This is why I avoid online play. Plus, I just like the career modes. Satisfies my FM urges of buying and selling players and building up a team without having to actually try to get into FM again.
It sounds like FIFA is a cesspit of people just trying to avoid getting a defeat on their record even if you just mute the chat or whatever. The only stuff I play with randoms is stuff where I can mute them and it not affect the game, but I'd still rather just avoid them altogether.
Also:
https://twitter.com/SomeIndieGames/s...01687141756928
Lol. I saw a thread of developer types on Twitter recently saying if you're considering buying a game from G2A they'd rather you just pirate it. Still, this is an impressive level of brass neck-ery.
It’s worse than them wanting to avoid a defeat and is often “if I’m not getting that objective then neither are you”.
I must admit, the times in Apex Legends when some dickhead ragequits because they died when it then turns out you could have saved them just amuses me, even if it has lessened my chances of getting a result.
FIFAs main problem here is that they've built the game now entirely based on the player, playing for rewards. If you win you get them, if you lose you get nothing. This leads to the majority using whatever the easiest/cheapest method in order to win, no matter how much it ruins or devalues the game experience.
This is the worst thing about it. It might be the worst thing I've ever encountered in any game, online or otherwise. More than once I've been about to get another point towards a 'score with player from x in y wins' and had the opposition disconnect right as the ball was about to enter the goal. It's one thing for a player to give up or try to game the rules to avoid putting a defeat on their record, but that sort of thing is just malicious cuntery.
The last level (or was it the penultimate one) in Snake Rattle n Roll runs it close, but yes, it's the worst thing I've ever encountered in gaming.
FIFA is a game designed to rinse as much money from you as possible and then make you think you want to come back for more so it should be no surprise that the community is full of grasping petty cunts, you get the audience you deserve.
Yeah it does seem like it's a trading card game with an optional football mini-game these days.
It's great as long as you don't put any money into it or let the toxicity get to you.
The amount of people on Xbox who don't realise their Kinect is a microphone so you can hear them tell their mates how badly they're going to beat you before the opposite happens is worth it though.
I don't find FIFA particularly toxic outside of them not sorting out the disconnect/quitting issues that have plagued the game for year but then I come from PC gaming.
My first ever game of Heroes of Newerth (a Defense of the Ancients/DOTA clone) had a Russian on my team tell me to, "Find a school shooting and die in it." (anyone that speaks English is American to Russians) which is still the most memorable one I've had. The idea of trying to find an ongoing school shooting to die in is just a funny image.
My girlfriend gave me a PS4 for my birthday the other week so I'm back into gaming. I've always been a PC guy but I have to admit it's quite handy being able to play with a baby in your arms.
I have downloaded Divinity Original Sin 2 which is high on the to-play list, but currently and trying to get through God of War which seems alright, it's a bit tricky controls and the camera is very weird, but I'm kind of enjoying it.
I realize PS5 is out soon so I'm insanely late to the console party here, but what the hell.
Get Red Dead
I'm a twit
@Pepe, how is your sim racing setup going? I bought a wheel and am planning to build a pretty basic stand for the wheel and pedals to attach to. I saw various wheel stands on amazon and eBay but they were all insanely expensive.
Pretty much complete now:
What type of wheel did you get? As for cheap stands, I think that one of those GT Omega wheel stands or a Playeseat are basically the only options. The Playseat sucks a bit since the ople is between your legs though. I used a crappy desk/chair combo for years.
Mine is a Simlab GT1, btw. Built like a tank, it is amazing.
Is that a gaming chair?
Shits all over yours.
All that's missing is a three-monitor setup.
Pepe.
At this point you may as well plow another couple of grand into it and get force-feedback system for the chair and rent it out to local race teams needing Sim Practice.
https://www.reddit.com/r/iRacing/com...0_amazon_link/
Local race teams
I am not sure I am sold on the whole rocking chair thing. Will have to try some day. They are crazy expensive though.
I got excited for a moment ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panam_GP_Series
I don't doubt the gear is worth it, mind. Trying to make corrections on a pad don't have the right feel for me.
God of War > Red Dead.
GoW really drew me in, one of the few games that I've cared about the story.
It's a bit better now that you're a bit more into it it actually. I just kind of wish it was a little more RPG-y and it would have had my approval.
I'm going to trade my Swich in and get a PS4 again. As good as the Switch is, there's just not enough games that appeal to me.
What's good in the PS4 universe these days? Red Dead 2 already nailed on.
I believe I've said it before, but once more for those in the back. Superhero's are shit.
Been enjoying Hitman 2 a lot recently
Almost finished it. I do not care for collateral damage. And live my life by lethal throws.
I've been watching a bunch of this guy's videos - lots of nice strategies
Done. I left mission stories on just to prod me in a direction but I liked improvising some kills. Meanwhile, my efforts to get old games to work on this PC has led me to investigating virtual machines.
EDIT: Nope. They stopped offering D3D support for XP virtual machines.
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Really into God of War now. It gets better and better. I'm probably about 50% through the Main quest (I've just gotten a pair of knives with chains) have have done some of all the side-exploring you can do. But I still find the fighting a tad cumbersome control-wise. It's a little hard to aim the ranged attacks quickly, and more often than not if I'm facing tough enemies, I sort of lose track of what the fuck is going on and where everyone are.
I tried on a Valkyrie (the one in Muspelheim) and was annihilated completely though. I play on the easiest setting as well.
The only downsides I think are that some stuff gets a little repetetive. You spend a shitload of time paddling around a canoe in that massive lake, and basically spend most of the time exploring the same places (and environments) over and over. The navigation and maps aren't the best either so I keep finding myself in places I've been before without realizing.
The puzzles are also getting a tad repetetive. It's different variations of the same puzzle over and over. Same thing with some of the bosses - about half of them seem to be different versions of the same massive Ogre hurling about a big ass rock. Still, these are quite minor problems on the whole.
It took me a while to do the Valkyries, you really need a plan going in.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-49084726
Grand Theft Auto V has opened an in-game casino where real money can be spent on gambling chips - but they cannot be converted back into cash.
In GTA Online, players can buy in-game "dollars" with real currency, and then convert their virtual dollars to gambling chips.
Some players reported that while they could walk around the casino area, the gambling tables were blocked in their country where gambling is illegal.
Gaming news site Kotaku speculated that chips would only be earned by playing the game - similar to the way it works in Rockstar's other recent online game, Red Dead, and in many other games. "This way, players can't spend real money or win fake money that is worth real cash in the casino," it wrote.
So you're.... buying a mini game?
EDIT: Oh I see. Still seems slightly shady but I don't really know why, basically ever gaming currency is the same so I think it's just the way it's framed.
See that's what I'm strugging with a bit. The fighting seems soo messy and quick to me that it's hard to fathom how you can approach anything methodically at all.
Keep in mind this is a person who is largely used to turn based RPG's so being 'quick' has never really been my thing (except in Starcraft 2, which Phonics can tell you more about).