Alyxx Thorne

Got checked out last night at the local clinic. Sounds like I've had a mild concussion and I'm gonna take it easy for a day. Update: Still feeling a bit out of it but I'm managing. Hopefully it won't last for a long time.

Banned cause I'm nobody's boss.

We've survived pretty harsh situations. We've survived the plague, we've survived natural disasters that wiped out entire cities and islands. We're diverse enough to sustain for quite a while longer I think, and we are capable of adapting to situations. Will things get worse? Undoubtedly. But I think we can adapt to the changes. I'm an optimist in general.

She's gonna have a boring life...

Banned cause I am my own boss. Or you can be if you wanna..

Blood 1 and 2 are infamous for letting you slaughter innocents and eat their hearts for health. Kind of badass in retrospect.

Yeah, the backlash Square Enix received about the whole "augment your order" thing made them just decide to roll all the preorder bonuses up into the digital deluxe edition which they should've done to begin with. The fact it never became a thing makes complaining about it kind of pointless. And I'm not trying to say what you guys should or should not do, just voicing my opinion.

It's technically not unused. There is a way to trigger it in-game.

Making some dinner and gonna play some games.

I love Fallout 2 because of how random it is, personally.

Of course, I'm not saying I endorse the addition and agree the game could've used some more polish and optimization rather than adding microtransactions. Just saying they don't have much impact on the game for me and thus I don't really care they are there.

Banned for flirting

Ironically for me, patches made the stability worse. I decided to start up a second playthrough of Invisible War recently just because I'm a bit of a masochist, and found that on Windows 10, the only version I could get running was the original 1.0 version directly off my CD copy of the game. If I install the 1.1 patch, the game will start, but fail to start a new game or load any existing saves, and if I install the 1.2 patch, the game won't even start. On the plus side, v1.0 has been stable enough to be generally playable. I'm near the end of the game and have only had two crashes to desktop, and one case where some sort of glitch was preventing the game from starting up. Rebooting fixed that problem. I remember by some kind of miracle I got the game running on Windows 7 (for ages I couldn't even get it started). I have no idea what I did to it but I did get it going. I wonder if it will still run on Windows 10 for me. I intend to find out.

I think despite the fact we are headed down a downward spiral, it's always gonna be about managing the resources. As long as we can make do with what we have, we'll find a way to survive. For now I'd say managable but in the future... hard to say.

Probably because flat earth believers believe in something that has been factually proven wrong, while you still can't prove that God does or does not exist so it remains an abstract concept.

Yupp

Banned for not liking demons

Spice tea with honey and a couple sandwiches with mackerel in tomato sauce.

I just want to play games and enjoy them. That's what games are for. I'm not looking to get into any kind of agenda about the business practices of publishers. As long as the practices don't get in the way of my enjoyment for a game, I generally don't care. So at least you know my stance. It's not about digging my head in the sand and being ignorant to these practices, it's just that for me it's not as black and white as you make it out to be. And when you decide to turn it into an "us and them" kind of thing and labeling people as ignorant sheep for merely wanting to buy a game, play it and have fun with it, then you're kind of coming off as a bigot. And honestly, you're bringing up Mankind Divided as an example of a game where microtransactions are a bad addition? I can think of worse examples than this, such as games like Blacklight Retribution where most of the weapons and even skins and colours are hidden behind paywalls and some stuff you can only have for a limited amount of time unless you pay to own it permanently. I know that's a f2p game but that's a game I gave up on because it ended up being hugely expensive for me. In Mankind Divided they have almost zero impact on the game itself, I don't get what the big deal is... And yeah, I get it's about the big picture, what these practices can end up doing in the long run but I'm not one to count my chickens before they're hatched and until I actually see the industry getting there and getting that bad I remain optimistic and I judge games on a game-to-game basis, I don't generalize them and say "this is bad in every game". It's always about nuances. You don't have to be so damn cynical about everything in my opinion. This is the main reason I'm not a fan of Jim Sterling and similar reviewers who are so caught up in their agenda they lose focus on the games themselves and it stops being about the games and more about how much they dislike business practices and corporate greed. I have NOTHING against mentioning it and pointing it out, if it bothers you I can understand that, but focusing an entire review on it or making such a huge deal out of it is not my cup of tea. I'm just not that cynical. Bottom line, let's agree to disagree.

I preordered the game after the whole "augment your preorder" thing was pretty much cancelled and they instead rolled all of those things into a digital deluxe edition, so I didn't support that. hell, at first I didn't even want to preorder until they got rid of that system. So for your information, that thing actually ended up not happening so don't make any issue about it. And I was not aware of the microtransactions when I preordered. And like I said, they do not impact the game in any way for me, so is it a bad thing that they're there? I'm not sure. I did NOT buy the game to support any of these practices, I bought the game because it's fucking Deus Ex and I've been fucking hyped for it since HR came out. I am playing it now, I am loving it, not having too many issues with it and like I've said like 10 times already, the microtransactions have ZERO impact on the game for my sake. I don't mind you being against these practices, I'm not super fond of them either when they keep me from fully enjoying a game and they are a far bigger problem in f2p games honestly where it seems the richest assholes are the ones with the best equipment. But please don't ever start blaming the consumers for these practices. To quote Jensen, I never asked for this. I'm generally not as pessimistic about the whole thing as you are, I guess. As long as I have fun and can enjoy the game, the microtransactions are just kinda there for me and I don't really care. And all I want is for games to be fun, and if I play a game where microtransactions get in the way of this, YES, I WILL fucking complain about it, but I personally see NO reason to complain about it in the case of Mankind Divided cause the whole game seems to work fine without them. Another reason I generally don't care is that Mankind Divided is entirely a single player experience for the most part. If someone spends a fuckload of money on praxis kits it has ZERO impact on my enjoyment of the game if I choose not to.

Welcome to the forums, Munchie <3

Indeed, bystanders seem to be blowing situation between you and I way out of proportion. Just to let everyone know me and Username are on good terms and everything is fine. Happy to hear it.

What Jim Sterling is talking about has nothing to do with microtransactions/DLC impact on the gameplay. He's talking about being against the principle of microtransactions/DLCs being in full priced games itself. He even said that he enjoyed Mankind divided. That the microtransactions were so rushed that the game's pacing wasn't designed to accompany them effectively making them worthless in the first place. But he wants the games industry to stop using microtransactions/DLC as they ultimately serve to undermine the consumer. It's his agenda and it's one that agree with 100%. For every inch they're given publishers will make them the biggest fucking miles you can imagine. It's only a matter of time till the power of the consumer's purchases widdled down to nothing and the soul of video games being split into 100s of tiny, minute slivers of DLC for $2.99 each. That might have been a bit exaggerative but you get my point. As long as the microtransactions aren't paywalls and not mandatory in any way I don't really care if they are there.

Mankind Divided

Hit my head on a car door last night carrying some stuff. Also running on lack of sleep due to noisy neighbours and danced a lot last night. Been feeling dizzy and rather sore today but not to the point where I think I'd need medical attention.