2 Weeks of Chaos (Gaming thread)

This week and next will have every orifice crammed with gaming stuff that hits about every sector in the industry.

These next two weeks are going to be busy busy.

ChinaJoy 2015

Asia's preminate videogame convention kicks off as ChinaJoy opens up on Thursday. Last year it pulled in 250K people to oogle singing female cosplayers while they take in the lights and sounds of PC and mobile games. This is the big convention for League of Legends and Korean gaming in general. Sony and Microsoft are having press conferences. With Sony's plans to foster relationships with Chinese devs, I'm expecting them to have a big blowout on signing them up to make console games for the PS4. Console wise, Microsoft doesn't care so outside of giving lipservice, it's going to be a bust. Since they gave the finger to TGS, I's personally would like to see some stuff on Raiden VI and Natsuki Chronicals but I know that's a pipedream. Now Windows 10 on the other hand, I'm expecting some partnerships with people like Tencent in bringing their games to the built in app store. If you want the gaming section of the store to become big, that's a good inroad to get people to use their ecosystem.
I'll be curious in how many Asian devs announce new MOBAs for mobile as Vain & Glory has shown, there is a market for it.

Summer Games Done Quick 2015

Today kicked off the start of the biannual fundraising drive by Speed Demos Archives which will run till August 3rd. Like the last two years for the summer drive, SDA is raising money again for Doctors Without Borders. Last year they raised just over $700k. Though the Winter one is bigger, all of the drives are fun to watch on Twitch. I'm personally waiting to see some people pull out crazy ass glitches to beat games. Look at the schedule and pick out some stuff you want to watch (also, the streams are awesome for background noise)

The International 5

Today also kicked off the start of The International with it's wild card round (actual tournament starts August 3rd) It's not the biggest eSport tournament in the world but it does have the biggest prize pool with it currently sitting just under $17.5m+ to be won by the 16 of 18 professional DOTA 2 teams. On one hand, it's smart business of getting people to fund the prize pool (while Valve pockets 75% of the money) which leads to stuff like this year where $17.5m+ is going to be doled out. You also get some good press about the prize pool while squeezing your consumers for all their worth. But on the other hand, it's killed the competative scene for the game with no one really caring about the game outside of this tournament which is really sad as it was THE game and has just let League of Legends to eat their lunch with everyone watching their tournaments every week as they matter. I dunno, it's the clash of Western style eSports (DOTA) vs Eastern style eSports (LoL). Either way, The International has always been an awesome tournament to watch with tons of great matchups with very cool strats being played out. The money really does bring out the best in the teams. I'm kinda curious if ESPN will show the finals again like they did last year. And if they do, I hope the Mouse does their own thing if they do a "documentary" on hyping it up as the thing Valve did last year was real bad. And this year, Fathom Events is showing the final day's games in movie theaters all over the country (if it wouldn't be 10 hours of BO and ass funk, I'd go). It's kinda worth it just to see Kaci Aitchison blown up on the big screen.

Gamescon

As soon as Asia's biggest game show ends, Euro's biggest game show begins on the 5th. Console wise, everyone but Sony is going to be there (they're doing the Paris show in October) and doing press conferences. Microsoft is treating this year's Gamescon as part 2 of E3 with Quantum Break, Scalebound and Crackdown 3 as the jewels of the show. Hopefully they show off that RTS for the PC they've been working on last few years. Square's presser is supposed to mainly be about Final Fantasy XIV. Frankly outside of the MS presser, I'm mainly interested in news and photos of the new Fanatec steering wheels and hoping for Logitech to show off their G29 wheel. Also will be nice to see more news on the upcoming Master of Orion game from Wargaming.net.

Well, the first episode of the new King's Quest game is coming out this week. That's about it though

King's Quest (PC, PS3, PS4, 360, XBO) - I like that the series is coming back and visually it looks pretty good but it being made by The Odd Gentlemen makes me skeptical due to their history of mediocre at best games. It is an episodic game so if you can wait till Christmas or so, you should be able to pick it up at half price when the second episode comes out.

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1 Hmm.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at July 26, 2015 03:04 PM (rwI+c)

2 so close to finishing W40K: Deathwatch :/

Posted by: The Dude at July 26, 2015 03:09 PM (SyKbw)

3 I'm in the habit of looking at, er, tasteful artistic photos of women from around the world, and, well, I'm of the opinion that Chinese women are the least attractive overall.

It's weird. I see gorgeous women in Chinese movies, but I find that their gravure models leave a lot to be desired.

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler, Trumpketeer at July 26, 2015 03:13 PM (wKc1L)

4 Testing

Posted by: Zombie Homer (No, the Greek One) at July 26, 2015 03:21 PM (RD7QR)

5 So is everybody on the previous thread?

Posted by: joncelli, Boned like You at July 26, 2015 03:22 PM (RD7QR)

6 Okay....that first photo is just weird, and a bit scary.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 26, 2015 03:25 PM (Zu3d9)

7 What is with the faces those cosplayers are making?! I thought "duckface" was bad, but that's even weirder.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at July 26, 2015 03:27 PM (GDulk)

8 So new computer "game" news that affects old WoW news. I found out about a site called HabitRPG that helps create good habits and encourage finishing real-life tasks by awarding XP and "gold" for doing so. One of the ways I use it is to set a"daily" (causes damage if left undone) of completing 6 quests on WoW every day.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at July 26, 2015 03:43 PM (GDulk)

9 Pre-eminent.

Posted by: steffmckee at July 26, 2015 03:44 PM (w+mZJ)

10 Sounds like Epic Win

Posted by: The Dude at July 26, 2015 03:45 PM (SyKbw)

11 fallout 4 is just looking better and better

Posted by: rain of lead at July 26, 2015 04:02 PM (LMBva)

12 oh yeah
fallout shelter comes to android on aug 13

now with more deathclaw

Posted by: rain of lead at July 26, 2015 04:04 PM (LMBva)

13 Still kicking Batman's ass to get to Knightfall.

Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at July 26, 2015 04:07 PM (QTGq9)

14 Bah. Everyone knows the best version of King's Quest is the PC Jr. version.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1Ze3IsbipE

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at July 26, 2015 04:19 PM (EHU9F)

15 Finally managed to catch a gaming thread!

Does anyone know where (or even if) I can find the Helgen Rebuilt mod for Skyrim, other than Nexus? I can rarely get Nexus to load, and the one time I managed to actually start the download, it locked up partway through and I couldn't get it to resume.

Thanks in advance if anyone can help. It sounds like a very fun mod, and I really want it.

Posted by: Empire1 at July 26, 2015 04:23 PM (QjF/I)

16 Of course you had to get a line in about Kaci

Posted by: Zakn at July 26, 2015 04:27 PM (BtZep)

17 #15
the helgen mod is really really good but I have only seen it on nexus, they have been doing some upgrade work there.

have you tried reinstalling nexus mod manager

Posted by: rain of lead at July 26, 2015 04:36 PM (LMBva)

18 Magic Duels Origins comes out on Steam (maybe Xbox) on the 29th. They've gone free to play.

Posted by: Achilles at July 26, 2015 04:47 PM (TpeIH)

19 13 Still kicking Batman's ass to get to Knightfall.
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at July 26, 2015 04:07 PM (QTGq9)

Just a heads up in case you didn't know already - you can't get the full Knightfall ending unless you clear ALL of the Gotham's Most Wanted missions.

Posted by: Insomniac at July 26, 2015 04:55 PM (mx5oN)

20 Short comments thread today.


Another quick bit of news, since Gamescom was mentioned. Star Citizen, Chris Roberts' crowd-funded space combat sim project, will apparently be on display there.

Posted by: junior at July 26, 2015 05:33 PM (nlPsL)

21 Rain -- yes, I did. I guess I'll just have to try again, on a day when I'm getting solid connections. Definitely not a weekend! We're in a very rural area with poor coverage to begin with, and weekends are practically impossible for anything but text.

Posted by: Empire1 at July 26, 2015 06:08 PM (dNxwp)

22 8 So new computer "game" news that affects old WoW news. I found out about a site called HabitRPG that helps create good habits and encourage finishing real-life tasks by awarding XP and "gold" for doing so. One of the ways I use it is to set a"daily" (causes damage if left undone) of completing 6 quests on WoW every day.

So you give yourself a real life daily quest to finish WoW in-game quests ...

*blinks*

Do you really need to reenforce the WoW Habit? X D

Posted by: ConservativeMonster at July 26, 2015 06:26 PM (+2//H)

23 t I find that their gravure models leave a lot to be desired.

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler, Trumpketeer at July 26, 2015 03:13 PM (wKc1L)

I believe a visual comparison is in order.

Posted by: ConservativeMonster at July 26, 2015 06:27 PM (+2//H)

24 "biannual"

shouldn't that be "semi-annual"?

Every two years vs every half-year?

Posted by: Fox2! at July 26, 2015 06:32 PM (brIR5)

25 Posted by: ConservativeMonster at July 26, 2015 06:26 PM (+2//H)

Actually, yes. Especially since I'm guild leader for both HQ guilds. I had Son and Middlest Kidlet do the same (not that getting Son to play was difficult, but MK had a bad habit of not logging in for weeks after I'd paid for her subscription).

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at July 26, 2015 06:34 PM (GDulk)

26 Playing KOTOR 2 which has upgraded graphics, expanded content (game was originally rushed to market with some pieces left unfinished) and controller support. Pretty good, be nice if they would do the same for KOTOR 1.

Haven't heard of the Chinese game expo before, after E3 not sure if it or the European expo have news on something I'd care about.

Helgen Reborn is a fun Skyrim mod, good luck getting it downloaded, not sure if Steam Workshop has it.

Posted by: waelse1 at July 26, 2015 06:41 PM (TeZcu)

27 I'm late to the thread as usual. Anyway, hello everyone, I'm still busy
with my lousy job, and unsuccessfully looking for another one. Polli, if I understand you correctly on the book thread, are you starting a business? Are you possibly hiring?

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain at July 26, 2015 07:41 PM (qZtGQ)

28 #23: I'm sorry. The site I usually use for this purpose. Egotastic, recently underwent some major changes, which makes it really hard now for me to bring some pictures of beautiful Japanese girls, and some pictures of beautiful Korean girls, and some pictures of ugly Chinese girls.

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler, Trumpketeer at July 26, 2015 08:06 PM (wKc1L)

29 Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain at July 26, 2015 07:41 PM (qZtGQ)

I wish I was Thing. It's a needlework shop though and the Eldest Kidlet and I are all the paid help there will be for the foreseeable future. If you live in Texas and make some sort of tool related to needlework I would be very happy to buy from you (are you a woodworker who would be interested in making simple looms by chance?), but that's the best I can do.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at July 26, 2015 08:13 PM (GDulk)

30 Hi, Polli!

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler, Trumpketeer at July 26, 2015 08:14 PM (wKc1L)

31 Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler, Trumpketeer at July 26, 2015 08:14 PM (wKc1L)

Hola PW. How goes things?

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at July 26, 2015 08:25 PM (GDulk)

32 Doing well, thanks! How about you, Polli?

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler, Trumpketeer at July 26, 2015 08:36 PM (wKc1L)

33 Late in...it would appear the saga of Lizards vs. John Smedley has now resulted in Smed getting shown the door at Daybreak Games. Recap, the CEO of an online games company talked smack about notorious hacker group Lizard Squad, with utterly predictable results. Now it seems the new investors have decided such behavior is a liability. Buh-bye, Smed.

Posted by: Brother Cavil at July 26, 2015 08:42 PM (cSn8R)

34 Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler, Trumpketeer at July 26, 2015 08:36 PM (wKc1L)

Fairly good. I've *got* to stop putting off filling out lease paperwork though.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at July 26, 2015 08:45 PM (GDulk)

35 Actually, yes. Especially since I'm guild leader for both HQ guilds.
I had Son and Middlest Kidlet do the same (not that getting Son to play
was difficult, but MK had a bad habit of not logging in for weeks after
I'd paid for her subscription).

Haha, I can just imagine ...

"Oh, you used to play WoW? Why'd you stop?"
"Mom made me finish 6 quests every day before she'd let me do my laundry or my homework ... "

Posted by: ConservativeMonster at July 26, 2015 08:52 PM (+2//H)

36 Posted by: ConservativeMonster at July 26, 2015 08:52 PM (+2//H)

Lol.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at July 26, 2015 08:54 PM (GDulk)

37 #34: Yeah, that does sound important. Get on that!

I don't mean this as any sort of judgement against you, because there are plenty of important things I find difficult not to put off, myself.

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler, Trumpketeer at July 26, 2015 08:55 PM (wKc1L)

38 Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler, Trumpketeer at July 26, 2015 08:55 PM (wKc1L)

Don't worry, I don't feel judged. Nothing can happen with the shop until I do this. A complete stranger told me Friday that I needed to stop putting it off so that she could shop there so I really need to make it a priority.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at July 26, 2015 09:19 PM (GDulk)

39 You've got pent up demand, that's a good sign.

Posted by: ConservativeMonster at July 26, 2015 10:31 PM (+2//H)

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