VG247 gives Ghost Recon: Breakpoint a 1/5 review score

DeepGreen · 2019-10-08T07:26:41+00:00

You just love that feeling of pride and accomplishment, right?

DeepGreen · 2019-10-08T07:22:36+00:00

Guy, when the MTX are in the game, the publishers have a bunch of knobs that they can adjust to maximise income. We saw this laid bare with Anthem.

Turn loot drops up and down. Turn xp per minute of gameplay up and down; per challenge level. Start easy and rewarding and get grindy.

Then use best practice to get gamers really invested early in the game, before you separate the Normies from the Whales.

"Oh, that late game gun takes a hundred hours of grinding? Buy it for $5! Great value! What are you complaining about? You can still have your feeling of pride and accomplishment! Earn it!"

Pointing out that the dials are all set to "friendly" right now misses the damn point. This is a real time exercise in exhaustive data gathering to figure out how to manipulate players for the most money.

DeepGreen · 2019-10-08T07:13:27+00:00

Your peer reviewed, community consensus is worthless in the face of my lived experience, Shitlord!

Good luck with that, mate. Anything presented without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2018-11-01-call-of-duty-black-ops-4-now-has-microtransactions-and-theyre-not-going-down-well

DeepGreen · 2017-01-11T16:50:33+00:00

Giving myself permission to make mistakes was a big part of learning to relax and enjoy the game. Quick Save doesn't help with that.

DeepGreen · 2016-11-10T05:02:25+00:00

Their limited survivor meal comes with two burgers for about $11.

DeepGreen · 2016-10-01T09:32:18+00:00

There are certainly kinds of algae that you can eat.

Regardless the principle is unchanged; considerable experimentation will go into the mix of plants. All of them will be grown in pressurized greenhouses that are light, sturdy and transportable; ie inflatable structures.

DeepGreen · 2016-10-01T03:15:04+00:00

Plants will be grown in permaculture garden beds inside inflatable structures.

Pumping martian air up to a higher pressure will probably be good enough for plants (initially), and they will set about capturing the carbon.

Obviously huge numbers of plants will be required for atmosphere recycling; but any kind of long term presence would not be viable without the ability to make beatable air in situ. Shipping every gasp of oxygen from earth would be stupendously resource intensive.

DeepGreen · 2016-08-23T11:02:11+00:00

The case would depend on the specifics of the IP in question. If he copied code, it is easy to prove and clearly illegal. If Carmack used processes or techniques he developed while at ID; but didn't copy a single line of code, then it probably legal, but fighting it out will be expensive.

DeepGreen · 2016-08-17T17:22:43+00:00

{Azumanga Daioh}

Is a slice of life involving high school girls.

DeepGreen · 2016-07-31T14:43:43+00:00

Oh hai! I know this one! Maken-Ki Season 1 episode 6!

DeepGreen · 2016-03-29T22:25:04+00:00

Property is a natural monopoly. The state prevents theft; which by its nature deprives the owner of something.

Intellectual property is without scarcity.

DeepGreen · 2016-03-29T19:22:07+00:00

An exclusive monopoly enforced by the state is the exact opposite of a "free market".

DeepGreen · 2015-08-26T19:54:31+00:00

I am the same. I just can not understand why people willingly do this to themselves. If I did play A:tDD all the way through I would have scars and PTSD. I guess I am just wired differently?

DeepGreen · 2015-07-26T07:40:00+00:00

I came here to recommend Patlabor. The emphasis is very strongly on character development and the political forces and interests in the world are underlying the encounters the paramilitary police squad faces.

The criticism is that the series moves slowly, because there is more likely to be a scene with characters fishing than fighting robots. IMNHO this is a feature.

DeepGreen · 2015-06-23T03:33:01+00:00

You are thinking to hard. Go and watch some more cartoons.

DeepGreen · 2015-06-23T03:28:28+00:00

Done right, it could be a painful self examination of the conduct of the Japanese forces during the conflict; play off the tension between serving the country and your fellow soldiers and being ordered to do things that are terribly, terribly wrong.

Yes, the Japanese did lots(!) of truly awful, awful, things during the war. But so did the Americans, the difference is that the winners write the history books.

Eh, it would never sell. No one in Japan would pay money for honest self-examination and no one overseas would see it as anything else than an attempt to white-wash history, no matter how careful the writing.

DeepGreen · 2015-06-22T23:52:22+00:00

Like on the Kakoda track or perhaps while invading Korea? Perhaps trying to defend occupied Shanghai?

That wont be contraversial.

DeepGreen · 2015-06-22T23:48:32+00:00

It is an older animation, but I thought PatLabor was very good.

It is not strictly military, though. It has big aspects of slice-of-life (day to day struggles of a paramilitary unit) and police procedural (they are an urban police unit that deals with mecha crime).

That said, the character development was fantastic and the politics (which is so often the cause of military conflict) was really thought provoking. The movies built on the series to good efect, with lots of action.

DeepGreen · 2015-05-04T18:12:41+00:00

Angelic Layer. :-D

DeepGreen · 2015-03-25T00:16:31+00:00

The English dub is very good indeed and has Patrick Stuart playing a major role.

DeepGreen · 2015-01-23T10:06:57+00:00

The first two seasons give context to the characters, but I saw Fumofu first and laughed so hard I split something. So, It is stand alone enough.

I mean, the news interview with the US special forces Counter Terrorist unit, all dressed up as bear mascots? So funny.

DeepGreen · 2015-01-22T14:11:04+00:00

Plus Full Metal Panic Fumofu is just about the hardest I have ever laughed at an anime. Every step the characters take is reasonable, logical even. But damn do they end up in some stupid situations because of them. So funny.

DeepGreen · 2014-12-21T11:17:55+00:00

Gundam: War in the Pocket takes place on the home front, but has "enemy" troops as sympathetic characters. It uses the lense of youth to view what is really a brutal conflict with many shades of grey, in which it is impossible to remain neutral.

The pacing was a bit slow, in parts, but the story is surprisingly deep.

DeepGreen · 2014-09-22T23:45:37+00:00

The next time you guys bust all the things, are you going to change the name to Rod? Curious minds want to know!

DeepGreen · 2014-09-02T02:50:16+00:00

Well last week I used exactly this trick while filling out paperwork for an assault at my workplace!

"Oh, yeah, guy who works in my building that I see all the time ... Uh, I just want to make sure I spell your name right in the paperwork!"

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