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Sulphur on 23/6/2015 at 02:54

You could take the bait, or you could be smarter and summarily ignore it. Your move, forum.

Starker on 24/6/2015 at 06:01

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I'm personally looking more forward to Shadow Warrior 2 than I am to Doom 4. It's got some actual colour instead of that weird piss filter Doom seems to be going for, for starters.

Apparently, it's supposed to be a significant improvement over the reboot, with a greater weapon variety, improved sword combat (which was already pretty good AFAIC), more open less linear levels, etc.

Not really convinced by that tumble you do when jumping down from greater heights, but maybe it'll grow on me.

DarkForge on 24/6/2015 at 07:47

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I'm personally looking more forward to Shadow Warrior 2...

I...I...what...when...how...I mean... Why am I only just now finding out this exists??? :eek:

Extremely happy right now, that demo looks great. Love the graphics on this: I thought the Japanese gardens in the first one looked good but here... it's just stunning!

Unexpected to see several melee weapons this time round, though I can't say I blame them for it. For me, the first game had one of the best examples - if not the best example - of melee combat that I've ever seen in an FPS, so it makes sense that they'd try to add more into that.

Will definitely be keeping an eye on this one. Thank you for the heads up, Starker! :)

Yakoob on 24/6/2015 at 18:04

I've watched a few E3 vids and frankly, I just can't get any excitement for it. Perhaps it's the skepticism, perhaps being older, or perhaps it's me burning out on games. But Going to the BunnyHop point, i have to somewhat agree with it:

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TLDR: Super Bunnyhop wants the video game industry to change and wants you to change it. Thus most of his channel is focused on the negative aspects of the industry he wants to see changed.

I'm finding myself agreeing about his opinions a lot, particularly a video recently (I think it was either (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36F3rxHRlE4) this or (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCmmYF4rOwo) this, can't remember) where he points out how iterative and repetive games become, BOTH due to growing older/experienced as well as the industry's copypast. I've been having a hard time getting hyped up about the new "Wowzers" games, and why I only watched the E3 videos with a bit of a meh.

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This is just embarrassing.

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This guy actually managed to take it even further, getting this excited over a product, that doesn't even exist. A manchild peeing his pants over a promise. A paid amateur nerd, not a media representative, who has certain responsibilities. In all those cases, where people will wonder why game journalism is so underpaid, why devs and gamers alike treat journos with contempt - this will be used as one of many examples. This profession won't be treated with respect, as this guy can be replaced by anyone.

Oh my lord, yes. I wonder if it's genuine excitement or just pandering to audience ("we see how much you flip out on forums and internets, its ok, here is us doing it in real life! yaaaay we're such brethreeen watch some ads.")?

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A former consultant I got to meet with (from a top 3 firm) who went in Tech management Silicon Valley culture is immature.

I've been watching the Silicon Valley tv show and while I find it entertaining my summary was basically: "so the premise of the show is that everyone is an asshole." I've had several people on different occasions correct me stating "but that's how people in silicon valley actually are"

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EvaUnit02 on 26/6/2015 at 09:32

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Boring people who are sick of good games are free to spend their money and time elsewhere. Don't let the door hit you on the way out whilst the rest of us keep having fun.

Seems that many you lots' new favourite "game" is Cynical Forum Asshole. I'm sorry, that's less of a game than Dear Esther.

I just spent the last several hours playing Crysis 3 and I had a blast. It's a blend of the solid game systems of Crysis 2 and the sandboxy level design of Crysis 1, making it a glorious stew. What's my point with this paragraph? I've been having fun actually playing fucking games.

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This point was already debunked. The GTTV reaction was sincere, not staged - go read my previous responses in this thread. Quit beating that dead horse.

If said journalists had been "bought out" then please produce some evidence.

Yakoob on 27/6/2015 at 15:16

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I already acknowledges half the issue is my own experience and getting older thus burnt out, so why do do find it necessary to repeat that calling me an ass hole in the process is beyond me.

I bet people with depression are boring assholes too.

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I misses that point, and if anything, your post above shows why I may not always read your posts most attenntively.

I also never claimed they were bought out, merely pandering to audience to increase views (and thus revenue ). So don't ask me for evidence for your strawman argument (which I don't even agree with ie no i don't think they were bought out ).

Manwe on 27/6/2015 at 23:13

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I'll take a healthy dose of cynicism over your nauseating fanboy attitude. Don't you have a AAA game to pre-order or a piece of DLC to buy?

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I just spent the last several hours playing Crysis 3 and I had a blast. It's a blend of the solid game systems of Crysis 2 and the sandboxy level design of Crysis 1, making it a glorious stew. What's my point with this paragraph? I've been having fun actually playing fucking games.

Yeah, yeah we get it, enjoying commercial stuff is the new hip. That makes you the coolest kid on the block, on par with the likes of dethtol.

Tony_Tarantula on 28/6/2015 at 04:12

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Boring people who are sick of good games are free to spend their money and time elsewhere. Don't let the door hit you on the way out whilst the rest of us keep having fun.

By your logic, McDonald's is "good food" because people are out there enjoying it.

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Again i haven't worked there for any large amount of time but the generally impression I get is that the show is relatively accurate....only amplify the asshole factor since we're in 2015 and not 1985.

Interesting that it should come from Mike Judge. Office Space was more or less based on what it was like to work for them in the 80's.

That said the "aspie" nature of a lot of tech guys can serve them well in some situations as described in this article((http://www.businessinsider.com/peter-thiel-aspergers-is-an-advantage-2015-4)).

Incidentallly it also acknowledges a facet of business there which no doubt influences game design:

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Similarly, he says that "people end up behaving more lemming-like" in places like San Francisco's South of Market neighborhood, where tons of tech companies are crammed into a .635 square mile area.

All that socialization leads to conformity, he argues, preventing people from coming up with original, innovative ideas.

Read more: (http://www.businessinsider.com/peter-thiel-aspergers-is-an-advantage-2015-4#ixzz3eKK1VuzT)

Part of why games have become so much less creative is that their own success. It's a far more networking intensive, mass market, and corporate environment than it used to be.

EvaUnit02 on 28/6/2015 at 18:43

I swear that Henke is probably one of the last few people here who actually seems to like playing games.

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I'll take a healthy dose of cynicism over your nauseating fanboy attitude. Don't you have a AAA game to pre-order or a piece of DLC to buy?

Come back when you're able to construct an argument which isn't entirely ad hominem.

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By your logic, McDonald's is "good food" because people are out there enjoying it.

Your analogy is utterly obtuse. You don't derive sustenance to live from software. Props for not being cliched by trying to compare software to car ownership (P.S. those never work either).

Thor on 28/6/2015 at 23:51

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I dunno what the overall % is, but it seems like every single thing that I'm interested in is part of a franchise and that makes me feel dirty. Fallout 4, Mirror's Edge 2, Dishonored 2, Mass Effect 4, Deus Ex 4, probably something I'm forgetting.

I can't imagine the world wouldn't be better if we were getting BethSoft's new walking simulator, DiCE's new runner, Arkane's new immersive sneaker, Bioware's new sci-fi action RPG, and Eidos Montreal's new conspiracy thriller instead. And that's without really breaking any kind of creative ground other than "not using a title and stuffing a number on the end of it".

So many negatives in that 2nd pargaraph that I just cannot follow the meaning. Is he positive about those games? Is he cynical for no reason? I don't get. Ah fuck it, I need