Re: Gaming Chat Thread

[volvocrusher]

So for those of you who haven't heard, Capcom's stock is set so one person can now own the majority of it (forget the exact term for that). And I was wondering if MS would end up buying the majority of the company. With all the franchises the company has, it could both help Capcom's financial issues and MS's lack of 1st party developers. Out of all the game companies, they're the only one I can honestly see taking advantage of this.

[pspiddy]

@Greenie: Funny, I just caught up on most of this week's gaming news and was going to comment on stories like that.

-MS could indeed buy 51% of the company and be the majority owner (not sexy, but it is called that) and push through whatever decisions they see fit. Unless Capcom sells and then doesn't like the decisions being made then, if they make up the rest of the minority ownership, they can sue for negligence and incompetence. That would never happen though because if Capcom does sell they most likely want this to happen. And I agree that MS could benefit if they embrace the eastern and western sides of the comapny.

-I had a feeling FTL would never come to Vita. It would take too much doings to get it on the platform. I'm perfectly OK with that.

-What I'm not OK with is Yoshida abandoning the Vita by saying, "Meh, fuck it; Let those indie guys worry about it"

-The shitstorm of political comments on all of the stories about Ubisoft Montreal is Yahoo! comments level hilarious.

I miss anything else this week?

[SanAndreasX]

I don't think MS buying Capcom would be good for either side, personally. Nothing is going to make Japan like Microsoft or the Xbox brand. Getting Monster Hunter as an Xbox exclusive would not light Xbox One's sales on fire. It would kill Monster Hunter for good. Capcom would get a quick cash infusion (and its financial situation is nowhere near as dire as uninformed forum dwellers would have you believe, either, and no I'm not talking about you guys. ), then once their stuff didn't sell, they'd be kicked to the curb and shut down, or at the very least rendered as irrelevant as Rare was.

MS moneyhatted a lot of Japanese exclusives early in the 360's life, and most of those that accepted MS money ended up regretting it deeply, Namco in particular, with the lost sales in Japan where the Xbox brand is hated, and the lost sales in the US, where Xbox fans are generally disdainful of Japan's video games. The only thing MS accomplished was crippling the PS3's library, and that was not cool.

[pspiddy]

http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2014/05/28/aiden-pearce-snooping-superhero-the-strange-moral-compass-of-watch-dogs/

This pisses me the fuck off to no end. It's not some clickbait or anything; it's some assclown telling old, dying fucks that have an ignorant cesspool of a genetic makeup misguided words so they can fucking keep whatever bullshit job until the money hits and their name is un recognizable.

I ate some jalapeños stuffed with chicken and fried the other day. I wouldn't call my burning asshole what these types of shits deserve. They deserve a new orifice in which to be punished that no human excrement would dare to find itself oozing from.

Maybe I should just go watch Red Dawn with Greenie. I get too excited sometimes.

[Krubixcube]

What specifically pissed you off about the article?

[pspiddy]

Remember when Greenie pissed me off?

[Krubixcube]

I'm not following...

[pspiddy]

I'm pretty sure I was clear with the link.

Not against Greenie, or anything. More like subjective dumbshits. If you know what I mean.

[Krubixcube]

I know, I read the article you linked to...I didn't find it horribly offensive. I mean, it wasn't great or anything.

[pspiddy]

Maybe I should read it again. At first thought it is idiotic. I'll try.

[Krubixcube]

An article I read about how Star Wars represents racial fears because Darth Vader looks like a giant black dick is idiotic. An article saying that Watch Dogs could have done more with its premise by not just reducing morality to violent acts is...well, an opinion. And a fairly valid one at that. *shrugs*

[pspiddy]

We should hunt.

[pspiddy]

I'm sure the correlation has been made before, Nintendo did such a great job with music and gameplay in SMB and Metroid. They really set a standard. I'm playing an emu on my phone and it forces me to play like a music game in order to succeed. Yet the games lose nothing in the transition. The music direction and the tight controls translate really well to a non-dedicated gaming platform. Kind of like Parappa.

Or maybe I'm just being the jackass, nonsensical spiddy I usually am.

[volvocrusher]

Hunting for PC parts is headache inducing sometimes. Why can't these things just say "Will run Far Cry 4 at 60FPS while still looking damn good?" Is that too much to ask for?

[SanAndreasX]

Hunting for PC parts is headache inducing sometimes. Why can't these things just say "Will run Far Cry 4 at 60FPS while still looking damn good?" Is that too much to ask for?

Probably because the wrong combination of parts, even good ones, won't run Far Cry 4 at 60FPS while still looking damn good.

[pspiddy]

@Greenie: I just looked up the specs and could give you some recommendations. As always, your budget comes into play. And also what you have running now. I'm a frugal bitch so if you want my advice it'll be from that standpoint.

What San said is true too; that shit is only as good as the optimized programming for any given setup.

[BretBaber]

Hunting for PC parts is headache inducing sometimes. Why can't these things just say "Will run Far Cry 4 at 60FPS while still looking damn good?" Is that too much to ask for?

this is one of many reasons why I'm glad I don't like playing games on computers.

[ajapam]

They just throw together a bunch of numbers and call it good. You'd think higher would automatically mean better but sometimes it's the second number that means more. Gah. And I have no idea what the 3rd number ever means. This website can kind of help (though I'd recommend sticking to one kind of part otherwise it turns into a mess of numbers) http://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html

https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/ also gives you warnings sometimes if a combination won't work

[pspiddy]

Holy hell! The entire first half of that link is basically the Starship Enterprise. Or Cyberdyne.

[volvocrusher]

Yeah, I used that chart but was still a little lost though. I found one that will give me good performance from my power source while still playing games at high settings though so I'm good.

[chocobot]

If I ever tried to build a PC it sounds like my head would explode. I'm glad I'm still happy with consoles. I'll leave the fancy PC stuff to you smart people.

[Rainjar]

PC gaming feels like the only way forward. I'm excited for when I eventually build mine even though it'll no doubt be nightmarish. (Which I've been saying for the past 4 years but it'll happen this year for sure! ;__; )

Gonna miss having physical copies of all those games though. It's pretty hard to justify getting them at a much higher price for much worse performance just so it can sit on the shelf and gather dust.

[TripOpt55]

If anyone has some good ranks, particularly for games we have not done yet, let me know. I have sort of run out of gas on that at the moment. I know we are in need of a Silent Hill 2 one, Earthbound one, and maybe a Crash Bandicoot one to cover some more people around here's favorite games. Repeats for games/series we have hit already are also welcome.

[BretBaber]

I don't think we've done anything Final Fantasy related.   

[TripOpt55]

I have no clue what it means, but we do have "You're flaming red now kupo!" at 2100 (only spiddy and Twolf have hit it). Spiddy suggested it from the contest thing. I will throw a few more of the Final Fantasy suggestions in, but don't want to just lay them right on top of each other. Would like them spread out a bit at least. I will head back to my big list and make sure I didn't miss any either.

[Miraculous Kaydybug]

"Unassuming Local Guy" is a good Earthbound one i think.

Also if you're doing favorite games we need a Drakengard one. 3 is my favorite game now

[TripOpt55]

Yeah if you come up with a Drakengard one I will plug it in.

[BretBaber]

I thought you meant topics, now I get what you mean. I was just being sarcastic since people are always talking about Final Fantasy. Last time I said I'd try to think of some but this time I really will. A lot of times I don't get what the ranks mean, like the one you have right now. No promises, but I'll try to think of some.

[SanAndreasX]

If anyone has some good ranks, particularly for games we have not done yet, let me know. I have sort of run out of gas on that at the moment. I know we are in need of a Silent Hill 2 one, Earthbound one, and maybe a Crash Bandicoot one to cover some more people around here's favorite games. Repeats for games/series we have hit already are also welcome.

Let's see:

Said "Fuzzy Pickles" (Earthbound)

Survivor of Ghirlandaio/I Survived Ghirlandaio (Valkyria Chronicles)

Did a Barrel Roll (Star Fox 64)

Dragon of Dojima (Yakuza series)

Metal Slime (Dragon Quest series)

Alchemist of The Play Station (Atelier series)

Test Your Might (Mortal Kombat)

(Tales Series)
Chosen of Sylvarant
Brave Vesperia Guildie
Child of the Full Moon
Lhant's Triplet of Terror
Lord Maxwell Incarnate

[ajapam]

We could save some ranks by having spiddy permanently ranked as The Great Mighty Poo from Conker

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