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If all a story has going for it is mindless action the overall production is bad. The thing that makes action scenes interesting is investment in them. If you care about who wins/loses and what happens to the protag/antag thats where actually interesting media comes in. The 'just relax and enjoy the explosions' opinion drives me nuts.
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starkebn posted:"Some people in some threads make posts I don't like, the entire forum is complete garbage" lol I wasn't aware that there is a criteria for not liking a place being a childish vs adult response. Sorry for dishonoring the sanctity of the Games forum I guess.
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bradzilla posted:lol I wasn't aware that there is a criteria for not liking a place being a childish vs adult response. Sorry for dishonoring the sanctity of the Games forum I guess. You should have said: "Some people in some threads make posts I don't like, and the entire forum is complete garbage"
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Aramek posted:Star Wars is good because it has magic and Kung Fu and explosions and space and lasers and bomb rear end music and that's all anyone ever needs. Attack of the Clones gave me herpes
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Mu Zeta posted:Attack of the Clones gave me herpes it gave me AAAAAAAAAAAIDS it also took away my ability to make original jokes
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Aug 30, 2017 00:10
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Time to bring out the big guns. Skyrim is better than Morrowind and Oblivion.
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Midig posted:Time to bring out the big guns. Skyrim is better than Morrowind and Oblivion. I agree both in terms of technical superiority and accessibility, because a good game that is hard to get into doesn't compel me to play it. I also agree with the poster who said Chrono Cross > Chrono Trigger, though the former would have benefited from a smaller roster and more exposition for each character and not dumping most of the plot in a text conversation at the door to the final boss.
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Speaking of unpopular game opinions: I've never gotten the point of Minesweeper. You click on a tile, and it's either a bomb or not. So what? I don't begrudge others liking it, but I've always found it a really boring nothing.
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:Speaking of unpopular game opinions: I've never gotten the point of Minesweeper. You click on a tile, and it's either a bomb or not. So what? I don't begrudge others liking it, but I've always found it a really boring nothing. I don't tend to enjoy games I don't know how to play either.
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:Speaking of unpopular game opinions: I've never gotten the point of Minesweeper. You click on a tile, and it's either a bomb or not. So what? I don't begrudge others liking it, but I've always found it a really boring nothing. It's a puzzle. You use the numbers to work out where the bombs are. It's not just randomly clicking until you either win or lose.
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starkebn posted:"Some people in some threads make posts I don't like, the entire forum is complete garbage" Thee Games forum sucks.
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Tiggum posted:It's a puzzle. You use the numbers to work out where the bombs are. It's not just randomly clicking until you either win or lose. I understand that, and it's probably completely fair to say that I don't play it correctly. I've just never found it a particularly interesting game.
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spit on my clit posted:lol if you're reading posts in games instead of posting in games This is games in a nutshell 
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A good deed being anonymous does not make it any more true, pure or laudable, than it otherwise would have been. Even buying into the bizarre premise, that an anonymous act can't be wholly or partially rooted in selfishness or vanity - taking pride in what you do, and enjoying the acknowledgements of others, is a normal and healthy way to be motivated, and doesn't lessen any act that follows.
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Grandmother of Five posted:A good deed being anonymous does not make it any more true, pure or laudable, than it otherwise would have been. Even buying into the bizarre premise, that an anonymous act can't be wholly or partially rooted in selfishness or vanity - taking pride in what you do, and enjoying the acknowledgements of others, is a normal and healthy way to be motivated, and doesn't lessen any act that follows. yeah but no one likes showboating either. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dO9dwDKUMU8
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There's nothing wrong with being "right" for the "wrong" reasons.
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Wheat Loaf posted:There's nothing wrong with being "right" for the "wrong" reasons. Is there anything concrete that made you think of that? Personally, one of the most aggravating things in this world, might just be poor decisions that are considered validated by dumb luck producing a good result. It is good that a nice result happened, but the decision was still poor. The same thing goes for good calls that ends up with poor results. Intent is important, but it really isn't just that, it is about proper decision-making being based on what information you have at the time of the decision. If you're more talking about sub-par, but working solutions being valuable, then sure, absolutely.
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It's noticeable when, say, rich people make large donations to charities. I see a lot of weird backlash in some cases because that billionaire only donated a couple million, so the gesture itself is meaningless. It's weird.
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Grandmother of Five posted:Is there anything concrete that made you think of that? I was told I shouldn't have voted to stay in the EU because I apparently had "capitalist reasons" for doing so.
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Butts are the best
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We Know Catheters posted:Butts are the best
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We Know Catheters posted:Butts are the best Wrong thread. Rolling coal makes you an irredeemable rear end in a top hat.
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Late but RE: spoilers. I mostly agree except for... I don't know, it's almost a particular kind of movie or maybe even just the shot. I think what we're largely talking about are major twists or mysteries that are being led up to or a cool ending. But there are three death scenes that stand out in my mind as having a fantastic gut-punch impact that would have been lost with spoilers: Llewellyn's death in No Country for Old Men, the girl walking off onto the ice in Everlasting Moments, and the suicide scene in Ida. They each move faster than you do and there's this excellent moment of confusion, denial, frantic rationalizations and defeat that accompany them as you realized what just happened. Ida in particular was great for that, so much so that they lifted in wholesale in GoT a few years later.
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I don't really mind spoilers as long as they don't lay everything out. Like I knew the famous snape kills dumbledore spoiler before I read the book and still enjoyed it because I didn't know all of the lead-up to it or why he did it. That's why I don't like it when people leak scripts like they've been doing with GoT. I'll still watch it but it's kind of lame knowing what's going to happen scene by scene.
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I wish I hadn't known the actual plot of Collateral Beauty going in because it's hilariously deranged, but I also wouldn't have watched it otherwise
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Aug 31, 2017 16:34
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I don't know if this is generally an UO but it seems to be among my social circles: I treat rotten tomatoes as the law. Anything below 50% is not worth watching and anything above 80% is a must watch. Have I missed movies I would have liked? Probably. Have I seen movies I didn't like? Yeah. In the end I think it helps way more than it harms.
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Aug 31, 2017 18:26
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People that are concerned with reviews and "objective" measures of quality in regards to media are taking themselves way too seriously, in my unpopular opinion
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Aug 31, 2017 18:39
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games shouldn't have sniper classes
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hawowanlawow posted:games shouldn't have sniper classes Games should only have "tank" classes. Big, slow, armored, and strong. None of that flipping around and sissy dodging nonsense.
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I'm not going to play Senua's Sacrifice until the Shotgun DLC drops.
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Aug 31, 2017 19:47
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Spoilers can't really ruin the spectacle of something, or encompass writing that is genuinely insightful, or well-written character development, I feel. Spoilers don't have to be all cheap jump-scares, but there is some truth to it, I think, that media which can be spoiled might often be poorly written. Some tools and narrative elements, which aren't inherently bad, are just often used by writers who are forced to rely on them, like a blank-slate or a Mary Sue character might be worthwhile and fitting in a well-written story, but it might also be the only kind of character that a poor writer is comfortable with. The same thing sort of goes for unexpected twists. Reveals can for sure be part of and integral to a well-written narrative, but they are nearly unavoidable and will litter the narrative of a writer who simply can't actually write a coherent story.
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Caufman posted:I'm not going to play Senua's Sacrifice until the Shotgun DLC drops. thats not an opinion Jastiger posted:Rolling coal makes you an irredeemable rear end in a top hat. a rolling coal gathers no moss
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Spoiled milk isn't good and neither are spoiled films.
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Solice Kirsk posted:Chrono Cross also had an amazing soundtrack. 
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Chernabog posted:I don't know if this is generally an UO but it seems to be among my social circles: I treat rotten tomatoes as the law. Anything below 50% is not worth watching and anything above 80% is a must watch. That's dumb as gently caress. I look at RT scores for movies I want to see and it's more like "Welp, hope the movie is better than/as good as they say!" Although the one movie I didn't see because of the RT rating was Batman vs. Superman.
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I would agree that it helps more than it harms but I don't really trust RT. When a movie has an 80% it doesn't mean it's 80/100 as a score, it just means 80% of critics said it was good enough to watch. Sometimes movies with high scores aren't good as much as they are inoffensive. On the reverse sometimes challenging movies get unfairly low scores because they are excellently made but only for a niche audience. So you get like a 20% on rotten tomatoes but those 20% thought it was this amazing fantastic movie because they were in the target market. If you're going to judge things purely by numbers (which I think is totally reasonable) use something like imdb instead since that number is actually a 'how good the movie is' and not a 'how many critics liked it' number.
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Agent355 posted:I would agree that it helps more than it harms but I don't really trust RT. When a movie has an 80% it doesn't mean it's 80/100 as a score, it just means 80% of critics said it was good enough to watch. Sometimes movies with high scores aren't good as much as they are inoffensive. On the reverse sometimes challenging movies get unfairly low scores because they are excellently made but only for a niche audience. So you get like a 20% on rotten tomatoes but those 20% thought it was this amazing fantastic movie because they were in the target market. IMDb isn't really any better. Every time a new movie comes out with a decent level of buzz it vaults into their top 20.
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yeah IMDB has a huge amount of problems. It's mostly nerds so all nerd culture movies get way too high a rating as well, but picking some webiste that isn't RT will at least give you a real score that is a (intended to be) a direct indicator of overall quality. If I"m feeling snooty and picky about what movies I watch (which is always) I'll use RT and something else at the same time to get a better idea.
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To be fair I see RT as a "likeleyhood" of enjoying a movie, I know it is not a score per se. And if I go with a bunch of people and they all want to see something I will go in regardless of its score.
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The nice thing is that it also collects the reviews so you can look at the 20% who said good things and see why they liked it.
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