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CelticPredator posted:WNUF really disappointed me. Great concept, good execution, super dull scenario when it was all said and done. I think that's also a product of it being really easy to write your way into a mystery/crisis, and really hard to write your way out of one; having the mysterious creature pounce and kill the protagonist "solves" that mystery very easily.
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You know I get that Jim Sterling really likes using that footage of the Microtransaction Orc Merchant from Shadow of War rubbing his hands together as he's crafting something Jim has gotten a lot of usage out of that image lately but... ...Do you think he realizes what that looks like? Like, you think he knows or does he not know?
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I'm pretty sure he knows and cannot stop laughing at the fact Monolith actually went with that.
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Yeah, Jim didn't make that orc and he's not using it while talking about Global Orcery. Monolith on the other hand.
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https://twitter.com/botherer/status/915203544176840704 I don't understand.
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Oct 3, 2017 21:08
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How do you reply to an anime. Is he arguing with a random episode of SAO.
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AriadneThread posted:anime avatars Next year I will become an anime. e: Unsure if I will debate gameplay with John Walker BravestOfTheLamps fucked around with this message at 22:17 on Oct 3, 2017 |
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Oct 3, 2017 22:11
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Every month, Kenneth Waste II (K. Waste on the forums) does a sort of film crit grab bag called Spoiler Alert, and it's consistently solid. The latest dropped today.
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Oct 3, 2017 22:37
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Max Wilco posted:https://twitter.com/botherer/status/915203544176840704 "Gameplay" can describe a lot of different things, related and seperate, it's easy to be confused by such a broad term or misuse it. 
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Oct 3, 2017 22:39
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Is John Walker the third brother in the Rob and Doug Walker family?
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Oct 3, 2017 22:42
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Max Wilco posted:https://twitter.com/botherer/status/915203544176840704 Is this a "'Gamer' is a bad word" thing?
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Leal posted:Is John Walker the third brother in the Rob and Doug Walker family? He's the idiot who runs Rock, Paper, Shotgun and literally the worst bits of the "PC Master race" morons distilled. And I don't mean that for his opinions, but his reviews on the site have shown the guy's just a contrarian who likes to stir the pot and cry for attention. Mokinokaro fucked around with this message at 03:21 on Oct 4, 2017 |
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Oct 4, 2017 03:19
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Didn't he write a review complaining that he has to get good at a game or something like that?
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DoubleCakes posted:Speaking of misguided but good-natured internet folk, I'm a fan of Anthony Fantano. He's my favourite music reviewer and I find his reviews very insightful and comfy. They help me rethink my musical opinions and even with I disagree with him, I feel like I understand music better. He's controversial because despite him being upfront about a lot of good progressive beliefs he has, he's been a bit chummy with various members of the alt-right and internet "rationalism". He's also strangely defensive of "capitalism" despite being very passionate about socialized health care. I have some bad news https://www.thefader.com/2017/10/03/needle-drop-deleted-youtube-channel-this-is-the-plan
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Mokinokaro posted:He's the idiot who runs Rock, Paper, Shotgun and literally the worst bits of the "PC Master race" morons distilled. So it's definitely Walker not understanding and misusing 'gameplay'.
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MariusLecter posted:So it's definitely Walker not understanding and misusing 'gameplay'. Apparently this all spawned from an article he wrote about wanting the ability to skip sections in games he finds too difficult/annoying/etc. https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2017/10/02/assassins-creed-origins-tourism-difficulty/ The articles full of his holier than thou snark as usual. The guy basically asks for trolls to go after him just due to how he writes even when he's making decent points.
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The Vosgian Beast posted:I have some bad news https://www.thefader.com/2017/10/03/needle-drop-deleted-youtube-channel-this-is-the-plan I'm not surprised, one of the last times I'd looked at them they were getting all friendly with Carlgon and that's pretty much become one of the clear signs that you're on your way out.
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AriadneThread posted:anime avatars Do you know what it means when someone has an anime avatar? It means that they prolly like anime. Mokinokaro posted:Apparently this all spawned from an article he wrote about wanting the ability to skip sections in games he finds too difficult/annoying/etc. He's talked about this idea more than a couple of times (he links to the other instances in the article). He's also holds a similar grudge with boss battles in games. Really, though, that's not the worst take I read from Rock Paper Shotgun recently. This "gem" of an article about Brutal Doom is the worst, because if you know anything about BD, you know that this article is utter garbage.
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Max Wilco posted:Do you know what it means when someone has an anime avatar? that's incredibly illegal
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I admire RPS for how it consistently drives alt-righties and gators utterly bonkers but it is amazingly stupid and cringey more often than not.
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Having the ability to skip sections of a game you can't get past is good and should be encouraged.
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I'd agree in certain respects, as you should be able to drop down into any part of the game ala screen select just for the sake of looking at a particular part of the medium. I'd say if you're skipping content as a part of how you primarily experience a game then that indicates a failure, either in the game's design or in you as a player. Either that part was bad and should have been excised entirely or you're actively undermining the experience of a good game, a la what those weird Mormon studios do when they edit out all "sinful" content from movies.
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Terrible Opinions posted:I'd agree in certain respects, as you should be able to drop down into any part of the game ala screen select just for the sake of looking at a particular part of the medium. I'd say if you're skipping content as a part of how you primarily experience a game then that indicates a failure, either in the game's design or in you as a player. Either that part was bad and should have been excised entirely or you're actively undermining the experience of a good game, a la what those weird Mormon studios do when they edit out all "sinful" content from movies. There's a difference between saying, "I wish you could skip the boss fights in Dark Souls" and "I wish you the skip the Bed of Chaos and the Four Kings."
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Idubbbz releases a new Content Cop and gets the #1 trending video worldwide. Jesus christ, dude. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bukzXzsG77o
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I have no idea who either of these people are.
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Max Wilco posted:https://twitter.com/botherer/status/915203544176840704 I vaguely remember a dude who developed an entire philosophy, somehow based around Kierkegaard, who also had a weird hatred of the concept of gameplay, Anybody know about who I am talking?
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e X posted:I vaguely remember a dude who developed an entire philosophy, somehow based around Kierkegaard, who also had a weird hatred of the concept of gameplay, Anybody know about who I am talking? icycalm
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Max Wilco posted:There's a difference between saying, "I wish you could skip the boss fights in Dark Souls" and "I wish you the skip the Bed of Chaos and the Four Kings."
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Terrible Opinions posted:Similar to how the proper way to play Fallout 3 is
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is idubzzzzzzzz someone famous or what
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Fine then. The proper way to play Baldur's Gate 2 is with Dungeon Begone, Skyrim is with the mod that hides the Creator's Club, and Total War occasionally requires a mod to disable agents .
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Terrible Opinions posted:I'd agree in certain respects, as you should be able to drop down into any part of the game ala screen select just for the sake of looking at a particular part of the medium. I'd say if you're skipping content as a part of how you primarily experience a game then that indicates a failure, either in the game's design or in you as a player. Either that part was bad and should have been excised entirely or you're actively undermining the experience of a good game, a la what those weird Mormon studios do when they edit out all "sinful" content from movies. I was all set to argue that skipping content in games is contrary to the entire medium but then I thought about it for a second. I can skip to any page I want to in a book, or fast-forward as much as I want in a movie. It might impact my enjoyment. I might not understand what's going on. But I can do it. So I don't know. Maybe the inherent interactivity of games means that making "I can't beat this hard thing"-skipping a standard feature would undermine the whole endeavor even more than it does in other media, but I don't know. I'm not as convinced of that as I was before I started typing this post, honestly. Any argument I can come up with comes down to "but the player will have a worse experience," and I can apply that to literally any other medium, too. Would standardized content-skipping be even worse because of what that content is in games? This isn't really an argument and I recognize I have no coherent point, but I guess the whole thing is a lot less clear-cut than I originally treated it as.
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I think it's like if you skip past say all the scenes of graphic violence in the Godfather. I wouldn't fault you for that, we all have our own thresholds for violence. However you have to recognize that the version of the movie you experienced isn't the same as the version most other people experienced, and isn't the version the creator originally intended. You can argue the version you experienced is better, but it only really holds water if you experienced both to compare them. I mean this is the exact sort of discuss that comes with alternative cuts of movies. Skipping boss fights could result in a good director's cut or it could result in a TBS TV cut. It's all in the particular game. Terrible Opinions fucked around with this message at 17:03 on Oct 4, 2017 |
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watho posted:Having the ability to skip sections of a game you can't get past is good and should be encouraged. Just make it cost 5 bucks or something.
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I think idubz is the guy who ironically said friend of the family cause some white woman kept saying friend of the family to make her uncomfortable? I don't understand how someone else saying friend of the family would make one person who happily says it feel uncomfortable but then again I don't have a #1 trending video on my youtube channel.
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I would like to be able to skip the Clank levels of Ratchet and Clank. Not because they are hard but because they are wildly different compared to the rest of the game and hurt my fingers when I have to run away from the big robot man.
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Leal posted:I think idubz is the guy who ironically said friend of the family cause some white woman kept saying friend of the family to make her uncomfortable? I don't understand how someone else saying friend of the family would make one person who happily says it feel uncomfortable but then again I don't have a #1 trending video on my youtube channel. it was some dumb thing where she said it and tried to be all 'yea I don't care it's just a word' so his reaction was to say it a bunch and creep on her at some public event calling her a friend of the family and somehow that...got her? idubz is really stupid.
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