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Post by kokushishin on Feb 26, 2020 19:29:59 GMT
So Monday was the start of a hassle I honestly don't need anymore but it's still in that "if I don't do it it's probably not getting done." The rest it's just * I wouldn't think so but both are acting in a way that draws attention and it's hypocritical. * the other person involved is likely to go Starscream at any second
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Post by BakFu on Feb 29, 2020 13:51:16 GMT
Video game season passes.
I was checking out the PS store’s sale section and noticed SF5 and The Division 2 both for less than $10 CAN (Division 2 was like four bucks...). Also, tekken 7 is $20. All of the titles mentioned are the vanilla version of the games. SF5 and T7 have complete editions for around $40 (great discounts right now as the tekken one is over $100 usually), and there are various versions of the division but who cares.
Why are gamers saddled with shelling out hundreds of dollars to play as a character who has been included in a game’s roster since day one? Why aren’t those extra moves or levels in the game to begin with or included later as free patches? Can anyone here imagine buying the latest Madden game to find out only the Detroit Lions, the Cincinnati Bengals, and a practice field at some high school, are in the game and that it’s going to cost you $8 a piece to unlock the other teams? Or that you have to pay to unlock the ability to play a super bowl game?
It’s the bitching thread, right? I know it’s business and all of that bullshit, but no one has to like it. Like that nut Cornette said just because eating shit sandwiches becomes popular doesn’t mean he’d bite into one. I thought the tiered game thing would fade out because it ultimately ends up costing gamers over a hundred bucks for one game, but I guess us suckers are into that kind of thing because it doesn’t seem to be going anywhere!
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Post by IamAres on Feb 29, 2020 17:09:38 GMT
I get that companies add DLC specifically to get the price for the total game higher. I even get why - despite rising development costs as games get larger/denser/more complex, as well as simple inflation, the "standard" price for games hasn't gone up at all in like 20 years. I get that they need to add that cost somewhere.
But yeah, it absolutely feels like/is a ripoff when they're charging you for things, especially in a series, that were always included before. Fighting games are horrible for that with fighters, especially since, if you're competitive, you NEED all the characters to practice against, even if you don't want to play them.
Also, some of the companies most notorious for it (EA) are the ones selling so much volume they DON'T need it to make their development costs back - it's just easy money.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 29, 2020 18:36:45 GMT
Let's not also forget rush releases where the buyer ends up becoming more like a beta tester that already gave the company money. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5 comes to mind as a particularly egregious example of that.
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Post by El Marsh on Mar 1, 2020 2:18:46 GMT
I really hate the trend that every wrestling match nowadays must have 37 near falls.
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Post by BakFu on Mar 1, 2020 2:51:57 GMT
I really hate the trend that every wrestling match nowadays must have 37 near falls. You would get an amen and a laugh listening to either of Jim Cornette and Brian Last’s podcasts then, especially the Experience. They’re always bitching about the piles of near falls, back slap tags, dozens of FLIPS and dives, every match going through a break, shit like that. It gets exhausting sometimes listening to Cornette go on like a broken record, but the dude knows his shit, it’s pro wrestling prep and finishing school if you listen, and he’s passionate about protecting the business he loved. Kinda messed up, he’s beating a dead horse about how the business he loves is being transformed and abused, but the truth is the horse really is dead already, everyone is “smart”, the wall is gone, and the days of fans getting so hot they chase heels out of territories with guns and weapons, and guys like Dr D David Schultz slapping the shit out of a national tv investigative journalist to protect kayfabe while the cameras are rolling are over. You might get a laugh out of the shows if you like podcasts, but it’s best consumed in small doses! |
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Post by El Marsh on Mar 1, 2020 3:33:30 GMT
I don't like podcasts and I don't really like Cornette. I actually came up with near-fall gripe myself.
It's cool that everybody has 13 different finisher type moves but it's silly that most of them never actually finish the match and too foten, you'll see ALL of those moves in the same damn match. It loses it's "drama" when the same kind of thing happens in the vast majority of matches, regardless of who's involved or what's at stake.
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Post by Dawnbr3ak3r on Mar 2, 2020 9:04:23 GMT
This is actually one of the major reasons I've more-or-less stopped watching any of the common American wrestling promotions. WWE, NXT, AEW, you name it, don't care. The only American promotion I've watched in recent memory that doesn't abuse the million finisher spotfests is NWA, and I've kinda fallen off that because there's not a whole lot of people I like on that roster.
But yeah, I've grown tired of the multi-kickout spotfests, especially on NXT shows. I'd probably prefer King's Road Style if the matches weren't so long ~ I like matches that go a proper length for the kind of match it is. There's literally no reason for a title match to be going 60+ minutes. I'm already exhausted by 20 minutes, especially if they've gotten to the finisher phase of the match ten minutes prior. I subscribe to the "get your shit in and finish it" mentality. I don't need 1800 Canadian Destroyers or Superkicks. I don't need Super Gargano kicking out of *LITERALLY* everything for the later half of a title contest. It really really grinds my gears to the point where I'll straight up skip or ignore Gargano matches. Every single one of his matches are by the numbers, and he's a god-awful babyface. Then again, he's not a terribly convincing heel neither. Tomasso Ciampa hits all the boxes for me, but much like his storied rival, his matches are pretty by the numbers too.
Now, I'm not saying people can't enjoy matches of that length, but I find them tiresome and overdone. I can sit through a fatal four way with Natsu Sumire, Kikutaro, Kiushinbo Kamen, and Orange Cassidy, and have a blast with it. I know it's going to be stupid. I know it's going to be corny and cheesy. It's a stageplay and comedy has it's place in wrestling. Where it deviates for me is when Orange Cassidy wrestles a super-serious guy and the schtick doesn't quite go over for me.
The real exception to the "rules" I follow are lucha libre matches because those are loaded with flips and highspots. Nothing beats a flash Magistral Cradle though; That's one of the moments where I pop the loudest. I'm a huge mark for flash pins because the storytelling dictates that the opponent was outsmarted and got pinned. It can be that easy.
All that said: I've been subbed to Stardom World for about 6 months now, give-or-take, and their major/title matches have maybe two, three, four finishing spots at the absolute max between the competitors. It tells you that the competitors' finishers are worth something, and the rookies/lower card talent need to put in a much greater effort to defeat a veteran. That's my kind of storytelling.
AAA and STARDOM are pretty much all I'm watching these days. I should have cancelled WWE Network ~two years ago. Maybe I'll pick up DDT-U in place of WWE Network soon.
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Post by IamAres on Mar 2, 2020 18:20:15 GMT
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Post by El Marsh on Mar 2, 2020 22:53:45 GMT
The saddest thing about that is that it won't only sell but will probably sell relatively well despite the ridiculousness of paying for something that's free in pretty much every (non-mmo) game with character customization.
I'm a pretty big proponent of "don't like it, don't buy it" but even I balked slightly when I first heard about that new "feature."
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Post by Nth on Mar 2, 2020 23:05:24 GMT
I remember Angry Joe doing a rant about this exact same thing, but I think it was in one of the Madden football games. Change your players hair or face and pay a dollar. Want to put it back, pay a dollar.
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Post by BakFu on Mar 2, 2020 23:27:30 GMT
Unreal. DOA truly lives up to its name now. I liked that series, pretty sure Tecmo’s DOA was the first to do multi level fights (roll down stairs to a new area, over a cliff, through a floor, stuff like that), I liked the series in its early days. This is a new low, they obviously have lunatics willing to pay for such ridiculous shit. Wow.
Imagine what they would charge for titty bounce amplitude if DOA beach volleyboobs was still around. 🤑
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Post by Ramon on Mar 5, 2020 8:03:37 GMT
Well... It's here. The first case of the Coronavirus in the city where I live here in Sweden.
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Post by Dawnbr3ak3r on Mar 5, 2020 10:44:15 GMT
I've been sick more times in the last four months than I have in the last fifteen years.
Whoever said "Go outside more, it's good for you" can fuck off.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2020 11:29:21 GMT
I yelled at one of my coworkers earlier. Even after nearly 13 years in retail I can still count on one hand how many times I've done that, no matter how mad they might make me otherwise. It wasn't even over work stuff either, though he certainly gave me a few work reasons to be annoyed with him as well as my shift progressed.
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