Lurker > GetMagnaCarter

When I look in the shops they seem about the same price they were when I first started buying games in 1997.
Taking inflation into account and that development costs have shot up (it's been reported that developing games with current generation graphics cost about 100 times as much) they are, in relative terms, a bargain now
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"Does Magna Carta mean nothing to you? Did She die in vain?"

no
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"Does Magna Carta mean nothing to you? Did She die in vain?"

I hate the metal straps.
the hairs on the back of my arm(wrist area) get caught in them (and it hurts)
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"Does Magna Carta mean nothing to you? Did She die in vain?"

TigerTycoon posted...

Are modern politics more important than video games and should they be prioritized over the games themselves?

Some people think so, others disagree.

politics are a part of life
if a game has characters or a story there will be political implications

it's up to players to decide if they want to argue in which direction the politics should be
or if they want to ignore the arguments entirely and iust focus on playing the games
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such things are hard to explain as
1) in most arguments, each faction has a different narrative resulting in a disagreement as to what the disagreement about
2) Gamergate was not about 1 thing but a mixture

as far as I can tell the three main threads are

1) a jealous es-boyfriend claims a female developer has been having sex with game journalists for good reviews.
investigations confirmed she was in a relaionship with one game journalist but he hadn't written a review of her game suggesting they were having sex each other because they wanted to have sex with each other.
Many Gamegater's did not want to object to 2 adults in a consensual sexual relationship so looked for something else to campaign about.
Some called for Game Journalists to avoid the appearance of corruption by declaring whether they have any personal interest in a game (through crowd-funding, etc). Whether there actually was a problem to be fixed is unclear. It is extremely unlikely that any game journalist ever had sex in return for a good review.

2) for years, maybe decades, game journalism has had some corruption, in that game publishers have been giving the publishers of game journalism exclusive coverage, etc in return for a positive coverage and threatening to withdraw advertising if they received negative coverage.
As a result, game journalists were required by their publishers to inflate scores and be positive and not voice their actual opinions. Some (possibly many) game journalists felt frustrated by this but had to follow their publisher's rules or they wouldn't get published and wouldn't get paid.
Then the game industry decided that the journalists didn't matter so much and stopped pressuring their publishers and instead offered you-tubers early access in return for positive coverage.
This meant that journalists were no longer forced to be shills and started expressing their opinions.
Many gamers hated this - some did not understand that a journalists opinion was just an opinion and became offended by their interpretations of what the journalists.
And so many in Gamergate started demanding journalists stop voicing their opinions and go back to how things were before when they were corrupt.
Much of this apparently manifested in harrassment and abuse of women.

3) game journalists started fighting back declaring that they did not want to write for "gamers" who wanted corrupt journalism and harrassed and abused women but instead wanted to write for "game players" who wanted good journalism and didn't harrass and abuse anyone.
misunderstandings and misrepresentations of this followed leading to many joining in to argue without truly understanding what the argument is about.
this was expanded with misunderstandings over what "freedom of speach" is
some Gamergaters tried to "gag" the female journalist who started the fight back (because of her wish to be a proper journalist) by using advertiser pressure and thus restore corruption to games journalism.
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"Does Magna Carta mean nothing to you? Did She die in vain?"

I started with the Second Story - taken by surprise when the boulder I had seen in the background suddenly rolled over the battlefield - fighting in the mines was frustrating as character AI seemed to have been set to "run into path of minecarts and get hit by them".
Eventually gave up on tough version of final boss, reloaded eatlier save, and played to the end avoiding the cut-scene..

Til the end of time - noticable that the characters' names were changed in localisation (as one autographs the hero's shirt - and the graphics were not changed so still display the name from the Japanese version).
an early example of usage of trophies (before they had become common)
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Lokarin posted...

Because I just want the facts.

And the only facts I remember were that "a" game dev sexed "a" game reviewer for better ratings... and that's it.

nope
that was not a fact, it never happened
that was a lie from a jealous ex-boyfriend

I did read someone say that Gamergate started because a female journalist said that people who play games should be called "game players" rather than "gamers" and went on to vent anger at people in GamerGate who were i) harassing and abusing women and ii) demanding game journalists go back to being shills for the industry

I'm not clear what part of that was supposed to be the cause and think it's unlikely that Gamergate could be caused by a response to Gamergate
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borderline but not really.

primary gameplay is based on power-up items rather than levelling-up through experience.

the familiars do level up, however, that is a secondary mechanic rather than primary
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"Does Magna Carta mean nothing to you? Did She die in vain?"

if you live in Vatican City you can say it is your city even though it is a country
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"Does Magna Carta mean nothing to you? Did She die in vain?"