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So what are people thinking for game of the year now the big contenders are all out? Excluding PUBG I think Zelda, Mario, Cuphead, Nier and Horizon are locks for the top ten, Destiny 2 will probably show up in there as well. The other four (maybe three) spots are anyone's guess. What a year.
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I have played for about 30 minutes, and the amount of stuff I have done already is quite impressive.
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Jim Sterling has neither given Odyssey a 7/10 or reviewed it at all. He has stopped reviewing games altogether, as he wants to focus on general videos and skits.
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I've watched playthroughs (I don't have a gaming PC and I don't have an XBone). It doesn't look difficult so much as things getting very, very busy on-screen. The art is amazing and you'll probably like it.

Don't sweat it regarding the lack of a gaming PC. Any computer from the last decade should be able to run it no problem.

Anyway, the game is fantastic, albeit with a steep learning curve.
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Predix:

Super Mario Odyssey - 96
Assassin's Creed: Origins - 84
Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus - 80

My hot take is Wolfenstein underwhelming slightly. Still on a par with the last one.
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Africa has a huge number of ethnic groups and not all of them are black. Like, are you that ignorant?
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I feel it is probably the second best Spider-Man movie. I say probably because I am too afraid to rewatch Spider-Man 2 in case I realise it's aged terribly, which it likely has.

How good was that Homecoming reveal though
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I don't know if it was shorter than this, but Evolve also didn't last very long. I also don't know if Lawbreakers is big budget in the same way.

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Literally tried to compete with Overwatch.

Many people probably lost their jobs over that decision.

Was Overwatch known about when Battleborn was announced? The official announcements were separated by a few months but I wasnt following rumors/leaks much at that time.

Yeah, I don't know if Battleborn was trying to compete with Overwatch so much as Overwatch was trying to kill Battleborn in a way that almost seemed meanspirited. Like how it launched its open beta on the other game's release date.
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It's very common for people who cohabit or are in a very long term relationship to call their girlfriend/boyfriend partner. Usually for people with no interest in getting married. Lots of people do it.
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It's quiet because Odyssey (and many other games) are coming out. The hype will flow. Especially since it's the last big game of the year.

well, I'm not just talking about the last couple weeks. I feel like discussion has been muted all summer long, whereas with X we had a bunch of people obsessing over every little development update, new music, staffing news. could just be me though.

You might be right, but with X there was a steady slow stream of updates over more than two years. With this it has been such a short time with fairly few big updates (at least in the west) so that might be it. The reveal certainly had more hype than any point for the other two I think. It certainly got more views!
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It's quiet because Odyssey (and many other games) are coming out. The hype will flow. Especially since it's the last big game of the year.

I think it looks great. Especially since they improved the faces. However I have no idea if I will have the time if it has as much content in it as X.
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I have experienced this. Don't really want to go into details as it was very long ago. Female abuser though I really don't think that should matter. It's very common, including among men and I think that should be known.
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Armando Iannucci's (The Thick of It, Veep, The Death of Stalin) response to Trump's false claims about UK crime figures:

https://twitter.com/Aiannucci/status/921352128593047554
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But marking your body is still marking your body, engaging in globalised industry is still engaging in globalised industry, and sex is still sex.
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Vlado is hilarious to me because he does stuff like talk about being a "pure human" using technology, and he probably cuts his hair and wears clothes as well. He also goes on about hating globalism, on an international forum about video games from around the world, and talks about "conservative" values while openly ogling women. He is either a self parody or a fundamentally hypocritical human being.
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I have to say, that was the best bombcast in a very long time. Had an oldschool, about to fall apart at any time feel to it.
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Speaking of politicians being absolutely clueless and not admitting fault, I kind of want to bring up the Universal Credit stuff that's happening in the UK.

Basically it's a system the Tories have tried to bring in that replaces all different kinds of benefits with a single payment. Sounds pretty straightforward right? The issue is it disproportionately affected certain people, sudden job losses, people with disabilities, people in abusive homes, and left them destitute. And because the payments are monthly with a six week wait to the first payment, this would leave some very poor people in rent arrears or depending on food banks to eat. So that's bad. So to top it all off, the helpline for this system designed for the very poor had a massive charge attached to it.

So needless to say, a lot of people were not happy about this. Labour suggested scrapping the helpline charge, the government did it with no fuss. Labour then put forward a motion to pause introducing the system entirely, and the government abstained from voting entirely, rather than be seen to vote for or against their own terrible system. So the pause passed 299-0. This is kind of like the Obamacare repeal defeat except if the Republicans hadn't even bothered to vote on it. Effectively we have a government that is totally incompetent but also so weak it can't even defend its own policies. All this in the middle of a massive crisis like brexit. We should at least be thankful that the Tories are so weak they can't do too much damage!

Anyway, back to Trump time.
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Jesus Christ, that came out of nowhere. Even though Visceral has been next on the chopping block for a while, I thought they would at least get the Star Wars game out first.

I guess it's Bioware next then.
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I am playing Horizon right now and it's a polished version of the Ubisoft/Warner Bros. open world template, but nothing exceptional. There have been better open world games this year.

Like Breath of the Wild, the greatest game ever made.
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I forgot FIFA, silly me. Speaking of games outselling Destiny, Super Mario Odyssey has already topped it on Amazon's whole year bestseller list and it isn't even out yet.

Also:

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-10-16-the-evil-within-2-physical-sales-were-quarter-of-original
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They account for digital in the article. It would be a 40% drop even with a substantial increase in digital downloads. Also, it's available on two fewer platforms, soon to be one.

Destiny 2 won't make the top 3 worldwide, easily. PUBG, CoD, Battlefront, Pokmon, Mario, should all sell more.

Just to get into the numbers a little, Destiny sold 6.3 million month one. These numbers would suggest around 3 million sales, which is also worse than the first month sales of Breath of the Wild and Ghost Recon Wildlands.
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redrocket_pub posted...

Just one step closer to the Crash.

While a general crash is a little out there, the state of video game AAA sequels is obviously in question. The big third party sequels all seem to be down lately.
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https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2017/10/13/activision-destiny-2-physical-game-sales-fell-more-than-50-percent-versus-original.html

Also down 58% in the UK and 64% in Japan. Likely more frontloaded too because it's a sequel.
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Well look, since 2013 we've got a major hard sci-fi movie every autumn and they've all been very successful until now. Even this is not going to be some gigantic failure. I doubt this will change much at all.
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I'm not too concerned about the box office. It seems to be holding well (very good Monday and Tuesday, Sunday beat expectations) and it did well internationally.

However, much more importantly, it's going to go down as a classic. It is looking at a bunch of Oscar nominations likely including Best Picture and - hopefully - a cinematography win. How much money it makes shouldn't affect people's enjoyment of this great film.
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This Steal my Sunshine episode has me laughing so hard, I actually hurt myself.
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Switch is a portable imho

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This is definitely the best in the Harrison Ford returns as an older, grumpier version of one of his iconic roles trilogy.

But is it the best in the Ryan Gosling wears a sweet jacket, learns what it means to be a real human being (and a real hero), rams somebody off the side of the road before drowning them, then has an ambiguous possible death scene duology?
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I've somehow never seen Godfather II. That is easily my number one movigoing sin.

Return of the King... It's close.
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What an incredible film. It may actually be the best sequel I've ever seen.
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It might not be racist, but it's xenophobic and downright nasty. In that post you just said that you value some lives over others based on the circumstances of their birth. That is pretty much the same key concept as racism, just targeted at nationalities instead of races. And they're both absolutely disgusting attitudes.

Anyway, I did just come into this topic to ask, has their been any discussion of the whole Bombadier situation? Because Trump is massively screwing the UK and Canada over.
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Final Cut. Director's Cut is fine if that's all you have, the differences are relatively minor. Don't watch the theatrical version.
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TAKE ME HOOOOOOOOOOOME

COUNTRY ROAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD

Merlin is the best.

they damn well better have blown-in-a-biilion-pieces gel in the next movie!

He originally survived, with robo-legs. This was actually filmed and screened for test audiences. They then CG'd him out of every shot at the end, and replaced Mark Strong's head with somebody else's in the wedding scene. His hands are still in there though.

Anyway, the film was ok. Not bad. However, really disappointing compared to the original.
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Not really, because gun laws vary per country. You have to account for differences in population, but even when you do that it's a more than 50x difference. This being despite the UK's higher population density.
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foolm0r0n posted...

I've lived in many places in the US where lots of people have guns, illegal or otherwise, including one of the top homicide capitals of the US. I also never had any problems though. Privilege is a wonderful thing.

You seem to have missed the point here. It's that illegal guns and no legal guns is not an issue.

Additionally anecdotal evidence is one thing, but the US has over 31,000 gun deaths per year and the UK has about 120. Seems pretty straightforward to me.
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First, shoot self, obviously.

Secondly, I've lived in countries were the only gun crime is by illegal gun owners, including living in the gun crime capital of the UK for four years. It turns out not that many peopke have illegal guns, and when they do the police will take care of it. Never had any problems.
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The fact is, America's gun laws are absurdly lax. An assault weapons ban would still give you more access to gubs than the vast majority of the world, and would hurt very few. It seems quite straightforward.

Basically, from what I've learned speaking with gun owners, the term "assault weapon" is highly nebulous and largely meaningless. For instance, one popular way of implementing it effectively wound up doing nothing more than banning a certain style of grip that some owners preferred.

Which is why I would argue having a comprehensive gun registry, mandatory background checks, and waiting periods (also: one of the best ways to prevent suicide by gun!) are both more effective and more practical measures that could be put in to place.

This is exactly what I'm saying. Very small changes could have a big impact. But I don't think broader bans are all that impractical. Many countries have implemented such bans including big ones. Certain weapon types have been banned with positive results. It can be done.

By the way, the Daily Mail should be taken with a grain of salt, especially when it comes to anything to do with politics or terrorism...
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Honestly his motivations are fairly irrelevant. What is more relevant is how things can be restricted in the future.

The fact is, America's gun laws are absurdly lax. An assault weapons ban would still give you more access to gubs than the vast majority of the world, and would hurt very few. It seems quite straightforward.
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The silly thing about the climate change argument is that people who deny it always use it to argue against clean and renewable energy and in favour of fossil fuels, despite the fact that the environmental damage from those energy sources goes well beyond just climate change, like the effects on the oceans, for instance. What it all comes down to is money, of course.

We should also probably talk about the Catalonia situation. Pretty bad stuff going on there, crazy to see police violence like this in a European country. Spain is handling this the absolute worst way and playing into the separatist's hands. At the same time, the Catalan government is also pushing forward an illegal referendum (even under Catalan law) that mandates secession in two days if successful. So it is inevitably going to get ugly.
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Cuphead should run just fine on whatever as long as it's not absolutely ancient. The minimum graphics card is a 9600GT, which is a mid-range card from 9 years ago. Toasters will be fine.

The game so far is terrific. It is tough but not unfair, and has a decent amount of depth to it with a surprising amount of customisability and options. It also seems pretty lengthy for what it is, so there's a fair bit to it. It's style and substance.

Out of curiosity transience - why are you set against the game?
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I got it. It's great, but very hard.

CoolCly posted...

i was watching my friend play it and it's an extremely cool art concept.

There's something about the way that old style animation moves that my brain doesn't think things like hit detection should actually work with it properly but it looks like it completely does and it's great.

I think I might get it. How long is the game?

Sounds like it's 12-15 hours, which is pretty lengthy for this kind of game.
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Again, the saga of Infinite's sales is incredibly entertaining. Apparently it's already out of the top 100 on Amazon.com?

Samus Returns is selling like a Metroid game in Japan. I'm not concerned. It got the series' best non-Prime placement in the UK so I'm sure it'll sell fine for a Metroid game.
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Destiny 2 won't get that high. They have too many issues and only Brad and Dan seem to actually love it, and even they have serious reservations. I actually do wonder what wins if they exclude PUBG. Maybe Zelda. They likely won't though.

Relistening to that Destiny rant, it does disappoint me that there wasn't a big moment like that or Austin's Invisible Inc defence in the 2016 deliberations. Hopefully there is one this year. At least we had Vinny explaining Zero Time Dilemma.
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It's not a huge market, but it's done well enough there. MVC:I did 10% of regular MVC3...
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Well they have said they won't do a new SFV version but nothing of the sort for MVC:I so there is that.

Anyway, another update. Japanese sales are out, MVC:I sold 8k. Pokken DX did 53k, USFII did 17k, MVC3 did 80k. This is both entertaining and sad...
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Favorite game on the system so far?

Does the game even have any good non-ports? ARMS got shit on. BotW isn't technically a port, but it can be bought on Wii U.

Well, ARMS got a positive response so I don't know where you're getting that from, but even discounting that, yes. Splatoon 2, Snipperclips, Mario + Rabbids, and plenty of multiplatform games including Breath of the Wild.

Anyway, the system is great so far, the portability is a huge boon for console games. The UI is great and the early games lineup has been very string. It needs some functionality improvements like video streaming, but as a gaming system it's great.

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is the best game I've played for it (having played Breath of the Wild on Wii U), I never got the DLC and this version is the best game in the series. The ports have been good from what I've seen. Nintendo's two first party ports (MK8D and Pokken) are substantial improvements over the originals. Third party ports mostly seem good, it's the best place to play Sonic Mania for instance.
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