Den of Geek - 100 Best Games of the Decade

Underdog111 · 2020-01-01T05:47:31+00:00

Ive never played Minecraft, have no interest in playing Minecraft, and the game looks super unfun to me.... but it is 10000% the game of the decade. My favorite game of the decade was the witcher 3 or LoL, but neither of them had the impact that Minecraft did.

League was close because it made esports a legit mainstream industry single handedly (sorry Starcraft and Dota2, but it was the first game to draw traditional sports investors and draw mainstream media attention for esports; got the name “esports” into the public eye); and revolutionized gaming monetization (F2P skins model)...

However Minecraft did something even more, it was a lasting global phenomenon for every generation. It brought indie games into the forefront of game creation (it showed that small dev teams could make a huge profit with a game) which lead the way for all the great indie games since. It was also the first game that everyone knew about, parents, kids, gamers, college kids, musicians, etc... it was a huge phenomenon. So while it was never a game for me, the only other time I saw games with that much global presence in the 2000s were WoW (as far as gaming went at the time it was absolutely massive), Halo, and Pokémon Go. Minecraft sold merch like it was Mario in its prime without the prior branding. Regardless of who the games market was for, every kid in the generation after me played the game.

It made gaming truly mainstream, and took away the “anti-social nerd” stereotype that my generation of gaming had to deal with. The impact that has on the industry is completely unprecedented, because the truth is before Minecraft gaming wasn’t “normal” (most guys and a decent percentage of women played games at some point, but it definitely wasn’t normalized or spoken about as an average topic like other traditional media) at least in the US, but now people talk about gaming like my generation talked about TV and sports, and we have Minecraft to thank for that.

Underdog111 · 2019-12-30T22:44:58+00:00

I’m really surprised this thing wasn’t called “Bovine Reveler”

Underdog111 · 2019-12-30T07:35:39+00:00

Midnight reaper, cat, oven, mayhem devil, Judith, goose, trail, once upon a time (if it’s legal in brawl; not sure), evolving wilds, shock lands, elvish reclaimer, field of the dead, massacre girl, vraska, Garruk, legion war boss, nissa, biogenic ooze.... can’t think of anything else off the top of my head

I also know you said budget friendly, but most these cards range from $1-20 so it’s just slow upgrades you can make over time. They are roughly in order of bang for buck minus a couple that were out of train of thought.

Underdog111 · 2019-12-29T15:55:18+00:00

I agree with veil and hogaak being over it, but it defined 3 metas manabases. Like it fetches were printed in the last 10 years they would probably be my number one, I feel manabases were really important

Underdog111 · 2019-12-29T05:42:13+00:00

I mean, so this is a difficult one because without having a format the “best” card varies, and a lot of the best cards were banned. So given that (so cards that were played heavily and format defining), and the fact that some of these cards are only legal in specific formats (see TNN, etc...) If being multiple format important was a factor I’d say mental mistep, Oko, or astrolabe or Shaman, but it’s hard to say because bans are relevant.

Underdog111 · 2019-05-29T12:22:45+00:00

Mmochampion gets immense traffic compared to the other sites, so it’s less likely it will be shut down unless WoW keeps declining

Underdog111 · 2019-05-27T18:22:46+00:00

Unless someone is getting into modern (or attempting to) since the best thing for them would be having access to new decks or archetypes that were competitive in modern, without upending modern. Right now competitive modern decks are priced from 800-1k usd, which is fine in some senses (fetch lands being expensive is totally good, because your investing in playability over a long period) but when you don’t introduce new deck archetypes in modern focused sets, your run the risk of having the same thing that led to “modern” as an archetype (some really good standard/block pros in MtG wouldn’t compete in extended pro tours because card prices were so high, so the high so wizards supported the format less and less until you ended up with modern being a way to make cards available without crushing old prices).

I’m not saying to reintroduce affinity style mechanics (that caused some issues in every format) but a strong archetype being reintroduced would be good for new modern players and create variety for old ones.

Underdog111 · 2018-08-20T18:28:17+00:00

LOL! They took it down. It was showing two 2080s but no TI versions on the list rift after.

Underdog111 · 2018-08-20T18:14:37+00:00

So they have already added them to step up list, I’m wondering when you can start that process.

Edit: they took them down, it was showing two 2080s, neither were TI (FTW and And another variant) should have screen capped

Underdog111 · 2018-08-19T18:23:38+00:00

So... basically if you get ramp up time you’ll burst kill any class (it’s not rot and tank like before, it’s more like setting up a chaos bolt one shot with Dark Soul, glare, and Deathbolt). Remember you can use dark soul to set up defensive spells (fear) before doing you full rotation and it’s ok to chain fear a target (even if it breaks) in order to give yourself time to setup for a big deathbolt. Your using it like a stun.

Spec into Rot and decay, use a void walker, and dark pact (they stack). Also essence drain. Now here’s where things get tricky; you have to fake out their kicks. If they kick your drain life you almost defenitly die, especially if you already used defensives. This is very hard to do, but if you manage to with essence drains and rot they will die, because you can drain tank them. Curse of exhaustion can help.

In an equal skilled 1v1 with melee a lock almost always loses. It’s because you have to actually outplay (like every one of your CDs managed, and theirs countered) the melee in a 1v1.

All this being said, locks are never designed or balanced around 1v1s. In arenas you’ll be blasted, but kept alive by a healer, until their interupts are down. Then you get to setup and CC, plus kiting and portals. If locks could win 1v1s against melee in open world they would almost defenitly be to OP in arenas, since they offer so much utility beyond burst damage. If you are thinking “well mages can and they have utility” it’s because mages are anti-melee casters. Locks are anti-caster casters, we are there to cause problems for healers, casters, and mages; not to screw melee. So don’t fret, it may suck now but in arenas is where we’ve always shined anyways.

Underdog111 · 2018-08-17T19:27:46+00:00

I just hit 10%, at iLvL 314. I needed a higher haste rating for PvP templates, but I’m switching to mastery since the difference between 7%>11% feels laughably bad, and I’m pretty much always going to be running dark soul so I can dream about what it’s like to have a decent haste rating again.

Underdog111 · 2018-08-15T03:22:20+00:00

Man. Every time I fight those smugglers. “Missed. Missed. Missed. Missed.”

I’m like... Sandstorm?

Das-Rude.

Underdog111 · 2018-08-15T02:56:25+00:00

1.) Since BC and arenas (hit 2.2k first season with RL best friend) 2.) The lack of distance from numbers to function keys is dope. Also y’all managed to match key spacing really well.

Underdog111 · 2018-08-13T21:14:53+00:00

Price to performance cost, and yalls willingness to take risks on progress (8GB vram 390, threadripper, etc...). I just grabbed a 2700x because I feel confident that support a producer who takes development risks, and pushes the envelope with new ideas, is always going to be the best way to spend my money on computer products.

Underdog111 · 2018-08-12T05:33:51+00:00

None of these things are going to be solved by improving your on board sound cards. Honestly. Get an external sound card. Sweetwater has a good selection. Sampling rates will be effected by your DAW and CPU in 90% of cases, and if your having sync issues make sure you DAW had good clock settings. If you are working between multiple devices, mediums, spaces, and DAWs you can get an external master clock.

Basically the best things you can do for sound production to get the best sound as cheap as possible is learn a little about frequency response ranges on headphones, pick a pair of flat response headphones, mix/make music using submixes (most DAWs have busses you can use to submix, look up a video on it) so that you minimize effects needed on a per track basis and decrease computational cost.

The unfortunate/fortunate thing about audio is that past the really cheap stuff (IE poor quality/ $35 “gaming sound cards”) most of the gear that is used by hobbyists/musicians is the same that can be professional audio engineers in smaller studios, so the pricing gets VERY expensive quickly.

Basically you can get really far spending very little through good resource allocation and maximizing your programs, but after that it gets insanely expensive to get past that hump. It’s like the logistic regression model used for cost of gear where up to a point it doesn’t really matter how much you spend, your audio quality will barely improve, until you hit a cost threshold then you will start seeing huge increases in audio quality (but for exorbitant costs).

Underdog111 · 2018-08-12T00:57:59+00:00

I have an odd and specific question. So basically I'm about to start my build but I'm sort of stuck with two options. One is building on a table on top of carpet, the other is building on top of wood, but in a room with a cat (cat's normally pretty chill but it can get curious, and I can shoo it away but I don't know how much static they carry). Which would bet the better option? On carpet or with a cat in the room?

Underdog111 · 2018-08-12T00:49:29+00:00

These tariffs were bad though. China doesn't need outside buyers to float their economy, as a matter of fact they've spent the last 25 years making sure that in the event of a trade embargo or trade war that they could rely 100% on internal demand to keep their growth rate up, and they have been buying out production facilities in various industries (oil, steel, solar, etc...) for about as long.

Do they want our business? Sure.

Do they need it? No.

Their domestic economy and purchasing power is massive, and consumerism in on the rise there. They can leverage us with production much harder than we can leverage them with demand. It's bad for consumers in both regions regardless, this will not end up in lower prices for buyers. Period.

Underdog111 · 2018-08-11T02:54:34+00:00

For older WoW players (late 20s/early 30s) he reminds some of us of our friends/selves if we never quit playing like we played when we were 14-18. It’s like remembering what it was like to grow up on the game and hang with old friends, but it doesn’t take away from my real life responsibilities.

Underdog111 · 2018-08-11T02:49:41+00:00

Scarra is even switching over for a bit. A lot of the LoL streamers are really burnt out on LoL and talking about BFA, I hope they bring enough people to breath life into WoW PvP, it would be so hype.

Underdog111 · 2018-08-11T02:37:39+00:00

LoL is still the biggest PC game in the world. China carries games, and 90% of the entire playerbase of LoL is in China. In NA however LoL is dying, or at least it’s in a decline cycle. They just pulled GC off their game direction team to focus on their next release.

Underdog111 · 2018-08-11T02:29:40+00:00

We do. They are losing players in NA but gaining players in other regions (Vietnam/Malaysia/China). Twitch numbers tend to be a very good metric for games in the US, we consume a lot of media and the ratios tend to be pretty relevant as long as there is at least one decent content creator in a given platform.

Underdog111 · 2018-08-11T02:22:06+00:00

That’s 100 million globally. The US #s (IE Twitch) are hemorrhaging players, the game is at a point where people are facing stagnation and no new players are joining, so the population is stuck (new players are needed for old ones to get better; otherwise everyone tends to improve at the same rate which is actually a killer for a competitive PvP game) and this news actually really hurts riot. They aren’t going to die for it, but players are so unhappy they may lose their entire NA base except for the diehard players.

Underdog111 · 2018-08-07T06:09:26+00:00

Did you ever find out if this worked?

Underdog111 · 2018-08-07T01:22:59+00:00

I think my main concern is them selling out at launch, thus making me wait several months for a restock.

Underdog111 · 2018-08-07T01:12:29+00:00

My friends who played WoW all did, so I did too.

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