If it were her cousin, it would have been A-OKAY!

I will explain it all in a lil while. These people are the worst thing to happen to gaming since Jack Thompson. It's not about standing up for anything.

That's quite a claim. I must be missing something.

Have you been following the Anita Sarkeesian/Kotaku/SJW/Thunderf00t/MundaneMatt/Jordan Owen stuff? It's a lot of content and back and forth over the last two years that would be tricky to condense into a TLDR version for you. I will try, though.

The Anita name sounds familiar but I can't say I know exactly what's happening.

/care ?

She has been speaking out about how females are portrayed in video games, yadda yadda. She had some pretty harsh things said to her and that is where I stopped.

Who gives a flying fuck. We will still play games and if there is something that turns us away from a title, we will most likely not pick it up and play. Hatred from either side on this is silly and a waste of time.

Your apathy is much appreciated.

I just sent Drak a nice long yet short version of what's up and why it's important. If only it was as easy as people not playing what they don't like. It's more than that.

But if you stopped at the tippy top of this, then it's cool. Carry on.

I did, know why? It has zero impact on what I choose to and not to play. Never listen to reviews either, or self-righteous fuckwits with blogs that think they are the UBER of all things gaming.

Please though, if it that dire, elaborate.

I appreciate the message but I only managed read some of it.

Take your time, no probs.

You're good, drave, keep doing what you're doing. A customer's right to choose with their wallets is paramount. I am not against that. It's chill. If you're interested enough, look up Jordan Owen's vids on the matter the last year or so.

It isn't my wallet that I choose with, I go with what game entices me most or seems to be the most entertaining. If someone wants to get all righteous about the industry, then no one should even purchase consoles due to their being produced mainly from precious minerals mined under slave-like conditions and their manufacturing plants behaving the same way and also using OIL to make said plants run and exploit the workers.

But we will still play.

I mean, you are choosing with your money. You either buy it or you don't, right? Or do you get games free?

You also seem to have some issue with people being passionate about the industry, which in turn smells like the old 'it's just games' mindset. This is fine, but if you're not interested in the discussion, I think you can better spend time somewhere else. Not excluding you, just never understood the need to say how uninterested you are in something.

Gaming still has a lot of growing up to do. It's rife with every negative aspect of society. Sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia, stereotypes. Not just the fans but the industry as a whole.

That's true. The SJWs aren't the answer, though.

Is that your response to my PM or do you still need time on that. I understand it was long.

Just a general comment. I have actually been wondering for a while how you feel about the portrayal of black guys in fighting games. Doesn't it bug you that every black guy in a fighting game is either a thug, a boxer or some kind of music/dance man?

Balrog, Dudley, TJ Combo, Eddy Gordo, Zack from DOA.

Jax tho

If the latest issue of Game Informer is to be believed, then Unity is “new-gen” exclusive and Rogue is “last-gen” exclusive due to the fact that ACR is meant to be a go-between to bridge the story gap between ACIII and AC4: Black Flag.

Today's News:
1) Ascend: Hand Of Kul was recently pulled off of Xbox Live with the developer Signal Studios stating Microsoft did not inform them ahead of time about the delisting. While the Steam version remains unaffected, the XBLA version will lose all remaining support after November 18th.
http://www.destructoid.com/ascend-ha...0-279953.phtml
http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/08/...ed-on-xbox-360

2) In a recent interview with Eurogamer, the President of Sony's Worldwide Studios stated the company is very hopeful for a PS4 version of Rise of the Tomb Raider, the reason for declining EA Access on PS4 was a business decision, and the lack of Vita talk in recent press conferences is because the PS4 is their main priority.
http://www.destructoid.com/sony-boss...w-279945.phtml

3) Microsoft is currently rumored to be adding a "Free Play Day" program for Gold users on the Xbox One with certain games having a free 24 hour trial window available.
http://www.destructoid.com/microsoft...m-279951.phtml

No. They're cartoon characters made primarily by white nerds and Asians. Seriously, it's whatever. I'm all about the gameplay, unless the designer is earnestly trying to make some kind of point. Most of the time, they aren't.

People who seem to be offended by everything have the critical edge of being able to choose when they are victimized.

On the other end, a black character who isn't of those types you mentioned would not make me pick him or play an otherwise shitty fighter. See what I'm sayin?

I wasn't offended by it, personally. I just noticed that so many black guys in fighting games fit into the same mould and wondered how someone from the same racial background felt about it. Pure curiosity.

I knew you were just asking me.

I settled on a new name and typed it in. It's been taken!

I swear every possible combination that isn't gibberish has been taken.

Try to mix it up with a number for a letter or something. The "R" in my GT is done with |2

Today's News:
1) Sales & Freebies:

• Sony reveals the latest list of games to get the Flash Sale treatment this weekend with the bulk being PS3 games.
  http://www.destructoid.com/i-m-lovin...s-280035.phtml
• Square Enix is currently holding a "Back to School" sale from now until September 3rd on their official online store with sales based on tiers.
  http://www.destructoid.com/square-en...s-280021.phtml
• EA reveals this weekend's free to play game for their "Game Time" promotion on Origin is Titanfall.
  http://www.destructoid.com/play-tita...n-280019.phtml
• Valve announces both Borderlands 2 and Dishonored will be free to play for this weekend on Steam.
  http://www.destructoid.com/dishonore...d-280010.phtml

2) For those interested, Ubisoft released Assassin's Creed Memories for iOS devices today. The game itself is a free-to-play card-type game and does require a constant internet connection.
http://www.destructoid.com/assassin-...w-280011.phtml

3) The boss of the Xbox division, Phil Spencer, states Microsoft will not be revealing any news regarding a new Crackdown game until next year.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...wn-until-2015/

I'm not a fan of 1337 5p34|<.

I've tried 6 different gamertags, all taken. I looked a few up and they aren't even active. Likely ones people set up and never used. They should deactivate after X amount of years of continued inactivity. Say, 5 years.

Not a fan of the speak either, but it was the only option at that time for the same reason you are having troubles too.

Just tried approximately 6 or so more. All taken. I might be on to something, though.

Weekend News Edition
 

Take it with a grain of salt since the main source is from reddit but a recent big rumor regarding Assassin's Creed Unity involves the possibility of playing "levels" or side missions with assassins from past games.

The person who's been leaking the stuff is also claiming the combat system is mostly broken at the moment. Same for the online netcode so far.


http://www.reddit.com/r/xboxone/comm...pmental_build/

I imagine they would def be side missions ala playing as Altair for 5 missions in Revelations. Hope this is true; it would be a great feature imo.

I played AC4. First AC I've played. Didn't think it was any good.

Greeeeeeeeeat. PSN got hacked.......again.

It's a beautiful Sunday and hackers got nothing better to do?

Just seems to be a DDoS at this point. Big whoop.

Unity has supposedly been worked on since before AC Revelations. Apparently a bunch of people split off from the studio to make it, while the others put in the usual by the numbers, annual stuff.

For that reason, I'm gonna give Unity a chance when it comes out. Rogue is no doubt same old same old though.

Along with Blizzard's battle.net, Grinding Gear Games' Path of Exile, and Riot Games' League of Legends servers. Sony got the double whammy of PSN and SOE (PC side) so nothing from them was running.

President of SOE even had a bomb threat done against him by the same group responsible.

*Continues to play BF4 on XBL*

:shifty:

I think they hit comcast earlier, too, tbh. I actually got a message when On Demand booted me out of movie that said "We are suddenly experiencing extremely high traffic, please try again in a few minutes."

Yeah. Kinda figured Sony would have had this sorted out by now.


Now I'm thinking they'll keep it shut down and roll it into their scheduled maintenance they had planned for tomorrow.


According to what I read, another hacker retaliated and posted the IPs of Lizard Group, the group responsible to today's mess.

Good.

We need vigilante hackers. Hackers whose sole purpose is to catch other hackers.

Doubt they are legit "IPs" unless they are just script kids that don't know wtf they are doing. DDoS is not difficult to generate and there are TONS of programs with pretty GUI's that allow users to execute an attack in a few mouse clicks.

None the less, still on XBL having a good time. Remember, if you pizza when you're supposed to french fry - not gonna have a good time m'kay?

They are called white hats.

Could just be someone who was pissed off they couldn't play on PSN or other affected services like last time PSN got a major hack attack.

Last time it ended up being a group that splintered away from the larger Annoys group that hacked a lot of places a few years ago. That splinter group was only upset at Sony being attacked and later went after the larger group as well as Nintendo and Microsoft in a "revenge" attack.

Not saying it's true because 99.9% likelihood it isn't, but what if it turned out to that Lizard Fags were paid by MS to hack Sony? Would be super hilarious.

That is not entirely true. A DDoS attack from one source is utterly useless. You have to either have a pretty massive botnet for this type of attack or you have to have access to a large portion of the cloud and spin up a bunch of VMs in order to run the attack.

Sure, there are pretty programs that let you launch the attack, but having the necessary infrastructure in place to make the attack succeed is a pain in the ass. Requires either a lot of patience and programming knowledge or a fair bit of money to pay for the required elements.

If it was as easy as you make it sound, every disgruntled script kiddie on the interwebs would be spoofing their IP and routing themselves through a couple dozen proxies and constantly DDoSing everything to hell and the internet would just never work.

Yea seems these hackers are morons, tbh. They bitch about Sony not using more profits to better the PSN experience for it's users. But who are they hurting with their attack? The users they are supposedly 'fighting' for; I could be playing on PSN right now if it wasn't for them and that's not the fault of Sony.

Microsoft would probably want their money back. Xbox Live was the next to get attacked today although so far just the Xbox 360 side was affected according to Game Informer.

http://www.screwattack.com/news/play...s-ddos-attacks

It really is easy. You have a group of like-minded individuals get together, it is not difficult at all to get a sizeable network in place in a 30 day timeframe.

Also, those like minded individuals would clearly already have the knowledge needed or else they wouldn't plan it from the get go. I legit lol'd at using "proxies" for IP spoofing, unless you mean something different than using a service as a proxy.

The biggest issue is so called "script kiddies" not having the required know-how and therefore never really getting "into a group" if you will, that would execute said attacks. DDoS really is entry level hacking, it is far from difficult to achieve. I believe you may underestimate the black hat crowd of the world.

Never had any issues on either console. The last outage that actually sucked was right around when Titanfall launched.

Didn't know they got it too. Stupid hackers.

I was referring to spoofing and routing through proxies as 2 separate things. Routing through 'proxies' in order to make it more difficult/take more time to fully trace; spoofing the IP as a last resort so if anyone fully traces the attack they get a bogus IP returned and not a legit one.

I'm aware I'm not using the term proxy correctly; old terminology me and a few of my associates used like 12-13 years ago when we were super awesome script kiddies 4 lyfe. We referred to every single different node we routed through as a proxy; i.e. if we routed through 25 different nodes, we said 25 proxies. Because we were 31337. And stuff.

Botnets were much more difficult back in those days. Spent so much time on mIRC on sorcery.net. We ran a couple respectable DDoS attacks though in the end, and it was worth it to us at the time.

Node sounds much cooler now.

You guys sound like you know a lot about hacking.

Reporting you to the FBI.

God somebody always has to call the FBI.

No worries, the call never made it *OBVIOUSSLYWINK*

Amazon is slowly expanding it's share in the video game industry market and buys Twitch for......................$1 BEEELION DOLLARS!

*does Dr. Evil pinky gesture*

So much for googlezon and epic :(

GaymerX (rebranding as GX, since it's not just for gay gamers) launched a Kickstarter today to fund their third annual convention.

On one hand, I'm going to pledge to the Kickstarter, since I'll go to the convention and have a good time. On the other hand, it seems kinda ridiculous that they need to have another Kickstarter.

Today's News:
1) Within a week, Telltale Games managed to have one big name writer leave the studio while another big name writer was hired. Long-term writer Dave Grossman (Monkey Island series) announced he had left the studio while Joshua Rubin (Assassin's Creed II and Destiny) announced he had recently joined the studio.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/tell...destiny-writer

2) According to the Wall Street Journal, Amazon bought Twitch for $970 million while Twitch lost interest with Google after talks kept dragging on for the past few weeks.
http://www.destructoid.com/amazon-ha...v-280154.phtml

3) Newest Steam update was announced to include the ability to install multiple games at the same time although downloading games is still limited to only one at a time.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...games-at-once/

Rather not anything be taken down. By hackers. The Sony thinh was fucked up.

Bit worried about Mirror's Edge 2 with news that it focuses a lot more on combat. The combat was a legit complaint in the first game, as it broke the flow of the parkour movement and broke your momentum.

Only bright spot is that they said you can chain moves together to bounce from one guy to the next. So if you can take down a group of guys without losing speed, I'd accept that, but I dunno. Need to see it in action.

So like an 'auto-lock-chain combo' thing? That can get old quick if not done with a fair degree of freedom to the player. I'd need to see a proof of concept. Worked great in the Arkham series, but in a first person viewpoint while trying maintain a sense of momentum?

I'd be impressed if they nailed it.

Coming to Japanese arcades next year. Hoping it makes it to Wii U.
It's being aimed towards adult fans.

0:36 appeals to me :shifty:

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I'll keep an eye on this. See if it's worth a damn.

Today's News:
1) Update to Amazon buying Twitch news as Google reveals potential antitrust issues were the reason why their talks with Twitch cooled down.
http://www.destructoid.com/google-su...s-280187.phtml

2) According to a report by Sankei, Capcom has filed a lawsuit against Koei Tecmo in regards to claims of patent infringement by Koei Tecmo since 2002. Capcom is currently demanding around $9.4 million in compensation, up to 10% in license fees, and sales for several games to be suspended.
http://www.destructoid.com/capcom-su...t-280212.phtml
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news...ngement/.78039

3) The creator of the Final Fantasy series, Hironobu Sakaguchi, teases Mistwalker studio will develop a console version of Terra Battle if the mobile version of the game manages to get 2 million downloads/sales.
http://www.destructoid.com/final-fan...n-280220.phtml

...Capcom.

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HOT SHIT 2-d platforming shooter FIGNUTS IS FUCKING THERE

That's the oldschool disney lookin thing, right? Sexy.

Picked up The Golf Club today. Mainly just for the course editor/infinite replayability stuff. Pretty cool, tbh. Graphics are a bit rough at times due to slowdown on certain over populated courses available online, but it is a decently pretty game otherwise.

But let me say this: This ain't no Tiger Woods. This is a serious golf sim, and it is seriously hard. Hardest golf game I've ever played. Putting makes me want to pull my hair out. However, if you want a serious sim golf experience, look no further. Well worth $35.

If I wanted a golf game that serious, I would just play golf.

Feel like I've enjoyed the Live Arcade titles way more than most of the on disc titles.

New Gamertag.

Neon Morrigan.

Morrigan is the Celtic goddess of war/battle which is awesome. Neon is cool and has a "nightlife" association to it for me. Morrigan also doubles as the name of the sexy succubus in Darkstalkers. Win/win!

ya for serious

It's not as if golf is a physically prohibitive sport to go out and just play...

Today's News:
1) Some Nintendo related news:

• For those in Europe and interested in SteamWorld Dig on the Wii U, the game will support a Cross-Buy discount for those who also own the 3DS version. The discount is 25% off although only available for Europe at the moment.
  http://www.destructoid.com/steamworl...a-280272.phtml
• Monolith Soft states Xenoblade X's world map size is over five times larger than Xenoblade's with the biggest reason due to the addition of playable mechs and their size.
  http://www.destructoid.com/xenoblade...d-280273.phtml
• Namco states they will not be adding any Tekken characters nor have the Tekken style be the basis for Pokemon Tournament.
  http://www.destructoid.com/namco-s-p...s-280247.phtml

2) Some Sony related news:

• Sony is currently holding a PAX-themed sale on PSN from now till Monday with 18 games on sale and discounts ranging to as high as 60% off (80% off for PS+ members).
  http://www.destructoid.com/playstati...e-280240.phtml
• The free game offerings for September's Playstation Plus were revealed to be Velocity 2X, Sportsfriends, PlayStation All Stars Battle Royale, Hoard, Joe Danger, and TxK.
  http://blog.us.playstation.com/2014/...e-game-lineup/

3) Some Microsoft related news:

• Microsoft states stand-alone Kinects for the Xbox One will be sold for the price of $150 starting on October 7th.
  http://www.giantbomb.com/articles/a-...150/1100-5003/
• The demo for Forza Horizon 2 was announced to be arriving on September 16th while the game's achievement list was also revealed.
  http://www.destructoid.com/forza-hor...6-280279.phtml

4) EA states their goal for this fiscal year is to generate around $1 billion in sales from DLC with their sports lineup expected to provide the bulk of those sales.
http://www.destructoid.com/ea-aims-t...r-280230.phtml

Sounds hot;)

I thought my post would be ignored or I'd get a "Blah, I preferred your old Gamertag." post.
If the hotness comment is a lighthearted poke then :p. If it's sincere :naughty:.

Thinking about it, that'll be why the voice actor for the character Morrigan in MvC3 did a Scottish accent.
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The accent in the video is getting a bit of hate. Either because some people believe every character in fiction should be American, her Scottish accent isn't good or Japanese is superior to English for voice acting (Japanese VA sucks. They have, like, 6 possible voices they reuse for every character ever! Old man, young hero, Mr Serious Face McGee, giggling cute schoolgirl, seductive lady, monster/brute. That's it.)

I think the Scottish accent was done very well for a Welsh woman living in America doing a Scottish accent. Yeah, it's goes a bit wonky somtimes but it's much better than any attempted Scottish accent on The Simpsons. Yes, even Groundskeeper Willies accent is awful.

I especially like her maniacal laugh. Sounds just like the Japanese one in the old Darkstalkers games.
Whoever wrote the "Good's not bad but bad is better." line is a genius btw.

I'm used to the Morrigan being portrayed as the Celtic deity of death, not battle/war, but that's probably because that's how she's represented in one of my favorite fantasy series. :p

She's multiple. War, death and I've blanked on the others but I know there are 4 or 5 things she's said to be the goddess of.

Edit: Looked it up. War, birth, dead, rivers and lakes. She could be more.

Apparently she gets around.

It was common practice to have a god or goddess associated with multiple things. Most Celtic deities had multiple things. Epona was the goddess of horses, hence Zelda having Links horse be called Epona, but she was the goddess of fertility to.

Regardless, I like your new name. :y:

Danke.

The Pokémon fighting game has an English trailer but says "Planned for arcades in Japan in 2015" and they don't show the Japanese logo. I think it's pretty obvious it's coming to the US. Why else put up an English trailer? Given the arcade scene is, unfortunately, dead outside Japan, I don't think a Wii U version is unlikely.

Really wish arcades would make a comeback. They are still popular in some spots on the West Coast, as well as Galloping Ghost right outside Chicago.

I remember the only reason I ever wanted to go to the mall as a kid was for the arcades. Good times.

Bar in Brooklyn "barcade" very cool bar with lots of old arcade machines, lotta ppl playing them

Couple arcades open on OCNJ boardwalk like "Jilly's" open 24 hours... spent lots of quarters on beating Let's Go Jungle and Let's Go Island

If I could have my own business, I'd want to have an arcade. There's a vacant place which would be prime spot for one just 5 minutes from my house.

Arcades are completely dead here. A few years ago, I asked my nephew if he knew what an arcade was and he didn't. Kids have no arcade experiences now.

Official Dr Who skins coming to Minecraft for the 360.

I'm interested in neither but I know it's a big thing to some people.

I was never able to get behind Minecraft at all. I can appreciate it for what it is, but yea, just bores me to no end.

I find it dull aswell. I did get into the XBL indie ripoff, Fortress Craft, though.

Japan is getting a Nintendo Direct sometime soon. It's 3DS focused but I'm predicting a Smash reveal.

There's one in Glasgow, fucked if I can remember the name and it's Glasgow so there's that downside too.

Yell.com shows one arcade and it's in Lanarkshire.

http://www.yell.com/ucs/UcsSearchAct...eed=1446489878

I'm sure there are more.

Today's News:
1) Ubisoft announces Assassin's Creed Unity's release date has been delayed by 2 weeks and will now be released on the same day as Assassin's Creed Rogue (November 11th).
http://www.screwattack.com/news/assa...ns-creed-rouge

2) The free game offerings for September's Games with Gold promotion were revealed to be Super Time Force (Xbox One), Crimson Dragon (Xbox One), Monaco: What’s Yours Is Mine (Xbox 360), and Halo: Reach (Xbox 360).
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...mes-with-gold/

3) According to Shigeru Miyamoto, Nintendo is currently in the process of changing their business plans to be more "core" focused in the near future. The reason is due to them believing the Wii era and mobile gaming in general has done enough to expand the gaming audience while Nintendo themselves want to get back to developing more challenging games again.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...r-casual-ones/

4) Harmonix reveals their newest game called A City Sleeps will be released this October for Steam and was described as a side-scrolling music-and-rhythm shoot ‘em up.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...eps-for-steam/

Dammit Harmonix.

Nice. Heard good things about Super Time Force

Yay another month of MS dropping the ball on the free games. STF is good, but leaving Crimson Dragon up for another month is weak. Sony can manage 2 new games a month, why can't you MS? HUH?

Dude, you're getting free games.

Nintendo have announced a new 3DS with two sticks, apparently.

Apparently?

http://oyster.ignimgs.com/wordpress/...08/New_3DS.png

- http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/08/...-extra-buttons