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    2025 AssHat Voting Round 3!!

    Cayennechap vs. Luc1fer- If someone is going to demand to be included, well, I just don't know how I'd feel about not giving them for what they'd asked. Is that a bowling ball you got there, son?
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    Ashes of Creation

    Why there haven't been more people who want PVP-centric games copying Eve systems I will never understand. New World's primary failure is implementing their emphasis on crafting and gathering and not copying major facets of their economy. It's not a 1:1 translation re: control but from a PvP...
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    2025 AssHat Voting Round 3!!

    Araysar vs. Lightning Lord Rule- There can be only one! Sanrith Descartes vs. Lanx- Joshua, what are you doing? Gavinmad vs. wellijustdontknow- The "I do" pun, part deux Bandwagon vs. Hoss - Strange Game Cayennechap vs. Indyocracy - Voted Indy last time, voting Not-Indy this time. nirgon vs...
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    The Outer Worlds

    One of the tips that helped me out a bunch was to switch to DPS vs damage; its a much better evaluator of guns vs. straight dmg. All of those guns on Eden are meant to be dropped almost as soon as you get to Praetor, leveling gun included. Nothing is even close to mid-game Plasma Pistol...
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    Guild Wars 2

    I say this Constantly and everywhere: Launch GW2 is my favorite MMO of all time: The Graphics, the characters, the starting cities and backstories, the public quests, every tier of leveling, every area of the world, it was chefs kiss amazing and great. I had three played all the way through...
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    Arc Raiders

    This conversation threatens to exceed forum parameters but it seems like a standard PVP-centric game post-launch trajectory, which as much fun as this seemed and as much as I wanted to play with Ut, I refrained in this particular case. Extraction PvP(vE) shooters seem to have a predestined...
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    Arc Raiders

    You can watch the pattern of every game like this happen in real time. It's Shiny! Game is new, people are finding new things, working together toward the top. It's great! Some people have finished progression but majority are still working up, most are cooperating; few wolves appear It's a...
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    Ashes of Creation

    It's super interesting from a sociological/psychological perspective, the way PvP changes people's behavior a full matrix of active and passive positive and negative behaviors. One can see how societies and areas of lawlessness developed and "how the West was won" so to speak, in that order was...
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    Ashes of Creation

    I have watched a small segment of people demand PvP over and over again in games year after year and unless the game is designed around it and focused on, like Arc Raiders/The Division or Shadowbane/Arch Age, or as stated, Eve Online, and it ruins games and attracts predators, looking "good...
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    Ashes of Creation

    I don't know, it seemed like they had a plan and better yet, project management to get this out the door. In retrospect, they should have shrank down to a single continent, cut tons of systems, soft launched etc but I bounced off this a long time ago since they more or less nuked Narc and have...
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    The Running Man

    The original SK/RB story is a Sci-Fi/near-future dystopian 1984 game show where the runner has to hide for a month? Ending is a bit of a shocker, not a twist Arnold did his 80 muscle magic on it and made it 100x more fun and interesting than it would have been otherwise. John Carpenter's The...
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    The Outer Worlds

    So I finished the game, last act was not as good as Avowed but overall game was a little better, I really enjoyed it but a little too long to replay when all I want to do is tweet my built a little. I waited too late to trigger Easily Distracted flaw; some checks on the final mission were 18...
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    2025 AssHat Voting Round 2!!

    Araysar vs. Goatface- In abstensia as it were, I can't recall an issue with him personally, really. I know he has his fans. Lighting Lord Rule vs. Siliconemelons- The first of many terrible pairings. How is this a bracket? . Sanrith Descartes vs. RQB-Shallowest well, sorry RQB. Vuuxo vs. Lanx-...
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    Fires of Heaven 2024 AssHat Winner!

    I try not put people on ignore but Dog fucker dude had to go. I don't remember Banana asshole guy but every year the number of concussions I received get more obvious.
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    Playstation 5

    I thought we would get more out of Mario Kart World. Open World Mario Kart sounds like such a great idea, and they started down the road but just let the premise die on the vine. My son got his money's worth out of his but it didn't keep my daughter's attention, she went right back to Roblox...