CLANG - sword fencing controller for more than "quick attack" and "strong attack" - by Beleg Cúthalion
faetal on 17/6/2012 at 18:58
I always took it be mildly aware of itself, without being 100% caricature. It's rammed with tropes, but that didn't stop me enjoying it.
june gloom on 17/6/2012 at 20:02
Quote Posted by henke
Could've fooled me. Seems like every time someone mentions enjoying something you do not you always have huge problems with it.
More like I mention I don't like something and there's a collective gasp of horror and a lot of clucking and tsking. Which doesn't change my opinion any.
faetal on 17/6/2012 at 20:08
Quote Posted by dethtoll
I mention I don't like something
I thought you said it was objectively bad.
Also, who was trying to change your opinion? My point was just that your opinion isn't law.
I don't think you have bad taste because you don't like a book I like. Opinions vary.
There are exceptions for some things, like for example, I'd question the taste of someone who told me that e.g. Mortyr was the best game ever made, bar none; but in this case, it was that Snow Crash is not objectively AWFUL. I didn't say it was the best book ever, just refuted that it is dreadful to the extent that enjoying it means a lapse in judgement.
june gloom on 17/6/2012 at 20:24
Quote Posted by faetal
I thought you said it was objectively bad.
I did and I stand by that. But I was responding to henke's more general claim. He's wrong of course.
faetal on 17/6/2012 at 20:30
Oh I see, it's a catch-phrase.
catbarf on 18/6/2012 at 16:14
Quote Posted by dethtoll
More like I mention I don't like something
Quote Posted by dethtoll
I did and I stand by that.
Y'know, just a thought, but 'this is objectively bad by universal standards and you are WRONG and TERRIBLE for liking it' isn't quite the same as 'I don't like it'.
faetal on 18/6/2012 at 16:16
That's what I was getting at, but somehow I get branded a martyr (which I still don't quite get - martyrdom comes from some kind of sacrifice to a higher authority in the name of a cause or belief as I recall...is...is Dethtoll the higher authority?) for it. I wasn't even intending to be too pissy about it, but my workload and stress levels kind of drain every last iota of measure and patience from my prose these days.
Malf on 18/6/2012 at 16:38
I read Snow Crash for the first time recently, and thoroughly enjoyed it. It's definitely interesting reading it now considering many hold it up as one of the pillars of the genre, and near-future stuff from the Nineties is always good for a chuckle.
But some of his concepts were great, and he has a knack for action when he finally gets around to it.
But I'm really not sure he understands games and gaming if he intends for a motion controller to be the primary way of interacting with his game. Did he miss the point where core gamers* abandoned every motion controller like the gimmicks they are?
*Yes, it's a horrible marketing term, but it's a quick way of identifying a demographic, one with heavy representation amongst PC gamers.
Yakoob on 18/6/2012 at 17:58
Well, just because no one has done a motion controller "right" doesn't mean we should stop trying.
also, I may be mistaken but I dont recall him saying he is ONLY targetting hardcore gamers. Plenty of people playing Wii / Move / Kinect who might fun some casual sword skirmishes fun.
