Mystery Science News Thread 3,000

Is anyone here willing to put together a #GamerGate thread with info on terminology, history, important figures, and such? I really want to be well informed when I tell jerks off.

I donā€™t know what either of you are talking about, Titanfall had a campaign

a revolutionary campaign with AI and other players powered by The Cloud

(Brink did the exact same thing with its campaign except for the part where you could play it by yourself, but, you know, the narrative surrounding Brink is so toxic by this point)

(I will die defending bad multiplayer games. someone has to love them)

Southern-fried anime porn and racism

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The radio play has come around to endearingly bad now that the campaign hopper is just a rotation. When it kicked you back to the earliest common unplayed level and it was the only way to unlock other chassis it was murder.

ā€œI kill you, Iā€™m better.ā€

Also, bad lip syncing.

I can only imagine, seeing as I was part of the Korean VPN unlock wave of players so I had my other titans post-haste

I then proceeded to use the default, starter titan almost exclusively

The campaign was terrible after the second playthrough, when you realize that the winning team doesnā€™t affect the plot in the slightest (actually Iā€™m probably wrong since I literally havenā€™t touched campaign since the game came out but letā€™s go with that). God, at least Brink had some occasional rudimentary branching (Iā€™m probably wrong about this too).

Anyway, Iā€™m ready for absurd prestige challenges again (I wear my Gooser badge with pride)

Fingers crossed that this is the Modern Warefare 2 of the series

someone write a moderately intelligent ā€œthink pieceā€ on how the current ā€œgamergateā€ movement is all about a small group of people with marginal interests fighting for the right to be marketed to

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I was going to do something sort of like this when the whole clusterfuck broke out, but it quickly became too complicated and I lost faith in my ability to provide anything appreciably different from the consensus, which I thought had, in a brief bit of lucidity, mostly done a good job so long as you were actively looking.

get a thread you guys

Brink broke my heart

Thereā€™s some evidence that Splash Damage more or less shoved Brink out the door because of how Bethesda rolls with developers they donā€™t own (they supposedly withhold payments and strangle the studio until the can swoop in and buy them). I honestly think the game is good, though it came out a bit underbaked (the PC version shipped with a map where the sound didnā€™t work. I mean, at all. Completely silent.). I am vindicated by Dirty Bomb being good even though itā€™s mostly the same game.

Donā€™t look at me like that, itā€™s good fuck all yā€™all

I donā€™t see the issue or whatā€™s so funny about this

Hey fuck you Nintendo, thanks for making your cool new Virtual Console thing exclusive to your marginally upgraded system

Game linked to the hip with J-pop and had already bombed in its home territory doesnā€™t get dubbed. Company knows its market and makes decision for profit.