Steam sales

Alien Isolation and Ultra Street Fighter IV both on sale for about £8 each. Take that, console owners!

Pc Gaming is gargabe.

Ps Rocket League (bloody awesome if you havn’t played it) is £14.99 on Steam & £0.00 on PS+.

Your move.

…Really, there is one winner here.

Mobile gaming is where it is at :wink:

Originally posted by @KRG

Pc Gaming is gargabe.

Easy for you to say.

Ps Rocket League (bloody awesome if you havn’t played it) is £14.99 on Steam & £0.00 on PS+.

Played the one that came before it. Will need to download it on PS4 before the end of the month.

Your move.

Did you see how het up PC gamers got over the suggestion that maybe referring to yourself as the “PC Master Race” is misjudged? Or anything Total Biscuit says or does? Or the crap about Framerate Police (granted those two are linked). Or just 90% of stuff on Steam (Tagging, Greenlight, Early Access, etc.)? It’s all garbage.

Originally posted by @KRG

Did you see how het up PC gamers got over the suggestion that maybe referring to yourself as the “PC Master Race” is misjudged? Or anything Total Biscuit says or does? Or the crap about Framerate Police (granted those two are linked). Or just 90% of stuff on Steam (Tagging, Greenlight, Early Access, etc.)? It’s all garbage.

You say that, but console owners are hardly immune from becoming annoyingly fanboy-ish. Remember Nolan from the other place, spending each and every day acting as an unpaid cheerleader for Microsoft?

It’s a similar comparison to Saints fans vs Saints fans online. You could look at our offline fans that froth at the mouth and make assessments on Saints fans, but you’d be dismissing the vast silent majority that just like football but have no online interests.

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Lol, that thread was funny. But yeah, you aren’t wrong.

Gamer culture in general, is garbage. It’s hobbyism turned into a worship of consumerism. Too small an audience has been pandered to for too long, leading a small, but vocal group to think they are the most important thing in the industry.

I love my games, but god do I despise a lot of what it entails. Sexism, racism and an over-reliance on violence are so heavily ingrained that it is just disturbing. Any attempt to make comment on that, or suggestion that maybe we can do better is usually met with harrassment and death threats - totally disproving the idea that’s there’s too much violence in the gaming world.

Can you imagine any other fanbase spawning anything as ugly and disgusting as Gamergate? Imagine getting death and rape threats for daring to write an article criticisng the new Muse album. Or being driven from your home for suggesting that perhaps the portrayal of women in the latest Transformers film could be a bit better.

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Gaming pc’s, updates, crashes and patches for a slightly improve visual perfomance, PS4 for games, pc/laptop for ordering food/ booking holidays.

A bit like when I said Django Unchained was glorifying violence and was gratuitous, more shock less brain.

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Originally posted by @KRG

Lol, that thread was funny. But yeah, you aren’t wrong.

Gamer culture in general, is garbage. It’s hobbyism turned into a worship of consumerism. Too small an audience has been pandered to for too long, leading a small, but vocal group to think they are the most important thing in the industry.

Think a lot of it depends on where you start from. Back when I was a nipper, it really was quite an amateur and fledgling industry that didn’t seem as rampantly commercial. Two colour ads in the back of a specialist magazine, for many publishers. In that context, your assessment could be seen as a result of the gamer matching, or at least reacting, to the hype machine. They’re part of it, and if you believed them, you’d think that gaming existed to serve them. It doesn’t; it’s far bigger than that now.

I love my games, but god do I despise a lot of what it entails. Sexism, racism and an over-reliance on violence are so heavily ingrained that it is just disturbing. Any attempt to make comment on that, or suggestion that maybe we can do better is usually met with harrassment and death threats - totally disproving the idea that’s there’s too much violence in the gaming world.

I do think that’s changing. For starters, I think gaming is more a universal thing now - not just associated with geeky male loners, although that stereotype was never entirely true in any event. Common, but not across the board.

Can you imagine any other fanbase spawning anything as ugly and disgusting as Gamergate? Imagine getting death and rape threats for daring to write an article criticisng the new Muse album. Or being driven from your home for suggesting that perhaps the portrayal of women in the latest Transformers film could be a bit better.

Nope, and wouldn’t want to. But I think the disrespect toward women comes from a panoply of influences, including porn, etc.

~ Gamer Culture is Garbage ~

Originally posted by @KRG

~ Gamer Culture is Garbage ~

I read that article. Yeah, that’s pretty shit, mush. I say again though, the vocal minority of a subset of gamers. Even within gaming communities, you find that division. Barrens chat might not be entirely enlightened toward women in WoW, for example, yet most serious guilds are about half and half.

Hmmm. It may be a minority, but it’s a decent sized one.

regardless of the size, any Dev, designer or writer that is forced out of the industry due to threats is too many. It still happens with a regularity that isn’t seen elsewhere.

organised harassment and swatting are commonplace. People have died a.s a result of swatting, so I don’t care how many are behind it, it’s too many.

This is without getting on to the pathetic reliance on sexist, racist and violent tropes in games. The industry created a crappy culture, granted most are mature and level headed enough to see through it. But enough aren’t that it’s a serious problem that needs addressing.

ive seen it happen to friends and colleagues over nothing, heck I’ve had people try and hack me because of my employer. It’s garbage man.

Anyway, journey is on PS4 so I’m going to download that, because it’s awesome. And perhaps also play some civ5 which I got in the steam sale :blush:

wtf is swatting ffs?

Making a hoax call to the police to get a swat team called to someone’s house.

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It’s that time again. Plenty of stuff on Steam sale.

I’ve recently agreed a Steam budget of £20 pcm with the missus.

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Not sure if they are on sale, but I’d recommend Downwell (it’s only a couple of £ anyway), and Galak-Z which I played recently.

Elite: Dangerous is less than a tenner.

Of course, you’ll end up blowing 100UKP on a flight stick within a few months :slight_smile:

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The New Year’s sale is on at the moment.

Away from Steam, you can get NFS: Most Wanted for nowt on Origin atm. It’s the team that did Burnout Paradise, doing a version of that game in the NFS universe, with real world cars.

Make War Not Love strategy game marathon

If you grab them right now, Jet Set Radio and a solid collection of other Sega games aren’t just free for the moment; they’re yours to keep.

Sega’s running their third annual Make War Not Love strategy game marathonon Steam this week, but regardless of who wins, everybody else… also wins. Already, the showdown between players of Total War: Atilla, Dawn of War II, and_Company of Heroes 2_ has yielded one bundle of free games, with two more on the way later this week.

The first bundle—which you can grab right now—includes Jet Set Radio, Golden Axe, Hell Yeah! Wrath of the Dead Rabbit (plus DLC), and Sega Classics. If players of the aforementioned strategy behemoths keep competing to see who can, uh, play their respective game harder, the second free bundle will give you Streets of Rage II, Binary Domain, and Condemned: Criminal Origins. The third will include_Gunstar Heroes_, Renegade Ops, and Viking: Battle for Asgard.

!!!

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