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Giant Bomb #6 | You'd be hard pressed to find 10 better threads this year.
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im sure more pixels will help
EmCeeGramr
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those filthy south americans have made your dad's hair into 10 polygons
shadyspace
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Wait are the enemies seriously supposed to be south american
The Grim Heaper
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it's the work of a riftworm
turns out this is the gears of war universe
turns out this is the gears of war universe
Hot Coldman
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I kinda assumed Clancy novels took a similar path.
XANDER CAGE
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The easiest way to track the change in Call of Duty's overall tone is the death-screen war quotes. In 2-4, they were mostly glib commentary on how fucked being an infantryman is, and ironic quotes from people in the Nixon and Bush administrations.
In MW2 they started shifting more towards less cynical things about glory and patriotism, and I'm assuming that in Ghosts it just says "QUIT DYING, PUSSY - GEORGE WASHINGTON"
In MW2 they started shifting more towards less cynical things about glory and patriotism, and I'm assuming that in Ghosts it just says "QUIT DYING, PUSSY - GEORGE WASHINGTON"
JesseEwiak
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Yeah, the last few turned into conserva-porn where President Jack Ryan installed a flat tax, banned abortion, and ended the Two Chinas policy.
Freedom = $1.05
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They haven't done those in the last 2-3 (maybe more) entries in the series. And MW2 probably had the MOST cynical quotes of all of them, referencing current politicians and their double-talk quite a few times. Of course, MW2 was when they stopped being somewhat grounded in reality and turned into full blown Michael Bay films but that's another argument entirely.
EmCeeGramr
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this is the dumbest thing
firehawk12
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Banned abortion!?
shadyspace
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Glad I decided not to watch this live and can save this hilarity for when I'm plastered
The Grim Heaper
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this is really not good
JesseEwiak
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Plane hit Congress, so it killed most of the Supreme Court. New President Ryan (who had just been confirmed for VP) named most of the new Court, who were all conservatives.
He has to because of MS having every review under lock until the 12th.
Send it back, get Killzone or Battlefield 4,thank me later.
I'm pretty sure he's heavily hinting that neither version (XONE or PS4) is especially impressive.
Have you read the interview with Rubin? Not even the devs are allowed to talk about it. It's ridicoulous.
Well hes saying outright the PS4 version is not as impressive as he had hoped - and that its kinda comparable to the parts he played on PC.
So, yknow, kinda like a lot of people here have been saying its a mediocre looking cross gen game with oddly high PC requirements.
The new bit of info is the occasional framerate hitching on PS4
To which, he even said, is not exactly unexpected from previous versions.
Hasphat'sAnts
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I was really confused when Tom Hardy wrestled the wolf.
True.
The bit that we seem to need to wait till the 12th for is whether the xbone version has similar frame drops.
EmCeeGramr
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This is some Far Cry 3 levels of SSAO. Like, "putting an object near another object produces a localized black hole" levels.
darkressurection
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I like Blitz mode as long as both teams are actually attempting to defend their points. It is really dumb if both teams are just "GOTTA GO FAST, RUN TO POINT" the whole time and just turns into a game of who hits 15 caps first.
XANDER CAGE
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why does this game have borderlands shading
SJRB
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Yeah I know, but there's something surreal about Microsoft holding the entire videogame journalism apparatus hostage over their fucking console in such a way that a guy like Jeff can't even say out loud wether or not the Xbone version of COD looks on par with the PS4 version.
It's sleazy as fuck, I don't like it and I don't understand why they don't form a front and say "can't talk about it? Well fuck your console then, motherfucker".
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
It's also a sign of respect that you agree to the terms set by the company which gave you early access to the material.
If not they would be doing this on xbone launch day, so it's not like there's so e inherent disadvantage.
If not they would be doing this on xbone launch day, so it's not like there's so e inherent disadvantage.
Because if they refuse to do preview coverage, everyone loses out. Review embargoes are kind of a shitty situation, but are still preferable to every other alternative
fourstorks
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I'm not usually one to cry about realism in my media.
I can suspend the shit out of my disbelief, know what I'm sayin?
Yet the space station scene in Ghosts was frustrating as hell. How did those guns fire without oxygen? How did the inevitable bullet/shrapnel holes not rip the entire thing apart?
And most importantly, what the fuck is going on? Which one is Fonzie and where is the shark?
I can suspend the shit out of my disbelief, know what I'm sayin?
Yet the space station scene in Ghosts was frustrating as hell. How did those guns fire without oxygen? How did the inevitable bullet/shrapnel holes not rip the entire thing apart?
And most importantly, what the fuck is going on? Which one is Fonzie and where is the shark?
That's just how embargoes work. It sucks, sure, but... who cares? They can still talk about the Xbox One and PS4 version compared before either version is available in stores. It's not like they're forbidden from reviewing it entirely, and nobody can play/try it right now anyway. Just wait a few days.
These guns had some space agency logo on them, so they could totally use bullets that work in space.
But I got other questions about what I saw, I guess they are spoilers:
Who were the enemies in the campaign? At first I thought they spoke Italian, but apparently they are from South America, so maybe it was Portuguese? But how...and why?
Also, what's up with that huge Attack-on-Titan-like wall in L.A.? Why would you need that? Doesn't help much against satellites.
Also, what's up with that huge Attack-on-Titan-like wall in L.A.? Why would you need that? Doesn't help much against satellites.
Because of its cartoonish portrayal of the military, global politics, and life in general?
kingofthedead45
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Figuring this is the best place to post this, considering this is the Giantbomb thread 
http://www.giantbomb.com/articles/the-great-escape-of-30-000-steam-keys/1100-4780/
An article posted by Patrick detailing the events of a "give away" for the game Blackwell Deception. To sum things up, things went haywire, multiple times, and people were able to exploit and snatch and grab 30,000 steam keys to re-sell(or unknowingly exploited the system) of a game that was already being given away for free. It's an interesting read, give it a look.
Reason I'm posting it here is, well, there's been plenty of occasions on Gaf where we discover an exploit of some sort and quickly "abuse"(I use the term loosely so don't kill me!) it. In this instance everybody getting these keys caused this guy tons and tons and tons of stress. In retrospect we do the same when we make threads about something we can nab on xbl/psn or some promotional website for free due to some exploit. Are we okay with what we(Gaf) do after reading this article?
(Also, not sure if this constitutes its own thread or not, but I am rather interested in others perspective on the situation)
http://www.giantbomb.com/articles/the-great-escape-of-30-000-steam-keys/1100-4780/
An article posted by Patrick detailing the events of a "give away" for the game Blackwell Deception. To sum things up, things went haywire, multiple times, and people were able to exploit and snatch and grab 30,000 steam keys to re-sell(or unknowingly exploited the system) of a game that was already being given away for free. It's an interesting read, give it a look.
Reason I'm posting it here is, well, there's been plenty of occasions on Gaf where we discover an exploit of some sort and quickly "abuse"(I use the term loosely so don't kill me!) it. In this instance everybody getting these keys caused this guy tons and tons and tons of stress. In retrospect we do the same when we make threads about something we can nab on xbl/psn or some promotional website for free due to some exploit. Are we okay with what we(Gaf) do after reading this article?
(Also, not sure if this constitutes its own thread or not, but I am rather interested in others perspective on the situation)
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