2701

I never berated anyone. As I recall Charles, you kept posting in the MGS4 thread telling everyone they’re an asshole for liking the game. Shit man, I really don’t care what you think of MGS4 to be frank.

All I said is IGN will give it a high score and eurogamer a low score like it always does.

Angry nitwit.

2702

I never called you a liar. I asked you why you got a 5 hour preview of the game as opposed to half an hour and you said you were enthused enough that Bethseda did it. Then I asked if you would have given it a bad preview if it sucked and you said you would have given it a much smaller preview.

Where in all of this did I call you a liar? In fact, your defensive posturing is completely uncalled for. You’re the one making yourself look bad.

2703

Also you said they were a bunch of pricks who would’ve given it a perfect review in return for a trip to Japan.

I didn’t call anyone an asshole for liking MGS4, I barely posted in the threads because I wasn’t playing it as fast as other people. Anyway, MGS4 merits all those super-high scores about as much as GTA4 did, which is, not really.

Calling people pricks because they don’t give a game you like a perfect score, I’m sorry, makes you pretty much an idiot.

edit: Also, if laughing at you makes me angry, then bring on the anger.

2704

OK, I stand corrected. I called them pricks because to be frank they hand out a lot of low scores to try and be different. That’s my opinion. If it ruins your day then so be it.

2705

So I see you are a big proponent of the 7-9 scale, huh? I’m not really surprised. It fits.

2706

You guys must have really shitty jobs in the “gaming related” industry if all you do all day is put words in your customer’s mouth and attack them on QT3. Really, for shame.

2707

It’s a Saturday.

2708

2709

LOL! I didn’t notice that at first. Holy shit, that is hilarious. Thumbs up

2710

Anybody mind if I start a thread called “Fallout 3: Actual talk about the game”?

:-)

2711

I dunno, all this meltdown seems kind of appropriate for a game subtitled “A Post-Nuclear Nightmare.”

2712

It’s so cute how he keeps on with his teary-eyed “B-b-but I’m a consumer! You meanies in the game industry have to be nice to me, or else I’m telling!” Like after laughing it off the first several times suddenly Charles and Matt Keil are going to start giving a shit. Or any of us.

2713

Protip: anytime you find yourself putting “sarcasm quotes” in a post, it’s best to just close the browser and walk away.

2714

Man, if all the thamers of the world stopped buying games, maybe we could stop doing focus testing.

2715

Go for it.

Draikin, thamer and Foxstab will join it and it will become this before too long, though.

2716

I literally cannot believe how awesome this thread is. I don’t even have any stake in it anymore, as I know that most everyone has adopted an “excited but slightly wary (and hoping for mod tools)” attitude about the game, and I don’t need to extoll that viewpoint any further, even though I just did.

It’s just amazing to watch someone not get it, and not get it, and not get it, and not get it, and not get it, and: Not. Get. It.

It’s an object lesson in the importance of letting things go and being open to new ideas.

2717

There will come a day when posting “Protips” will get old and tired, become a played-out forum gag, and I will stop laughing at them.

Today is not that day!

2718

You could always not buy the new Prince of Persia if you hate Charles or something. I’m sure he’d really care about your angry boycott.

2719

We’re nearing ten now, aren’t we?

2720

In seemingly completely unrelated news, another mag that got the five hour opportunity Dan did has now released an article. It’s a British mag called PCZone. Of course, the article isn’t online (they want you to buy the mag, after all) but here’s a summary.

A highlight:

Is Fallout 3 Oblivion with guns? No, not really. While it’s true that when you enter houses and watch people go about their business it instantly smacks of the last rendition of The Elder Scrolls, it seems that the old Fallout sensibilities and mannerisms are here as foundation and not lip gloss.

Having played the game for only five hours, and with many of the hang-ups people had with Oblivion only becoming apparent after 50, I can’t be definitive about this – but in terms of building a modern game on the systems of one that’s now 10 years old, it’s hard to think of how Fallout 3 could have been tied closer to what has gone before.

One criticism he notes is that the player “house” in Megaton seems to him a bad fit to the setting.

So that’s two five hour previews and both have been positive.

Man, this has got to be getting damn expensive for Bethesda to pay all these journalists off! :-)