Video Game General

@Thanotos Omega  
It’s a fighting game and the heels serve a purpose.

@SquiggyBomb  
None that’s practical, when over sexualized is the norm, unsexualized becomes a precious thing that people latch onto, Also Samus’s fans tend to be wary after the whole Other-M fiasco,

@Thanotos Omega  
They’re basically jet boots.  
How is that not practical?

@Thanotos Omega  
I agree with Squiggy, They actually have a practical use

@SquiggyBomb  
Because they could have been designed differently, the heels exist only to add sex appeal,

@Thanotos Omega  
And the Zero Suit doesn’t?!

@SquiggyBomb  
Amazingly no, it can be easily explained, after all she has to wear something under the armor, and it was a step up from the bikini,

My only complain with them is only is that the neon yellow doesn’t really fit with the rest of her color scheme, they’d look better if they were neon pink like the markings on her suit.

@SquiggyBomb  
She might need them in intense gravity situations without her power suit.

You guys do realize you’re getting bent out of shape over a woman wearing heels right?

@uc9
 
She’s a woman, so we must hold her to unnecessarily high expectations! If we don’t we’re just falling for the Feminazi trap!

@uc9
 
i do admit i find the hole heels thing to be stupid, iunno, it seems it would be unfortable to fight in heels to me, but then again men are from amrs and women are from venus.
 
however i find it to be too small to be worth fighting.

So I just learned that there’s gonna be a sequel to Project Diva F.  
And it’s getting localized.

I have a theory about the Oculus Rift.
 
It was never actually meant to be a video game device. The creator was just playing a bait and switch on Kickstarter because nobody would fund it if they knew what it was really for, and realizing that millions of gamers around the world wanted virtual reality, and he decided to feed on their dreams before selling it to Facebook to fulfill what his real intention was: To get rich.

@Randomosaur
 
Just like every company in existence
 
Also:  
>implying profits (however you want to define them) are inherently bad

@Ebalosus  
The reason why I oppose the buyout personally is that they bought the company for too much so no matter how many units are going to be sold it will be a financial disaster no matter what. Sure 20 million would be a good investment, but two billion ensures that it’s going to fundamentally be a financial flop.
 
I can’t hate the guy for selling it that much, cause damn he suckered zuckerburg.

@uc9
 
Or buying it out for that much helps to put that much into its development. I doubt it’s all going to the one guy’s pocket and is likely more going throughout the company.
 
And Zuckerburg can make it back in a blink. Facebook will ensure he gets paid on time. This is probably his equivalent of buying a car.
 
And when Facebook is valued at 67.8 billion dollars, it’s not all that big a price for them to cut.

@AaronMk  
I’m not doubting that the two billion is going to go into development, rather I’m saying it’s not going to have enough of a payout in the end to break even. Realistically speaking it’s going to take hundreds of millions of units sold for facebook to break even on this deal. . . Before you go, “well gamers are going to buy it” thanks to the news about facebook buying them other companies have started their own development into VR headsets; meaning oculus isn’t going to be the only vr headset on the market, rather there probably is going to be dozens of them. If there’s that much competition and that wordlwide there’s only a couple hundred million gamers and putting in that thanks to this other big name companies are working on their own versions do you really think oculus is going to get the hundreds upon hundreds of millions of consumers needed to break even?
 
Thirdly zuckerbug doesn’t know what the hell he’s doing financially. He’s making all these big risk financial decisions without seeing if they pay out in the end before making another big risk financially. He’s playing russian roulette over and over without taking a break; he’s been lucky so far, but eventually one of these big time buyouts is going to blow his company’s brains out.

@uc9
 
Well, not all gamers are going to buy into a gimmicky headset that directly interferes with the wearing of existing gaming headsets and even prescription glasses. So that shrinks the Rift’s market even before you add competition to the mix.
 
 
Frankly, if this “financial Russian roulette” causes Facebook to implode, it’ll be the better for everyone. Facebook has been a cancer on the internet for so long it’s starting to normalize the business of snooping on people’s personal lives.

@uc9  

 
I agree with you in terms of most likely outcome, as 2 billion dollars is one hell of a gamble on something (virtual reality) that, in the past hasn’t really amounted to much.
 
I really would like to see the thought processes going on in Zuckerberg’s (or whomever decided this) head when he decided that yes, Oculus was a good buy at US$2bil…

God damn it; that moment in kerbal space program where you’re on career mode trying to get science points by flying by minmus and the mun is being a dick by being in the direct flight path of your space craft. That’s not even remotely fair cause I have to go that way.

So I pretty much did this an entire round of TF2 as sniper, since might as well exaggerate the role of sniper being the non-contributing plebeian race. And this is how it turned out.

So remember the “For Glory” mode that’s gonna be implemented in the upcoming Smash game? And how almost all the stages have a “Final Destination” mode? That’s basically Sakura saying “Yo we worked hard on this shit and you buttlords need to appreciate it!”

@SquiggyBomb
 
I’m not at all part of the competitive scene in Smash, but I did spend time lurking on the Smashboards during the Brawl Dojo days, mostly for reactions. Yeah, they were pretty obnoxiously unappreciative over the things that wouldn’t matter to many others, but it wasn’t too bad.  
Back to what I wanted to say though, FD doesn’t seem to be the most fair level actually, since a single flat platform gives more advantage to some characters over others. I think it would be better to also add battlefield style levels too.
 
 
Blasted through some games I got from humble bundles:  
Guacamelee: Fun metroidy adventure, great artstyle, cool combat  
Antichamber: Trippy puzzle game, pretty creative  
Swapper: Ditto.  
Hell Yeah! Wrath of the Dead Rabbit: Wierd and interesting, though lacking. Even then, kind of a shame it seems totally unrecognized even to Sega.  
Binary Domain: BIG BOOOOOOOOOOOO!! Best 3rd-person shooter of whatever year it was released.

After seeing a couple of Oculus Rift videos, it looks like nothing more than a stupid gimmick anyway. It’s not very immersive and seems very awkward, especially with the double-vision.