Calgary Thread 2015

Care to elaborate? I can’t really fault businesses for listening to overewhelming (and recent) market research.

I don’t, but sometimes I wish I listened to reviews more than I do. I’d have saved a lot of money not buying Evil Within, Resident Evil 6, and so on and so on ;). I think review scores should be a thing of the past though.

Triple A games haven’t commonly had demos for like… over decade. It was definitely an exception in the industry that MK9 and Injustice did. Are the 99% of big name games for the past ever weird and shady? (Probably but whatever)

Besides, Imma have the game at midnight on the 13th so ya’ll can just try out my copy then. Who needs a demo ;).

For you couple Marvel heads in here, Silk #1 launched yesterday.

Spin-offs usually suck, but this one is incredible and I highly recommend reading it. I can already tell it’s going to be one of my favourite books.

As far as elaboration goes, I just think it’s not unreasonable for a developer to allow me to try a game before I buy it. That is all.

What a normal person really hears when they find out Spawn and Predator are in MKX:

http://youtu.be/M_UR201plc8

Ness has started cosplaying Silk, and is pretty choked that the character is hated on so much.

Her costume must be sick! I didn’t even know Silk was being hated on. How? She’s like the most relatable and likeable Marvel character since like… Peter Parker. She was underused in Spider-verse but that’s not the character’s fault.

Sometimes nerds really are just the worst. They’re complaining like crazy that Batman’s son has super powers now (which is awesome and creates a neat dynamic with trying to raise an already disobedient son who can now throw you into outerspace), and the outcry against the new Batgirl, which is amazing, was ridiculous.

Part of why comics are so fun is that they’re always changing and surprising you with ridiculousness that you can’t get away with in a lot of other media. If people want things where the status quo always stays the same and everything returns to normal after every story they should stick with sitcoms - like Big Bang Theory and Two and a Half Men…

I’ll keep my Detective Chimp, thank you very much.

who is silk, does she have big boobies?

No, she has average boobies.

Basically female spiderman

You’re thinking of Spider Woman.

She’s Spiderman, except an asian-american girl. Pretty much.

The latest in a series of attempts by Marvel to create more “socially aware” characters by basically just taking their existing male characters and making them into girls or something. See also Female Thor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FV-u5tvQC34

But she has a much stronger spider-sense! And an eidetic memory! And she makes webbing from her fingertips (also clothing…somehow)!

There’s also Mayday Parker and Spider-Gwen. They’re all very distinct characters personality wise. “Female Spider-man” is selling them short.

They’ll grow into themselves. No one calls Miles Morales just “Black Spider-Man” anymore because he’s become such a well developed and amazing character.

Wait… Spider-Man is black?? Gtfoh

Well he’s also half Hispanic but no one ever mentions that.

But he can turn invisible and paralyze people!

Re: Pokken

I don’t think it seems much like Tekken at all.

Tekken has no fireball game to speak of, no supers, very minimal air movement and little emphasis on 3D movement.

It seems pretty cool, but I don’t get the comparison beyond the obvious nod in the name and the developer.

It’s cool how you could play Pokken with a SNES controller

Pokken is more similar to Cyber Connect 2’s Naruto games since those were also under Bandai Namco. Cyber Connect reused that fighting engine for multiple other titles like .Hack.

i dunno, there have been a few games that i have stayed away from after playing the demo versions (resi 6), but there were also cases where i had no interest in a game and then bought it on the strength of the demo (most recently it was destiny)

i think the only games that have to worry about losing sales are the shit ones.

Also as far as select plinking goes, I’m pretty sure the “select” button on the te2 is actually select, if not u can get the same results by mapping another button to jab or 3p