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#1 gameguy6700
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I haven't played MP3 yet, but I can't imagine it could possibly have worse mechanics than Uncharted. I really loved the Uncharted games until they got to the point in each game where it's almost entirely about shooting instead of climbing around and exploring. Part of that is because the climbing segments are so fun, but mostly its because Uncharted's controls make it extremely frustrating to play as a shooter. I really don't know how it got as popular as it did considering its problems.
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#2 gameguy6700
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[QUOTE="Masenkoe"]

I have no sympathy for anybody using 32 bit Windows still.

Especially gaming on it... why? Just why?

tjoeb123
Compatibility with non-gaming apps/drivers (drivers probably being the biggie for some)? Or do people forget that people would have to spend up to a ton of money to get a 64-bit machine? (Mobo, CPU, and new copy of Windows)

64 bit isn't new technology. If this were still 2005 then yes, you'd have a point about compatibility issues, but 64 bit compatibility hasn't been a problem since Vista launched. Virtually every driver and program these days comes in a 64 bit version too, and 32 bit drivers are only very, very rarely incompatible. If you have a device that doesn't support 64 bit at this point, it's time to upgrade that antique anyway. And if its a program then you need to find a new program that's actually being supported by the developer. Also, it doesn't cost money to upgrade beyond buying the OS. You don't need a new mobo and you don't need a new CPU unless you're using a pentium 4 or something even older than that in which case it's way past time to upgrade.
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[QUOTE="gameguy6700"][QUOTE="seanmcloughlin"] That isn't true and it never has been for any 1-10 rating scale ever. People see percentages and they immediately view them in the context of school grades, where 70-79 is a "C", 80-89 is a "B", 90+ is an "A", and everything below 70 is failing.seanmcloughlin

70 or 7.0 on GS is considered average and people who hear that these days associate it with being bad. No one wants to spend money on average products unless they really like certain aspects of the game. Everyone wants really hugh quality

Uh, yeah...generally speaking most people do want high quality in their products and services. I can't really recall any ads that ever said "Buy our stuff! It's AVERAGE!" or "Hire our services, they're acceptable!".

Yes and its detrimental to how much developers are willing to show their games now. They're all holding back till E3 and the alike because of negative publicity. A decent Far Cry 3 video showing off some cool lighting stuff was ripped apart on Youtube recently for example. Developers like Rockstar and Valve are in stealth mode. Look at the early reception of L4D2 for one. There's a lot of gamers out there who need to stick their heads out of the window occasionally. They live in fantasy land where they think they can get what they want. Just look at the Bioware forums. They were going to sue the company over that ending! I'm not joking!

biggest_loser
Companies holding back all their big announcements until E3 isn't anything new, I don't know where you got that idea from. And it's not because of whiny gamers, it's because E3 is the industry's biggest trade show and thus the best place and time to hype your new stuff, especially since now that everyone can watch live coverage of E3 unlike in the past where the only way to see the announcements was to actually be at E3 or buy fan-made VHS tapes that would be released months afterward. It's the same reason why electronics companies wait until CES to show off their biggest upcoming gadgets. Also, the fan outrage over ME3 was 100% deserved. There's a difference between making a bad ending and making no ending at all. Even the BBB agreed that EA engaged in false advertising by promoting the game's ending as impressive, it was that bad.
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#4 gameguy6700
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All gamers these days think they're a critic and know everything about everything got to do with games. and it's all the internet's fault. I think gaming would almost be better off without forums telling people what to think and influencing them. Not directly but a long time ago if a game got a score of about 75% it was considered a great game. These days if people see that they think it's bad

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That isn't true and it never has been for any 1-10 rating scale ever. People see percentages and they immediately view them in the context of school grades, where 70-79 is a "C", 80-89 is a "B", 90+ is an "A", and everything below 70 is failing.
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The negative assesment was completely just. The value of the stocks are completely out of proportion compared to the revenue they make. I believe it was nearly 100 times as much. It's the 'bubble' thing all over again, there are simply too many idiot buyers out there who blindly buy stuff without actually looking at the viablity of a company.

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The issue is that there was insider trading. Although you are right, anyone with a brain should have realized that Facebook was immensely over-valued. However, people are dumb and will believe the hype about things they know nothing about, hence why we have console makers trying to copy the Wii (despite the fact the Wii's demographic stopped buying games years ago) and god only knows how many start-ups trying to make Facebook and smartphone games because they think Farmville and Angry Birds are the norm.
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"Back in the days" there was no outlet for consumer frustrations beyond magazines. Make no mistake though, people did still feel the same way as they do now, hence why the market crashed in the 80s after shovelware became the norm. The difference is that now if you don't like the fact that, say, a company promised you that your actions and decisions throughout a trilogy of games would have meaningful impact on the story (and especially the ending) of the final game and then you find out after buying the much-awaited final game in the series that all the possible endings are identical save for some colors, you can go on the internet, talk with other pissed off people, and let it be known how displeased you are. Personally I don't think gamers today are "whiny". Rather I think they have standards and are growing increasingly frustrated with the declining quality and dumbing down of games as pubs and devs try to make them more appealing to the mainstream.
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I've noticed that some people in this topic thread they say they've had 100 pages for a thesis.

Wow really? Hope you're telling the truth or just BSing. I would rather kill myself than try to do a 100 page essay/report on a person or an event that happened in the past.

20 pages would be my limit if I wanted to challenge myself. But a 100 page essay? Hell no LOL.

Let's say that I wanted to do an essay/report/research history assignment, I would come up with 2 to 3 pages of my own words while the other pages I'll probably have to use the internet to find more info on the thing that I want to write about.

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A thesis is different from a typical paper you do for a class. Typically you spend at least a year writing a thesis, and it's on work you've been doing for awhile. Keep in mind too that a thesis is essentially a term paper for your entire academic career up to that point, so it's going to be a bit more hardcore than the average paper. Another thing to keep in mind is that by the time you get to that point you're ready for it. It's like how high school classes seemed impossibly difficult when you were in elementary school, but by the time you got to high school they didn't seem any more difficult than anything you had already done before.
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People seem to be jumping to conclusions here. "Stand Your Ground" laws make it REALLY easy to claim self-defense. Usually you need to do nothing more than claim that you felt threatened and you get off, hence why this woman tried to claim she was threatened. The fact that the jury didn't buy it on top of the fact that the article states she was committing a felony in the process of using the gun should be an indication to people that this woman is hardly an innocent, harmless, frightened little thing scared of her big bad husband. Also, to clear up something else, normal self-defense laws allow you to kill someone if your life is in actual danger. The difference between normal laws and "stand your ground" is that normal laws require you to choose escape over murder if you have the option, which in practice means that if someone has a weapon pulled on you you're allowed to shoot them before they shoot you, or if your house gets broken into and the intruder tries to attack instead of run back out you're allowed to shoot as well. In the oft cited example of some guy holding you up with a pistol and threatening to kill you and your family, you would be allowed to kill that man under most laws. What "stand your ground" does is say that you can kill anyone just because you THINK they might hurt you. You don't need to provide any other justification. This leads to absurd cases like a woman shooting her naked husband dead in their kitchen and then getting off of all charges because she claimed she thought he might hurt her (true story), or a guy chasing down and killing a thief who had just stolen a cheap car radio out of his car before running off and also getting off on all charges (also a true story). In other words, normal laws require that the person you kill in self-defense actually be posing some kind of real threat towards you. Stand your ground says you're allowed to shoot a five year old girl because for all you know she's packing an uzi under her dress and will pull it on you if you don't buy her cookies.
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[QUOTE="gameguy6700"][QUOTE="Serraph105"] :roll: or you could do the intelligent thing and make it a careful balance of BS and evidence supported fact so that the BS part doesn't stick out like a sore thumb when read by a professor.Serraph105

You've either never been in an upper level writing-intensive class, or you went to a shlt-tier university. If the professor who's reading your paper actually holds you to some kind of standard they'll tear you apart for any unsupported or illogical claims you make. I remember I took a writing intensive neuroscience class where a lot of the kids tried to do the same stuff they did to pass their freshman writing classes and damn near failed the class as a result because spouting BS in a paper was no longer tolerated.

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I never said make illogical statements.

That's what BS'ing implies: Making stuff up and not really worrying about the internal consistency of the argument. It's just throwing words on the page to fill a quota.
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[QUOTE="WizardGlass"][QUOTE="gameguy6700"][QUOTE="WizardGlass"] i unfortunately agree. the game makes absolutely no sense at all. nothing that is said or seen in the game could be formed into anything resembling a coherent narrative. the visuals are indeed amazing though.

There is a story there, it's just that you have to be actively trying to piece it together instead of expecting the game to spoonfeed it to you like COD. [spoiler] Esther is his daughter, she died in a car wreck he caused when he was driving drunk. He's dead too, you're playing as his ghost who's stuck committing suicide in a loop until he can forgive himself. [/spoiler] Anyway, $5 is the most I'd recommend paying for this game. The only game-like thing about it is that the more areas you explore the more narrative sequences you unlock and thus the more of the story you can piece together. Essentially you just play this game for the scenery porn which, to be fair to the game, does get very impressive.

ok then explain all of the scientific writing in the caves.... all of the talk about disease.... all of the talk about Damascus... none of it makes any sense. i am an educated person.... i have taken atleast a dozen english and literature classes.... i enjoy a deep story, but come on. there is vague, and then there is incomprehensible. Dear Esther is sadly the latter. again, the game looks AMAZING though.

The scientific writing in the caves all relates to drinking. The molecular structures you see are ethanol molecules (ie alcohol) and the other drawings you see are neurons (specifically they're motor neurons but I doubt the developer knew that since motor neurons are also the stereotypical neuron morphology shown in media and lower level undergrad classes). Alcohol + brain cells = ??? The talk about disease is referring to the fact that everyone who comes to the island is depressed to the point of being suicidal. Hence the stuff about the disease affecting more than just the body and bringing people to a slow death (takes awhile to go from mere depression to suicide). Damascus just seemed to be a metaphor for his (seemingly unattainable) goal of reaching inner peace with what he's done in the past. There may be more to it, I don't know, I didn't take any literature or theology classes in college. Like I said, the game has a story, you just have to be willing to put in a concerted effort to piece it together. Even if you didn't have the background knowledge to recognize the ethanol molecules and neurons there were still plenty of clues to let you figure out what he was agonizing over, not the least of which were the flashback sequences.