I played about an hour of BotW yesterday.  Last time I played it was 13th of May.  I had this one place I wanted to go and explore more, and my whole hour was spent just travelling there on the back of my trusty white steed Shadowfax, while getting sidetracked by korok seeds and reacquinting myself with the controls and combat.  I talked to some travellers, some of which alluded to secrets and sidequests I can't even recall having played yet or not.  A fish who was known as lord of the mountain?  Yeah, perhaps I did that, but I certainly can't remember.

SupremeAC said:

I played about an hour of BotW yesterday.  Last time I played it was 13th of May.  I had this one place I wanted to go and explore more, and my whole hour was spent just travelling there on the back of my trusty white steed Shadowfax, while getting sidetracked by korok seeds and reacquinting myself with the controls and combat.  I talked to some travellers, some of which alluded to secrets and sidequests I can't even recall having played yet or not.  A fish who was known as lord of the mountain?  Yeah, perhaps I did that, but I certainly can't remember.

I saw you playing on the switch friends page. Wondered why you went back to it.

Acti patents rigged matchmaking designed to boost microtransactions So that you seem more badass when you spend

This is downright despicable.  This is worse than those CS skin gambling sites.  This is worse than F2P on mobile.  They're basically turning these games in little more than €60 adds for DLC, rewarding you for spending money and dangling carrots in front of your face when you don't.  It's stuff like this that makes me happy that I've never been one to enjoy all these multiplayer focused games.

R.I.P. Gord Downie.

Dvader said:

can we talk about this crap.

As you know, this shit has been happening slowly all over the games industry for over a decade now. Ever since Online became viable on consoles, we've been hearing about "the death of single player". What I've noticed is there's been a real ebb and flow with companies on this. Like Square for example...their previous President was all about the online stuff and didn't want anything to do with the games Square was known for. Then he got canned, Square started to get good again and go back to making great SP games. Now it seems l ike they're leaning towards the online thing again.

Other companies too, seem to base their entire business strategy around the success of one or two games. If they have bad luck with one SP game, all the sudden "oh nobody wants these games anymore...we're focusing on online for our future titles". Then when the online game bombs, they take a U-turn and go back to their old ways.

It's really depressing. Especially a company like EA...lately I've been going back and looking at the 16 bit days and damn, EA was one of the best developers and publishers out there. It seems like every game on the Genesis that wasn't published by SEGA, was published by EA. Just tons of innovative, high quality original games. But in the climate we're in today, a large company like them are just all about the profits. They're so scared of having a few costly bombs in a row that could do serious damage to their bottom line, that they just focus on what they think will sustain the $ flow for them. Innovation and originality get thrown out the window. But, how long is THIS a sustainable model? How long before people catch on? Or are people so stupid these days that they just don't know any better? Are people so desperate for entertainment that they'll literally lap up whatever safe, lackluster content is thrown at them?

It seems to be getting worse now with the online model. Companies know, if they can come out with a catchy IP that gets enough attention, they can exploit the online model with expansions and microtransactions and cut content and just nickle and dime the userbase to death so they can maximize profits with as little risk as possible. It doesn't make the the most innovative software, and definitely lacks in integrity. But nobody cares about those ideals anymore. All about how you can make the most money right NOW. Regardless of how damaging it might be to the future.

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Ravenprose said:

I was interested in GT Sport until I recently read it an always-online game. Id love to see an HD remaster of GT3, but that will never happen officially.

I actually didn't even realize this. That's lame as hell.

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/10/gran-turismo-sport-is-extremely-limited-in-offline-mode/  

Sony revealed that "[i]n order to ensure fair racing for all, GT Sport will require an Internet connection for the majority of functionality. This connectivity requirement is to ensure that progress, car availability, and driver ratings are properly maintained at all times."

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I can't believe how we've all become so apathic and accustomed to this indstry's sleazy practices that no one deigned themselves to write something about Activisions newest escapedes concerning tuning or even rigging multiplayer games to encourage spending money on microtransactions.

SupremeAC said:

I can't believe how we've all become so apathic and accustomed to this indstry's sleazy practices that no one deigned themselves to write something about Activisions newest escapedes concerning tuning or even rigging multiplayer games to encourage spending money on microtransactions.

That doesn't suririse me in the slightest either. Activision is right up there on the sleazy list. It's sad, but it's gotten to the point where gaming is just like anything else in modern life where I just don't trust anyone to be doing the right thing.

edgecrusher said:

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I mean, as soon as I saw Naomi with the brown hair looking exactly like Jessica Chobot, I was already down to make babies with her. But then she goes and says the exact thing I was thinking to myself at about one minute into the video about the cheeseballs at EA....and now my load is uncontainable.

Oh how disappointed I was when I did a quick search for Jessica Chobot and saw that it was actually SFW.