Jim Sterling (The Jimquisition)

Very too little too late. Wouldn't put it past them to consider giving him sympathy after death too

In a vacuum, I actually liked the twins' personalities. They just suffered from the unfortunate context surrounding the Highwaymen in the wake of Far Cry 5. It's really hard to ignore the coding surrounding the Highwaymen as villains, which pushes Mickey and Lou from wacky charismatic Far Cry villains into "Scary Black Millennial" stereotypes.

It's also a matter of how it's done.

New Dawn gives you the choice to Kill or Spare Mickey and Joseph. Lou dies no matter what you do, but Mickey's and Joseph's fates are each left to player discretion.

With Mickey, she's defeated, her twin sister is dead, her Highwaymen have been burned to the ground, and she's having a last-second revelation about how horrible she is. She basically pleads for her life so that she can quit the Highwaymen and go home to the life she left behind to come here.

With Joseph, he's delivered the "true messiah", the player character, and now he's asking to be released from the pain of the many "great and noble sacrifices" he had to make to come here. Joseph puts the gun to his chest for you and pleads with you to pull the trigger and let him end his holy service.

Very different presentations.

Edited by TobiasDrake on Mar 19th 2019 at 7:49:21 AM

Oh. Then Seed deverses that Cruel Mercy

BTW guys, Far Cry 5 and New Dawn are not political in any way. Otherwise Ubisoft would be considered right-wing

A friend of mine actually pointed out how shameless and on-the-nose the game is about the Scary Black Millennials thing with its music. The Highwaymen mark their territory by tagging it in wild colors and blasting rap music across the region. After an area is reclaimed, the protagonists mark it as our territory by switching the radio station to country.

I'd personally use metal-synthwave.

I bet Ubisoft wanted to be diverse with the characters in the game but they misguidedly make them villains in a setting where it has Unfortunate Implications

Welp, fucking knew it. Can't wait to see Ubisoft make a Far Cry 6 where they try to make Nazis sympathetic somehow. Bleh.

The Division 2 - Compelling In Its Tedium (Jimpressions)

Ah, finally, a happy topic and by that I mean something I can laugh at.

I remember watching vids about how the first Division literally made you wait in line to get your hero gear. It was a mess. And no, your PDA being voiced by Garrus Vakarian didn't make things better.

I still remember when Massive made Ground Control, its expansion and the sequel and World in Conflict back in the day.

Good times playing Ground Control games even if I sucked at them (the story is compelling in both games). I never played World In Conflict but I see they were at their best there in presentation, story and refined gameplay.

I wish Ubisoft and Massive decided making another Real Time Tactics was good or something.

Edited by Dhiruxide on Mar 19th 2019 at 5:02:23 PM

The Exploration of Apolitical Politics is the name of the video, its about The Division 2

Sorry, Been a while since I seen a Jim video/posted on the thread.

Edited by MorningStar1337 on Mar 19th 2019 at 7:19:45 AM

That's already been posted.

See, this is what's too far for me. Definitely gonna keep me from ever getting the game.

There's nothing inherently wrong with making two black women the bad guys in a video game. Roles ultimately shouldn't be closed off to people like that, and sometimes it's fun to play the villain or whatever. But dayum. That game seems like a race war prepper's wet dream.

Ironically the rare war prepprers hate it because the black women are the villains thing.

Of course they hate it. They hate the idea of black women being in a position to threaten white men.

Really my issue with New Dawn is the feeling I'm getting that post-apocalyptic material are very samey due to nearly always being about facing a bunch of scrap punk bandits with multi-colored exaggerated hairstyles. Rage 2's nearing release does not help.

The setting not being a desert this time doesn't make up for that. I feel I would have been more interested in the twins if they were something more than just a bunch of rival bandits.

Like Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise was a post-apocalyptic game but at least it starred a martial artist who makes people blow up in all manner of gory fashion by pressing their pressure points as well as utilizing the Yakuza franchise's signature brand of surreal minigames & side-quests.

Edited by slimcoder on Mar 19th 2019 at 9:02:50 AM

Yes it's very, very same-y. I'll take one Saw launcher for every post-apoc game though.

And it's probably not shocking that the only time they are ever really a threat, requires someone doing something really stupid. Yeeah.

Apex Legends finally has a battlepass for battlepass monetization stake.

Wow, that bronchitis really did a number on Jim's throat. I thought he was fine since the Jimquisition seemed normal, but he's far huskier here.

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 - It's Already A Steam Bestseller (OMGH)

The Problems With The Epic Store (The Jimquisition)

As a tentative free-market capitalist, I feel like I should be more irritated on principle by a lot of Jim's stuff. But hey — if it's true, it's true. I'm no ideologue — lolbertarianism can get fucked. Unregulated capitalism really is a complete shitshow.

And how could it not be? Unchecked capitalism posits that greed and selfishness are virtues as opposed to forces that should be acknowledged, harnessed, but ultimately kept in check. "Greed is good" my fucking ass.

For a system to work there needs to be two things: an incentive to be productive and punishment to dissuade corruption. When corporations becomes too powerful, both are lost.

As for Epic Games Store...I'm going to pass. Good competition is well and good — vital for a healthy free market — but Epic is not good competition. It's brute forcing its way into the market like Jim mentioned rather than bringing anything innovative. It's not giving people a reason to pick Epic over Steam other than essentially holding games they want hostage. And tbh, I don't find the exclusive games good enough that it's worth setting up an Epic account and using their launcher.

That's not even getting into Tencent's involvement. Maybe it's paranoid to think that the CCP is using Epic Games Store as some kind of backdoor into gamers' data...but it is the CCP we are talking about here.

In short...while Steam is in dire need of a viable competitor to force Valve to get off its collective ass, Epic Games Store is not that competitor.

Fuck Epic Games Store.

Edited by M84 on Mar 25th 2019 at 11:37:53 PM

Yeah, I was surprised Jim didn't bring up that the Epic Launcher is actual spyware.

People in the comments were bickering about whether it's an overstated exaggeration of how you can give it permission to yank your Steam friend list for you or if it's actual outright spyware and no YOU'RE the exaggeration

I'd imagine Jim didn't touch on it either because people are still bickering over it, or he wanted the episode to primarily be about Epic's strongarm strategy and the potential consequences thereof.

I keep hearing the spyware thing. any actual source on it?

I mean, I know it collects data... but so does Steam.

Edited by Ghilz on Mar 25th 2019 at 3:20:13 PM