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TopicI'm living my best life.
pres_madagascar
11/08/18 5:08:03 AM
#3
TopicVice: Red Dead Redemption 2 Players Are Excited to Kill Feminists in the Game
pres_madagascar
11/08/18 5:06:41 AM
#73
TopicSquare Enix is too ambitious and needs to start making solid games again
pres_madagascar
11/08/18 5:06:19 AM
#31
TboiGreezy posted...
Bro Kingdom Hearts 3 is dropping January just wait on it

It'll probably disappoint
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TopicFinal Fantasy 15 DLC Canceled, Director Hajime Tabata Leaves
pres_madagascar
11/08/18 5:05:25 AM
#61
Youngster_Joey_ posted...
Did FFXV really have a 24 hour long boss fight?

72 hours of in game time, in real time it's about 2 hours, but yes. I didn't do it because I heard the reward is useless.
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TopicI'm living my best life.
pres_madagascar
11/08/18 5:04:17 AM
#1
Topicdo ppl who use phone cases care about design
pres_madagascar
11/08/18 3:44:46 AM
#25
TopicBlizzard: Many of Our Best Developers are Now Working on New Mobile Titles
pres_madagascar
11/08/18 3:43:56 AM
#3
TopicFinal Fantasy 15 DLC Canceled, Director Hajime Tabata Leaves
pres_madagascar
11/08/18 3:43:14 AM
#55
NibeIungsnarf posted...
pres_madagascar posted...
NibeIungsnarf posted...
Blitz4532 posted...
I never played FFXV but wanted to try it, what makes it so bad?

Story is a disconnected mess

Gameplay is literally a joke where you have to put in a conscious effort to fail

Open world is empty and dead

Sidequests are generic MMO fetch quests with NPCs who have no effort put into them

You can complete the entire game using nothing but warp strike. I know because I did. I made it a fucking point to see how much of the game I could do with just one move.

The answer is all of it.

Doesn't help that the progression system incentivizes Warp Strike spam as its the easiest way to gain AP or whatever its called.

Yep. It's kind of sad.
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TopicSquare Enix To Adopt Subscription Model for Core, Non-MMO Games, Push More DLC
pres_madagascar
11/08/18 3:34:48 AM
#2
TopicFinal Fantasy 15 DLC Canceled, Director Hajime Tabata Leaves
pres_madagascar
11/08/18 3:30:17 AM
#48
NibeIungsnarf posted...
Blitz4532 posted...
I never played FFXV but wanted to try it, what makes it so bad?

Story is a disconnected mess

Gameplay is literally a joke where you have to put in a conscious effort to fail

Open world is empty and dead

Sidequests are generic MMO fetch quests with NPCs who have no effort put into them

You can complete the entire game using nothing but warp strike. I know because I did. I made it a fucking point to see how much of the game I could do with just one move.

The answer is all of it.
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TopicWho the fuck is buying Buicks?
pres_madagascar
11/08/18 2:59:35 AM
#7
furb posted...
My mother has a Regal GS.

It's actually a lot of fun to drive.

She got hers like 5 year ago. I think it looks nice. the newer regals are really nice looking imo.

https://www.buick.com/sedans/regal-gs-luxury-sedan

$40k?

The fuck. You can do so much better for $40k than a Buick.
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TopicVice: Red Dead Redemption 2 Players Are Excited to Kill Feminists in the Game
pres_madagascar
11/08/18 2:57:34 AM
#71
Dash_Harber posted...
Vice is so disappointing sometimes. Like, they occasionally do some good work and are willing to tackle some more controversial subjects. Then, they turn around and do some massive clickbait shit like this to just stir up shit. It's more disappointing than anything else.

Vice is two entities, and always has been.

Vice news, who does all the hard hitting stuff and documentaries.
And
Vice proper, which is based around what vice magazine does. Basically hipster shit posting disguised as gonzo journalism.
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Topic$1,000,000 but you must change your name legally to Dick Tickle.
pres_madagascar
11/08/18 2:48:29 AM
#1
TopicSquare Enix is too ambitious and needs to start making solid games again
pres_madagascar
11/08/18 2:42:54 AM
#20
OBCD posted...
I'm the only one who still cries himself to sleep every night that we're never gonna get 7 remake....
:'-(

Considering that I've heard it basically will play like kingdom hearts 3(however that turns out) and ffxv, I'm not hyped.
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TopicSquare Enix is too ambitious and needs to start making solid games again
pres_madagascar
11/08/18 2:41:26 AM
#19
SH_expert44 posted...
Make Parasite Eve 3. The 3rd Birthday was just a side chapter. It needs a proper 3rd game

They can't. They lost the rights to the parasite eve novel.
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TopicThe Diablo Immortal thing is hilarious, but not for the reasons you might think
pres_madagascar
11/08/18 2:40:01 AM
#166
Rika_Furude posted...
pres_madagascar posted...
St0rmFury posted...
pres_madagascar posted...
Y'all can hate, but netease is one of the better f2p mobile game makers these days. Their crusaders of light mmorpg is a full fledged wow clone in a good way. The raids and pvp and shit are fun.

But I thought even the Chinese hated Netease.

Some of their stuff yeah

Never ever give them money. They're notorious for fucking up and costing you stuff you paid for with money. But as free only games, some are good.

I mostly just speak of crusaders of light. It's a proper WoW style mmorpg with raids, dungeons, pvp battlegrounds, decent production values, etc..

All of their stuff you mean.

Crusaders is pretty big in China.
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TopicFinal Fantasy 15 DLC Canceled, Director Hajime Tabata Leaves
pres_madagascar
11/08/18 2:39:21 AM
#44
ViewtifulGrave posted...
pres_madagascar posted...
I feel like square doesn't know what to do with final fantasy, they seem to be trying to capture the wrpg crowd, but fail to see the JRPG Renaissance happening all around them. Hell, square even made dq11 and ocopath traveler and Nier automata.

Like, why can't they give final fantasy that treatment?

Square bearly even cares about the DrakenNier franchise.

But they allowed it to be made, funded it, got platinum on board, and it was a hit.
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TopicFinal Fantasy 15 DLC Canceled, Director Hajime Tabata Leaves
pres_madagascar
11/08/18 1:26:09 AM
#31
XplodnPnguins92 posted...
playing ffxv made me legit mad. good riddance.

I initially was like, ok this is alright but nothing great, but then once the road trip went nowhere and then turned into an entirely different game, I gave up caring.
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TopicFinal Fantasy 15 DLC Canceled, Director Hajime Tabata Leaves
pres_madagascar
11/08/18 1:24:55 AM
#29
X-Pac_Heat posted...
Remember when they went back to the fundamentals with FFIX after the disappointing FFVIII, and everyone thought it was the best thing ever?

Imagine if they did that now. After how fucking awful Final Fantasy has been for like 15 years now.

Especially with JRPG Renaissance happening right now. Turn based rpgs are back in favor.
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TopicFinal Fantasy 15 DLC Canceled, Director Hajime Tabata Leaves
pres_madagascar
11/08/18 1:24:18 AM
#28
slmcknett posted...
Yeah, expanding on the final chapter and making the last area explorable wasn't ever going to make the ending actually good.

If anything, all the new content that's come out since release has made the ending even worse.

The story was a mess ever since they announced Kingsglaive and the anime series.

Before that. The story used to involve an entirely different girl than lunafreya, and go in an entirely different direction.
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Topic"single player games are dying"
pres_madagascar
11/08/18 1:23:23 AM
#41
LightningAce11 posted...
The problem is making a game feel complete. Somthing like God of War 2018, I enjoyed it fully and don't expect any add ons to it. It was worth the price tag.

I felt that way about Witcher 3 and horizon too, and both ended up having major expansions that were great.
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TopicFinal Fantasy 15 DLC Canceled, Director Hajime Tabata Leaves
pres_madagascar
11/08/18 1:22:04 AM
#24
TiamatLover posted...
Since PS2 days, Square have been trying all sorts of different things with FF.

It worked out majorly well for FFX... and they royally fucked up every time since.

Eh, ff12 was decent too
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TopicFinal Fantasy 15 DLC Canceled, Director Hajime Tabata Leaves
pres_madagascar
11/08/18 1:21:43 AM
#23
The definitive edition redid the entire final chapter, but the ending is still shit, even with the extra scenes
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TopicFinal Fantasy 15 DLC Canceled, Director Hajime Tabata Leaves
pres_madagascar
11/08/18 1:19:32 AM
#20
I feel like square doesn't know what to do with final fantasy, they seem to be trying to capture the wrpg crowd, but fail to see the JRPG Renaissance happening all around them. Hell, square even made dq11 and ocopath traveler and Nier automata.

Like, why can't they give final fantasy that treatment?
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Topic"single player games are dying"
pres_madagascar
11/08/18 1:16:41 AM
#39
Darmik posted...
pres_madagascar posted...
Darmik posted...
Irregardless posted...
#SavePlayerOne

*releases a hastily thrown together multiplayer only game*


Well Dishonored 2, The Evil Within 2, Wolfenstein Old Colossus and Prey all flopped hard when they released so it's hard to blame them.

All of those, save for prey, were pretty short too and always do well in sales. Kind of goes with what I said about people wanting more bang for their buck. Sad reality of our economy and the industry.


Well I mean that's kinda where the whole stigma against single player games from major publishers comes from. It's a lot harder for a single player game to give 'bang for your buck' compared to a multiplayer game. That goes for both cost of development and the price consumers pay.

People like to talk about rdr2 selling gangbusters, but people forget it took 7 years and at least 100 million dollars to develop.

These huge expansive games cost so goddamn much to make. Ubisoft can churn them out so much because they've got loads of studios with hundreds of staff at each, all working on stuff, and their single player games are still PUMPED full of microtransactions and special editions, the worst in the industry, yet their games still manage to be decent to great in spite of this... It's all very frustrating.
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TopicFinal Fantasy 15 DLC Canceled, Director Hajime Tabata Leaves
pres_madagascar
11/08/18 1:13:40 AM
#16
MC_BatCommander posted...
Lmao they had dlc planned? The game came out two fuckin year ago

Yeah.
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TopicFinal Fantasy 15 DLC Canceled, Director Hajime Tabata Leaves
pres_madagascar
11/08/18 1:13:30 AM
#15
The plot effectively goes nowhere until the last 4 hours of story in the game. It's incredibly disjointed, haphazard, poorly written, poorly designed, insultingly insipid, it's the worst triple A game of this Gen.
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TopicFinal Fantasy 15 DLC Canceled, Director Hajime Tabata Leaves
pres_madagascar
11/08/18 1:10:12 AM
#13
Ffxv is the most insulting mess of a game I've played this Gen. I loathe it.
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Topic"single player games are dying"
pres_madagascar
11/08/18 12:59:29 AM
#36
Darmik posted...
Irregardless posted...
#SavePlayerOne

*releases a hastily thrown together multiplayer only game*


Well Dishonored 2, The Evil Within 2, Wolfenstein Old Colossus and Prey all flopped hard when they released so it's hard to blame them.

All of those, save for prey, were pretty short too and always do well in sales. Kind of goes with what I said about people wanting more bang for their buck. Sad reality of our economy and the industry.
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TopicWashington state passed some rather draconic gun regulation proposals.
pres_madagascar
11/08/18 12:57:51 AM
#56
Honestly there's a weird legal precedent that facilitates gun crime in the US. People with concealed carry can't bring them into places, so they leave them in their car, and they get stolen and used in crimes.

The funny/sad thing is, thieves know rednecks are more likely to have guns in their cars, so, at least where I live, pickup trucks are prime targets for break ins because of the country guys.
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TopicWow, not expecting that Sabrina nude scene.
pres_madagascar
11/08/18 12:55:24 AM
#10
RiderofHogs posted...
EnragedSlith posted...
Isnt she supposed to be a young teen?

She is supposed to be 16 but turns 19 in a few days in real life.

pres_madagascar posted...
Of the main girl?

Yeah.


Ew, not into women that young.
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TopicWow, not expecting that Sabrina nude scene.
pres_madagascar
11/08/18 12:51:56 AM
#6
TopicWow, not expecting that Sabrina nude scene.
pres_madagascar
11/08/18 12:48:59 AM
#2
TopicThe Diablo Immortal thing is hilarious, but not for the reasons you might think
pres_madagascar
11/08/18 12:48:39 AM
#164
St0rmFury posted...
pres_madagascar posted...
Y'all can hate, but netease is one of the better f2p mobile game makers these days. Their crusaders of light mmorpg is a full fledged wow clone in a good way. The raids and pvp and shit are fun.

But I thought even the Chinese hated Netease.

Some of their stuff yeah

Never ever give them money. They're notorious for fucking up and costing you stuff you paid for with money. But as free only games, some are good.

I mostly just speak of crusaders of light. It's a proper WoW style mmorpg with raids, dungeons, pvp battlegrounds, decent production values, etc..
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TopicAlanis Morissette was kind of shit, honestly.
pres_madagascar
11/08/18 12:46:47 AM
#3
frozenshock posted...
My english teacher in high school gave us a copy of the lyrics to ironic and spent an hour explaining to us how nothing in the lyrics is ironic

Which is kind of ironic

Everyone knows that one. I think that was the point.

But one hand in my pocket is effectively the same song.
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TopicAlanis Morissette was kind of shit, honestly.
pres_madagascar
11/08/18 12:44:53 AM
#1
I remember liking jagged little pill as a youngster, but going back recently, she's just as guilty of writing the same song over and over as AC/DC are.

One hand in my pocket and ironic both have effectively the same lyrics.

Metaphor
Metaphor
Metaphor
Metaphor
Chorus
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TopicThe Diablo Immortal thing is hilarious, but not for the reasons you might think
pres_madagascar
11/08/18 12:42:22 AM
#162
Y'all can hate, but netease is one of the better f2p mobile game makers these days. Their crusaders of light mmorpg is a full fledged wow clone in a good way. The raids and pvp and shit are fun.
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TopicWhat's that funk (?) song that starts with four slow wah guitar notes
pres_madagascar
11/08/18 12:41:01 AM
#3
TopicWashington state passed some rather draconic gun regulation proposals.
pres_madagascar
11/08/18 12:40:20 AM
#53
Malcrasternus posted...
The proposal itself is 30 pages long, but in a nutshell, it raises the age requirement of any firearm purchase to 21, adds a mandatory 10-day waiting period, even with a state approved CPL and clean record, an "enhanced" background check for any semiautomatic rifle, and a mandatory training course attendance for every purchase(I think).

Also in the proposal it was added that if your firearms are stolen or otherwise taken from you by unauthorized parties(anyone under 21), you're at fault, up to and including a felony charge. So for example if you report a stolen firearm, it's possible that you can get charged for it too, if it was deemed as inadequate storage that led to the theft. Problem is that's entirely subjective as to what is "enough security" to not be at fault.

I'm all for tightening up leaks in the system and actually enforcing what's already on the books, but this I feel, isn't the right step forward. It was moderately close too, 60/40 voting wise, though nearly every single eastern county voted against. Only took a handful of western counties to pass.

As a Washingtonian, I'm not sold on the ideas proposed. It looks misguided at best, tackling the symptoms rather than the actual causes. An enhanced background check means essentially nothing, as there's already a NICS in place to stop people that lost their gun rights from purchasing a firearm. Just feels like more blaming the gun legislation, and now possibly blaming the victim legislation.

The overwhelming majority of guns used in crimes are stolen out of people's cars.
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Topic"single player games are dying"
pres_madagascar
11/08/18 12:38:50 AM
#31
For instance, I no longer buy new $60 games more than 4 or so times a year. Everything else I wait until it's $25 or less on sale.
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Topic"single player games are dying"
pres_madagascar
11/08/18 12:38:00 AM
#29
DarthAragorn posted...
Antifar posted...
People want 60 hours out of their games, and that requires more resources to accomplish with single player than with multiplayer, which will typically have greater replayability.

And those people fucking suck

No, I get it. Because of games costing $60.
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Topic"single player games are dying"
pres_madagascar
11/07/18 11:32:49 PM
#24
Darmik posted...
pres_madagascar posted...
Darmik posted...
People shit on EA a lot and they're often the punching bag for this quote.

But the actual quote from them was;
(describing the canned Star Wars game) 'much more linear game, that people didn't like as much today as they did five or ten years ago'

That's it. There isn't a single game in the OP that contradicts that quote at all. None of those games are linear.

God of War sort of is, sort of isn't.


God of War has several side quests, optional content, RPG elements and is one of the most critically acclaimed games of this year. It's like 20-30 hours long.

pres_madagascar posted...
Divinity original sin 2 was a fluke


No. It got ridiculously great reviews.

In order to succeed as a single player games these days you need to have at least one of these things
- Sequel to an established and popular franchise
- Open world/long playtime
- High metacritic score

Good luck selling well if you don't have any of those things. The days of getting a great 8-10 hour experience and being a huge success like the original Max Payne or Splinter Cell are done. So yes linear single player games are way less popular than they used to be.

No I meant Divinity original sin 2 being a financial success, even on consoles, is a fluke. Indie rpgs like that don't tend to get many sales on consoles.
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Topic"single player games are dying"
pres_madagascar
11/07/18 11:31:57 PM
#23
Antifar posted...
People want 60 hours out of their games, and that requires more resources to accomplish with single player than with multiplayer, which will typically have greater replayability.

Because of cost of games coupled with financial issues most face. People don't want to drop $60 on a 6 hour long game. People want to feel like they got their money's worth, and with long games people tend to feel that more.
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Topic"single player games are dying"
pres_madagascar
11/07/18 11:26:47 PM
#19
Doom_Art posted...
You missed God of War you pleb

jumi posted...
Forgot God of War and Far Cry 5.

pres_madagascar posted...
*rdr2 moves 17 million units in 7 days without even having multiplayer yet.
*spider man ps4 was a huge success.
*assassins creed odyssey was a huge success.
*horizon zero dawn was a huge success
*Witcher 3 was a huge success
*bloodborne was a huge success
*Divinity original sin 2 became an indie hit with decent sales
Etc.

Why do some publishers keep saying nobody wants single player games anymore? Clearly there's still a huge craving for them.

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Topic"single player games are dying"
pres_madagascar
11/07/18 11:26:04 PM
#18
Darmik posted...
Nobody said they're completely dead or that they all flopped. Just that they're incredibly risky. Which they still are. Your entire list is composed of critically acclaimed games and the majority have massive budgets. That isn't an easy thing to develop.

It's like saying that the cinemas and DVD market isn't impacted by Netflix and pointing at Disney movies. It doesn't pain the entire picture.

Divinity original sin 2 was a fluke
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Topic"single player games are dying"
pres_madagascar
11/07/18 11:25:08 PM
#16
Darmik posted...
People shit on EA a lot and they're often the punching bag for this quote.

But the actual quote from them was;
(describing the canned Star Wars game) 'much more linear game, that people didn't like as much today as they did five or ten years ago'

That's it. There isn't a single game in the OP that contradicts that quote at all. None of those games are linear.

God of War sort of is, sort of isn't.
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Topic"single player games are dying"
pres_madagascar
11/07/18 11:24:33 PM
#15
SauI_Goodman posted...
OP fails to mention GoW but includes witcher 3. Fail topic.

I said etc.
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Topic"single player games are dying"
pres_madagascar
11/07/18 10:59:11 PM
#1
*rdr2 moves 17 million units in 7 days without even having multiplayer yet.
*spider man ps4 was a huge success.
*assassins creed odyssey was a huge success.
*horizon zero dawn was a huge success
*Witcher 3 was a huge success
*bloodborne was a huge success
*Divinity original sin 2 became an indie hit with decent sales
Etc.

Why do some publishers keep saying nobody wants single player games anymore? Clearly there's still a huge craving for them.
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TopicDinosaur Jr-Feel The Pain, an underrated 90s classic track imo
pres_madagascar
11/07/18 9:28:44 PM
#5
MabusIncarnate posted...
Was that the one with the video of them playing golf on buildings and stuff?

Yep lol
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