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Are there currently/have there been any other major ‘blowbacks’ against an audience or consumer base in other entertainment mediums, the scale of which seen in videogames?
I can only think of isolated incidents, for example Dave Grohl kicking out customers paying to see him live:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXeEJFC_SK4
See? They are usually directed against individuals/small minorities. Not the whole lot tarred with one brush.
I’m not trying to push any barrows here, just beginning to see a disturbing trend. Kinda like if Peter Jackson flipped off Tolkien purists while accepting an Oscar or something.
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What do you have in mind? I’m not aware of any blowbacks, but I am avoiding spoilers on certain sci fi games so maybe there’s a controversy I’m not aware of.
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Nipplegate at the superbowl?
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You’ve left out an important detail, Lee.
He kicked the guy out because the guy in the audience was fighting…not just because he was at the show…
If the guy pays to see him, and then acts like a moron, and is subsequently kicked out for it, should we blame Dave?
No, because the guy who was fighting was endangering other people, thus deserved to be kicked out.
That’s not a blowback, that’s just keeping the people who paid good money to see them safe.-
Yes, it did seem like I was attacking Dave. I wasn’t and wanted to link that video to show it’s almost always because gamers are the people who start this crap.
Basically, we get called “Entitled” more than other groups, even though we’re paying customers.
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Anyone else excited for Frozen Synapse on iPad, or just me?
Highway to Hell? or Stairway to Heaven?
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Highway to Hell every time.
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EVERY time.
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Stairway to Heaven. Just to be a contrarian.
Not sure if this got answered last week, last time I checked was on the Friday so I doubt it, so here goes again:
Anyone know why there was never another sequel to Naruto: Rise of a Ninja after Broken Bond? Seemed like a successful series of games from Ubisoft then disappeared.
I heard the developers might have split, can anyone confirm this?
Also, Mark if you’re playing Generations who do you main? I know you like them Narutos.
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Mentally prepping this for third week running next week 😀
Who can help me get up the ramp (Second obstacle) in The Wreck in trials evo? I have probably attempted 500 times and I cannot seem to get over that damn ramp.
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You found the right guy!!! I can help!
if ou want to chat about it online and I can walk you through it, send a message to FatShady Live on XBL.
So, here is the trick. I am assuming that you have jumped over the trees/logs part and now are trying to jump up the ramp onto more logs. The reason that they are tricky is that they overhang. What you need to do is break it down into two parts. The first is that you need to land on the ramp and steady yourself. This will take some practice but it is possible. The best way to do it is to land with your back wheel just before your front wheel while accelerating about 50-60% and leaning forwards. What you will find is that you bounce back and the roll backwards.
What you then need to do is a trick where, while you are in mid air after bouncing off the ramp a bit, you lean backwards then forwards again while you are still in the air. Its a very quick movement, but if you time it right, you hit your back wheel down just as you put your weight forward again. What this does is gives you an extra amount of grip because the force of your back wheel is now hitting the ramp harder and as a result, you get more friction and therefore more grip!
Now for the second part. What I find is easiest is this. When you steady yourself on the ramp, lean all the way forwards. Roll back as far as you can while using your throttle to make sure you dont go too far. Now what I do is accelerate at about 100% without holding onto the left stick. this is crucial. By letting go of the left stick, your bike front tyre automatically lifts up and only when the tyre has gone past the logs above, do you then lean forward, just keep accelerating and you will hit the check point..
I hope that is clear mate. The good news is that you have not even got to the hard part of the wreck!! hehe
Good luck man.
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This is freaking brilliant. I have nailed the first part of landing on the ramp and being able to accelerate up its the second part where I have tried to bunny hop or force the left stick. Your tip is much appreciated.
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Also I was afraid you would say its not the hardest part. I only have this track and the final one to do to complete everything .
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Yeah there is at least one other part that i think is harder than this, and again im happy to help if you need it mate.
I actually really like this track and I spent a bit of time recently trying to get a half decent speed run on it so I had a lot of time to break down each trick. Im a massive fanboy of this game and truly love helping out people on it so feel free to ask if there is anything else.
Ive actually thought of doing a YouTube series of tutorials for Extremes and hard tracks but not sure i’ll get the time. Im also about to start work on getting a HD version of the in game map from the editor and make it a single image.. LOTS of work there also.
Anyway, let me know if that works for you. @fatshadylive if you are on twitter. thats all I seem to use atm.
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MARK!
Did oyu get my early NOMS email?
I’ve got a question: Does anyone still play team fortress 2 on xbox360 and is it popular?
Why is Alpha Protocol not more loved? I just replayed it for the first time in a couple of years thinking my fond memories of it had surely been tinted somewhat, instead replaying it made me even more in love with the game and Obsidian, it has so many goddam amazing ideas and design choices, and while the execution wasn’t perfect, it was hardly an awful mess. In hindsight a few years on, I think it’s a superior game to Mass Effect (all of them), except maybe minus plot of ME1, and that’s ONLY because I’m more a fantasy/sci fi guy than a spy story guy.
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I love that game…
But, it made it hard for itself.
The middle east is by far the worst level in that game… and putting it up first means that people will have just given up on it.
Having to put points into weapons before they become accurate (as it was in ME1) makes it difficult to enjoy the shooting until later in the game.
Graphically, it’s not great.-
I guess that sums it up, people are the problem not the game, you’re this awesome spy with access to all these gadgets and stealth options, and persuasion options and people just complain that because it has guns they should be able to play it like a shoot em up.
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An observation/question re the new PS3 firmware that landed this week.
In the XMB when you went to the disc you had in the drive and pressed the triangle button to bring up the menu, there was an “Eject Disc” option. In a radical overhaul of the entire user interface, that now reads “Remove Disc”!
I’m wondering if that maybe suggests there’s a new version of the PS3 coming sometime soon? I’m thinking a smaller, cheaper version like the old PSOne and PSTwo consoles (this would be PSThree, presumably? The PSTwo got rid of the old PS2’s sliding disc tray and replaced it with a flip-up lid on the top of the console. I’m wondering if a new PS3 did something similar then obviously you’d be “removing” the disc i.e. selecting that menu option might open the lid, but it wouldn’t actually “eject” the disc as such, hence the change in the menu option.
Or am I just spending way too much time pondering tiny changes to the PS3 firmware?
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I think it’s unlikely we’ll see another major hardware revision, but I wouldn’t rule it out. However I don’t think your evidence is compelling either way either, so hell, why not?
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Disk Ejection. Lip pops open and expensive BD comes flying out at your face.
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lid*
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