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Mustang if you dont show your undying love of corridor walker 73, beige hallways i will cut you, cut you with a daikatana, according to all reports it will rock your face off, after which i expect there is no recovery.
I think most people who love 90's games think back, almost exclusively, to SNES games and adventure games.
I think of pc games (being well into my 30s now). I think that your frame of reference will be skewed by how old you were in the 90s.
Doom, X-Com, Wolfenstein, Star Craft, Tie Fighter, Quake, Diablo 2.. in addition to adventure games like Monkey Island, Gabriel Knight, and Grim Fandango.
So despite how fantastic a lot of the games above were, they were laced with bugs, config.sys and autoexec.bat tweaking, driver problems and support, which is why i mentioned that godawful mess that is daikatana (which while not released in the 90s, april 2000, is pinnacle of the crap he was talking about.)
But I see your point.
edit: I should say that I mostly played games that ran on fucking 8inch floppies and shareware (I played the first level of Decent like a motherfuck) in the early 90's. I didn't get a nes till I was like 8 (which was '96), I think.
Doom(93), X-Com (94), Wolfenstein (92), Tie Fighter (94), Quake (96), Monkey Island (90,91,97,00), Gabriel Knight (93 95 99), Grim Fandango (98)
I had no idea Grim Fandango was that late. Going soft up top maybe. I was a teenager entering the 90s. Now I feel old.
why in the shitting fuck do people subject themselves to that tawdry miserable bullshit?
disclaimer: I have been to only two clubs. maybe I just went to the shitty ones.
I've had fun at clubs, but it mostly has to do with enjoying the people I was with. That said, I'd still rather be with those same people doing something else entirely. Really more of a dive bar kinda guy.
that's usually what I do with one of my friends on the weekend
we just sit in a dive bar talking about stuff and playing pool and drinking
the club was just awful
I couldn't hear anything and hence talk to anyone
dancefloor was too crowded for me to bust out my sick moves (sick moves count: 0)
thank god they brought out the cranberry juice and vodka or the night would have been a complete waste
maybe one day it will all click for me
What?
I also like TES, but CoD? I haven't bought one since COD4.
OH JEEZ, you're so right, I better go buy The AVATAR with some 3d glasses and listen to JUSTIN MOTHER FUCKING BEIBER.
Nope you definitely came across as an elitist prick. Godfather and I, I guess we aren't allowed an opinion because you think it isn't good enough...
You don't seem to understand, the kickstarter? Was... in response to fucking nappa... has nothing to do with what you responded to in the first place.
Seriously, textual medium on forums are quite possibly the worst method of communication.
Yes like psychonauts.
There is not really an argument as to whether COD is CURRENTLY creative or not. Because it isn't. Assassin's creed 50, final fantasy 500, call of duty 5 with a subscription, gears of war dlc subscriptions... When are they going to get back to making video games.
Seriously? Just make a game worth playing and this conversation is over. I wasn't trying to say skyrim is a bad game, but after 250 hours of skyrim I don't really think there is much left for me to play.
May 15, y u no here... :C
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Essentially, you're over there, I'm over here, and never the twain shall meet. Best just to agree to disagree.
And if we're looking for the Citizen Kane of video games, let me just say while I appreciate the craft of Citizen Kane (directing, cinematography, etc), I've yet to meet a non-film student who actually enjoys Citizen Kane. At which point, I feel you're more of a proof of concept than an actual film.
Apply to video games wherever you feel it's necessary.
I write news there. It is fun.
hello my name is Tam
and that's Angel of Bacon over there
EDIT: I mean, how can you not enjoy this scene (this is a rhetorical question just to be clear- I'm just using the opportunity as an excuse to post this because I dig it.):
huuuurrgggghhhh
vomit everywhere
I need a mop
By no means, your opinion is more than welcome. I would never invalidate that.
I'm merely saying outside of a specific sphere of enthusiasts, the love of the film seems to drop off sharply.
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I did really enjoy watching the drama of a man rise and fall though
and I didn't even know it was (sort of) about WR Hearst the first time I watched it!
I enjoy it immensely. I'm just saying it doesn't resonate with many audiences today, or even ten years ago. The craft is untouchable, but the film itself? I'm not sure it stands up to the test of time as much. Something like the Wizard of Oz hits the average viewer more in my personal opinion.
It was a direct counter and attack to Ninjai's point that somehow all developers these days have stopped making creative works. That's false and insulting at best. The developers are still straining against the commercial systems that bind them, like Sakaguchi did when he made his last ditch attempt called 'Final Fantasy'. And with digital distribution, that's even less of a problem, like it was during the heyday of shareware on the PC. Creative games are happening all the goddamn time, and 2011 should be a clear testament to that. And that's even assuming those making CoD, AC, or whatever marquee titles are not trying to push the boundaries.
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That being said, Citizen Kane, apart from some seriously hammy acting, has some utterly amazing sequences.
I never said that. I said call of duty... COD. If you want to argue the ARTISTIC MERITS of CALL OF DUTY, I have a nice spot on the wall for you to beat your head against.
If you want to talk art in games, lets talk journey, braid, Dear Esther, really most indie games available on steam, or hell lets debate whether Dear Esther is a game, because I sure think that it is...
I for one devour everything that extra credits makes because I agree with them 90% of the time, and think that what they're trying to do with relevance to art in gaming is amazing, etc. I never said there is no art in gaming... If you gathered that from what I said than you didn't read what I said.
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That is because most people are ignorant to film tradecraft. Most people are just fine with movies like Pearl Harbor and Titanic, and would much rather watch Transformers 4 than Lord of the Rings, or watch Avatar to watching District 9. They don't understand WHY twilight are bad movies, just that its cool to hate it. They don't understand WHY Saving Private Ryan is a good movie just that "the beach scene was pretty cool."
Blocking, story, pacing, set design... other things that I'm not remembering... I was/am being taught concepts from Citizen Kain in drama classes in both high school and college.
All you need to do is study this one film to hate most modern movies that are produced.
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Basically I like all kinds of games to exist, and don't like hearing one series or category being treated like an irredeemable cesspit of spoiled artistry.
I can agree with that to an extent. CoD 4 modern warfare, chernobyl. You have to sneak through a fairly sized modern city that was literally vacant. Along with being one of the more fun stealth missions I've ever played in a game, the isolation once you entered the city was unmistakable, and gave more of a wasteland feeling than anything in the fallout series IMO.
But I feel like the "copy pasted" level design along with the very generic writing overshadows any element of art that is left.
I mentioned this a bit earlier, I don't think that good writing and more specific level design is risky to a developer, and that they should spend more time doing THAT instead of hyping up useless perks and so much multiplayer... I mean honestly, has anyone even played half life 2 multiplayer?
Everyone who has ever beaten half life 2 will remember these locations specifically because of the ingeneous level design.
Similar to this moment Darth Vader oxygen chamber moment. Half life 2 is littered with these kinds of identifying moments.
And the writing only very little more than the resistance people telling you what your next mission is. All you had hear in terms of ravenholm was that they "don't go there anymore" and it was one of the creepiest segments in an FPS I've ever played.
I want more of these.
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Also I can't take anything Ninjai says seriously because he gets uppity and snobby about "Citizen Kain".
I'm not one of these people lol
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Seriously, a dog is going to be great. This one was at the shelter for almost a year, presumably because she's older.
... but she's still super energetic and I have high hopes our adventures will serve as a another motivator for me to get off my dead ass.
Yay pup! I know not technically a puppy but all dogs are always pups to me. Our dog is a 6 years old now and hes still our puppy.