I used to push through books thinking I always had to complete them. One of the hardest was Riddle of the Sands, because I read that aged about 13 and it's full of sailing jargon.
Then I realised life was too short and if a book doesn't grab me within the first 100 pages, it doesn't grab me.
And I've never been dissatisfied with not finding out the endings!
boy
if a book doesn't grab you in 100 pages I don't think anyone is gonna fault you for putting that down
On the subject of best games ever, the Ico/Shadow of the Colossus boxset is the number one seller in North America and Japan this week. That makes me happy.
what? really? i would not have expected that. i guess nothing else big came out this week.
Yup, which I'm happy about since it beat out Gears of War 3 and FIFA 12.
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Garlic Breadi'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm aRegistered User, Disagreeableregular
I used to push through books thinking I always had to complete them. One of the hardest was Riddle of the Sands, because I read that aged about 13 and it's full of sailing jargon.
Then I realised life was too short and if a book doesn't grab me within the first 100 pages, it doesn't grab me.
And I've never been dissatisfied with not finding out the endings!
boy
if a book doesn't grab you in 100 pages I don't think anyone is gonna fault you for putting that down
Yeah, I have that problem with games. If it doesn't snag me in an hour, I'm not gonna play it
which is one of the reasons I can't get into Oblivion or Fallout or any of those
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Ubikoh pete, that's later. maybe we'll be dead by thenRegistered Userregular
i have no interest in reading lolita and probably never will!
Well it isn't nearly good enough.
I need to be able to sell my used eBooks on with them retaining all the dongs I drew in chapters three to five for someone else to find.
Also, I like being able to highlight a word and check it on the dictionary, they even have proper nouns and people (for example, when reading Wolf Hall I liked being able to click on all the names - Cromwell, Cranmer, Wolsey etc. - to bring up a short biography).
And multiple bookmarks! There are a lot of handy features.
I get the idea that they're pretty run-of-the-mill shooters and they ain't popular compared to your halos and calls of duty but fuck you I'm gonna spawn on the map by being shot from orbit and I'm gonna jetpack around everywhere and lock on to people and then order a big stompy mech and beat dudes up with it
It looks like there are a lot of conflicted reactions here. I'd hazard a guess that if the developers decided that this was something that they wanted reporters to see and write about, they didn't view it as a major plot point.
Of course some of you don't want to know anything about a game before you play it, which makes these sorts of things troubling.
We do discuss these sorts of issues before running a story and in this case we decided that it makes the most sense to treat the news of the event as the news.
"It looks like there are a lot of conflicted reactions here."
Bullshit, there's only one reaction, and it's coming from pretty much everyone. Don't act like this is some sort of grey area. You guys MADE A MISTAKE, and you need to own up to it.
You can report whatever you want, but there is absolutely no excuse for spoiling a major plot point in an unavoidable article title. You put that shit behind a spoiler warning like every other self-respecting gaming website.
If this was truly a decision made by Kotaku as a whole, then it was a monumentally stupid decision. I ask you to please give me one good reason why a spoiler warning couldn't have been added, and why the article title simply MUST contain the spoiler.
Conflicted? To me they look rather consistent and unanimous.
Even if it was a detail that the developers were content with releasing to the public, by no stretch of the imagination does that exclude it from being a spoiler, insofar as it spoils an aspect of the story. Whether you guess as to whether it's a major plot point or otherwise.
The community's reaction here speaks to whether it was a spoiler, by the very fact that we feel the experience was spoiled. The reaction you had when you came to that moment in the demo? We're all deprived of it now. That's what makes it a spoiler.
Some people care more than others for the lack of that moment, but the moment is gone all the same.
Well I'm not sure if harder discussion would have lead to a different decision. The people who made the game gave us the news. We reported the news.
I've always felt that spoilers were things not used in the marketing of a game. If a developer is marketing the game with information, that information isn't a spoiler in their mind, one would think.
This was an event created to market the game. So we reported on it.
Guess who's not owning up
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BugBoyboy.EXE has stopped functioning.only bugs remainRegistered Userregular
I'm far more uncomfortable with the idea of us needing to self-censor or downplay news disseminated to the press than I am with the idea of spoiling part of the first act of a game. I am in the same boat as you. I didn't play Act 1 either! Is it nice to be surprised? Sure. Is it our job as reporters to not report the most newsworthy things we're told? Or to hide that news? I say no.
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Super Mario Bros 3
Baldur's Gate series
Shadow of the Colossus
Starcraft
Turtles in Time
Portal 2
Majora's Mask
Team Fortress 2
WoW
Super Metroid
I'm gonna blame it on these forums
Will begin reading once my headache subsides
boy
if a book doesn't grab you in 100 pages I don't think anyone is gonna fault you for putting that down
Yup, which I'm happy about since it beat out Gears of War 3 and FIFA 12.
Yeah, I have that problem with games. If it doesn't snag me in an hour, I'm not gonna play it
which is one of the reasons I can't get into Oblivion or Fallout or any of those
I have no idea how people do that
not even just because it is hard to read--all my books are absolutely covered in notes
look
everybody knows that sinfest blows
I'm exactly the same. It's why I love my Kindle so much.
You write notes on your Kindle?
Yes.
yea, i'm preaching to the choir on that one
no one even pretends to like it like they do with jerkcity
It is, Keith. It would be a shitty substitute for a book if you couldn't take notes on it.
that maybe isn't enough to get me to buy one, but is a pretty big deal
Yes, you can also highlight passages and such. At least on the version I have, which is the latest version before the newest one.
That was an awkward sentence.
I need to be able to sell my used eBooks on with them retaining all the dongs I drew in chapters three to five for someone else to find.
Also, I like being able to highlight a word and check it on the dictionary, they even have proper nouns and people (for example, when reading Wolf Hall I liked being able to click on all the names - Cromwell, Cranmer, Wolsey etc. - to bring up a short biography).
And multiple bookmarks! There are a lot of handy features.
e: also agree about reading long stories on computer screens. Turning pages is my motivation.
what should I read
nope.avi
Gang of Daggers.
I get the idea that they're pretty run-of-the-mill shooters and they ain't popular compared to your halos and calls of duty but fuck you I'm gonna spawn on the map by being shot from orbit and I'm gonna jetpack around everywhere and lock on to people and then order a big stompy mech and beat dudes up with it
Almost forgot about this
Someone tried to tell me today that this is Warner Brothers PR's fault
Which is kind of ridiculous. The point of a press event is to get the press excited about the game
Which this did
and you know what, even reporting it is probably fine
But who the fuck puts it on the front page of your site in huge letters. That's blood on journalist hands.
the comments section of the article is... more intelligent than the article itself?
I don't understand
http://www.audioentropy.com/
It's not reporting on some news and being a super journalist guy.
It'd be like saying the ending of a game is just reporting the news. It's not a spoiler, you guys, you just didn't know about it yet.
Guess who's not owning up
this is incredibly stupid
Developers...
Like yeah Bioshock is a better game than XCOM but I know which I'd rather go back to