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Alien Rope Burn posted:Jim Sterling, Larry Bundy Jr., and Laura Kate Dale The three of them are way too sensationalist to be any good. They're the youtuber equivalent of buzzfeed. Sorry for another terrible snipe.
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I stopped watching Jim Sterling's videos when he panned BOTW just because nobody else did. Super Bunnyhop is great, though.
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Sep 11, 2017 17:46
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Sterling comes across as kind of a contrarian for contrarianism's sake, which bothers me after years of lurking SA. I never saw much of Laura's own content but she seems fine, if a bit trigger-happy. Dunno about the other guy.
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Sep 11, 2017 17:54
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Sultan Tarquin posted:For a game that appeared to be a cool 60's mod bioshock when they first showed the trailer but turned out to be just another early access randomly generated crafting survival game Well the reason for the price increase is that they're actually making it a cool 60s bioshock style game instead of a lovely procgen survival game.
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Terminally Bored posted:The three of them are way too sensationalist to be any good. They're the youtuber equivalent of buzzfeed. I think they're alright as long as you keep a skeptical mind, but skepticism is generally an important part of being a media consumer in general. I think Jim's consumer advocacy is, at least, valuable in its own way. I think as we get further down the rabbit hole of manipulative publisher practices, it's important to at least have a strong voice for that kind of thing. He's no platonic ideal, but I'd much rather have him out there than not. Mind, comparing their literally in-house operations to a huge media vulture machine like Buzzfeed seems a bit sensationalistic in and of itself. Youtube commentators generally have to balance entertainment and substance, and we'll all have our own line to draw with that sort of thing. Ed: Mind, now that Laura is the editor at Kotaku UK you can probably call her sensationalistic, but time will tell on that. (I guess I'd have to read Kotaku again to care, and I generally put the kibosh on that.) Alien Rope Burn fucked around with this message at 18:09 on Sep 11, 2017 |
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Sep 11, 2017 18:05
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Mill Village posted:I stopped watching Jim Sterling's videos when he panned BOTW just because nobody else did. lol people still being mad at Sterling calling Breath of the Wild merely "good" Noah Caldwell-Gervais is a really good video game video essayist. He's got a fairly slow schedule but his videos are thousands of words long and he really dives into what he thinks (such as opining that Homefront Revolution's DLC actually does have some redeeming value and justifying it well enough that you'll probably nod along a bit). It seems like he does really long takes because in his videos you'll constantly come hear him clear his throat or cough or stumble over a few words but if you can stand that he's probably one of the best out there. Edit: Oh, also, he's doing all of it while living on the road in an old VW camper with his wife and dog. He's basically a video game hippie. Kibayasu fucked around with this message at 18:46 on Sep 11, 2017 |
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Sep 11, 2017 18:13
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Mill Village posted:I stopped watching Jim Sterling's videos when he panned BOTW just because nobody else did. But he didn't pan it. He said it was good, just not amazing. That's a fairly accurate assessment.
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Sep 11, 2017 18:26
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DatonKallandor posted:Well the reason for the price increase is that they're actually making it a cool 60s bioshock style game instead of a lovely procgen survival game. Is there a Colonial Marines sequel coming out for them to steal money and team members from that I didn't hear about, or what?
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Sep 11, 2017 18:32
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You have to realize that when you see somebody criticize Nintendo, it's nothing but bullshit and they're just trolling for hits. I mean, even if they don't monetize their videos or put ads on their site, and don't necessarily rely on hits to make money, it turns out they're doing it just for the attention. I mean, some people just lust after personal threats and DDoS attacks. It's the only conceivable answer.
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Sep 11, 2017 18:36
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As far as YouTube goes, I like Errant Signal, Noah Caldwell-Gervais, Gggmanlives and ProJared/SpaceHamster/brutalmoose/PeanutButterGamer. Our very own slowbeef too, before his channel became all Kickstarter all the time.
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Sep 11, 2017 18:49
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Seventh Arrow posted:Are there any gaming youtubers that are interesting to watch but aren't screaming manchildren, e.g. Pewdiepie, Markiplier? I like Christopher Odd somewhat, is there anything like that?
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Turd Herder posted:https://www.greenmangaming.com/newsroom/2017/09/11/pewdiepie-uses-racial-slur-livestream-causing-outrage/ Are these people new to the world of the internet? I watched the video and didn't even realized what he had done until you pointed it out, simply because so many loving people do the same thing.
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Zathril posted:Is Battlefleet Gothic: Armada worth is doe SP only? Also is the DLC worth picking up? I'd say a tentative yes but make sure you play through two hours without bad crashing. I had a persistent tutorial crash I only got through by dialing the graphics down a notch. Digirat posted:I've found one single person who doesn't play like this called beaglerush and he's the only one I can watch. Unlike practically every other player in existence he constantly goes looking for people to kill. This repeatedly gets him into impossible situations but he somehow digs himself out by being incredible at the game. He's had multiple games where the game hosed up and dropped him into a squads game with no squad (so it's him alone vs 24 teams of 4) and he's won. Beagle has been the only person to make PlUnkBat watchable to me, his edited youtube videos are good.
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Sep 11, 2017 18:55
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Kibayasu posted:Noah Caldwell-Gervais is a really good video game video essayist. He's got a fairly slow schedule but his videos are thousands of words long and he really dives into what he thinks (such as opining that Homefront Revolution's DLC actually does have some redeeming value and justifying it well enough that you'll probably nod along a bit). It seems like he does really long takes because in his videos you'll constantly come hear him clear his throat or cough or stumble over a few words but if you can stand that he's probably one of the best out there. I enjoyed all his video essays on Mass Effect, and I feel like he was the only one who truly did a well-orchestrated takedown of Andromeda besides just lol face memes.
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Sep 11, 2017 18:55
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That review was right before or after Sterling gave the Sony equivalent of BoTW, Horizon, a perfect score wasn't it? Dude loves attention.
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Sep 11, 2017 18:56
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Xander77 posted:I raved a bit about Betrayal at Krondor before. Now play Antara!
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Justin_Brett posted:That review was right before or after Sterling gave the Sony equivalent of BoTW, Horizon, a perfect score wasn't it? Dude loves attention. He gave it a 9.5, which isn't especially out of line with how well Horizon was reviewed. He simply dared to think BOTW was good, not great, and doesn't tend to follow the IGN logic of "everything below a 7 is terrible."
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Sep 11, 2017 18:59
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I didn't like BoTW and I don't benefit from stupid page views or whatever. Sometimes, sometimes, people don't love the same things
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Sep 11, 2017 19:00
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Out of the two switch games I own BoTW is definitely the weakest by far. Someday I hope to own the third switch game for a better sample size.
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Sep 11, 2017 19:15
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Justin_Brett posted:That review was right before or after Sterling gave the Sony equivalent of BoTW, Horizon, a perfect score wasn't it? Dude loves attention. BotW has big issues but also great ambition in how they tackle open world. Horizon is nearly perfect but it's the same old same old open world.
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Sep 11, 2017 19:20
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https://twitter.com/pentadact/status/907297579867754496 Heat Signature is out soon. The betas were great and you should all buy it.
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Scott Forstall posted:https://twitter.com/pentadact/status/907297579867754496 1.) There'll be an item you can only unlock during launch week, that you'll keep into all your future games. 2.) Steam trading cards will be based on cool stories, gifs etc. that come out of the first week, and will bear the originator's name. Or alias, or whatever.
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corn in the bible posted:Now play Antara! Oh man, Antara was great, though from what I've read of Xander's guide to Betrayal at Krondor, I remember Antara being more streamlined and accessible in comparison. Still a jolly good time nonetheless.
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Seventh Arrow posted:Are there any gaming youtubers that are interesting to watch but aren't screaming manchildren, e.g. Pewdiepie, Markiplier? I like Christopher Odd somewhat, is there anything like that? I'm watching ManyaTrueNerd because he has no facecam, edits out the boring parts of the videos (he has made the only Stellaris video I've managed to watch by editing 4 hours streams into 30 minutes highlight videos) and he seems to genuinely enjoy the games he plays. Plus there is no nazi, homophobic or racist stuff on his channel, which apparently now is something out of the ordinary because the Internet is a horrible place.
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Lol "Girthman" nice, nice
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MMF Freeway posted:Lol "Girthman" nice, nice Thank you, I'm quite proud of that one.
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Sep 11, 2017 20:04
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Nothing gets emotions high like Zelda games not getting 10/10 and 100%. Historically even all the GOTY Zelda's have some issues and poor design choices but the whole of the games are usually a magical experience that people will defend to their dying day. Skyward Sword is probably the worst for it. The overworld is pretty bad compared to previous titles but the Wii motion controls are easily the weakest link.
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Sep 11, 2017 20:04
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Jeff has said on the bombcast that he doesn't remember the 8.8 scandal, which I find kind of hard to believe.
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Fat Samurai posted:I'm watching ManyaTrueNerd because he has no facecam, edits out the boring parts of the videos (he has made the only Stellaris video I've managed to watch by editing 4 hours streams into 30 minutes highlight videos) and he seems to genuinely enjoy the games he plays. ManyATrueNerd is legit great and is immensely entertaining. He does lots of challenge runs, most famous being his "You Only Live Once" runs of FO3 & FNV where he restricts himself to one life bar, no healing allowed. He should be starting a FO4 YOLO run at some point too. He plays lots of stuff but his favorites are stuff like FO and Total War games. His is the only patreon I contribute to, as he is still small relative to bigger streamers. He doesn't do reaction vids or clickbait stuff. Good, solid, entertaining play of great games.
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pentyne posted:Nothing gets emotions high like Zelda games not getting 10/10 and 100%. Historically even all the GOTY Zelda's have some issues and poor design choices but the whole of the games are usually a magical experience that people will defend to their dying day. The good parts are overwhelmingly better than the bad parts. The terrible stealth sections don't stop OOT from being considered one of the best games ever made.
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Grapplejack posted:Jeff has said on the bombcast that he doesn't remember the 8.8 scandal, which I find kind of hard to believe. Jeff is a grown-rear end man with a house and a wife, why on earth would he remember it?
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Mill Village posted:The good parts are overwhelmingly better than the bad parts. The terrible stealth sections don't stop OOT from being considered one of the best games ever made. The ratio of bad parts to good parts in Skyward Sword is a bit too high to gloss over.
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Scott Forstall posted:https://twitter.com/pentadact/status/907297579867754496 Do we know how much will it cost? It's certainly something I'm interested in and missing out on a cool gun would suck. Sininu fucked around with this message at 20:16 on Sep 11, 2017 |
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Sininu posted:Do we know how much will it cost? It's certainly something I'm interested in and missing out on a cool gun would suck.
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Thanks! I think I'm going to get it at that price.
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DatonKallandor posted:Well the reason for the price increase is that they're actually making it a cool 60s bioshock style game instead of a lovely procgen survival game. Even the attempt at being a 0451-like dystopia is really, really bad though. Like Bioshock wasn't subtle or anything but WHF having your character go from an emotionless cog to seeing that everyone is eating rats thinking they're pinatas and standing around singing the exact same slow creepy nursery rhyme song in the span of like a minute is practically self-parody, especially since it's a bunch of Canadian anglophiles affecting a bunch of British stuff with about as much depth as high schoolers shouting Shaun of the Dead quotes at each other.
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Sep 11, 2017 20:30
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I'm looking to get my friend a game for his birthday, and I've narrowed it down to PUBG or Nier Automata (which he's expressed interest in both). He has time to play games and we used to play Dota together so he doesn't mind competitive stuff. Considering the state of Nier's PC port am I better off getting him PUBG and leaving the latter for PS4?
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Sep 11, 2017 20:32
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https://www.bundlestars.com/en/bundle/best-of-indie-legends-2-bundle a good buntle
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I wouldn't wish PubG on my worst enemy. It's only fun when hanging out with friends on voice coms, and there's far better alternatives that let you do that while also being good games.
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