Internet Critic Discussion Thread 3.0: 0 Days Since The Last Drama Bomb

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FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

Jimbot posted:

Only thing I disagree with in the Plinkett review is that all the characters in the original film get good development. Winston, I found, got shafted something fierce. They hire him and he is kind of just... there. They give him a few good lines but compared to the other three he's just a fourth uniform in the background. When I read of the diminished role of him and how Ernie Hudson was kind of bummed that the character changed so much from the script, you really notice when you watch the film.

IIRC Eddie Murphy was the original choice for Ghostbusters but had a schedule conflict or it didn't work out, so I'm guessing they had to change it from that.

# ¿ Aug 9, 2017 15:28

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# ¿ May 12, 2024 15:56

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

I'm not sure why Paul Feig was even there when it's clear from the commentaries and the on-set footage that he was just letting the actors do whatever they wanted. As the review points out near the end, he's like a grade school teacher just standing around and laughing at how the kids have taken over the production. From what I can tell he was not doing anything close to what is traditionally considered directing. He might as well have just been the cinematographer.

# ¿ Aug 9, 2017 17:25

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

adamcantsleep posted:

KayTee posted:

Is he still doing them? I used to watch him habitually up until his movie came out and I haven't really followed him since...

The last I checked he was putting them at the end of videos.

# ¿ Aug 12, 2017 03:32

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

Has he lost a lot of subscribers since all of this happened? I know i unfollowed him, which was no big loss anyway because his video output even before it turned out he was a Nazi was not good

# ¿ Aug 27, 2017 15:52

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

It was not in my class, but i remember other people I knew in Middle School having to read Atlas Shrugged

# ¿ Sep 17, 2017 20:11

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

I feel like we are going to start hearing many, many more stories like this one.

https://twitter.com/thelindsayellis/status/917921899170148353

# ¿ Oct 11, 2017 03:29

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

Arcsquad12 posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOSUWFgLWGU

EA kills Visceral Games, and Jim loving Sterling Son called it two years ago.

It also sounds like they have killed whatever this single player Star Wars game Amy Hennig has been working on for 3 years. Knowing how the industry is moving, it's probably being turned into some kind of multiplayer MMOish game where they can make a killing on loot boxes

# ¿ Oct 18, 2017 02:20

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

John Murdoch posted:

EA's statement on the matter strongly implied (to the point of really just being barely veiled admittance) exactly that.

Yes those press releases were not subtle at all as long as you know how to decipher corporate lawyer-speak

# ¿ Oct 18, 2017 03:20

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

The Super Bowl appearance may have been the worst live music I have ever heard. It was embarrassing.

# ¿ Oct 21, 2017 23:57

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

Rights with videos are pretty weird. Like when Spill shut down, Hollywood.com wouldn�t let the former Spill people buy the rights even thought they weren�t using them. Most of their videos are probably lost that others didn�t rehost.

# ¿ Oct 23, 2017 16:25

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

The Best of the Worst Halloween Special- in which bad movies and alcohol finally break Mike's brain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1QJazEHMUo

# ¿ Oct 29, 2017 02:56

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

IGN determined that if you wanted all of the items in Battlefront 2 it would take you 6 months. That�s insane and clearly done on purpose to steer people towards lovely loot boxes.

# ¿ Nov 16, 2017 06:09

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

OldMemes posted:

Lootboxes are fine as a optional extra in free to play games, but shouldn't be in full price games. Have what you can buy with ingame currency clearly marked and labelled, and offer them for mircotransactions if you must have them for players who want to use them. The random element just doesn't work outside of a free to play model.

Correct. Putting them in $60+ games is just pure greed. It also pretty much kills the balance in online.

# ¿ Nov 16, 2017 20:17

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

They turned off microtransactions 'temporarily'

http://www.ign.com/articles/2017/11/17/ea-takes-star-wars-battlefront-ii-microtransactions-offline

If customers complain loudly enough they will stop this poo poo, we saw it some years back when there was a lot of pushback over the 'Online Pass' garbage, which EA also pioneered

# ¿ Nov 17, 2017 03:35

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

It made me laugh that Mike was not very happy with Thor: Ragnarok (mainly because he had a bad theater experience), but was fine with Justice League because it was bad enough to be entertaining. If nothing else I can rarely, if ever, figure out where he's going to fall on a film.

# ¿ Nov 19, 2017 04:31

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

His dead mall videos are great. He was just down here in FL for a month filming our dead gay malls so I�m looking forward to those eventual videos

# ¿ Nov 25, 2017 21:52

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

It is pretty amazing that nobody actually involved in this game has any idea what it's even about. Although at this point I'm not sure if they have actually worked on the game proper that much. I feel like we have like 5 more years of seeing these trailers before we see gameplay, knowing how Kojima is with deadlines.

# ¿ Dec 10, 2017 05:02

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

Absurd Alhazred posted:

Oh, no!

She must have, I was following her and now I do not see her listed under my followed accounts

# ¿ Dec 24, 2017 03:30

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

Absurd Alhazred posted:

I did confirm it. I'm not denying the fact that it happened, I'm just expressing my dismay at that fact.

She must have done it without warning, because I swear she was on there this week

# ¿ Dec 24, 2017 03:37

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

Leal posted:

Maybe to get back in good graces Disney should release an actually good Star Wars game. You know, not a FPS that is exclusive to a company whose cash cow IS an FPS and thus they are in direct competition.

Disney basically stopped making games themselves a few years ago, and shut down the companies that they had in-house. Instead they are farming the IPs to other companies.

# ¿ Dec 27, 2017 05:39

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

Neddy Seagoon posted:

Sales dropped off a cliff into the bargain bin after a couple of weeks, which only means everyone knew it was done.

Mass Effect: Andromeda is not only badly made but badly written as well. It outright lies to the player about its initial premises, and you can poke major holes in almost any plot point by thinking about them for two seconds.

You are going to explore new worlds!
You are playing catch-up to two years of prior colonization.

Only the Pathfinders can find habitable worlds!
Aside from the exiled mutiners, who found a tolerable one. The actual colonists tried to settle on a radioactive desert wasteland and failed. Twice.

Also the basic premise of the Pathfinder is to be the eyes and ears of an AI evaluating unknown planet conditions. You know, the job a cheap probe could do from orbit in ME2&3.

Also there are only really the two alien species that are new, the rest are just the species from the first three Mass Effect games

It's more embarrassing that they ended up with the product they did, considering it had like 5 years of development.

# ¿ Jan 2, 2018 06:32

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

SgtSteel91 posted:

If Kotaku is to be believed, 3 of those years were spent trying to make procedurally generated planets like in No Man's Sky

Right, which all got thrown out for a couple of planets that you can actually go on, and keep going back to repeatedly

# ¿ Jan 2, 2018 07:18

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

New Butt Order posted:

The continued popularity and success of Taylor Swift is one of those things that make me quietly wonder if I've been deposited here from a very similar parallel dimension. Her singles didn't get worse, they're just equally bad in new and innovative ways.

Honestly it seems to me like you just have to be popular to be financially successful in pop music at this point, the actual product is not that important. I don't think this is new either, there are just a few pop stars like Swift and Beyonce who can sell music sight-unseen because of their personas.

# ¿ Jan 3, 2018 04:19

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

I�m surprised Linkara only left now.

But as it has been brought up in the thread, CA is pointless in an era where internet critics can no longer survive on ad revenue alone.

# ¿ Mar 24, 2018 22:46

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

PASS THE MASH posted:

If they actually want an anniversary anybody will care about they have to fire Michaud and make amends with everyone they�ve pissed off. So nobody will care.

Isn't Michaud one of the owners of the site? I don't think it's that simple.

# ¿ Mar 26, 2018 01:36

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

I'm so glad that Twitter has protected us from Kyle's extremely offensive tweets.

https://twitter.com/KyleKallgren/status/980465664296091648

# ¿ Apr 1, 2018 16:36

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

Sarcopenia posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7oCYQ00hBM
Haha holy poo poo yes Phelous!

I reported a profile for impersonating someone who literally said that they were David Hogg in their description and used his face as their profile picture. Twitter didn't ban them. I've noticed that reporting anything that is obvious harassment of the school shooting victims doesn't get any reaction. Sooo what the gently caress with this.

This is a company that had to come up with ridiculous excuses as to why Trump could be allowed to violate the site�s Terms of Service and not get banned.

# ¿ Apr 1, 2018 18:45

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

Even with its bugs, New Vegas is still my favorite Fallout game

# ¿ Apr 1, 2018 19:06

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

khwarezm posted:

I'm just amused at using Mad Max as an example. The game is fine, but like, really by the numbers open world exploration that's got too much of a grind, as well as being nothing at all like the Bethesda games it supposedly clowns.

Yeah it�s ok, but very repetitive

# ¿ Apr 1, 2018 21:21

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

The town building thing was so half-assed, they should have left it out

# ¿ Apr 1, 2018 22:29

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

I think I had read that certain options were cut out of FO4, like making peace with all factions? Because as it is in FO4, you have to piss someone off to finish the story, whether it is the Institute, Brotherhood, Minutemen, or Railroad.

# ¿ Apr 3, 2018 14:59

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

NikkolasKing posted:

Well I don't think Fallout 3 is a bad game? Sorry. Same for Skyrim. They exist to be explored and if you enjoy exploring them, they have succeeded at their entire reason for being. Neither is close to perfect, and I can think of a lot of ways I'd improve them, but they delivered everything I wanted in an RPG. Namely roleplaying in a cool fictional world.

And I just want to sate that I think New Vegas is a better game than 3 in a lot of ways. But there's something about the Capital Wasteland - the environmental storytelling in it, the constant random encounters, etc. - that made me love it to this day. In New Vegas you just stroll on down the road to New Vegas and everything is mostly fine. In 3, you make a wrong turn and wind up in an Enclave camp with a Deathclaw and then also a Giant Radscorpion wanders into the fray. That was literally my first ever encounter with a Deathclaw. It's a cherished gaming memory for me and NV has nothing really like it. (I mostly remember story stuff for NV)

In NV you can easily walk into an area near the starting town where you can quickly get murdered by wildlife.

I enjoyed all three games, but I would put FO3 last because of the weak main story, bad ending that had to be corrected by DLC, and fewer interesting environments.

I would also say that FO4 has the weakest DLC of the three. Far Harbor was the best to me, but Automatron was eh and Nuka World was alright but not amazing. Compare those to what they did with NV (particularly Old World Blues) and 3 (all of them except Anchorage), and it�s disappointing. Instead of extra story stuff they focused on those extra armor/building packs.

# ¿ Apr 3, 2018 17:28

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

I�ve been pretty disappointed in the lack of response from Brad during this whole thing.

# ¿ Apr 8, 2018 01:41

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# ¿ May 12, 2024 15:56

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

I think it was already known that the crossovers were a bad deal for whoever was doing it with Doug since he got to keep the money and control of the scripts

# ¿ Apr 8, 2018 19:59

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