What type of idiot would get his history lessons from a videogame like this? Do those people also watch blockbuster films to learn history related facts? Do those people think that they're going to replace credible books and other material in schools with AAA videogames?

Aha, new guy detected.

Wait until you see people keep posting that they saw "wrong WW2 American GI uniform colour in FH2".



This quote was in one of my Toastmasters meetings back in 2012.

There are unhealthy number of people who do that for real.

And we are just poking fun at them to check whether the guys here still got their brains or not, kind of sanity check amongst ourselves.

It is day 2 now, and watching Portugal being carried by Ronaldo to luckily held the Spain at bay, and Messi simply choked against the plucky Iceland that beat the mighty Dutch and England, I learn one thing. You have to have some kind of attitude, be it cocky arrogant child like CR7 or a larger than life self-worshipper Zlatan Imbrahimnovic. Lionel Messi only relies on his skill and technique, which from various Youtube compilations, we can clearly see that he is far more gifted than CR7, if only he was as physically as good as CR7.

I think Ronaldo's confidence is a gift, something that is lacking with Messi. Ronaldo had nobody. Pepe and Quaresma might be enough for him to even the former champion still sporting enough stars to have a shot at the cup. But Messi? He got Agüero, Ángel Di María, Higuaín, the veteran Mascherano, Biglia, and Dybala. Messi failed to shine despite all the Argentine football team has given him. Granted, Iceland is proven to be a good team, they did park the bus, they swarm Messi with more than 2 guys when he received the ball, but then he had 3 chances to prove that he is better than Ronaldo. But still, he blown 1 penalty and 2 goal-ranged set pieces. Ronaldo missed 1 set piece and converted the rest.

I am started to be convinced now, that talent is not everything. And Ronaldo > Messi in your team, really. It is like the kid who scored the highest in test vs. the confident kid. Messi is clearly the smarter kid, but Ronaldo is the guy who gets the job done. You know, my boss is not a particularly nice guy, he is a schmoozer, a bullshitter, cocky, arrogant, talentless, almost skilless at job, yet like Ronaldo his performance said the otherwise. He raised our income, both business and personal.

It is very sad, I believed that this is his last chance to shine and bring the cup to Argentina's possession for the third time. It might be too early to tell, but France is not the good either. All those expensive talents just choked in front of the plucky socceroos. It takes Paul Pogba's reluctant ball to bring back victory for them. That being said, this year's world cup may belong to the underdogs once more.

Command & Conquer's last hurrah was with Red Alert 3. The C&C games released after that marks its death.

The disconnect between players and video game producers is incredible.

I don't know, but this is a bold claim. There are a lot of casual players out there who may outnumber us the "denied-to-be-exist" so-called hardcore gamers.

Fallout 76 world will contain no human NPCs, meaning every humans you meet there are online players. But I hope this isn't true. The guy who speaks for Bethesda said that he wants to give this type of gaming a chance.

Well, who knows, people love abominations like stilted sedans "CUV" (Honda CR-V, Mazda CX-5, Toyota RAV4, VW Tiguan, BMW X5) instead of real SUVs. So, who knows, MMORPG abomination formula could work for seriously nerdy Fallout fanbase? You can't even opt out of PVP, meaning your bases will be susceptible to random attackers by online bullies. Seriously, we need specific rating for online interaction. Make every online games automatically M+ (17+), because somebody young will always going to eff your mom when online.

Fortnite is successful because my middle aged CEO, CFO, and even the building security guard plays it. This is why games are becoming more and more "dumbed down". Too many people have moved on with real life.

It is called whitewashing the history. At least Mafia III went on full post-Jim Crow's 1960s racist mode. They don't censor calling our character "jig" and trigger violence when we enter "no coloured allowed" places. It is historical accuracy.

But when you include women and minorities in WW2 games, where they were never existed just to make all of us feel good, it is called white washing. The past is sexist and racist, we get it. But faking it is not the solution. We should tell people as how the reality was: world war 2 made us aware and realise that we need women more than we imagined, and racism can be very very very destructive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IsA7ELESF8

Yeah, I've just re-visited the video. It sounds like Major has similar voice with him.

LOL, women in Battlefield, and I am instantly thinking of Soviet and Eastern Front. Finally! Then Manon Batiste of French Resistance. Imagine the gameplay! I have no objections at all about that. You can even add Black Nazi soldiers in their Hiwi Askari or the French SS grenadier division.

But the idiots decided to make it western front only. Well, fine. At this point, we can strike off games as educational material. There are too many AceCombat players being called "pilots" already.

Also remember that BF1942 had STG44 in desert and BF2 had F35.. Somehow BF2 was most realistic of all battlefields with most stuff from real life. But still uncomparable to this

In BF2, you play as US Marine Corps when the F-35B is available to your side. Then you also get the US Marine-only LAV-25, it is indeed the last "realistic" BF2 games.

Just finished watching Avengers: Infinity War (2018) with some coworkers and friends.

By Russo brothers
Starring you know whos

The third Avengers film in the franchise, the 4th to feature ensemble cast. Super dramatic story-changing plot, so I won't do any spoilers.

But how is it?

Meh, it is starting to look like the franchise relying more on familiar faces, rather than driving an interesting plot or story telling. Sure it has been 10 years, but this latest Marvel installments probably suffered from creativity problem. Was the bar set too high after something fresh like the Black Panther? Well, probably.

Disney & Marvel quality control means this film will pass your "garbage" filter easily, unlike other filmmakers.

There is a lot of jokes to keep it entertaining, self-references, pop-culture references never gets old, and safely takes Marvel heroes from taking itself too seriously. I don't know how they do it, because I was very well prepared to roast these Marvel jokes that they overdid, like in Thor: Ragnarok for instance. But Avengers: Infinity War (part 1) really delivers it.

Progression between scenes and the transitions are somehow done tastefully to avoid "rushing". Something that is plaguing Pacific Rim: Uprising and Justice League films. There is definitely somebody doing quality control on the final product, and they definitely understand what the audience would like to see.

But that's it. Marvel films' seal of approval and no more no less.

There is nothing special happening, other than Superheroes, some meta humans, some superhumans, some demigods, some mechanics have clearly aggregated and levelled abilities, unlike what we seen in the previous Avengers and Justice League films. Sure it makes the fight interesting, but it also somewhat kills the character. The film is super anti-lore, anti-convention for the sake of presentation and plot devices. It might hurt some die hard nerds, but will be mostly okay for mainstream audiences.

Then, there is the ending. Well, I get it that this is supposed to be the "part 1". Well, how do we properly end a film? Uh, the original Star Wars Trilogy as a reference perhaps? The finish is pretty much like a couple of very lazy wipes on the anus after a bad case of diarrhea, very unsettling. The post-credit scenes also doesn't conclude anything, other than add another clue for missing puzzle.

Is this the point where we reach saturation? Fatigue?
Nope. Sorry, Mr. James Cameron, you clearly are just jelly. Suck it! You created that abomniation Titanic and reaped too many undeserving prizes.

Oh yeah, it is 7.5/10 for me. Should have been longer, and the audience wouldn't mind.