EQNext in the gutter?

[Paleman]

that sand art shit made ma laugh. They might as well have done the whole presentation with finger puppets our of a cardboard box.

[Lisset]

ok, apparently I missed something. What sand art is everyone talking about?

[Ele]

The Founding of Qeynos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETkNbBz2TH0

[Big_Japan]

Originally Posted by Ezalor [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

how else are you going to evaluate whether it looks like shit or not?

I go down this handy rule I have for videogame evaluations.

• Is it being produced by a shitbox pay2win company that has never put out a decent game other than a lucky flash-in-the-pan that isn't really that impressive when you look at it from a disinterested perspective 20 years ago? then it looks like shit

[Big_Japan]

^similar heuristics have also resulted in my spending no time or money on games like DayZ, Rift, WoW expansions, Call of Duty, console exclusives, and Zynga Facebook games. I highly advise you develop similar means for processing the vast amount of information reality requires you to parse lest you be led by your nose by marketers until the end of your pitiful obese life.

[Ezalor]

so your solution to the time spent watching 2 minute preview footage is

- conduct a research project on the game developer's entire history
- determine their monetization model and judge accordingly
- do a research project on all their previous games released and whether successes were luck or actually good on merit
- illustrate a pi graph to traject likelihood of new games being good

this definitely sounds like a time saver and not autistic at all

[Big_Japan]

naw man, what i'm telling you is that i expended literally zero effort or thought on determining the game would be shit because the truth was self-evident based on what i already knew.

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[Big_Japan]

i havent played a shitty game since Vanguard [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

having standards has rly improved the amount of quality gaming time I get, and reduced the amount of overall time spent on games

[Ezalor]

fair enough. i'll admit i lol'd pretty hard at the zynga facebook games line

[Big_Japan]

well okay that's cool but I already typed this up as part of the trolling arms race. totally serious tho. other useful heuristics for the adult gamer:

• never purchase a game on release day
• never pre-order
• never pay enough attention to brain-rotting corrupt videogame hype machine websites to want to pre-order
• never purchase non-Nintendo console exclusives
• never pay for item shop items
• never play a game that has item shop items that have any impact outside of aesthetics (if you break this rule whatsoever, you are literally a tumor on videogaming)
• rarely play any game more modern than 3 yrs old
• realize that the only big media companies still producing/delivering content occasionally worth paying for are called Valve, or are Japanese
• know in your heart of hearts that Valve is the only thing standing between us and a very depressing future where American videogaming closely resembles Hollywood. even recent developments with the indies have proved that independent gaming will never be able to stand on its own against the jewish propaganda apparatus that demands all media be a device for delivering a specific political message. The only escape is by supporting sound companies and sound games, and not being misled by the Jewish press into giving your money to Jewish-owned corporations in exchange for godawful interactive propaganda.

Patience and sound judgment are the ultimate virtues in this modern world of scientifically calibrated propaganda campaigns friend, and the key to happiness