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Post by Tross on May 10, 2014 16:01:15 GMT -5
Sure, I don't see why not. My views have gone down to a couple hundred per day, sadly, since I stopped posting playfully trolling opinion pieces. I will write a piece about your Vesperia page tomorrow, though. I think I will try linking to it on N4G as well. I can't guarantee that it will get enough people to approve it, but it's worth a shot. If it gets posted on the main page, people should see it. It will give me another news piece to try posting too. Most of the time, by the time I even read about something on Games Press, someone has already posted about it on N4G, so I don't often get the chance to post news over there. Cool! Thanks a ton! Luckily I don't own a smart phone, and I rarely receive texts, so that kind of distraction doesn't exist for me (and thank goodness for that, or else I would be bothered constantly by Facebook notifications). However when it comes to writing my fanfic, I am easily distracted. The same machine that allows me to write also happens to be the same machine that connects me to the internet. Before I had Wifi, I was able to get the first volume of my fanfic out in just two months. Since then, each volume has taken over a year to complete. Of course, I also attribute that to my being extra picky with wording, proofreading, etc. I posted about your Facebook page, but I've only had 12 viewers today for some reason. I think I need to work on promoting my site again. Edit: I surpassed 112 now. I went and searched for a relevant news piece, that I could get before anyone else. Who knew it was as easy as googling Bioware? I found something that was reported about four hours prior. Games Press sure is worthless. Do all the big news sites really use it? I've had more luck googling what I wanted. The piece I wrote about your Facebook page, is still pending approval, but I hope it will get approved.
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Post by OttselHero on May 11, 2014 15:10:17 GMT -5
Cool! Thanks a ton! Luckily I don't own a smart phone, and I rarely receive texts, so that kind of distraction doesn't exist for me (and thank goodness for that, or else I would be bothered constantly by Facebook notifications). However when it comes to writing my fanfic, I am easily distracted. The same machine that allows me to write also happens to be the same machine that connects me to the internet. Before I had Wifi, I was able to get the first volume of my fanfic out in just two months. Since then, each volume has taken over a year to complete. Of course, I also attribute that to my being extra picky with wording, proofreading, etc. I posted about your Facebook page, but I've only had 12 viewers today for some reason. I think I need to work on promoting my site again. Edit: I surpassed 112 now. I went and searched for a relevant news piece, that I could get before anyone else. Who knew it was as easy as googling Bioware? I found something that was reported about four hours prior. Games Press sure is worthless. Do all the big news sites really use it? I've had more luck googling what I wanted. The piece I wrote about your Facebook page, is still pending approval, but I hope it will get approved. Thanks again for the feature! And it looks like you've received comments on your Mass Effect bit. It blows my mind that people are still so butt-hurt about the ending of Mass Effect 3. Before I played the game, I had already heard that the ending was supposed to be some huge disappointment. I honestly didn't mind that it ended that way. I can understand by those who say that their choices throughout the series never mattered, but I always took the whole choices aspect as a way to develop Shepard's personality and some minor story elements, but nothing more. I never expected them to dramatically affect the outcome of the plot, as doing so would be all too complicated to develop for every possible scenario. I thoroughly enjoyed Mass Effect 3 more than the other games in the trilogy (though I've yet to play ME1) and I look forward to anything BioWare has up their sleeve with the series. Speaking of which, the next game is an anomaly if I ever heard one; by this I mean that BioWare released an early statement shortly after the third game's release that "you may want to hang on to your ME3 saves", implying that they will be needed to carry over your game data into the next one. But why would that be needed for a prequel? And if they were considering a sequel early on, how would transferring our data be of any use considering the fact that Mass Effect 3 ended rather conclusively? Perhaps it won't matter since there's little doubt that the next game will end up on the PS4/Xbox One where file transfers will likely not be necessary (unless they ask us to put our saves on a flash drive and copy the data from our PS3's to our PS4's).
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Post by Tross on May 11, 2014 17:27:55 GMT -5
I posted about your Facebook page, but I've only had 12 viewers today for some reason. I think I need to work on promoting my site again. Edit: I surpassed 112 now. I went and searched for a relevant news piece, that I could get before anyone else. Who knew it was as easy as googling Bioware? I found something that was reported about four hours prior. Games Press sure is worthless. Do all the big news sites really use it? I've had more luck googling what I wanted. The piece I wrote about your Facebook page, is still pending approval, but I hope it will get approved. Thanks again for the feature! And it looks like you've received comments on your Mass Effect bit. It blows my mind that people are still so butt-hurt about the ending of Mass Effect 3. Before I played the game, I had already heard that the ending was supposed to be some huge disappointment. I honestly didn't mind that it ended that way. I can understand by those who say that their choices throughout the series never mattered, but I always took the whole choices aspect as a way to develop Shepard's personality and some minor story elements, but nothing more. I never expected them to dramatically affect the outcome of the plot, as doing so would be all too complicated to develop for every possible scenario. I thoroughly enjoyed Mass Effect 3 more than the other games in the trilogy (though I've yet to play ME1) and I look forward to anything BioWare has up their sleeve with the series. Speaking of which, the next game is an anomaly if I ever heard one; by this I mean that BioWare released an early statement shortly after the third game's release that "you may want to hang on to your ME3 saves", implying that they will be needed to carry over your game data into the next one. But why would that be needed for a prequel? And if they were considering a sequel early on, how would transferring our data be of any use considering the fact that Mass Effect 3 ended rather conclusively? Perhaps it won't matter since there's little doubt that the next game will end up on the PS4/Xbox One where file transfers will likely not be necessary (unless they ask us to put our saves on a flash drive and copy the data from our PS3's to our PS4's). I had the extended endings, and I think they solve every problem of the original endings, but yeah, the ending wouldn't have ruined what was an amazing journey for me. I'm going to assume people were upset with the ending, because the rest of the story was well paced, and well written, and the decisions made prior, all felt like they had some weight, so they held the ending to those standards, and it didn't quite hold up. As for ME4, I've heard a rumor floating around about a ps4/xb1 port of the trilogy. It's one of those "some foreign retailer listed it in their catalogue" type rumors, so there's no solid foundation for it to stand on, but I do think it's a possibility at some point. In that case, your ps4 data could be used for ME4. I chose this particular news piece to get attention. It looks like it worked, because my post on your Facebook page was also approved, and my viewers increased tenfold. I finally got my first negative comment on my blog, that was actually posted on my site. This person seems to think my journalism is pathetic. Just for fun, that comment mysteriously ended up in my spam folder. That's the best thing about being the admin of my own blog, who approves every comment. I'm debating whether to approve it, and defend this story, or just let it sit in my spam folder. Thoughts?
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Post by OttselHero on May 11, 2014 21:46:06 GMT -5
I chose this particular news piece to get attention. It looks like it worked, because my post on your Facebook page was also approved, and my viewers increased tenfold. I finally got my first negative comment on my blog, that was actually posted on my site. This person seems to think my journalism is pathetic. Just for fun, that comment mysteriously ended up in my spam folder. That's the best thing about being the admin of my own blog, who approves every comment. I'm debating whether to approve it, and defend this story, or just let it sit in my spam folder. Thoughts? It did work! The Facebook page went from 6 likes to 19 in less than a day! I don't see where he calls you pathetic, but if he did, I'd say it's better to leave it be so that anyone who sees it will think, "Douche" when they come across it. As far as defending yourself on the matter, I'm not entirely sure. Maybe you could passively respond to it by discussing the impact of Mass Effect 3's ending in a new blog post, but I don't think I'd directly respond to him; that would just give him satisfaction he doesn't deserve (as you've brought up in a previous blog post if memory serves).
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Post by Tross on May 11, 2014 23:24:48 GMT -5
I chose this particular news piece to get attention. It looks like it worked, because my post on your Facebook page was also approved, and my viewers increased tenfold. I finally got my first negative comment on my blog, that was actually posted on my site. This person seems to think my journalism is pathetic. Just for fun, that comment mysteriously ended up in my spam folder. That's the best thing about being the admin of my own blog, who approves every comment. I'm debating whether to approve it, and defend this story, or just let it sit in my spam folder. Thoughts? It did work! The Facebook page went from 6 likes to 19 in less than a day! I don't see where he calls you pathetic, but if he did, I'd say it's better to leave it be so that anyone who sees it will think, "Douche" when they come across it. As far as defending yourself on the matter, I'm not entirely sure. Maybe you could passively respond to it by discussing the impact of Mass Effect 3's ending in a new blog post, but I don't think I'd directly respond to him; that would just give him satisfaction he doesn't deserve (as you've brought up in a previous blog post if memory serves). That's great to hear! Yeah, the story got approved on N4G, and though it didn't get as many hits as my Mass Effect story, it reached 120 degrees, which is above average for a story of this nature, and 20 people commented on it, on N4G. I'm pretty sure 13 likes in under a day, is probably the extent of my ability to promote something like this, but I'm glad you got at least that much. You wouldn't see the post where someone calls my journalism pathetic, because I haven't approved it. I got a lot of spam up until recently, so I set it up so that I approve every single comment before it's shown on the page it's posted on. I marked this particular one as spam instead, mostly because I can. But, I've been thinking of approving it anyways, so, yeah, I think I might do that, and you're right, I shouldn't respond to it. This particular comment was that I was stirring up rumors, even though it's based on a real interview, which I could probably dig up, if you'd like. I'm going to take your(my?) advice, and I just won't give them the satisfaction of getting to me. Edit: Ha! That person goes by the username Rebel_Scum. You should be able to read that comment now, if you're interested. Heck, if you want to respond, you probably can. I unchecked the box that said people were required to be registered and logged in to comment, so commenting should be easy.
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Post by OttselHero on May 12, 2014 8:39:31 GMT -5
Wow, even he's aware that he's scum. What a laugh.
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Post by OttselHero on May 15, 2014 9:39:26 GMT -5
Tomodachi: I can understand why people upset, but they shouldn't be since heterosexuality in games has been strongly prevalent for a long time. Not every game is Fable II. I'm actually quite surprised to hear that Japan is more homophobic than the states. I would have pegged them as more tolerant of things like that. On a similar issue, I am often underrepresented when asked for my sexual preference on a social network as "asexual" never shows up as one of the options, and selecting anything else would be inaccurate. It doesn't bother me, though, because I'm aware that asexuals only comprise 1% of the nation (which is rare enough that I've been mocked for claiming a preference that "doesn't really exist"). 100 Years of PlayStation: Planning is nice, but 100 years sounds unrealistic. There is no possible way to predict gaming trends that far down the line. E3: Aw man, E3 is coming! I keep forgetting. It'd be nice to go someday, but I love waaaaay on the opposite side of the country from it.
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Post by Tross on May 16, 2014 9:54:25 GMT -5
Tomodachi: I can understand why people upset, but they shouldn't be since heterosexuality in games has been strongly prevalent for a long time. Not every game is Fable II. I'm actually quite surprised to hear that Japan is more homophobic than the states. I would have pegged them as more tolerant of things like that. On a similar issue, I am often underrepresented when asked for my sexual preference on a social network as "asexual" never shows up as one of the options, and selecting anything else would be inaccurate. It doesn't bother me, though, because I'm aware that asexuals only comprise 1% of the nation (which is rare enough that I've been mocked for claiming a preference that "doesn't really exist"). 100 Years of PlayStation: Planning is nice, but 100 years sounds unrealistic. There is no possible way to predict gaming trends that far down the line. E3: Aw man, E3 is coming! I keep forgetting. It'd be nice to go someday, but I love waaaaay on the opposite side of the country from it. For the Tomodachi Life thing, I'm just going off of what the media is saying. I mean, sure, I've taken Japanese, and learned quite a bit about Japan, but the topic of homophobia never came up. You're not asexual. You're an aspie. Just because you don't go crazy over sex, like most people in our gutter-brained culture, and are far more likely to seek companionship above everything else, doesn't mean you're asexual. I'd say, try finding someone you like spending time with. You don't have to imagine getting in bed with that person, like the media tells us. I agree that 100 years is a long time to plan for. I'm assuming Cerny and House aren't being completely literal. It could just be a statement saying that "we aren't quitting anytime soon, and plan for the Playstation brand to be around, well into the future". E3 was a lot of fun last year. When I found out I was on the list of invites, I almost fainted. I live in BC Canada, so it's more or less a straight trip south, meaning, I probably had less distance to travel. Brrnout and I roomed with DVM though, who lives in Columbus Ohio(forgive me, I don't know American geography very well). I think he's near the north end of the country though, and well to the east. The longer you have to travel, the more I'm sure it'll cost, but as expensive as the trip can be, it's definitely worth it. E3 was not quite what I was expecting, but also beyond my wildest dreams, at the same time. I was told by Tempest that it was possible to do the trip for $1000, if you know someone in Cali and stay with them, but I managed to do it in $800, with a hotel room. Cutting out taxis, and taking the bus, was the biggest money saver, I think. I won't be going this year, because $800 is money I don't have right now, and I'm tied up in school anyways.
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Post by OttselHero on May 18, 2014 1:06:56 GMT -5
Microsoft PR Blunders: Aw man, what an entertaining read. XD "Don't buy our system if your internet sucks." Really? And they think Indie games are dying out? As if! They must be pissed that Dust: An Elysian Tail is no longer exclusive to the 360. But hey, it's like Tales of Vesperia: the right game on the wrong system. Of course it's going to branch out (and I take it bribing for exclusivity didn't work that time). PS4 Collections: It'd be neat for some collections to be upscaled if that were at all possible. I'd love to see how Jak and Daxter would look, especially. A complete collection would be nice, too. It stinks that Jak X: Combat Racing wasn't a part of the original collection in the first place ( The Lost Frontier can stay out of it…). What I find odd about Ratchet and Clank is that we get no numbering system here…but Japan does? >.> I would most definitely rebuy Uncharted for upscaled graphics. It would also be nice for such a collection to include Golden Abyss as I still need to play it, but I haven't been convinced to buy a Vita yet. You pretty much covered all the bases, so it's difficult for me to come up with one of my own, but I'll throw Portal in there. Granted the graphics look pretty good as it is, but an added touch of realism could pull me in closer to the experience I suppose. Plus the first game has yet to have trophy support, so that would be nice. And maybe a definitive Kingdom Hearts collection some time after Kingdom Hearts III releases: throw every game in the series in there with upscaled graphics to KH3's standard, and I'll buy that stat (not really necessary as I'd likely prefer the games in their original resolution, but hey, it'd be cool to reexperience everything in a different perspective).
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Post by Tross on May 18, 2014 2:40:58 GMT -5
Microsoft PR Blunders: Aw man, what an entertaining read. XD "Don't buy our system if your internet sucks." Really? And they think Indie games are dying out? As if! They must be pissed that Dust: An Elysian Tail is no longer exclusive to the 360. But hey, it's like Tales of Vesperia: the right game on the wrong system. Of course it's going to branch out (and I take it bribing for exclusivity didn't work that time). PS4 Collections: It'd be neat for some collections to be upscaled if that were at all possible. I'd love to see how Jak and Daxter would look, especially. A complete collection would be nice, too. It stinks that Jak X: Combat Racing wasn't a part of the original collection in the first place ( The Lost Frontier can stay out of it…). What I find odd about Ratchet and Clank is that we get no numbering system here…but Japan does? >.> I would most definitely rebuy Uncharted for upscaled graphics. It would also be nice for such a collection to include Golden Abyss as I still need to play it, but I haven't been convinced to buy a Vita yet. You pretty much covered all the bases, so it's difficult for me to come up with one of my own, but I'll throw Portal in there. Granted the graphics look pretty good as it is, but an added touch of realism could pull me in closer to the experience I suppose. Plus the first game has yet to have trophy support, so that would be nice. And maybe a definitive Kingdom Hearts collection some time after Kingdom Hearts III releases: throw every game in the series in there with upscaled graphics to KH3's standard, and I'll buy that stat (not really necessary as I'd likely prefer the games in their original resolution, but hey, it'd be cool to reexperience everything in a different perspective). Thankfully, MS changed their stance on their always online thing. It's a good thing, even for those of us who aren't MS fans, because in the off chance that, had the One still been built around that premise, and still sold, it would have sent a message to other companies, that such an idea pays off. Of course, it's thanks to gamers that they changed that. My PS4 collection list was built around first party titles, but I have considered a list of third party collections. I'm not sure if that's what I'll post next, but I might do it at some point.
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Post by OttselHero on May 18, 2014 9:27:33 GMT -5
Microsoft PR Blunders: Aw man, what an entertaining read. XD "Don't buy our system if your internet sucks." Really? And they think Indie games are dying out? As if! They must be pissed that Dust: An Elysian Tail is no longer exclusive to the 360. But hey, it's like Tales of Vesperia: the right game on the wrong system. Of course it's going to branch out (and I take it bribing for exclusivity didn't work that time). PS4 Collections: It'd be neat for some collections to be upscaled if that were at all possible. I'd love to see how Jak and Daxter would look, especially. A complete collection would be nice, too. It stinks that Jak X: Combat Racing wasn't a part of the original collection in the first place ( The Lost Frontier can stay out of it…). What I find odd about Ratchet and Clank is that we get no numbering system here…but Japan does? >.> I would most definitely rebuy Uncharted for upscaled graphics. It would also be nice for such a collection to include Golden Abyss as I still need to play it, but I haven't been convinced to buy a Vita yet. You pretty much covered all the bases, so it's difficult for me to come up with one of my own, but I'll throw Portal in there. Granted the graphics look pretty good as it is, but an added touch of realism could pull me in closer to the experience I suppose. Plus the first game has yet to have trophy support, so that would be nice. And maybe a definitive Kingdom Hearts collection some time after Kingdom Hearts III releases: throw every game in the series in there with upscaled graphics to KH3's standard, and I'll buy that stat (not really necessary as I'd likely prefer the games in their original resolution, but hey, it'd be cool to reexperience everything in a different perspective). Thankfully, MS changed their stance on their always online thing. It's a good thing, even for those of us who aren't MS fans, because in the off chance that, had the One still been built around that premise, and still sold, it would have sent a message to other companies, that such an idea pays off. Of course, it's thanks to gamers that they changed that. My PS4 collection list was built around first party titles, but I have considered a list of third party collections. I'm not sure if that's what I'll post next, but I might do it at some point. The collection I would most like to see happen is a Harry Potter collection. Yes, they're movie tie-in games, but the first three were magnificent. I would love to be able to play them again.
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Post by Tross on May 18, 2014 14:47:28 GMT -5
Thankfully, MS changed their stance on their always online thing. It's a good thing, even for those of us who aren't MS fans, because in the off chance that, had the One still been built around that premise, and still sold, it would have sent a message to other companies, that such an idea pays off. Of course, it's thanks to gamers that they changed that. My PS4 collection list was built around first party titles, but I have considered a list of third party collections. I'm not sure if that's what I'll post next, but I might do it at some point. The collection I would most like to see happen is a Harry Potter collection. Yes, they're movie tie-in games, but the first three were magnificent. I would love to be able to play them again. Yeah, I do remember those being among the best movie tie-in games. They're up there with Spiderman 2, The Lord of the Rings GBA titles, the Scott Pilgrim vs. The World game(which I actually maintain is better than its source material), Crouching Tiger: Hidden Dragon, Fantastic Four, and the Lego tie-ins. I guess good movie licensed games do exist. They're just not the norm. The downside to the good ones, is that they convinced me to invest in quite a few other, subpar licensed games. Such is life, I guess. I've since learned to avoid movie tie-ins, unless I hear really good things about them.
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Post by OttselHero on May 19, 2014 9:32:05 GMT -5
The collection I would most like to see happen is a Harry Potter collection. Yes, they're movie tie-in games, but the first three were magnificent. I would love to be able to play them again. Yeah, I do remember those being among the best movie tie-in games. They're up there with Spiderman 2, The Lord of the Rings GBA titles, the Scott Pilgrim vs. The World game(which I actually maintain is better than its source material), Crouching Tiger: Hidden Dragon, Fantastic Four, and the Lego tie-ins. I guess good movie licensed games do exist. They're just not the norm. The downside to the good ones, is that they convinced me to invest in quite a few other, subpar licensed games. Such is life, I guess. I've since learned to avoid movie tie-ins, unless I hear really good things about them. The PS2 versions of The Lord of the Rings were great also! Except for maybe the Moria level in The Two Towers (it covered the events of both Fellowship and Towers); that was a little too hard for it being so early in the game.
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Post by Tross on May 19, 2014 19:10:05 GMT -5
Yeah, I do remember those being among the best movie tie-in games. They're up there with Spiderman 2, The Lord of the Rings GBA titles, the Scott Pilgrim vs. The World game(which I actually maintain is better than its source material), Crouching Tiger: Hidden Dragon, Fantastic Four, and the Lego tie-ins. I guess good movie licensed games do exist. They're just not the norm. The downside to the good ones, is that they convinced me to invest in quite a few other, subpar licensed games. Such is life, I guess. I've since learned to avoid movie tie-ins, unless I hear really good things about them. The PS2 versions of The Lord of the Rings were great also! Except for maybe the Moria level in The Two Towers (it covered the events of both Fellowship and Towers); that was a little too hard for it being so early in the game. Yeah, they weren't bad either. They're better than most licensed games IMHO. The GBA tie-ins, however, applied the source material in a Blizzard-esque wrpg, so, as surprising as it sounds, I think the handheld versions are better. I suppose I'm fortunate to have enjoyed a high ratio of decent licensed games, relative to the total number of licensed games I've played. Most people have probable had worse experiences than I have, and a higher average of disappointments.
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Post by OttselHero on May 19, 2014 23:22:17 GMT -5
All I know of Xbox is what I've played or seen my friends play during college, and I am with you on the Fable collection idea. It definitely looks like something that would be up my alley despite it being a wrpg, a genre I tend to have a hard time getting into. There's that and Left 4 Dead (which apparently I was a beast at the first time playing it; in fact I'm oddly good at FPS games despite my usual distaste for them).
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