TO SUMMARIZE:
Always on. Needs to connect to internet or can’t play games (every 24 hours).
Block used games.
Paying FULL PRICE ($60) used game fee.
Serial Key.
No backwards Compatibility.
Xbox One has non-replaceable hard drive.
Mandatory Kinect.
Mandatory game installs.
Controller needs AA batteries
Paid clappers at console reveal.
All-in-one home entertainment device. Requires extra device to use TV function that was heavily promoted during reveal.
Make it stop.
Its making me hate what I loved.
AHAAHAH! Excuse me while I give myself an asthma attack from laughing.
Know why I don’t want always on? BECAUSE I WANT TO BE ABLE TO PLAY MY GAMES EVEN IF I DON’T HAVE THE INTERNET.
The fuck is this controller that needs AA batteries? REALLY? Guys, guys… Microsoft… This is 2013. TWENTY. THIRTEEN.
The only things that need AA batteries and the like are vibrators. And even then if it needs batteries it’s a cheap fucking toy. (Oh, look, I made a pun!)Non-replaceable HD? REALLY? Are you sure you want to go down that route? HD are kinda fickle. The last three computers I’ve had, every single one of them has needed a replacement hard drive.
Also, all-in-one needs an extra device to be really all-in-one? Does this not remind people of the battle between Microsoft and Sony for the Blu Ray Disc versus HD Disc? Because it reminds ME. If anyone doesn’t remember, Microsoft lost because you had to buy an accessory in order to watch HD discs on your Xbox 360 while Sony just packaged it all up and said ‘hey, it plays Bluray games so it’ll play bluray movies AND dvds’ and lo and behold the consumers went ‘I can play games on this AND watch movies and I don’t need to buy an extra thing? I HEART THAT’.
Guess how I managed to convince my mother to buy me my PS2 (god, that’s 11 years ago now) for my 15th birthday? It was that transitory period where DVDs were systematically annihilating the video tape and the PS2 not only played games, it’s was a DVD player as well! AMAZING.
Part of the reason I bought the PS3 (asides from Final Fantasy XIII and Silent Hill) was the fact that it was also a bluray player. Even if it does have really awful sound if you don’t have a speaker set up.
I know companies are all ‘ALWAYS ON IS GOOD FOR YOU’ but I had a friend move out of home for the first time recently and she was without internet for a month and a half or something. All her Steam and Origin games stopped working within the fortnight (for you yanks, that means two weeks) and she was left to play games that didn’t require you to be reassuring the publisher that you were playing it.Know why I STILL haven’t bought Diablo-whatever-the-fucking-number-it-is now? BECAUSE IT WANTS ME TO BE ONLINE ALL THE TIME, REASSURING THE PUBLISHER THAT I LOVE IT.
I have a lot of games on my shelf that I have bought brand new but there’s a sizeable collection of second-hand games as well. Only those second hand games tend to the first of a series. If it’s an ongoing franchise and they’re releasing a new game, I will spend $60 (HAH! HAAAAH! Closer to $100 in Australia) on that damned game because I want to support the devs.
But I will be fucking spiteful and refuse to buy a game (or system) if I have issues with its publication.
Know what game I was really really looking forward to once? Know why I bought a fucking Wii (the most useless system in the history of useless systems)? Fatal Frame 4. I have every game up until it was sold to Nintendo and I bought the Wii instead of a PS3 because I was led to believe it would be released outside of Japan.
…it wasn’t. I turned around and took the Wii back and bought a PS3 instead. Because at least that had Final Fantasy XIII. (Also, the Wii had a FF Crystal shitsomethingorother that was HORRENDOUS. Like, I can’t even explain how shit that fucking game was. I bought it, tried to play it for a day or so and then turned around and got my money back. The graphics were awfully pretty but the controls were pffffffffsh. Like, it’s making me angry just thinking about it.) AND it could play bluray discs, so win-win.
I am really hoping Sony doesn’t do this (it’s gonna do always-on, I know it and that stupid social networking bullshit… argh. I DON’T NEED SOCIAL NETWORKING WHILE I’M KILLING BRIGHTLY COLOURED FANTASY MONSTERS. NO. OR CUTTING OFF THE LIMBS OF NECROMORPHS! NO ONE NEEDS TO KNOW WHAT I’M PLAYING BUT ME.) but I don’t hold out much hope.
So, that made me really angry and I’m going to go to bed now. Sorry Luca for that rant.
Don’t be sorry for your rant! Be angry! Be very angry! Be downright fruminous about this!
I miss the time when a games console was a games console, and that was it - you got what you freaking wanted and when you bought a game there was some mystery - you didn’t know what you were getting! Gump said it best; Life is like a box of chocolates!
I don’t want to use my console to play a game that I know too much about while watching television - I have a television for watching television with its stupid bloody reality television and muckrake journalism. I have a computer to use Skype too - and I have no problems with that. Also, Microsoft wants to watch you. They want to watch you masturbate - the Kinect 2.0 never turns off, and the damned console has to check if its online once a day - so, no matter what you spin it as, ITS AN ALWAYS ONLINE CONSOLE. THANK YOU ADAM FUCKING ORTH.
Also - I don’t care about your little dog in Call of Dookie - I can see what you’re going to do to the poor thing - you’re going to kill it halfway through the campaign to evoke an emotional response from the players while a trumpet plays so mournfully it makes a weeping willow cut itself! I CAN SEE THE WRITING ON THE WALL. Why did you tell us this fact - you should’ve kept it a surprise! Now we can see it all coming.
I’m going to agree with another one of my friends here - he and I want to watch Microsoft backpedal! We want to watch them backpedal so fucking hard they complete the Tour De France eight times consecutively in reverse, getting back to the start by circling the planet!
AND THIS JUST IN: They won’t let Independent gamers self publish. HOW’S THAT INCLUSIVE CUSTOMER-CENTRIC APPROACH YOU KEPT PARROTING ON ABOUT GOING?
ALL THROUGHOUT THAT CONFERENCE I JUST WANTED REGGIE FILS-AIME, SHIGERU MIYAMOTO AND CLIFF BLEZINSKI TO BURST THROUGH THE SCREENS GODZILLA STYLE AND WRECK THEIR SHIT.
IN OTHER NEWS I have a 3DS. I am playing Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate! It is FUCKING AWESOME because I knew nothing about it going in, and my sense of wonder was OVERWHELMING. I knew NOTHING about Monster Hunter, except that it existed and that people liked playing it. At work, my buddies pressured me into buying a NINTENDO THREE DEE ESS so I could play with them after work together to attack big monsters the likes of which keep me on my toes.
I keep the 3D turned off because it gives me a slight headache, but the game is FUCKING AWESOME.
TO SUMMARIZE:
Always on. Needs to connect to internet or can’t play games (every 24 hours).
Block used games.
Paying FULL PRICE ($60) used game fee.
Serial Key.
No backwards Compatibility.
Xbox One has non-replaceable hard drive.
Mandatory Kinect.
Mandatory game installs.
Controller needs AA batteries
Paid clappers at console reveal.
All-in-one home entertainment device. Requires extra device to use TV function that was heavily promoted during reveal.
Make it stop.
Its making me hate what I loved.
Try out a cool way to separate egg yolks from egg whites!
this is genius.
this is actually lifechanging
Xbox One: Microsoft has confirmed that all Xbox One games will require mandatory installation onto the system’s hard drive and, to install the same disc onto another user’s drive, a fee must be paid.YOU FUCKED UP YOU FUCKED UP YOU FCUKED UP
Money money money moooney
Moooneyyyy
Noped so hard my knees exploded.
YOU THOUGHT IT WAS SAFE BUT YOU WERE WRONG
Jesus CHRIST
what in the FUCK.
So now when you do Alt + Reblog, the reblog symbol turns green, “explodes” and then disappears.
I THOUGHT THIS WAS KIDDING SOGMLASG
HOLY SHIT
Huh, how about that?
Lets play a game.
The FIRST power you get is the power you have in a zombie apocalypse.
Reblog and add your power, how does it help you survive?
Growth, I can step on dem zombies
“Ageusia Inducement: The power to deprive the sense of taste from others. “
so basically
the zombies are definitely going to eat me
but they won’t really enjoy it much
“Fur Generation: The power to have a hair-like substance over the entire body.”
ENJOY THOSE HAIRBALLS, ZOMBIE SCUM
“Enhanced Gunmanship: the ability to be highly proficient in handling a gun.”
Boom.
Headshot.
The ability to teleport anything to any location and time.
So… I can teleport the zombie away from me and into the past? Awesome.
The power to possess immense knowledge of the universe.
Goodie goodie gum drops, now I con know just when and where the zombies will eat me. :D.
universe creation
sorted
The power to fly without any outside influence.
Fuck all o ya’ll I’m living in the trees like a glorious bird. CA-CAWWWWW
Universal recreation. Eat my new universe undead maggots! XD
…pain manipulation
uh. I don’t think zombies feel pain, so this is a++ useless woooo
Temporal Motion Manipulation The power to manipulate the personal time of an object’s kinetic energy but not the object itself.
So…I can slow them down and run away from them really fast.
…Stick with me Star-star and we’ll run for our lives together.
Dark Form The ability to undergo a transformation into a powerful, and more sinister form. A possible side effect of Darkside View and the opposite power of Light Form. Not to be confused with Shadow Mimicry.
Sooooo I can sort of hulk out and use my enhanced speed, strength, durability, and the ability to use dark powers. So basically I’d transform and when the zombies did something to piss me off I’d destroy them all in my rage. Sort of nifty.
The ability to create body shells. Variation of Dermal Armor and Organic Constructs.
I don’t even know how to pronounce that nor have I heard of the series this is from, but I think I’ve won the superpower lottery.
The Potoo - Either the most unphotogenic or the most ridiculous looking bird in the world.
unphotogenic? these are my favorite pictures of any bird ever
my spirit animal
