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Started by Ghost Whistler, May 24, 2013, 03:42:35 AM

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Sacrosanct

#15
May 24, 2013, 11:30:20 AM
Always on Kinect camera
Always connected to the internet
Auto video conferenceing if anyone calls you



Yep, better put a blanket over Kinect before watching any adult entertainment during alone time....
D&D is not an "everyone gets a ribbon" game.  If you\'re stupid, your PC will die.  If you\'re an asshole, your PC will die (probably from the other PCs).  If you\'re unlucky, your PC may die.  Point?  PC\'s die.  Get over it and roll up a new one.

daniel_ream

#16
May 24, 2013, 12:05:25 PM
Quote from: flyerfan1991;657192I've a feeling that this is the direction that most game companies are going, because they're greedy.

Which is why publishers are going bankrupt left, right and center, surely.

I've worked in the video game industry and I'm always amused by how ignorant people are about how the economics of it work.
D&D is becoming Self-Referential.  It is no longer Setting Referential, where it takes references outside of itself. It is becoming like Ouroboros in its self-gleaning for tropes, no longer attached, let alone needing outside context.
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Piestrio

#17
May 24, 2013, 12:26:56 PM
The big three seem to have all made some mis-steps this generation.

Nintendo with their lack of developer support.

Sony with their half baked non-introduction.

And now Microsoft with all sorts of annoying bullshit.

I really wish we had a new entrant into the market this time around.
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flyerfan1991

#18
May 24, 2013, 12:35:59 PM
Quote from: Piestrio;657247The big three seem to have all made some mis-steps this generation.

Nintendo with their lack of developer support.

Sony with their half baked non-introduction.

And now Microsoft with all sorts of annoying bullshit.

I really wish we had a new entrant into the market this time around.

If gamers been fleeing the PC for the previous generation of consoles, there would be one here already.

daniel_ream

#19
May 24, 2013, 12:39:48 PM
Quote from: Piestrio;657247The big three seem to have all made some mis-steps this generation.

I don't think they're missteps; I think the market's fundamentally changed.  Console manufacturers are in the same boat that HDTV manufacturers are: everyone who wants one of their products already has one, and what they've got now is good enough.  Moore's Law hit a brick wall a while ago which means that you're no longer getting clear visual superiority in games from one generation to the next.  Motion control is the console industry's 3DTV: a desperate attempt to get consumers to upgrade that the consumers have by and large passed on.  The real money in video gaming has moved to mobile and Facebook minigames, where the ROI is much, much higher.
D&D is becoming Self-Referential.  It is no longer Setting Referential, where it takes references outside of itself. It is becoming like Ouroboros in its self-gleaning for tropes, no longer attached, let alone needing outside context.
~ Opaopajr

Novastar

#20
May 24, 2013, 12:43:29 PM
Quote from: ggroy;657189Anybody else here who may considering the possibility of sitting out on this generation of upcoming consoles?
I actually did this last gen (PS3 and Xbox360), but with the current offerings?
I may be getting a PS3 on the cheap, once PS4 launches.

Quote from: Sacrosanct;657227Always on Kinect camera
Always connected to the internet
Auto video conferenceing if anyone calls you

Yep, better put a blanket over Kinect before watching any adult entertainment during alone time....


"Hey Sacro, just calling to ask to ask about this ruling...OH GOD, OH GOD!!!
(eyes erupt into flame, having seen that not meant to be seen by mere mortal eyes>
"Somebody help me! Gouge them out! GOUGE THEM OUT!!!"

:p
Quote from: dragoner;776244Mechanical character builds remind me of something like picking the shoe in monopoly, it isn\'t what I play rpg\'s for.

ggroy

#21
May 24, 2013, 12:46:33 PM Last Edit: May 24, 2013, 12:48:34 PM by ggroy
Quote from: flyerfan1991;657250If gamers been fleeing the PC for the previous generation of consoles, there would be one here already.

Only reason I picked up an XBox 360 initially, was to play Grand Theft Auto 4.

Purportedly the pc version of GTA4 was a completely unplayable botch job.  (A lot of bad reviews about the technical problems).

If the pc version of GTA4 was a masterpiece, most likely I would have never picked up an Xbox 360.

Sacrosanct

#22
May 24, 2013, 01:02:51 PM
Quote from: Novastar;657253

"Hey Sacro, just calling to ask to ask about this ruling...OH GOD, OH GOD!!!
(eyes erupt into flame, having seen that not meant to be seen by mere mortal eyes>
"Somebody help me! Gouge them out! GOUGE THEM OUT!!!"

:p

Well, if Microsoft's goal was to turn the Xbox into Chatroulette, congrats.

I guess.
D&D is not an "everyone gets a ribbon" game.  If you\'re stupid, your PC will die.  If you\'re an asshole, your PC will die (probably from the other PCs).  If you\'re unlucky, your PC may die.  Point?  PC\'s die.  Get over it and roll up a new one.

Rincewind1

#23
May 24, 2013, 01:06:05 PM
Quote from: Sacrosanct;657227Always on Kinect camera
Always connected to the internet
Auto video conferenceing if anyone calls you



Yep, better put a blanket over Kinect before watching any adult entertainment during alone time....

...that sounds an awful lot like tv sets from 1984, doesn't it?
Furthermore, I consider that  This is Why We Don\'t Like You thread should be closed

Sacrosanct

#24
May 24, 2013, 01:15:56 PM
Quote from: Rincewind1;657262...that sounds an awful lot like tv sets from 1984, doesn't it?

Yeah, part of me is like, "that kind of thinking is just lunatic conspiracy", but then I'm reminded of schools that would automatically turn on and control remotely cameras in laptops that students would use.
D&D is not an "everyone gets a ribbon" game.  If you\'re stupid, your PC will die.  If you\'re an asshole, your PC will die (probably from the other PCs).  If you\'re unlucky, your PC may die.  Point?  PC\'s die.  Get over it and roll up a new one.

Ladybird

#25
May 24, 2013, 01:29:28 PM
Quote from: Piestrio;657247The big three seem to have all made some mis-steps this generation.

Nintendo with their lack of developer support.

Sony with their half baked non-introduction.

And now Microsoft with all sorts of annoying bullshit.

I really wish we had a new entrant into the market this time around.

What, like Apple? Who have been quietly developing the fastest-growing gaming platform of the last five years?

No, if only we could actually persuade people that just because they're coming from an "app store", their games shouldn't automatically be free...
one two FUCK YOU

Novastar

#26
May 24, 2013, 05:05:35 PM
Quote from: Sacrosanct;657227Always on Kinect camera
Always connected to the internet
Auto video conferenceing if anyone calls you



Yep, better put a blanket over Kinect before watching any adult entertainment during alone time....
And apparently, other people have had the same thought...
Quote from: dragoner;776244Mechanical character builds remind me of something like picking the shoe in monopoly, it isn\'t what I play rpg\'s for.

Ghost Whistler

#27
May 25, 2013, 02:48:29 AM
Quote from: Sacrosanct;657227Always on Kinect camera
Always connected to the internet
Auto video conferenceing if anyone calls you



Yep, better put a blanket over Kinect before watching any adult entertainment during alone time....

kinect is required for this monstrosity. It is sold with the 1 which means the price will be a ton higher than necessary and if the kinect goes down your entire console is useless.

noone wanted or wants this crappy device.
"Ghost Whistler" is rated PG-13 (Parents strongly cautioned). Parental death, alien battles and annihilated worlds.

crkrueger

#28
May 25, 2013, 08:00:21 AM
Quote from: Ghost Whistler;657401kinect is required for this monstrosity. It is sold with the 1 which means the price will be a ton higher than necessary and if the kinect goes down your entire console is useless.

noone wanted or wants this crappy device.

Oh I don't know, dictating restrictive and mandatory interfaces worked so well for them in Windows 8. :D
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Ghost Whistler

#29
May 25, 2013, 09:27:12 AM
At least Windows 8 doesn't require a £100+ peripheral that tracks poorly.
"Ghost Whistler" is rated PG-13 (Parents strongly cautioned). Parental death, alien battles and annihilated worlds.
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