERE LIES TEBOW fucked around with this message at Mar 7, 2012 around 22:17 |
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Anyone else really unimpressed by mass effect 3s graphics? Maybe it's been a while since 2 but I just think theyre pretty poor, save for some 'main character' faces in dark lighting. Can't see no gfx options other than Aa either. No shepherd, you are the low Rez!
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simosimo posted:Anyone else really unimpressed by mass effect 3s graphics? Maybe it's been a while since 2 but I just think theyre pretty poor, save for some 'main character' faces in dark lighting. Can't see no gfx options other than Aa either. No shepherd, you are the low Rez! I'm just happy they don't have bloom everywhere. Walk into a room and can't see anything because there's bloom coming off a desk.
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I'm not normally a graphics whore, but I was really unimpressed, as it's a big title. Even when it prompts you to press a button to focus on vistas, it's like...wow that's really unimpressive. I had to laugh at the 2D sprite people in the very first earth section running on the floor below you.
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Yeah I've always had a poo poo computer to play Mass Effect so it's always looked more or less the same. I never had film grain on. Overall though it's really fun but has plenty of flaws. If you didn't like 2, don't get it, because it's basically just more of 2 with better combat.
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WWE Games on Facebook posted:As noted yesterday, former WWE Diva Angela “Savannah” Fong is working with THQ doing motion captures for the WWE ’13 video game that comes out later this year. She revealed on Twitter with pic that former WWE star David Hart Smith is also working with her on the game.
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Why is Gamestop charging 25.00 for mass effect 1. There are no redboxes near me and I don't feel like shelling out 9 dollars at blockbuster.
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Quodio Stotes posted:Why is Gamestop charging 25.00 for mass effect 1. Even though its crazy old, Mass Effect 1 is still worth 25.00 dollars. Also, if you never played 1, be warned, it is VERY different from 2-3. Still awesome, just a lot more OCD than the sequels.
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Just bought WWE '12 for PS3, anybody got any advice on how to enjoy Universe mode? It's a little difficult to figure out where I'm supposed to be deriving my enjoyment here. Am I supposed to totally rebook every card?
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after nearly taking it back twice the PS Vita has finally won me over. Rougelikes! gently caress yeah!
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Why can't I download a single community CAW? 
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El Generico posted:Why can't I download a single community CAW? This game server is no longer available.
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Quodio Stotes posted:Why is Gamestop charging 25.00 for mass effect 1. There are no redboxes near me and I don't feel like shelling out 9 dollars at blockbuster. I got mine from Target for 10 on sale. Then I paid 20 for ME2. Gamestop is terrible at pricing if the game you want is still in demand. I DID pay $1 for *~*STREET RAQUETBALL*~* one time though so who knows, sometimes you find gems
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Save Russian Jews posted:I got mine from Target for 10 on sale. Then I paid 20 for ME2. Gamestop is terrible at pricing if the game you want is still in demand. I'm pretty sure that you can get a digital copy of ME1 for $20 on XBLA.
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Mass Effect 3 is loving awesome, honestly my Favorite Game Ever at this point, but it's also frustrating as all loving hell. BioWare, by the loving grace of god generally remembered how to write again, but then they throw just the dumbest loving things at you, as though they are testing your will. Spoiler below. A loving ninja. There is a goddamn crouching, teleporting loving ninja, complete with a loving katana. And there are dream sequences. The game is also hilarious, in more than an unintentional way. So many of the incidental conversations actually had me rolling.
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Strenuous Manflurry posted:Mass Effect 3 is loving awesome, honestly my Favorite Game Ever at this point Seeing some of the conclusions to arcs started in the first game is the best part of the game for me. I mean, even if the rest of the game sucks, the Tuchanka mission and Paragon resolution was worth the wait and price alone.
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El Generico posted:Just bought WWE '12 for PS3, anybody got any advice on how to enjoy Universe mode? It's a little difficult to figure out where I'm supposed to be deriving my enjoyment here. Am I supposed to totally rebook every card? Set up allies/enemies and rebook until the game gets the idea. It does 'learn', eventually, who should be doing what. It's all I ever play in WWE 12 anymore.
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Strenuous Manflurry posted:Mass Effect 3 is loving awesome, honestly my Favorite Game Ever at this point, but it's also frustrating as all loving hell. BioWare, by the loving grace of god generally remembered how to write again, but then they throw just the dumbest loving things at you, as though they are testing your will. Spoiler below. In regards to the spoiler boss Man oh man if you want a laugh read the lovely licensed novels he appears in.
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Oatgan posted:In regards to the spoiler boss Man oh man if you want a laugh read the lovely licensed novels he appears in. Oh I've heard. It's rather amazing that a company that can otherwise write a tremendous game, casting off so much of their failings in ME2 in the process, can allow in something so shamelessly pandering, out of place, and inarguably terrible. Nothing in ME2 offended me as greatly as this.
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Kiwi Bigtree posted:Seeing some of the conclusions to arcs started in the first game is the best part of the game for me. I finally got to see the conclusion of the man asking for a refund for a gun that he didn't have a receipt to. That's all I ever wanted.
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Strenuous Manflurry posted:BioWare, by the loving grace of god generally remembered how to write again Hahahahahahahaha
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THE GAYEST POSTER posted:I finally got to see the conclusion of the man asking for a refund for a gun that he didn't have a receipt to. Ditto. EDIT: I am getting a kick out of Garrus mentioning Mass Effect series memes at random. It would be obnoxious, but they are just so perfectly placed to be believable and not just fanservice.
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The kinect support for ME3 let's you say dialogue choices instead of using the controller (among other things) but its not perfect and side conversations with my wife and music in the background have set it off. That said, if I can get involved in an infinite Wrex/Shepard loop by talking to the box I'll call it the finest kinect functionality of all time.
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