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Giant Bomb: video games, comic books, and other misogyny

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  • DichotomyDichotomy Registered User regular
    square-enix representative standing off to the side shuffling awkwardly

    sony executive watching the presentation frowns and clicks his red pen

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  • -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    Langly wrote: »
    -Tal wrote: »
    I don't buy that the Wii U is fucked by Vita/PS4 connectivity any more than it was by PS3/Vita connectivity

    cause with the Wii U you just gotta buy the Wii U and for Vita/PS4 you gotta buy a Vita and a PS4

    i think the console is in jeopardy for the next few months until the big games hit, and we see how console sales are effected by that. Currently, it's selling really poorly.

    oh yeah the Wii U is in some trouble

    but I don't think Nintendo is too worried about Vita/PS4 connectivity

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  • BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    Nintendo is doomed
    Sweeney I don't think you understand how backwards compatibility actually works.

    And considering the design of the PS3, expecting the PS4 to be backwards compatible was never realistic.

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  • WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    Nintendo is doomed
    Jonathan Blow: THEY'RE NOT JUST PUZZLES FOR THE SAKE OF PUZZLES, EACH ONE HAS AN IDEA IN IT FRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRT

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  • Sweeney TomSweeney Tom Registered User regular
    edited February 2013
    Sony is doomed
    Oh I forgot, that puzzle thing was kinda pretty. Fuck Jonathan Blow though.

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  • BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    Nintendo is doomed
    Hullis wrote: »
    Jonathan Blow: THEY'RE NOT JUST PUZZLES FOR THE SAKE OF PUZZLES, EACH ONE HAS AN IDEA IN IT FRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRT

    he was so awkward on stage, it hurt me


    There is a 100% chance I will play his game though, it looks great.

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  • Mr. GMr. G Registered User regular
    Nintendo is doomed
    why do people care that we didn't see the box

    who gives a fuck about what the actual console looks like

    it'll be rectangular and about the size of a ps3

    quick, somebody tell me what the actual wii u looks like that's right you can't and that's actually out

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  • TheySlashThemTheySlashThem Registered User regular
    basically what it boils down to is the way sony cribbed nintendo and frantically incorporated motion controls last time around was stupid as hell

    whereas the wiiu ripoff in the vita/ps4 connection seems intelligently implemented, and more importantly optional

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  • DiarmuidDiarmuid Amazing Meatball Registered User regular
    Hullis wrote: »
    Jonathan Blow: THEY'RE NOT JUST PUZZLES FOR THE SAKE OF PUZZLES, EACH ONE HAS AN IDEA IN IT FRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRT
    Yep.

    Game looks neat though.

  • Vann DirasVann Diras Registered User regular
    jonathan blow rules

    love that guy

  • Sweeney TomSweeney Tom Registered User regular
    Sony is doomed
    Also here have this

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  • Indie WinterIndie Winter die Krähe Rudi Hurzlmeier (German, b. 1952)Registered User regular
    Sony is doomed
    I'm really excited for watch_dogs

    but I do want to see actual gameplay videos. Like, with people actually playing the game. With the stuff they're showing you can't really get a good sense about how the game really feels or behaves.

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  • TheySlashThemTheySlashThem Registered User regular
    more like jonathan blowing smoke am I right

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  • AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    Nintendo is doomed
    Also here have this

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    i'm looking for names that would get me excited

    i am so jaded that none of these by themselves are selling me

    Indie Winter
  • -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    I'm really excited for watch_dogs

    but I do want to see actual gameplay videos. Like, with people actually playing the game. With the stuff they're showing you can't really get a good sense about how the game really feels or behaves.

    both demos have been of people actually playing the game

    heck this demo was about them just messing around doing open-world stuff, rather than a scripted mission

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  • David_TDavid_T A fashion yes-man is no good to me. Copenhagen, DenmarkRegistered User regular
    Mr. G wrote: »
    why do people care that we didn't see the box

    Without seeing a piece of molded plastic, how do we know what's real and what's just pre-rendered? What if we're all in Watch_Dogs, man?

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  • DichotomyDichotomy Registered User regular
    that third-parties picture is so weird to me

    the big-ticket names are all off to the side or smaller
    xing? dimps? spike chunsoft? these aren't real developers, you just made them up to fill up space

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  • ButtlordButtlord Fornicus Lord of Bondage and PainRegistered User regular
    Hullis wrote: »
    Jonathan Blow: THEY'RE NOT JUST PUZZLES FOR THE SAKE OF PUZZLES, EACH ONE HAS AN IDEA IN IT FRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRT

    the line puzzles that all connect

    symbolize, like

    how we're all, y'know

    connected

    man

  • ButtlordButtlord Fornicus Lord of Bondage and PainRegistered User regular
    more like jonathan blowing smoke am I right

    jonathan blowing himself

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  • OlivawOlivaw good name, isn't it? the foot of mt fujiRegistered User regular
    I don't know what people were expecting going into this thing

    But I expected incredibly vague buzz words and pronouncements

    And instead I got a ton of actual features, some concrete info, and actual gameplay footage and real-time demos

    Admittedly, my expectations were low

    But some of that shit was actually exciting

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  • Indie WinterIndie Winter die Krähe Rudi Hurzlmeier (German, b. 1952)Registered User regular
    Sony is doomed
    -Tal wrote: »
    I'm really excited for watch_dogs

    but I do want to see actual gameplay videos. Like, with people actually playing the game. With the stuff they're showing you can't really get a good sense about how the game really feels or behaves.

    both demos have been of people actually playing the game

    heck this demo was about them just messing around doing open-world stuff, rather than a scripted mission

    I don't believe that for a second. The way the camera pans in and out? that whole thing was scripted. Very well scripted, in order to look like actual gameplay. But there was no one playing it.

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  • interrobanginterrobang kawaii as  hellRegistered User regular
    Nintendo is doomed
    the tri-ace logo has me pretty excited but i'm a huge JRPG stan and i love the Star Ocean games way more than any sane person with good taste should

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  • -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    -Tal wrote: »
    I'm really excited for watch_dogs

    but I do want to see actual gameplay videos. Like, with people actually playing the game. With the stuff they're showing you can't really get a good sense about how the game really feels or behaves.

    both demos have been of people actually playing the game

    heck this demo was about them just messing around doing open-world stuff, rather than a scripted mission

    I don't believe that for a second. The way the camera pans in and out? that whole thing was scripted. Very well scripted, in order to look like actual gameplay. But there was no one playing it.

    I'm not sure what you're asking for here

    the demos look as much like gameplay as a demo is gonna look

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  • DichotomyDichotomy Registered User regular
    I used to go to high school with Huge JRPG Stan

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  • AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    Nintendo is doomed
    the tri-ace logo has me pretty excited but i'm a huge JRPG stan and i love the Star Ocean games way more than any sane person with good taste should

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  • OlivawOlivaw good name, isn't it? the foot of mt fujiRegistered User regular
    -Tal wrote: »
    I'm really excited for watch_dogs

    but I do want to see actual gameplay videos. Like, with people actually playing the game. With the stuff they're showing you can't really get a good sense about how the game really feels or behaves.

    both demos have been of people actually playing the game

    heck this demo was about them just messing around doing open-world stuff, rather than a scripted mission

    I don't believe that for a second. The way the camera pans in and out? that whole thing was scripted. Very well scripted, in order to look like actual gameplay. But there was no one playing it.

    Oh it was scripted to hell and back, no doubt. Every demo is

    What matters is that it was in-engine in real time and there was someone generally moving the dude with the left stick

    Which, if you're going to argue that's not what we saw

    Well

    I can't really say anything to that

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  • HunteraHuntera Rude Boy Registered User regular
    I am a fighting games person because I immediately recognized Arc System Works and Capcom before anyone else.

  • PwnanObrienPwnanObrien He's right, life sucks. Registered User regular
    Quantic Dream using PS4 to advance ugly man technology

    David Cage has taken to the stage tonight to suggest that emotion in games begins and ends with graphics, proving his point with a really ugly old man head. Who needs a good script when you have the sad eyes of a near-dead warlock? Not Quantic Dream.

    Measuring emotional storytelling in terms of nothing but facial polygons, Cage unveiled this hideous old man head. Proof is in the pudding, or in this face, the wrinkly visage of a potential pederast. This is basically Cage's problem, typified. It's all about the surface-level, and not the actual depth he claims to want.

    Still ... PS4, bitches!

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  • One Thousand CablesOne Thousand Cables An absence of thought Registered User regular
    Does Paradox actually put stuff out on consoles? I'd be interested to see what they'd be doing for the PS4.

  • David_TDavid_T A fashion yes-man is no good to me. Copenhagen, DenmarkRegistered User regular
    Funniest bit of the entire press-conference, reading the G&T thread during the Killzone demo. Half the people complaining about it being early code because of bad animations and AI, the other half complaining it was all pre-rendered.

    No, favorite bit was Cerny laying it out technically. Really impressive that they let him do that. Game reveals were OK, mostly. Always up for more InFamous, tho.

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  • Cilla BlackCilla Black Priscilla!!! Registered User regular
    -Tal wrote: »
    I'm really excited for watch_dogs

    but I do want to see actual gameplay videos. Like, with people actually playing the game. With the stuff they're showing you can't really get a good sense about how the game really feels or behaves.

    both demos have been of people actually playing the game

    heck this demo was about them just messing around doing open-world stuff, rather than a scripted mission

    I don't believe that for a second. The way the camera pans in and out? that whole thing was scripted. Very well scripted, in order to look like actual gameplay. But there was no one playing it.

    What?

    Dude there is 0 chance that not just this presentation, but the E3 one from last year, weren't 100% real time gameplay.

    The camera stuff is dramatic camera work, it's in the Assassin's Creed series too. It's a ubisoft thing, not some evidence of hoodwinkery.

    -Tal
  • TheySlashThemTheySlashThem Registered User regular
    Dichotomy wrote: »
    that third-parties picture is so weird to me

    the big-ticket names are all off to the side or smaller
    xing? dimps? spike chunsoft? these aren't real developers, you just made them up to fill up space

    dimps has done a lot

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimps

    I don't know anything about the other two though

  • Indie WinterIndie Winter die Krähe Rudi Hurzlmeier (German, b. 1952)Registered User regular
    Sony is doomed
    -Tal wrote: »
    -Tal wrote: »
    I'm really excited for watch_dogs

    but I do want to see actual gameplay videos. Like, with people actually playing the game. With the stuff they're showing you can't really get a good sense about how the game really feels or behaves.

    both demos have been of people actually playing the game

    heck this demo was about them just messing around doing open-world stuff, rather than a scripted mission

    I don't believe that for a second. The way the camera pans in and out? that whole thing was scripted. Very well scripted, in order to look like actual gameplay. But there was no one playing it.

    I'm not sure what you're asking for here

    the demos look as much like gameplay as a demo is gonna look

    let me demonstrate by using Assassin's Creed as an analogy

    when you start playing any AC game, even for a short while, you learn pretty soon that you have to angle your jumps and leaps a certain way, otherwise your character does a thing where it jumps the wrong way and tumbles to the ground, possibly dying

    you would never see that type of thing happen in a demo like the one they showed

    you could see it happening a bunch in, well, "shaky cam" videos that record people actually playing with the game proper

    I want to know how the game handles when it's really being played, the sort of stuff they've shown is just a less expensive CGI trailer

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  • Cilla BlackCilla Black Priscilla!!! Registered User regular
    Quantic Dream using PS4 to advance ugly man technology

    David Cage has taken to the stage tonight to suggest that emotion in games begins and ends with graphics, proving his point with a really ugly old man head. Who needs a good script when you have the sad eyes of a near-dead warlock? Not Quantic Dream.

    Measuring emotional storytelling in terms of nothing but facial polygons, Cage unveiled this hideous old man head. Proof is in the pudding, or in this face, the wrinkly visage of a potential pederast. This is basically Cage's problem, typified. It's all about the surface-level, and not the actual depth he claims to want.

    Still ... PS4, bitches!

    I get that this is Jim Sterling trying to be funny but he must not have listened to literally any word of David Cage's presentation, where he directly mentions all the other things which generate emotional storytelling.

  • BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    Nintendo is doomed
    I thought the old man face demo was fucking awesome

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  • Sweeney TomSweeney Tom Registered User regular
    Sony is doomed
    Of all the complaints to have about that presser, WatchDogs looking scripted

    what

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  • SanderJKSanderJK Crocodylus Pontifex Sinterklasicus Madrid, 3000 ADRegistered User regular
    Nintendo is doomed
    Does Paradox actually put stuff out on consoles? I'd be interested to see what they'd be doing for the PS4.

    It's a minor enigma. If that is a list of developing studios (and not publishers), then it probably means EU4 is heading for the PS4. I mean it certainly has the specs to support it, they'd just have to get the interface right. If it also includes Publishing studios then there is a whole swath of low budget games of variable quality (Magicka, Game of Dwarves, Dungeonland etcet) that Paradox publishes.

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  • David_TDavid_T A fashion yes-man is no good to me. Copenhagen, DenmarkRegistered User regular
    -Tal wrote: »
    -Tal wrote: »
    I'm really excited for watch_dogs

    but I do want to see actual gameplay videos. Like, with people actually playing the game. With the stuff they're showing you can't really get a good sense about how the game really feels or behaves.

    both demos have been of people actually playing the game

    heck this demo was about them just messing around doing open-world stuff, rather than a scripted mission

    I don't believe that for a second. The way the camera pans in and out? that whole thing was scripted. Very well scripted, in order to look like actual gameplay. But there was no one playing it.

    I'm not sure what you're asking for here

    the demos look as much like gameplay as a demo is gonna look

    let me demonstrate by using Assassin's Creed as an analogy

    when you start playing any AC game, even for a short while, you learn pretty soon that you have to angle your jumps and leaps a certain way, otherwise your character does a thing where it jumps the wrong way and tumbles to the ground, possibly dying

    you would never see that type of thing happen in a demo like the one they showed

    you could see it happening a bunch in, well, "shaky cam" videos that record people actually playing with the game proper

    I want to know how the game handles when it's really being played, the sort of stuff they've shown is just a less expensive CGI trailer

    So it's not that you haven't seen the game being played, it's that you haven't seen the game being played poorly?

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  • Indie WinterIndie Winter die Krähe Rudi Hurzlmeier (German, b. 1952)Registered User regular
    Sony is doomed
    Of all the complaints to have about that presser, WatchDogs looking scripted

    what

    I'm not really complaining about that as it relates to the PS4 (because it doesn't), I just said I wish for an actual gameplay video, which I say this isn't

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  • Indie WinterIndie Winter die Krähe Rudi Hurzlmeier (German, b. 1952)Registered User regular
    edited February 2013
    Sony is doomed
    David_T wrote: »
    -Tal wrote: »
    -Tal wrote: »
    I'm really excited for watch_dogs

    but I do want to see actual gameplay videos. Like, with people actually playing the game. With the stuff they're showing you can't really get a good sense about how the game really feels or behaves.

    both demos have been of people actually playing the game

    heck this demo was about them just messing around doing open-world stuff, rather than a scripted mission

    I don't believe that for a second. The way the camera pans in and out? that whole thing was scripted. Very well scripted, in order to look like actual gameplay. But there was no one playing it.

    I'm not sure what you're asking for here

    the demos look as much like gameplay as a demo is gonna look

    let me demonstrate by using Assassin's Creed as an analogy

    when you start playing any AC game, even for a short while, you learn pretty soon that you have to angle your jumps and leaps a certain way, otherwise your character does a thing where it jumps the wrong way and tumbles to the ground, possibly dying

    you would never see that type of thing happen in a demo like the one they showed

    you could see it happening a bunch in, well, "shaky cam" videos that record people actually playing with the game proper

    I want to know how the game handles when it's really being played, the sort of stuff they've shown is just a less expensive CGI trailer

    So it's not that you haven't seen the game being played, it's that you haven't seen the game being played poorly?

    yes. I want a non-developer playing it, and that being recorded. But that is a personal preference, and I'm aware of it. Not condemning either the console or the game for it.

    Indie Winter on
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