Can someone tell me what happened to the april fools compilation thread? I can't find it anywhere.
PC Gaming Era | April 2019 - Goodbye, Uzzy is your new King
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No I know, thanks for being understanding. :D I'm glad I popped in here and asked despite it all. I've been following the thread since January.
I'm sure Washington Post, New Yorker and LATimes journalists do listicles, but let's not denigrate their actual work in reporting on Trump, or Putin, or Brexit, or climate change.
I said this elsewhere, but enthusiast press of any kind suffers from a dearth of journalists, and it isn't an expectation of hard hitting journalism, but a question of just following journalistic practices. Get statements, get quotes, seek specialists (as clearly the people doing the writing often demonstrate that they know jack shit of what they're writing about). I will say that the gaming media demonstrates the latter far more extensively though.
Basic dotting of Ts and Is.
There are definitely good and bad journalists, but they *are* journalists.
Yup, all of this. And the thing is, this isn't even hard! It's not rocket science to think "Huh, maybe we should get both sides of this story. Maybe we should sit on this for a couple of days and make enquiries. Maybe we should talk to devs who aren't in love with curation. Maybe we should email the fucking head of Valve and see if he's willing to give a quote for the biggest thing to happen in the PC digital sales sector in the past 10 years."
But it's amost all just juvenile masturbatory devices - "I'm writing stuff that's awesome and people are gonna read! Squee!". I mean, Jim Sterling's rush to make a video about something that was disproved almost immediately says it all, really. Passion wins out over actual research and investigation. I swear if I acted like 99% of the gaming media, I would've failed my university degree.
When you are paranoid enough of gaming outlets that you end up questioning whether PC Gamer mentioning in passing the small possibility of the upcoming announcement of Index being an April Fools prank is some kind of forced negative note against Steam that all articles need to have, starting a short pile up on them, like just happened towards the end of the last March thread, then maaaaaybe it'd be good for you to take pause for a sec and seriously consider the merits of why you might be seen by others as rabid fans akin to GGers. Sure, you are not, but maybe think of better ways to bring your message across?
Er yes, this commonly happens and commonly pisses fanbases off.
Uh... what of you guys is this youtuber that I've got recommended? It was surprisingly thorough, given the thumbnail.
Not The Solus Project or Obduction. I believe it was less visually distinct than either of those . My vague memory of of a screenshot remembers just a monolith with words on it, and us talking about it in a previous thread (might have been on the other site) about how it would be a good idea to write down notes to try and figure it out.
It's because of Heaven's Vault I'm actually looking for the older game. A friend of mine loves the concept and putting together a language based off clues and wants to find others like it.
It's because of Heaven's Vault I'm actually looking for the older game. A friend of mine loves the concept and putting together a language based off clues and wants to find others like it.
I mean, I kinda expressly pointed out that wasn't my own thinking. Or else I wouldn't be still here reading.
We GGers now
Pretty sure nobody here has rallied the lads to harass people
so hard to comment on something nowadays -__-
yeah i know, but a lot of them are "same weapon but now you can hold down the button for bigger range" and even if they were all different a list is just a bad way to nagivate them
same with items, although it's less of a problem since you don't have to juggle managing your inventory and getting murdered at the same time like in dark souls
but i wonder why they didn't just do a grid like in dark souls 2. it was so crappy in bloodborne, why do this
Speak for yourself. I've rallied dozens to fight against PC Gamer.
DOZENS!
Alien monoliths brings to mind the game" kairo " , but i cant recall if there are linguistic puzzles in it .
there's Sethian, but that's a puzzle game with a minimalist presentation rather than a walking sim
Neither Witness nor Kairo . I wish I had more to go on. Thanks for trying to help me out.
Not it either, but does help my friend out to add games like this to her list, so thank you.
Not it either, but does help my friend out to add games like this to her list, so thank you.
Hey, you started it with your ridiculous GG comparison. Bad takes tend to be ridiculed.
Having an emotional reaction to something does not mean it's a valid reaction, especially when it ignores all context like it did in that Imran tweet.
I probably muddied the waters too much with my soccer metaphor. Let's take it to say, League of Legends or Call of Duty communities. Say someone generalized the often toxic behavior of that community. Is the entire fanbase of those games justified in getting angry? Do you expect say, the Black Ops 4 OT to get mad when someone makes cracks about 12 years old being racist on mic? Or do LoL mentors and similar minded simply recognize the reality of their fandom and take it in stride that maybe the conversation isn't about them?
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I mean, realistically, both should happen. Recognising the toxicity of a community is the first step in trying to get rid of that toxicity. At the same time, over-reacting to every bit of criticism and correcting everyone/everything is also bad - it's how you get "Not all men". It's basically walking a fine-line between seeing there's a problem and fixing it, and not being paranoid and having a persecution complex.
Anyways...
PC gaming. Woo! I got a question:
Are there any games like Horizon: Zero Dawn on PC? Specifically, are there any games that are:
Third Person
Open World
RPG-Light (Skill Points, Progression, Weapon Improvement)
Female main character
If not, are there any that are close? Obviously they also have to be good. :) The best I can come up with are The Witcher games, GTA 5 and maybe AssCreed Odyssey?
Darksiders 2? Though not a female main lead.
Actually enjoyed it more than the first one mainly cause of the RPG elements.
I guess Darksiders 3 would fit that role but I havent played it yet so I'm not sure if it holds the RPG light elements.
Yeah, female lead is where I think a lot of games will fall-down. :/ I'll check the Darksiders games out, though - I think I've got 1 and 2 from a bundle or something. :)
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