Posts by Erratic

Take an old popular map, remake it, and vaguely give the poor soul you stole it from credit in an attached .txt file like you totally didn't just fucking steal the layout from him or anything.

at least it makes for fun arguments with people who do this since there's that point in the conversation where you reach with them where they can't really say much more because they have no idea what they're talking about and it's glorious and one of those small things I live for.

If you watch games on youtube as a substitute for having played it you are scum

The Last of Us is a better designed game but what I'm saying is structurally they are no different, length aside. Which is what people are primarily taking aim at. Cutscene interruption, QTE's, walk and talk sequences, all of these guide both games through their narrative between the core gameplay segments. It just seems every now and then a game has to be taken to task and it's unfortunate because it means people are basically selective and inconsistent about what they like and when.

As for the cover combat and QTE implementation specifically I'm not sure either is done poorly relative to other games. The shooting mechanics are actually pretty refined, if mostly standard. Solid weapon feedback and enemy hit reacts. AI move around the environments nicely and create some decent combat situations. The location specific dialogue call outs are always a nice touch. QTE's are what they are, not sure how they're particularly bad here.

If you're going to shit on The Order as 'all the things wrong with the industry' then you need to revisit some previously acclaimed titles. They are no different from each other.

The Order introduces about as many new things as the last of us (so none) and with a far better developed world and characters but instead of free form stealth gameplay it's just a straight up cover shooter. But how would you know this when everyone on the internet who doesn't know shit about shit or play anything is taking the piss out of it.

People get really myopic about gameplay arguments and can't appreciate things when they do something well. This isn't call of duty where you have a linear scripted story focused game that is absolutely fucking stupid from top to bottom. This is well crafted world building with a coherent narrative.

I kept thinking of the last of us when playing it because they're very similar in pacing and the only major difference structurally is the length. One is a longer game, so immediately the value police are stripped of their excuse to shit all over it because 'at least it's 12 hours long'. Trim down The Last of Us to something closer to The Order and I'm not sure what the gaping philosophical design differences are between the two games. Somehow this wasn't a problem last year when The last of us won every award imaginable. Or Max Payne 15 years ago as a single player game with no extended content, or Bioshock: Infinite with its supremely confusing mess of a narrative.

Modern AAA games aren't about interactivity or discovery or player agency and they haven't been for sometime.

oh my god someone give ron howards daughter a good movie to be in it's just sad for everyone at this point

I almost feel sorry for the people who have to make this shit. I don't know even know if it's possible to reboot these things successfully. I'd probably just burn down the sets and leak the scripts mid way through production or something.

There's something about suburbs in the desert that depresses the shit out of me. I don't know if I can take another series set in that place.

The Gunslinger. This will be read number 3. I couldn't get into the other books so I just keep rereading this one. I also heard it gets pretty fucking stupid anyway, so I just pretend it's a one book series so I don't have to worry about it.

20 year old game about shooting demons with a shotgun that shouldn't even exist in that time period is still the smartest/best fps of all time.

turok 2 was dope, but the first was better. Mutliplayer was batshit though, it's got that over the the first.

the wire
generation kill

band of brothers

brotherhood

true detective

twin peaks, and I haven't even finished it yet.

That's not a unique list by any stretch except for maybe one

I wouldn't say Breaking Bad is trash by the way, but it definitely plays to the crowd. It doesn't exactly challenge the viewer in any meaningful way. It's just a well constructed series that gets to go to some extremes other shows don't.

Which is fun I think, if the show knows what it is. Sort of like what Dexter was before it turned into a complete shit heap. First 2 or 3 seasons were just fun throw away trash before it fell into a boring formula without any balls or a clue as to where the show should go to continue being interesting.

I mean this in the nicest way possible by calling it trash. The acting and production are nice and it seems the people making it care about it.

I'm not even joking breaking bad is fine but it's not top of the heap

house of cards is same deal, really entertaining but ultimately pretty much trash. Well made trash.

The content just became too much. Pretty much final episode of S1 was the real revelatory moment of the trash heap the show would descend into.

I really like SF4 and think it's the best modern fighting game but I also admit that I am a no good scrub pos who doesn't know a goddamn thing about the genre but you are still wrong it's a good game meet me somewhere.

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I cannot wait for the third season~

Hopefully the show can get to Breaking Bad levels of quality, it's already almost there

house of cards has already reached B-Tier quality tv so I don't understand

haha when movies were about having fun

fuck that shit!

because it's about to overtake Alien as the most defiled sci-fi franchise in history.