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Please cast your vote in the poll above for this month's Member of the Month. The winner will receive 500 VGR Forum Points. Member of the Month is generally awarded to the individual who had the biggest impact on the VGR Forum. This is generally in the form of contributing the most amount of posts in terms of quantity and/or quality, but can extend to referrals/promotion and other efforts to benefit the community. Voting closes May 5 at 10pm EST. You may vote for yourself and you are encouraged to ask your friends to sign-up to VGR and vote for you! PS: I removed some nominations for a variety of reasons and have the consolidated the list of eligible participants in this thread. Thanks.

This is a bit random, but I'm curious, and also seeking to find out if I'm a little bit mad. When a video game offers you the chance to name specific armour, weapons or equipment (like in The Elder Scrolls, for example), do you have a pattern? I always like to name my equipment after artists, song or albums I like. For example, I'll name a bow "Primo Victoria" named for the Sabaton song/album of the same name. It's Latin for "First Victory", so for me it fits. For the same reason I also like to call armoured footwear "Sabaton" because that's what a "Sabaton" is. I've also named a sword "Lovebites" for the Japanese all-female power metal band, a bow "Unleash The Archers" again for the band of the same name and a mace "Archangel" in tribute to the Amaranthe song bearing the name. What influence do to you draw from for inspiration?

The voting is still in early stages but I think you're doing just fine for now. Let's keep our fingers crossed and wait for the out on the long run.

I have watched so many tech movies where they have actors chipped and what they can do to them with the chips in them. Take for instance in The Black Widow, they fry their brains inside out. I wouldn't want to test try such.

The "But my friend jumped off the cliff" defence is not going to work here. I can see you were baited in, but it was your choice to bite. If you can't help yourself and can only reply, do so via a PM, that's what the system is there for. I've seen how this goes, the same people baiting each other in then before we know it were 16 pages in with you lot lot looping around the same points over and over. All I'm telling you to do is stop it, yet you decide to debate that instruction instead. Consider this your final warning now, stop it.

Good luck to you @NightmareFarm. I hope you get to win this one 😉.

I don't think the world would need to be that big since breaking bad is almost entirely set in alberqueque with not too many common locations. But because of that the devs could put more effort into making the city feel more alive.

Lol Guess i'm the only one still buying video games. Must say that i'm starting to enjoy this bargain hunting for current gen stuff it always pays off to hold off and wait for a deal to happen. I'm not going too crazy ( for my doing) just games i'm going to play someday well whenever that is. The first game i'm going to play is definately road 96 well after i finish up watch dogs legion, monster crown seems like a pokemon clone i never really knew it existed until i saw it, folks may keep an eye out for this one. Before you ask me why the fuck did you buy need for speed, it was 9,99 for that price i'll take a chance on it. Open country i had to import from the us, it's supposed to be one of the better hunting games out there, like we don't have enough of those already. The forgotten city as far as i know, was a skyrim mode so i'm kind off curious to see how the two compare. Now dude where is the japanese stuff, hold on i'm just waiting on one package to arrive then i'll post my haul from japan for the month of april.

It was actually what happened to me. It was recommended for me to play and I didn't know Sorry was the game till it was stressed for me again.

I do agree that the Eternal Marvel movie was below standard but I think you're being too dramatic about the whole thing or probably it got to you more.

Adaptive triggers features is already made available in Playstation 5 now if I'm not mistaken.

Fair enough. It just wasn't made very clear. Anyway... If I can be game specific, using a potion (or potions) in the fight against Sinspawn Ammes in FFX (the tentacle that only casts ""Demi" throughout the fight) even though it actually can't kill you. It's the very first boss of the game during the "tutorial" part. Demi reduces the party's current health, not maximum health by 1/4 each time, so each hit with it does less and less damage. Even if your HP is a 4, it'll just bring it down to 3. I'm sure the first time I played this game I panicked when my health was down below half after like 3 hits and healed myself, and of course that only makes Demi do more damage.

This Rap of Honor Never Fails for Ghost of Tsushima gives me good vibes.

Just look at how they are lined up here in the video cover picture like a bunch of fools. I really hated watching that movie.

You're very correct with that assessment about how hard it's going to be for Onimusha to step out of the shadows of games like Devil May Cry. They gave more attention to Devil May Cry.

Dino Crisis was a very underrated series in my opinion. It's too bad that games like Arc and Jurassic Park are around - I wouldn't mind a dino-thriller with similar mechanics but with better camera angles and shooting/aiming mechanics. Onimusha is a game I also played a lot growing up with the first few on the PS1/PS2 and later on GBA. Onimusha has been overshadowed by games like Devil May Cry unfortunately and has never really been able to escape that shadow either.

I plan on getting both anyways but the Switch is more readily available and is cheaper so I'll get that first. Besides, I'm planning on getting a brand new TV along with it for my computer room.

I found your explanation helpful, and I've decoded the information I needed mostly. It's pleasant your boss doesn't worry about your gaming urge at workplace. I believe you wouldn't play io games during working hours? lol.

I came across a scientific research report on Sky News about a program called Thymia that's been used to diagnose and treat depression. https://news.sky.com/story/video-games-that-diagnose-monitor-and-treat-depression-developed-by-scientists-12521681

I'm going to step in. Everyone needs to drop this fight over RDR2. To clarify: As far as consoles go, Red Dead Redemption was released on the PS3 and Xbox 360. Red Dead Redemption 2 was released on the PS4 and Xbox One. RDR2 is also available on PC. RDR1 is not available on PC as far as I can tell. So there you have it. Drop the bullshit. Get back on topic and stay on topic.

I'll cast my vote for @Boblee, active and his posts been improving significantly as of late.

Time is irrelevant. To us, time is an orbit around the sun which causes seasons to change. Then we created minutes, hours, days, and years to coincide with the orbit around the sun. The sun itself is a star. Stars are born and stars die. When stars die they give off energy and elements. Energy is what keeps things in motion and the elements are available to randomly create life where it can form an organism that can survive its environment. Then it evolves in a long process. Every generation the genetics change. You carry traits from each parent. Many of us has neanderthal DNA. On this planet we have the laws of thermodynamics where energy is neither created nor destroyed. It gets transferred. Energy is basically what time is. The second law of thermodynamics is that energy constantly works towards disorder of a system or the entropy of a system. Entropy is basically what death is. Aging is entropy that constantly heads towards disorder. And finally death is the transfer of energy. The universe is constantly in motion. That motion is based on energy that humans define as being time. That's all time is. It really isn't anything at all except an increase in entropy and the transfer of energy. I guess you can say the measure of time is chemistry and physics. I see God as none other than an effigy of the properties of chemistry and physics. If a person believes that humans were just born and placed in a suitable environment by God, then they have to say that their beliefs also rejects all the properties of chemistry and physics because that is what time is. Since energy is neither created nor destroyed, time is neither created nor destroyed.

Not like I was a big apple person anyway 😛 good that they are removing the old and unsupported. Then again won't please everyone.

From the very first entry Burnout was always an intense, edge of your seat type of racing experience. I always remembered watching this first trailer. I'll be honest, the original Burnout wasn't that great a game especially when compared to the titles that would come from the franchise later on. What it do a brilliant job at was selling it's concept. The tension and intensity of racing through traffic was friggin awesome! The crashing along with all the realistic physics and deformation was super cool, but the problem was that they kinda put those aspects left, right and centre and didn't focus enough on the actual racing. They no doubt realized this and put way more focus on the racing in the sequel, Burnout 2: Point of Impact This was fucking spectacular! They absolutely nailed it this time with much better presentation, track design, new modes like crash party, improved mechanics and the time to recover from crashing was significantly reduced making a much smoother racing experience. I actually remember thinking at the time "they cannot possibly make this any better".... .... Thankfully, I could not have been more wrong!!!! Burnout 3: Takedown! This in my opinion is hands down the greatest arcade racer of all time! It takes all the intensity and excitement of Point of Impact and ramps it all the way up to Spinal Tap! Every new element that it introduces was gold. Crash radio, a fantastic soundtrack (an actual legit benefit to having EA at your back, credit where it's due), a reworked crash party where the result was less dependent on luck and visuals so fucking good it could easily be mistaken for a XBox 360/PS3 game. But none of these had as big an impact as the stroke of genius that was Takedowns. If you drove a rival off the road your boost bar would expand and fill completely, but if you were taken out your boost bar would empty and reduce. It encouraged ruthlessly aggressive driving even more so than its predecessors. The perfect arcade racer. Then came Burnout: Revenue This was another fantastic game, very similar to but not quite as good as Takedown. There actually a handful of improvements here. The crash party was reworked with a cleaner less distracting visuals and the new crashbreaker explosion. It introduced network play, some new racing modes like elimination and the great new revenge mechanic which highlighted the last competitor to take you out making your piss boil and you become lazer focused on them for a revenge takedown. There were some downgrades though. The soundtrack and crash radio presentation weren't as good. It indroduced shortcuts, a cool feature in other racers but here in my opinion works against what Burnout is about. The worst thing, however was the new traffic checking mechanic which allowed you to just drive straight through traffic going same direction as long as it wasn't a bus or a truck. This was a really stupid idea because it took a way so much of the tension. Still a great game, but it doesn't hold up to the masterpiece that is Takedown. Then came Burnout Paradise, which I refuse to dignify with a flashy video so instead here is a picture of something that more accurately represents it... Burnout Paradise is a near perfect execution..... OF SOME OF THE WORST FUCKING IDEAS IN THE HISTORY OF GAME DESIGN!!!! I've seen so many people that defend that abomination and it makes me sick. If the earlier games where sitting in the driver's seat with you butt clenched desperately trying to survive, this one was slouching back with one hand on the wheel and the other grabbing a bottle of cheap whisky looking for a place to die. @Shagger already discussed the flawed concepts with the open world and the bullshit removal of local play so I won't rant about them to much but there is more I would like to add. The intense edge of your seat concept we had with the other games is only delivered in short bursts at best. You spend most of your time driving across what is essentially and open world menu selecting your vehicle, event and so on. Then when done with the even you go back to the open world menu to select you next event your next event and vehicle rinse and repeat. The main concept that EA and Criterion sold this game on's main purpose is there to literally waste your fucking time. Even if you are one of those people that do genuinely like Paradise you have to a least acknowledge this. It is NOT a Burnout experience. After this Burnout was essentially folded into the Need For Speed franchise never to be seen again, but considering their idea of "Paradise", that's probably for the best.

Did you play The Forsworn Conspiracy quest yet? That convinced me to take their side, which was reinforced when I read The Bear of Markarth (which also shed a lot of light on Ulfric). Plus, there is the fact that the spriggans are hostile to all but them. Seems to me that nature’s vote is cast for them as well. Their permanent aggro thing drives me nuts. I see it as an artifact of the fact that the devs must’ve thought, “Let’s put something other than regular bandits here. We’ll just have angry natives instead!” Total agreement on their fashion sense. I’ve read that technically, it is (or was, in some era) usually accepted military custom that if you wear the uniform of a particular army and act in its name, you are considered a member by foreign powers. So I dress like a Forsworn and do all in their name =D @LadyDay