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MqToasty

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  1. Well, it sure sounds like you are accusing DE of plagiarizing from From Software. If not, how does Duviri or Soul Frame equate to "copy and paste your work"? Although, I don't know which other user you are talking to about this, but until now, this has never been my topic of discussion in this thread. Bro, did you even read the topic of this thread? This entire thread isn't about Soul Frame. It's about the pre-release video Pablo showed of The Duviri Paradox, which will be out in less than a month. Discard statistics? No. I just want to make sure folks like you do not misuse statistics. If you want to use numbers to validate a company, then there is only one that matters in our (currently mostly) capitalistic world: the company's valuation (how much others are willing to pay for the entire company). Digital Extremes is valued at around $1.1 billion USD as of 2020: https://twitter.com/ZhugeEX/status/1280275431132991488 From Software is valued at around $862 million USD as of 2022: https://gagadget.com/en/games/162450-sony-and-tencent-acquired-more-than-30-of-the-shares-of-fromsoftware-the-creators-of-elden-ring-and-dark-souls/ While even this is not a completely fair measure of a company's worth, especially when put against each other, it sure is a much better one than review scores. Then I absolutely do not understand why you would think average = agreement. Most districts in the U.S. use a plurality voting system, so there never is an average to begin with. Even in NYC, which has adopted ranked choice, nothing is "averaged" to determine the winning candidate. And even when a candidate wins, no one is "agreeing" that that candidate is the one they support, only that they will suffer the winner for at least a term. Oh, and if you think you have freedom of speech? Best go read Noam Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent first. Yes I did to make a statement. And it is true, you never proposed any theory. So do you want to explain why you made a false claim about me? I will also accept an apology if that is what you prefer. So are you again accusing DE of plagiarism? Because that is a serious accusation, you know? So not just plagiarism, but copyright infringement? Because if DE copied and pasted any assets from From Software then that would be copyright infringement. You do realize that that is an even more serious accusation? Sure does not sound like you don't have anything against DE, given the amount of baseless and serious accusations you levied against them in this one post alone. I do not know what your beef with DE is, but unless you have some hard evidence of them plagiarizing or infringing on From Software's copyrights, your claims are borderline libelous. While I do not know if you really live in the U.S., and I doubt DE (a Canadian company) would go after a forum dweller, you realize that you are posting on forums they own, and they have the timestamp, edit history and IP of every single post you make here, right?
  2. Oh really? Then what methodology did you pick to calculate your average? Mean, median or mode? Weighted or unweighted? How do you justify the choices? How did you normalize the different scales the reviewers used? What is your margin of error? Here's a tip: Throwing around big words and concepts that you only have a rudimentary understanding of, in a public forum, will not make you look smart. A broad claim that a simple arithmetic average of subjective scores between different reviewers with different preferences and scoring criteria is somehow "general agreement" is incredibly dubious, to say the least. Really? What kind of authoritarian society do you live in, where no dissent is allowed and an average is automatically translated into agreement? So you are intentionally misquoting me now? Because I proposed no such theory. I just stated the reason why I choose to reserve judgment, and made it clear it was my opinion. Or are you now pretending there is an objective judge of what makes a game enjoyable, and posing as the judge of such things? If that is the case, then all I have for you is: My sadness, not yours. Sad for me to see someone choose to waste their life on the forums of a game they view so little of. But then again, it is your life, and you are free to spend it as you see fit. But you know what, you did make me think. I've been thinking about why someone with so much vitriol and distain for a game would spend so much time on its forums, posing as an expert and make baseless claims. Were they banned on a previous account and swore revenge on the devs? Do they have a masochistic need to get in forum arguments with random strangers? I do not know the answer, but the question is fascinating.
  3. Correct. We call that consensus. Okay, you only used it once. But an average score is not a consensus. No. You should consider your own personal opinion as the final say on what you enjoy. Which is exactly what I stated over here, which you feebly attempted to prove me wrong by quoting Metacritic, of all things: Emphasis yours, red emphasis mine. Problem? No. But profound sadness? Yes. I would never waste so much of my time in a forum of a game and developer that I think so little of, but hey, to each their own. Says someone who tries to ridicule and prove another user's opinion wrong by quoting Metacritic as fact and truth. Irony much?
  4. So critics' opinions are facts now? All bow to the almighty Metacritic! Don't anyone dare have a differing opinion or different preferences! If you do, well, the almighty Pope Donald will laugh at you! (or something) But seriously, if you think so little about DE, why waste so much of your life here, writing more than 4000 posts? Why not go spend some time on From Software forums or SIE forums?
  5. Good for you. I do not like any Souls game, but I will still reserve judgment because DE has a history of delivering more hits than misses for me. And I would guess it is the same for you too, because otherwise, why are you wasting your time here?
  6. Fun or not I will reserve my judgment until I get my hands on it. But given that we are just a month away from release, I would imagine a dev would show us something very close to the final product, and at least looks good. What we saw here is rather worrisome. I hope you are right. I really hope you are right.
  7. Not a stupid question at all, but how about this, at a minimum? Even a simple stagger / wince animation like this from enemies hit by a 1-handed sword is a good start, though clearly there should be a larger variety encompassing at least a light-medium-heavy amount of stagger from corresponding weapons/attacks. All I saw in OP's video was a knockdown animation from the severed hand's beam attack, and a death animation. No reaction whatsoever from the hammer hits, which is quite worrisome.
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