Foxstab
3341
One day, I’d need to film me peeing all over a copy of Fallout 3, just to appease you mad fans!
P.S.
I’m pretty sure there was in the past a game that was so bad that he just stopped the recording and said “Sorry, I’m not doing this” and explained that he can’t tolerate the game any longer and apologized for not playing through all the way then berated the game from all possible aspects.
Or perhaps it was a dream. Eitherway, it was fun to watch.
Was Foxstab always this unhinged or is this a new development? Some of his recent posts have been practically Koontzian in their detachment from conversational norms.
I think he was always this way. The reason I got confused and thought that he was fine was because I get him confused with Format, who is from Germany. That’s why I kept thinking Format was from Israel a while back. Anyway, yeah, Foxstab is the one whose post I can’t even understand half the time. So maybe in those posts which I can’t understand, he’s making sense and being reasonable. I don’t know.
Damned near right on. Once I saw the gameplay trailers for KOTORO and Mass Effect 2 my anticipation for both games went from barely palpable and medium level (respectively) to high.
Whether or not they’re entertaining, they’re the only trailers with actual information. Non-gameplay trailers are just fluff. Cinematics mean nothing when trying to evaluate how good a game will be.
Rimbo
3347
Yeah, look, what I saw was roughly 30 minutes of a guy in knight armor running around a brown, featureless castle.
Yeah, I’m sure it’s tense and all but ah…
Look. I’ve been gaming for so long, I have put so many hours into so many games, and I have something resembling a life outside of video games. I don’t buy a lot of games any more, usually because I’m looking for something that is either spectacularly well-done or really and truly unusual, something worth the time. I hear a lot of people talk about a “backlog.” Well, I won’t even buy a game until I’m pretty sure it’s something I like.
Honestly, hearing about the difficulty Yahtzee had wasn’t a turn-off for me. What turned me off was actually watching what the game looked like. And as Bob and BD and others have pointed out, gameplay trailers really are a pretty good way to figure out if a game is worth the time.
It’s not for you, so don’t spend any more of your precious time thinking about it. I’m sure there’s a shitty webcomic out there in need of your time. Rest assured, no one is trying to sell you on it.
Demon’s Souls is the worst game ever to watch a gameplay trailer of. Pretty much everything that makes the game great - the tension, the overarching level design, the character building, the learning curve, the atmosphere subtleties - are completely lost in watching somebody else play over shitty YouTube quality. The only other example I can think of that completely fails to convey it’s appeal in trailers by nature of gameplay is Flower.
There are reasons to dismiss Demon’s Souls, but if you do it by the trailers you have absolutely no clue what you’re missing, and if you do it by reason of dying a few times in the first level you aren’t seeing the full picture.
I would say Demon’s Souls actually fits that description quite well. I’m not saying you’ll necessarily like it, but it is something particularly well-done, it is really and truly unusual. I know that I’ve never played a game like it before or since. When that particular topic does come up, I’ve seen people make comparisons to other games and say, ‘well, this part is like this game, and this other part is like this’, but taken as a whole, I don’t think there’s any other game like Demon’s Souls, and that’s one of the reasons why I truly appreciate playing this game. It brings something special to my experience with games, and I would bet it will do the same for you. Whether you’ll like that experience or not… I can’t say for sure.
There’s nothing passive about it. There has never been a topic that has been enriched by approaching it from your angle, and this is no exception. It’s simply the path of least resistance to avoid the part where I point out how stupid you are being on various levels and go directly to your exit sign.
I’ve been gaming for so long, I have put so many hours into so many games, and I have something resembling a life outside of video games.
No, you don’t. You talk about it endlessly, but there is no evidence of experience in your life that matches, for instance, the importance of having witnessed DS secondhand via youtube. Other human beings have them as a daily occurrence, but you have no idea how far out of your league you are when you look upon DS. Like an insect glaring at the sun as it reflects off the titanic blades of grass around it, you remain unaware of how your place in the food chain makes your perspective irrelevant to discussions you can’t possibly have a frame of reference for.
Rimbo
3353
My my. Someone is off his meds, and this time, it’s not me.
Rimbo
3354
Maybe, but I’d have to buy a PS3, apparently.
Passive-aggressive much? I guess it was either this or your “I meant to do that” approach. I thought you had lots of important things to do.
Rimbo
3356
No, watching you go completely berserk over something as trivial and pointless as this is pretty fascinating, in a “can’t help but stare at the massive car pile-up” way.
MattKeil
3357
Gonna be hard to pick a winner in this one.
Foxstab
3360
The more you call me insane, the more outrageous my posts will be.
I’m all for entertaining and catering to the crowd.
Makes for a good laugh for me to watch your reactions.
Though I think I’ll take the backstage for a little while, the Rimbo versus Lizard King fight shows great potential.
