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...time to stop visiting this thread

I'm mostly curious as to why people would gamble/spend that much money for some shitty paint on their virtual guns/knives... According to a PCGamer article from 2 months ago, the most expensive item is the M9 Bayonet: Crimson Web, ~$5900 (2360 keys) It's a knife. With some red paint splattered on it. ................ $5900. I spent like 3000 yen on some alternate outfits for Tales of Xillia and I regret it every day of my life. =_= But at least I got anime ladies in sexy outfits for that money. Anyway, I can't really say much on the topic. I rarely use Steam, and I don't watch these types of Youtubers/Twitch streamers. Clearly they're doing something that's completely scummy, if not actually illegal, and they should be stopped. yep. by the way, found this screenshot of the dude logged in as "CSGOLOTTOBOT" while streaming... ?!?!?!

Language > Artist > [Release Date] Album Name > [Track #] Song Name for example Japanese > 12012 > [2009.03.11] mar maroon > 01 THE WORLD.mp3 "Language" pertains more to the place of origin than the actual language in the lyrics. Like, a Japanese artist that only sings in English would still be in the Japanese folder. Any Western artist gets thrown into the English folder.

I feel so stupid >< I previously mentioned how I was having a tough time with the combat in Yakuza 0, because when I played as Majima the enemies were ridiculously aggressive and would never stop attacking me/knocking me down. I JUST realized that I had equipped an item (something like "Charisma Book") because it had good stats, but I didn't read the description. It actually increases the encounter rate and makes enemies reeeeally want to smash your face in. So, I took that off and it's back to smooth sailing. But now I've been completely distracted by the Hostess Club mini-game. Majima becomes the manager of the club and you have to scout girls, train/dress up the "special' ones, and play a simulation where customers come in and you match them with a girl and do a bit of service, like interpreting hand signals to bring ice/towels/cups, and thanking the customer when their time is up. I'm so addicted to it. ...by the way, one of the "girls" you recruit is an old grandma with purple hair. Her special ability is "endless talking". T_T

Oh GOD Oreshika: Tainted Bloodlines is a PS+ title for Vita for July. I imported that game in December 2014 because the collector's edition had a really pretty box and it was on sale. I STILL HAVEN'T PLAYED IT >_<

I remember the first time I played a Silent Hill. Around 16 years ago, I bought a modded PS1 and a stack of bootleg games. Me & a friend were digging through the games and had no idea what most of them were. We randomly picked up Silent Hill and booted it up. So I was walking around some deserted foggy place for a few minutes, and thinking "god this is boring", and then out of nowhere some crazy dogs (or maybe giant birds?) jumped out of the fog and killed me. We freaked out and immediately shut the game off. And that was the last time I played a Silent Hill.

Response to doombox: Response to CAT5:

episode 10 thoughts

I just randomly felt like listening to a little Fugees. Totally out of nowhere. And I realized that their album "The Score" turned 20 this year. Maaan. I loved that album 20 years ago. o_o o-lay-hee

I will take this opportunity to thank Aerosmith for contributing to one of my all-time favourite moments in video gaming.

it's ok, mistakes happen XD

Welcome to VITA ISLAND. Home of the neglected and abused refugees of PlayStation fandom. (sorry, inside joke) And yeah, it needs proprietary memory cards, which are too expensive and probably one of the big reasons the Vita "failed". I continue to make do with an 8GB card cuz I'm too cheap. I'm really curious about what made you buy a Vita. Other than the sale price and a free copy of Persona.

Oh, well if you listen to the song, he clearly says "ima nani omou" so.. either i'm right, or the mistake is in the booklet itself ..

Thanks @Original Saku for showcasing Aragami, this is the first time I've heard of it. I love the way it looks, and the music is pretty nice too. My concern is that I'm not super into "stealth" games.. the most stealth I've played is Assassin's Creed, and those games are usually really forgiving and just let me murder everybody easily if I fuck it up. I don't think I have enough patience for "stealth" but .. definitely will keep an eye on Aragami. Also will be considering Vampyr. I really loved Life is Strange, and although this is a totally different type of game, I've loved vampires since the days when I watched Buffy...( holy shit, that was almost 20 years ago... o_o ) ... ( but don't mistake me for Twilight fan, blegh ) I really hope Dontnod pulls it off. .. I wonder if eating EVERYBODY is an option. hehe. As for Gravity Rush 2... I got the first game on Vita thanks to PS+ .. one day I will actually try it out... one day.................

@Scarlet Obsidian Couple of questions about Suteneko 早く堕ちること I think this should be 早く堕ちるとこ 堕ちた私を見てあなたは今回思うの? The end of this line should be 今何思うの Otherwise, great job (with the kanji at least, I didn't look at your romaji) I will be double checking all the kanji once I get my CDs in, will let you know if I see any other mistakes

No need to apologize! I saw what I perceived to be inaccurate statements presented as facts, and felt the need to offer...... a different perspective. I might have sounded too harsh though, so it is I who should apologize. I'll have to take your word for that. I was barely playing any games 10-15 years ago, let alone reading about them. I *HAVE* seen a few long-form articles about the industry recently that were really interesting and well-written, though. Patrick Klepek and Jason Schreier (both currently at Kotaku) are the two shining examples that are usually mentioned. I've been burned so many times by buying games based solely on good reviews or general internet HYPE that I no longer trust anyone else's opinion. My gaming tastes appear to be very different from most reviewers. The best purchasing advice I get is from raw gameplay videos, demos, and general information like "how difficult is it" or "are Japanese voices included". I feel like most of them are children with no money. Or perhaps, adults with the minds of children. They just want to be part of the zeitgeist, or some kind of social media mob. The internet has given them too much power to speak.

I am aware that this USED to happen. Famitsu is a famous example. Another is Jeff Gerstmann, who was fired by Gamespot in 2007 for giving a somewhat-negative review to a game that was heavily advertised on that site. He went on to co-found Giant Bomb, which has been rather outspoken about not letting ad money or relationships with industry people dictate their review scores & opinions. According to him, the culture around that kind of stuff has largely changed since then. And a couple of years back, some people noticed that the big sites were starting to use "the whole review scale" and giving lower scores than they used to. Let's take a look at a recent, 'mediocre' example. Mirror's Edge Catalyst. If any publisher was going to pay for good reviews, it'd be EA, right? Destructoid - 85 PC Gamer - 78 Gamespot - 70 IGN - 68 Game Informer - 65 EGM - 60 Eurogamer - no score, but a clearly mixed review Maybe EA should get a refund. There are plenty of examples of AAA games getting universally bad/mixed reviews. And when the majority of them give high scores to a game, the gaming community tends to agree. Recent examples - Uncharted 4, Overwatch, Witcher 3. So, sorry, I don't believe journalists are currently getting paid off to write glowing reviews. I personally don't even read reviews. I mostly skim through gameplay videos before I make a purchase decision. I'm only defending the reviewers because of what I have heard about the industry. I read gaming forums and listen to gaming-related podcasts, mainly from Giant Bomb and Kinda Funny, sometimes featuring a few Gamespot people, more than I actually play games. I hear plenty of "passion" in their voices. I know, from their histories, that they wanted to be 'game journalists' since they were teenagers. Some of them have been doing it for 15-20 years. I've heard nothing to suggest that these guys, at least, don't care about games and only want paychecks. (Of course, it is entirely possible that some people from other sites think this way, I cannot vouch for all of them.) I do agree that legit reviews/comments from consumers can be very helpful, perhaps even moreso than the major sites. However, there are a lot of biased opinions (which could be obvious or hidden), and most of all, a lot of people who clearly never even played the game just giving it 10s or 0s. This is why I said MetaCritic User Reviews are 99% trash. To me, it's not worth wading through all that shit. If you disagree with anything I just wrote, we'll probably never agree, so I'm going to leave it at that. I've spent too much time on this and I have no wish to derail this thread any further.

Sorry, I don't like dogs all that much.

Ok.. so I clicked through to a few of the actual reviews from major websites and not a single one of them mentioned the Kickstarter campaign(s) in the review.....? You seem to be reacting to non-reviewers comments on the game. Or the user reviews, and everyone SHOULD know those are 99% trash. Your stance on this clickbait review thing is puzzling to me. When nearly every site is agreeing with each other and giving the game a score in the same range, that is not clickbait. No one's gonna click on one specific 6/10 review when every other review is 6/10. For example, if some site had given Uncharted 4 a 1/10 while every other site gave it 9/10 or 10/10, I MIGHT consider that a clickbait review score, IF they did not have any good reasons for it. And I fail to see what the "sheep" have to do with the reviews themselves. You have every right to be angry that a lot of people will take one look at Gamespot's 5/10 score and decide they don't want to bother touching the game, but that doesn't make it Gamespot's fault, and that doesn't mean Gamespot's review is unfair, biased, or clickbait. You seem to be angrier at internet trolls than at reviewers. If that's the case, I don't know why you mentioned reviewers in your post at all.

I only post my own romaji at my blog But thank you for this My copies of this single haven't shipped yet.

On the contrary, it appears that the reviewers were right. I had summarized the reviews as "If you're a die-hard Mega Man fan, you might like this." You appear to be a die-hard Mega Man fan, and, big surprise, you like it. So far, anyway. Reviewers can (or should) only give their honest opinion of their personal experience with a game. Every person has different opinions. Just because you do not agree with the reviewers does not mean they were "fishing for attention". By the way, 16/22 reviews on MetaCritic gave it a "mediocre" score, in the range of 50-70. They were not calling it a "failure". I know the internet likes to pretend anything below 90 is total shit, but let's be real here.

Agreed. I did touch on this back when episode 1 aired and Roose got killed. The political scheming was one of the most interesting aspects of the show, but all the best schemers have been separated or killed and it's had a negative impact on the show, IMO. You could say the High Sparrow vs Cersei/Olenna/Margaery has replaced it, but I find that whole subplot extremely off-putting. I've been anticipating the gruesome deaths of the Sparrows all season (shout out to the Mountain ripping a Sparrow's head off), and will be super pissed if they survive the season finale. I am even willing to sacrifice Cersei, my 2nd favourite character, to get rid of them.

ohhhh dude http://kotaku.com/south-park-the-fractured-but-whole-will-let-you-play-a-1782305546 You can create a female character in the new South Park!! HYPE! It didn't bother me much in Stick of Truth, because they basically had cross-dressing options, so I just pretended I was a girl pretending to be a boy dressed as a girl. But for this game, it sounds like characters will react to you differently based on your gender. That could be cool! OR that could be supremely offensive to me but I will probably love it! Might do two playthroughs if the game is great.. one as a boy, one as a girl.