Renzatic on 17/10/2011 at 01:34
Guys! Did you hear? There are videogames that are simple, kinda dumb, and played by a bunch of parents!
OMG! ALL VIDEOGAMES ARE DOOMED FOREVER!
Vernon on 17/10/2011 at 01:46
Yeah the author sure isn't afraid of using link bait. VIDEOGAMES ARE KILLED HURR. Also, this is
highly self-absorbed writing. It takes some real audacity to expect people to read articles of this size. Nevertheless, it was insightful and well-written, and certainly better than the self-indulgent, extended abstract faggotry pieces common on RPS these days. I didn't know much of this social games shit until I read the article. Only just found out about how massive Zynga and Farmville are. Seems like a pretty big thing to have slipped under my radar. This pic made me lol
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http://insertcredit.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/simsocinspired.pngAlso there is something about the following image that just makes me want to fucking stab myself in the face. I can't work it out. Is this some kind of ingame cross-promotion? :nms: On a side note: there is dunkin'd donuts in australia. I've never been because I'm not working-class scum and would rather a roasted balsamic tomato on panini with a latte drunk with my pinky sticking out, but on the occasion that I walk through the shit-stain gutter that is a suburban mall, I have never seen anyone dunking a fucking doughnut into a coffee or whatever beverage it is you are supposed to dunk your doughnut into
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http://insertcredit.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/simsoc4.pngps is Tim Rogers the guy who left RPS to go and blog from japan about animu games? Or was that Kieron Gillen? Fuck it may have been someone else entirely. Hard to keep up with my own herping and derping, nevermind theirs
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A more sincere, heartfelt “how to fix Sonic” article is perhaps this Outrun 2 review from 2008, in which I call Outrun 2 the “16th best game of all-time”, and also “the best Sonic the Hedgehog game of all-time”, and I swear I am not trying to troll or be a jerk about that. It's something I actually believe.
lol
EvaUnit02 on 17/10/2011 at 02:07
Tim Rogers was never part of RPS, nor did he ever work for any UK gaming publications like the hivemind (he's a yank).
Kieron Gillen retired from gaming journalism to write for comics.
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Vernon on 17/10/2011 at 02:58
not gonna watch :X
Renzatic on 17/10/2011 at 05:12
(
http://www.somethingawful.com/d/news/five-worst-gaming-2.php) Tim Rogers? I knew I had heard about this guy somewhere before...
I'm heating up a vegan burrito in the microwave...
edit: I will say this about the guy, he does a pretty good job of summing up exactly why I don't like Facebook games. I know this guy who plays about 6 or 7 of them at once. Every day, usually around 10 PM, he'll log onto Facebook, open up Farmville, Frontierville, Cityville, Treasure Island, ect, and start randomly clicking on the screen for a good 45 minutes to an hour.
"I gotta get all my harvests and money rewards for the day, so I can level up in all of them sometime next week".
That's some hardcore Pavlovian bullshit right there. You're not playing the game to have fun. You're playing it to progress. Simple as that. To me, that's like fucking for the sake of fucking. Sure, it's great for a little while. But do it for a little too long, and you come to realize it's starting to feel more like work than fun. Longer than that, and it's a compulsion. By that point, you're pretty much an addict, and there's no turning back without significant pain and personal sacrifice.
Welcome to Facebook. Hell, welcome to World of Warcraft.
Matthew on 17/10/2011 at 09:36
As a recovered Mafia Wars player (I was not quite as bad as some of my friends, but I was close to it), you pretty much nailed it Renz. So glad I nuked it from my Facebook page.
Now I get to obsess over getting deeds in LotRO instead! :D :(
Sulphur on 17/10/2011 at 17:20
And what's the second?
To Be Honest, I don't think MGS2 deserves all the deconstructionary breakdowns it's inspired over the years, partly because it couldn't escape its own hamminess (watch for a dealbreaker levelled against this argument involving someone arguing that the hamminess was an inherent part of the game's own self-awareness and its meta-goals), but to each his own.
june gloom on 17/10/2011 at 18:31
i'd argue but you made my argument for me
thanks
Sulphur on 17/10/2011 at 18:53
VIDEO KILLED THE RADIO STAR :mad::mad:
