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She always looked like a red-headed female Alfred E. Newman to me. She's also a boring mary-sue who was cloned from an even bigger mary-sue.

I haven't played HZD (yet), but Aloy is really cute.
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Cool, the poster child of the "no can make peepee hard" mentality.

Male characters must still look like movie stars however, unless you're playing a way out or some shit.
 
Bioshock Infinite is a bad game.

(lacklustre and boring with high production values, typical AAA game)
Watching Matthewmatosis tear it to shreds was one of the best parts of Bioshock Infinite existing, tbh, he even says "nigger" a couple of times in his critique video and didn't get demonetised, the madlad.

 
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Is Ubisoft apolitical?

Honestly, I think many of their games have political themes but it's not abrasive enough to be an issue.

Most of their franchises are copy paste so the themes are the only thing that sets them apart.
 
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Is Ubisoft apolitical?

Honestly, I think many of their games have political themes but it's not abrasive enough to be an issue.

Most of their franchises are copy paste so the themes are the only thing that sets them apart.
They're French, the only thing strong about them is their body odor.
 
They're French, the only thing strong about them is their body odor.
I don't know what's worse with them: their Ubisoft game model or their Ubisoft monetization model.

Almost all their games now have a set season pass. And microtransactions, even in single player affairs.

If you'd really want to play a Ubisoft game, wait a year or for a sale to get all the content.
 
I don't know what's worse with them: their Ubisoft game model or their Ubisoft monetization model.

Almost all their games now have a set season pass. And microtransactions, even in single player affairs.

If you'd really want to play a Ubisoft game, wait a year or for a sale to get all the content.
It's the main reason why I'm hoping Horizon Zero Dawn, God of War, and Ghosts of Tsushima all do well for their sequels next gen. They're all direct competitors to Ubisoft's bullshit and are in the same genre. They're not parceled out DLC bullshit or season pass faggotry. They all contain a complete game where as Ubisoft looks to cut shit out and sell it on top of the base price.

If you can take the wind out of Ass Creed that's a big hit to Ubisoft that would maybe make them change their ways.
 
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Bioshock Infinite is a bad game.

(lacklustre and boring with high production values, typical AAA game)
It's worth one (1) playthrough at the very least. It's like a popcorn flick in the way you end up having more fun just turning your brain off and vegging out.
 
Bioshock Infinite is a bad game.

(lacklustre and boring with high production values, typical AAA game)
An absolute disappointment of a game. Aside from the (admittedly lovely) visuals, it was a complete letdown. Then again, I'm a complete nerd for the first two games, so I may be biased.

I haven't played HZD (yet), but Aloy is really cute.
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I wouldn't call her cute, but I loved the gameplay and storyline, certainly intrigued for what the sequel has to offer.

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Every Assassin's Creed game after Rogue sucked camel dong. Unity, too (even though it released simultaneously with Rogue). The last few would be passable games (but probably not big franchise starters) if they'd been released under a different IP, but tagging AC onto it creates expectations. Which were firmly not met. Which, funnily enough, is true for Bioshock Infinite, IMO.
 
If an antagonist is described as "no one really knows his true motives," it means that the writers just got lazy.

Doubly so if it is some Illuminati-like organization. I hate that overused trope so much.
That kind of thing only works if the antagonist is some Lovecraftian nightmare whose very existence is beyond our comprehension. At least in that scenario it's a being that literally cannot be understood. Anything else though, I agree.
 
If an antagonist is described as "no one really knows his true motives," it means that the writers just got lazy.

Doubly so if it is some Illuminati-like organization. I hate that overused trope so much.

I think done right it can be well-written. I think the issue more is "this other game did it so we'll do it too" that you see a lot of.

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Also people praise Metal gear Solid 3 for the story but the whole linchpin of what holds it together it is about The Boss only pretending to be retarded for 12 years and working for the enemy.

The Boss's arc was that she was fully committed to being a tool of the state, a disposable soldier. She was willing to die and be branded a traitor after being a hero. Big Boss saw that, it left such a deep scar in him he questioned his loyalty to the existing axiom of what a soldier is supposed to, he questioned his country and figured he could make it right with child soldiers and dangerous hamsters in his own nation. Plus generous amounts of disposable soldiers in every room unless they were a boss.
 
I've been noticing that whenever a game company re-releases or localizes an old game, the common response is that you could just emulate it instead.

I'm not big into emulation. I do it occasionally, mostly for stuff I'm pretty sure is never coming stateside like the original Shin Megami Tensei games and Mother 3, or when I want an experience that simply isn't possible in the base game (like playing FF6 on GBA with the original SNES soundtrack). I think it's a good thing when developers decide to re-release old stuff because it means those games can still exist on modern hardware. The 2000s were almost 20 years ago, those consoles are getting old and will stop working one day. Having those games on modern consoles remedies that problem.

Granted, it's hard to argue against the fact that emulation is free and depending on the emulator you can run damn near anything. I just think that being able to own older games on current systems is a net positive.
 
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The 2000s were almost 20 years ago, those consoles are getting old and will stop working one day. Having those games on modern consoles remedies that problem.

Granted, it's hard to argue against the fact that emulation is free and depending on the emulator you can run damn near anything. I just think that being able to own older games on current systems is a net positive.
This isn't always possible though due to a number of reasons (usually legal issues with the developer/publisher) and it can end up with emulation/piracy as the only option once the old hardware stops working (Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire, The Matrix: Path of Neo, anything by Silicon Knights, etc)
 
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