Jim Sterling (The Jimquisition)

I doubt very much Jim reads this thread, as cathartic as it would be to get a shoutout. We're kind of niche...which actually suits me just fine. I have no desire to become a meme or some shit anytime soon.

Can you imagine how disturbing it would be to see "Disgusted, but not surprised" plastered all over the internet?

Edited by M84 on Nov 13th 2018 at 5:13:16 PM

Disgusted, but not surprised

Last thing this thread needs is getting hijacked by some idiots as the internet always does.

On Blizzard I do wonder if they could make a new IP but are afraid to, remember they made a new IP with Overwatch and had to fight internally to ensure that the loot boxes are only cosmetic. They may just know that any new IP they make will be so overwhelmed with “games as service” bullshit that they’re avoiding making such games.

Imagine having a cool viable idea for a game, just to realise that if you suggest it to your boss it’ll be turned into a loot-box farmer that everyone hates.

"And the Bunny nails it!" ~ Gabrael "If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we." ~ Cyran

NVM

Edited by M84 on Nov 13th 2018 at 6:05:52 PM

Disgusted, but not surprised

Yeah Jim went easy on Acti Blizz on this one.

That was just a Kotaku induced rumor that blizz has since denied.

Diablo is as dead as Command And Conquer and Dungeon Keeper.

The thing is the mobile Micro transatction laden trash works better with preexisting I Ps to step on because Nostalgia makes money.

Edited by Memers on Nov 13th 2018 at 2:22:29 AM

Question for you guys. There's a sound effect Jim uses in some of his videos when something completely nonsensical happens. It's a jingle from one of those cartoon post-credits stamps that companies put after works they produce/distribute. Sounds like it was made with a kazoo, really silly in nature, I want to say the original stamp featured an egg or some shit, but it was so long ago, I can't remember and wanted to see if you guys did.

Qui odoratus est qui fecit.

This whole thing could've been avoided if Activision Blizzard did what Bethesda did with Fallout 4 and Fallout Shelter

You're going to pay a price for every bloody thing you do and everything you don't do. You don't get to choose to not pay a price.

And TES Blades and that Elder Scrolls VI jpg we got.

Edited by Rytex on Nov 13th 2018 at 11:48:29 AM

Qui odoratus est qui fecit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFBjP0rXMoY&feature=push-u-sub&attr_tag=FvxrskIAd4si-ByH%3A6 - Spyro Reignited Trilogy - Relight My Fire (Jimpressions)

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Disgusted, but not surprised

All they did was reskin the game and add some quality-of-life changes to it (including an updated control scheme, as well as the option to go back to the classic scheme to prevent Damn You, Muscle Memory!). I can't call this an Activision game. It's fundamentally different than Activision games of today. This is just an Insomniac game with an Activision skin.

Qui odoratus est qui fecit.

Right... Like shills defending MTX in full-priced games and attempting to justify other video game industry bullshit.

It's bad enough that I'm no longer excited for anything the "Triple-AYYY" video game industry releases nowadays (more so on my platform of choice, PC). But what's worse is that the indie scene doesn't have any games that could scratch my RTS, Hack-and-slash ARPG, and the occasional single-player FPS itch.

"Learn as if you will live forever, live as if you will die tomorrow."

Yeah, the indie scene is a haven for Metroidvanias, RPG titles, and that sort of thing. There's very little in the way of what you mentioned.

Qui odoratus est qui fecit.

Doesn't it have all three of those though?

The upcoming DUSK seems like a really fun FPS. Strategy games are a bit more tricky with programming, so it's mostly done by A/AA devs.

Re: Spyro Reignited:

"Who are you and what did you do to the real Activision?

Because you did a damn good job on that game."

Edited by IncognitoNinja on Nov 15th 2018 at 1:45:46 AM

"Learn as if you will live forever, live as if you will die tomorrow."

With this and Crash they shall be called... Activision Remake Division.

We need a remake of Crash Team Racing on the pronto now.

Though I admit, I'm a bit disappointed that the Colossus level in 2 replaced the silly "Whyy-ayy-ayy-ayy-ayy!" mantra with a "Wo-wo-wo-wo-wo-wo-wo-wo-lo-lo!" I kinda like that silliness aspect.

Edited by Rytex on Nov 15th 2018 at 8:49:28 AM

Qui odoratus est qui fecit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rR95GO0zMuY - Fallout 76 - Nuclear Waste (Jimpressions)

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Basically, Fallout 76 is extremely boring. There's no real tangible story or narrative to anything you do, it's a technical disaster even by bethesda standards (frequent framerate dips and freezes, things that spawn out of nowhere, enemies t-posing, texture pop-in and missing textures,etc), you shoot boring ghouls endlessly, the auto-save is bad and doesn't save as it often as it should, the VATS system is just a shitty auto-target system that's disorienting and whose accuracy varies wildly by the second, etc.

It's horrendous.

Is the gun-play still crap?

I swear I could never get into a Fallout game because the combat controls are always so flighty, weightless, & generally hard to aim.

At least with Skyrim its mostly close-combat so I can manage that (though archery is hard of course) but here where there's guns & status effects I can't handle it.

"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."

It's basically the same except the mechanic that actually made it tolerable doesn't work. So it's worse.

Ah shame.

Wait no that’s understating it, that’s fucking bad.

"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."

Enemies t-posing sounds like the best feature. Yeah, I'm a simple man.

I'm still baffled they didn't have Zinemax Online, devs of ESO, to make this game. They're clearly much more experienced at it.

Edited by UltraWanker on Nov 15th 2018 at 9:01:27 AM