Ask Gauss

Sunday or as it will be for the next few months Game of Thrones Day. Hopefully your weekend wasn't too wasted and you actually got to do something with it. If not well there is still time you can get to it. Or you can sit where you are and read all the answers to the questions I picked this week. With that in mind here we go!

Regardless of your DLC rant the other day how are you finding MK10?

The game itself looks beautiful, although I did already know that from demos and previews. The story mode and the fighting are also well polished and I am likely it. It is the best Mortal Kombat game it quite some time as I found in previous versions the fighting became secondary to everything else. They didn't let that happen this time, which makes me happy. If you are a fan of the fighting genre you will enjoy this game plane and simple and should pick it up. Just try not to be furious at the DLCs they have.

Did you think the WoW Token would be this variable in price?

Well Blizzard said they would adapt it to the market, which they are. The problem as is with anything new is people will try and then never again. There will be an influx of supply because of everyone buying it and then the influx of people buying it for a couple months for those that find themselves farming to keep their sub free. Now for those who have stores of gold this may actually take awhile to happen, but then some may just like to stand on their mount of gold and swim in it like Scourge McDuck.

Hearthstone on Mobile!

I know bathroom breaks will never be the same again!

There you have it. The questions I chose for the week. Hope you all got something out of them and if not hopefully you killed a few minutes while you read them. Enjoy what is left of your weekend!

Token Fatalities

So as most of you know I am for the most part not against DLCs. I don't mind DLCs that are cosmetic where people have a choice pick them up to make characters look in specific ways or do certain things. I do hate day 1 additional content DLCs because to me if you are releasing a game and the additional content is there it should be included and be for everyone. Now this doesn't include collectors or limited edition bundles because again this to me is almost always purely cosmetic and is not really anything of significance to the game itself. Also I hate DLCs that unlock content which is doable in game as a shortcut. I know this doesn't effect me, but this to me defeats the purpose of going through a game and playing it. This is a mixing of free to play game style with a purchased game and in my mind is bordering on the greedy end.

One thing I can't stand though is companies is releasing addons or DLCs which are 1 time uses which are also shortcuts. The new Mortal Kombat has purchasable 1 time use "Easy" Fatalities. Basically giving you the ability to preform an easy fatality with a simple couple button combo. Not only are fatalities not hard at all to preform charging people a one time use shortcut to me is wrong. Now to me this purchase seems completely useless, but I know people will buy this.

Some might say this is a company profiting from players lack of skill, and who cares. I care. I hate it when companies think they can take advantage of people in such a way that rewards laziness and complete lack of motivation. Why? Because this breads a population of entitlement and these will be the people that will be the ones bitching on forums and causing the games that I love to be changed for their benefit.

Maybe I am overreacting, but there has got to be people out there that think this is wrong just as much as I do.

You Fail At Mortal Kombat If...

So today is the day. The day when get to fight to the death in the newest Mortal Kombat game. Besides all the fun you will be having fighting to the death, do you know that there is a pretty rich history behind Mortal Kombat. So in this week's edition of fail I figured I would would put to the test how much you may know.

You Fail At Mortal Kombat If...

• You weren't aware Brandon Lee was supposed to play Johnny Cage in the Mortal Kombat movie, but obviously could not because of his death on the movie "The Crow"
• You did not know Sub-Zero is the only character to appear in every game excluding spinoffs
• You didn't know Mortal Komabt is one of the major reasons ESRB exists today
• You did not know that Mortal Kombat was one of the first games to use digital actors
• You didn't know Ermac was a glitch and wasn't even meant to exist
• You were not aware there is a move in rollerblading called the "Lui Kang" since the pose resembles his flying kick
• You didn't know you were being lied to when your friends told you there was a secret way to get "Animality"
• You also didn't know because of the countless rumors of "Animality"  it became a thing in MK3
• You were not aware Cyrax and Sektor were originally supposed to be called mustard and ketchup
• You didn't know you could play Ping Pong in MK2
• You didin't know "Johnny Cage" intials is a shoutout to Jean-Claude Van Damme
• You were not aware "Rain" is reference to "Purple Rain" and "Prince"
• You didn't know Jack Thomspon, the anti video game violence critic, sued the series since a create a player was done to his likeness 

and finally

• You didn't know "Kombat" is one of the most often misspelled words in gaming.

There you have it. How did  you do? How much did you actually know, and how much of it did you actually google to see if I was bullshitting you?

Ask Gauss

Sunday! Yes as I say every weekend your weekend is almost over. Well at least this weekend you have Game of Thrones to look forward to! As with any Sunday though there are things to do and around here that means answer some questions. So let's get to it.

With the release of MK10 do you think Fighting Games have a chance of being main events during gaming competitions?

Do I think we will see Mortal Kombat played at Esports tournaments like MLG? Yes, of course, we will. Do I ever think it or another fighting game will be the main event of the show? No. This is not because I don't think the players are not skilled or the game isn't fun or hard to play well. I don't think it has the viewing experience of RTS or MOBA games. There just isn't enough action to sit and analyze and commentate on, and in my eyes it just comes down to that.

What do you think of the new side scroller Assassin's Creed?

Here is the release trailer if you haven't seen it yet


Now granted this is a new type of Assassin's Creed game, but the really the first thing I thought about after watching this is I would love a 3D world game for these 3 assassins. Second thing I thought was that this style might actually be fun to play. So with that in mind I hope this is a gateway to full scale games being a thing.

Did you get into Legacy of the Void beta?

No I haven't. It just started though so I still have hope

There you have it questions all answered for the week. Hope some of you got something out of them. Enjoy the end of the Masters and Game of Thrones!

You Fail At Fighting Games If...

Fail Day! With the release of Mortal Kombat X just around the corner I figured now was the best time to use this Fail Day that I have kept pushing back for awhile now. What is it you may ask? Well it has to do with fighting games in what I believe people fail more in than any other game. So here we go.

You Fail At Fighting Games If...

• You have no idea where "Finish Him" comes from
• You believe your skills as a button mashing facerolling pally makes you the perfect fighting game player
• Your idea of a combo is using more than one button
• You believe people who use ultimate attacks or finishers must be hackers because you can't do them
• You always play characters which have the designation of cheap
• You don't know what the differences are between all the Street Fighter II games
• You predictably go for grapples whenever in close range
• You play the guest characters in other games because they come from games you play
• You don't think wrestling and boxing games are fighting games
• You turn down gore whenever possible
• You don't play them because they are not realistic
• You play them for their story mode
• You think your ability to beat the single player mode makes your awesome in everyway
• You rely on ring outs in Soul Calibur

and finally

• You have an opinion on the best fighting game there is but it is the only one you play, and you could careless what anyone thinks

There you have it this week's edition of Fail. Hope you enjoyed it or raged through the entire thing. Either way I am completely cool with it.