Yeah, I know it wasn't a terrible game or anything, but the trailer drastically overshadows the game. That's my point.
This on the other hand looks to be incredible and if the trailer is any indication, I will buy this game day one.
I believe the trailer indicates that is game will have zombies (some in bikinis! hot zombie boobs and ass!) and islands and dead people. (maybe some fire axes too).
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Tofu wrote: Here be Littleboots, destroyer of threads and master of drunkposting.
That's because it has nothing to do with Operation Flashpoint. That was Bohemia Interactive. Dragon Rising was made by codemasters because they still owned the rights. Kind of like how Harmonix made Rock Band and Activision was still able to churn out bad Guitar Hero games. Bohemia went on to make the excellent Armed Assault series. You should pick up ArmA 2 for a worthy successor to OF.
That's because it has nothing to do with Operation Flashpoint. That was Bohemia Interactive. Dragon Rising was made by codemasters because they still owned the rights. Kind of like how Harmonix made Rock Band and Activision was still able to churn out bad Guitar Hero games. Bohemia went on to make the excellent Armed Assault series. You should pick up ArmA 2 for a worthy successor to OF.
thank you for the protip! i had heard good things about ArmA 2, but I didn't know it was something of an OF successor...
They have absolutely nothing to do with the games themselves. Google "Mega man box art" and see how much it resembles the experience you'll have playing the actual game.
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They made an amazing trailer imho and it did it's job (generated emotion).
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I finished the trailers and felt the same way (although not as strongly) as that Rooster Teeth guy. I also have a daughter and its really tough to watch things like that. I don't know why, but my brain inserts me and my daughter into the place of the father and daughter in that vid.
And it sucks to watch that when your imagination is strong.
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Putting yourself into the characters shoes is how you relate to something.
And while I understand the dudes position on the video, it's not a critical response. It's purely emotional. It's why I didn't really get up in arms over the trailer or denounce the game. Did I think it went a little too far? Sure, but that doesn't make the team that put the trailer together or the developers "assholes."
That site was going for laughs with that vid, but it's not really responsible for them to treat games that way if they take them at all seriously.
They made an amazing trailer imho and it did it's job (generated emotion).
Seriously. I don't even know what to say about that. If he doesn't want to watch the trailer, who gives a shit, but I think he could stand to grow up a little.
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His response seems rather extreme, but admittedly I don't have a young daughter.
It's horror though. It's not supposed to be a nice thing.
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Eh, it's not like this is a novel concept in zombie flicks. Loved ones get turned, and usually killed. If anything, I like how it hits you in the core like that - that's the connection big guy.
Slaughtering 4.2 million mindless creatures in the process is really just icing. You can get that anywhere.
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edited February 2011
Pretty much. I mean, that fellow in the trailer looks sorta like my cousin and that sorta looks a little like his kid so that for me was what helped make it more personally horrifying.
And many people can remember the family vacation memories. Just let me get the projector set up and...
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I'm as shocked about the response of parents to the trailer, as parents are about the trailer. I just don't get that response. The characters are just faceless, virtual nothings. Not being a parent, all I can see is some generic folks getting eaten and it bores me.
I hope the next trailer will actually show me something relevant to the game and make it fun.
That rooster teeth guy is a perfect example of people I can't stand. Being emotional is fine, but over reacting like that is a huge pet peeve of mine (especially when I catch myself doing it).
I don't have kids and thought that was a heart wrenching video, but considering what the game is all about, it's really well done and achieves it's goal perfectly. Just because it inspired some less than enjoyable emotions doesn't make it okay to whine like a little bitch and refuse to judge the video/game rationally.
It's horror though. It's not supposed to be a nice thing.
This is something that's been bugging me about some of the criticism that's been flying around regarding the trailer. I don't have kids, but having a niece and nephew I can fully understand how people who DO have kids are feeling rather uncomfortable about this - you see something like that, the most horrifying thing that any parent, hell any person with a basic sense of pathy, can think of, and immedietly you start to self-insert and superimpose and whatnot, and by the end you are thoroughly creeped the fuck out.
With zombies, though, there is absolutly nothing sacred in regard to what goes on. Not because it's malicious, not because it's trying to be any more manipulative than any other kind of horror/media is, but because the undead as a concept make no differentiation between anything beyond if they're edible or not. They just do what they do, and we know that coming in, and it just sseems a bit hipocritical to be jonesing for a game based on the premise of some force trying to eat every still-living human on the face of the planet and then say "that goes too far/they're just doing that for shock" when a member of a specific considerably-sizeable denomination of the human race finally gets munched.
EDIT: And this foreign-born son of Poland says hi and fuck you too. Prick.
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I think this is where we get into the difference between interactive and non-interactive media, Sorenson. In a game, the fact that I have control does a ton to mitigate the element of horror. Given enough time and the right resources, I can force any condition that the gameworld allows. People do this sort of thing all the time. But in a film/novel/whatever where you are simply an observer, a non-participant, that lack of control creates the feeling of helplessness that real terror feeds on.
Also there's the fact that watching a child get murdered in a vidja game trailer is having all of that come at you from a bit of a blindside.
That rooster teeth guy is a perfect example of people I can't stand. Being emotional is fine, but over reacting like that is a huge pet peeve of mine (especially when I catch myself doing it).
I don't have kids and thought that was a heart wrenching video, but considering what the game is all about, it's really well done and achieves it's goal perfectly. Just because it inspired some less than enjoyable emotions doesn't make it okay to whine like a little bitch and refuse to judge the video/game rationally.
Exactly...
Overreaction/"being that guy that's not impressed" seems to be the norm when something like this comes out.
Everyone is wowed and there are the few that insist it sucks, take some emotional stand or whatnot. All are entitled to their own view of course...
I really don't care either way - I am excited for the game. I like the trailer. Yes, I know the trailer won't be the game. But I'd rather discuss delicious possibilities of this game than argue over whether a CGI trailer overstepped boundaries because marketing people are bathed in evil juice.
I liked it, I am excited, I will watch this game development closely in hopes that a dev team can deliver on my dream of giving me a viceral survival experience against the horde of the undead.
My only problem so far with this game is the setting. I don't like the idea of zombies on a tropical island. I prefer the typical kind of mid-western USA city setting.
My only problem so far with this game is the setting. I don't like the idea of zombies on a tropical island. I prefer the typical kind of mid-western USA city setting.
kind of nearly impossible to survive in a big city and far too much ground to cover from a game design standpoint.
Island would be a perfect place since there's food, easier to survive the elements and you're surrounded by water.
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EDIT: And this foreign-born son of Poland says hi and fuck you too. Prick.
Is this part supposed to be directed at me?
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"now I've got this mental image of caucuses as cafeteria tables in prison, and new congressmen having to beat someone up on inauguration day." - Raiden333
It's directed towards the over emotional RvB guy in that video. He looked up who made the game, saw they were Poland based and said fuck Poland or something like that.
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Ah, okay. I wasn't sure because my quote was in there and was a little confused for a moment there.
No worries.
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Not a game, but The Phantom Menace.
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I thought the game was awesome. :P
This on the other hand looks to be incredible and if the trailer is any indication, I will buy this game day one.
But here's the thing, Star Wars is known for that. :P
last one that fooled me with a good trailer.
loved the other OF stuff, but this one....:(
I believe the trailer indicates that is game will have zombies (some in bikinis! hot zombie boobs and ass!) and islands and dead people. (maybe some fire axes too).
Tofu wrote: Here be Littleboots, destroyer of threads and master of drunkposting.
That's because it has nothing to do with Operation Flashpoint. That was Bohemia Interactive. Dragon Rising was made by codemasters because they still owned the rights. Kind of like how Harmonix made Rock Band and Activision was still able to churn out bad Guitar Hero games. Bohemia went on to make the excellent Armed Assault series. You should pick up ArmA 2 for a worthy successor to OF.
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Oh god, I'm too late. It's utterly irredeemable, total tripe. Don't read it if you value any kind of good storytelling.
The appeal of this genre is that you band together and focus on surviving, not killing neccessarily. A la Walking Dead.
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thank you for the protip! i had heard good things about ArmA 2, but I didn't know it was something of an OF successor...
creepy...
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I'm not sure what the heck he's saying there.
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Yeah, that's pretty apt.
They made an amazing trailer imho and it did it's job (generated emotion).
And it sucks to watch that when your imagination is strong.
And while I understand the dudes position on the video, it's not a critical response. It's purely emotional. It's why I didn't really get up in arms over the trailer or denounce the game. Did I think it went a little too far? Sure, but that doesn't make the team that put the trailer together or the developers "assholes."
That site was going for laughs with that vid, but it's not really responsible for them to treat games that way if they take them at all seriously.
Seriously. I don't even know what to say about that. If he doesn't want to watch the trailer, who gives a shit, but I think he could stand to grow up a little.
It's horror though. It's not supposed to be a nice thing.
Slaughtering 4.2 million mindless creatures in the process is really just icing. You can get that anywhere.
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And many people can remember the family vacation memories. Just let me get the projector set up and...
I hope the next trailer will actually show me something relevant to the game and make it fun.
It'll be a third person action adventure where your weapons have a certain amount of durability and you unlock special moves to kill zombies.
Maybe something with a health / stamina bar.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEWIw-a0GJw
Tofu wrote: Here be Littleboots, destroyer of threads and master of drunkposting.
I don't have kids and thought that was a heart wrenching video, but considering what the game is all about, it's really well done and achieves it's goal perfectly. Just because it inspired some less than enjoyable emotions doesn't make it okay to whine like a little bitch and refuse to judge the video/game rationally.
With zombies, though, there is absolutly nothing sacred in regard to what goes on. Not because it's malicious, not because it's trying to be any more manipulative than any other kind of horror/media is, but because the undead as a concept make no differentiation between anything beyond if they're edible or not. They just do what they do, and we know that coming in, and it just sseems a bit hipocritical to be jonesing for a game based on the premise of some force trying to eat every still-living human on the face of the planet and then say "that goes too far/they're just doing that for shock" when a member of a specific considerably-sizeable denomination of the human race finally gets munched.
EDIT: And this foreign-born son of Poland says hi and fuck you too. Prick.
Also there's the fact that watching a child get murdered in a vidja game trailer is having all of that come at you from a bit of a blindside.
Exactly...
Overreaction/"being that guy that's not impressed" seems to be the norm when something like this comes out.
Everyone is wowed and there are the few that insist it sucks, take some emotional stand or whatnot. All are entitled to their own view of course...
I really don't care either way - I am excited for the game. I like the trailer. Yes, I know the trailer won't be the game. But I'd rather discuss delicious possibilities of this game than argue over whether a CGI trailer overstepped boundaries because marketing people are bathed in evil juice.
I liked it, I am excited, I will watch this game development closely in hopes that a dev team can deliver on my dream of giving me a viceral survival experience against the horde of the undead.
kind of nearly impossible to survive in a big city and far too much ground to cover from a game design standpoint.
Island would be a perfect place since there's food, easier to survive the elements and you're surrounded by water.
Is this part supposed to be directed at me?
No worries.
first-person
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To have a truly massive world populated by hordes of NPC zombies and hundreds of scattered (player) survivors. Where the "gold" is bullets and food.