There's hardly any modern TV shows that give me a sufficiently small dose of this feeling for me to actually bother with them. And it usually kicks in around the first episode of season 2.
The moment I sense stalling for the sake of content, I feel like I'm having my time wasted and my interest almost evaporates on the spot.
The fewer responsibilities you have, the more it's worth it. I think if you've got a full-time job or young kids or both, it's not worth it at all. But that's just me. You can't just look at what you're getting; you have to look at what you'll actually use. I've got hundreds of Steam games that I know I'll literally never play, bringing their value to me down to $0, which is what I paid for many (but not all) of them.
Also you need to factor in what you're OK with not having should you choose to stop. I personally don't like paying for things that just evaporate after a given length of time, thereby making me feel obliged to play them when I may not feel like it, and every minute I don't play, the remaining value of my purchase ticks down. I like things —especially my leisure activities— done entirely at my own pace. I've got the scheduling of enough things in my life dictated to me already.
@hardwenzen: So the #1 competitive multiplayer shooter is “a loot box simulator and nothing else” ? CS has no team-based first-person shooting, is what you're saying, lol. Before there were lootboxes, games like CS: Source (which were also wildly popular) had literally no game attached to them, and the game is fundamentally different from a decade ago. Well obviously wrong there.
The players themselves give the game an 88% score, i.e. really high. When the COD devs can barely get a player base to score a game of theirs higher than the 60% range. Proving that people who play a real loot box competitive FPS are more than capable of down-rating it when they want to. So wrong about that too.
No one that I play CS with gives a damn about loot boxes or ever has. None of them have ever paid money for a skin. CS players love the fact that you can spend millions of dollars on the game and not even gain yourself a 1% advantage. It's one of the main reasons the game has been so popular so long. The majority of the 26 million players totally ignore that aspect of the game. Do you ever get tired of being wrong, hardwenzen?
By your logic, basketball, the globally-popular sport of basketball, is literally nothing more than a gambling activity because a tiny minority of people bet big on it. Just laughably stupid.
But I'm sure you're the expert. I mean having no experience is like the definition of an expert, right? Especially when you pair it with a history of being wrong.
Tens of millions are playing it. Tens of millions are loving it. Players score it high. Reviewers score it high. It's a success in every way, except that the sad old trash-talker says it's “pathetically” past its prime. How much more obvious could it be that you're talking about yourself?
What's more likely? That basically everything is pathetic? Or that you're pathetic? Let me know when it dawns on you, oh wise one.
@hardwenzen: As usual, the famously inaccurate hardwenzen has watched a couple of videos and now reckons he's expert enough on the topic to go ahead an s*** all over it and call it “disgusting”.
Absolutely no gameplay advantage to spending money. 26 million players, from all over the world. But hardwenzen reckons he knows what they're all thinking. He knows. He knows they don't even like it. He knows they're all just disgusting lootbox zombies, mindlessly clicking to try and fill the infinite void inside, endlessly rolling around in the rancid muck because they know nothing else and they can find no other point to their miserable little lives.
And he's definitely not just projecting.
Hardwenzen definitely spends half his life talking s*** about virtually every single thing that crosses his path, because he's a busy and fulfilled individual. And he can definitely stand other people being happy, without reflexively trying to tear them down to his level. Nope, no projection here. None.
@jerusaelem: So let's just run through your arguments here:
1. Lots are people are saying Ada sucks now (“bandwagon”), so that's why she doesn't.
2. Resident Evil has never been known for good voice acting, so it's impossible for one character's to be worse than the others'.
3. I'm only saying it's bad because I'm “perpetually unhappy”, even though literally the last thing I said was that it's “pretty great”.
4. Because no one took issue with the 2005 release's voice actress, that means that this voice actress is just as good.
5. I'm an ironically “unlikeable character” because Ada's voice acting bothered me enough to complain about it to no-one in particular, but you who goes around writing comments twice the length, complaining about complaints about video games, it so much more mature and fulfilled.
Well I gotta hand it to you that's a pretty remarkably stupid bunch of reasons you've scratched together there. In fact taken as a whole I think it's the most extreme example of a lack of critical thinking I've seen on the site all year.
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