Posts by Sentura

  • Dead Island

    Quote from Dark

    Clearly the only one here trying convince others of their opinion is you, no? Think about it now, maybe read back a few pages of comments.

    what gave you that impression? the only reason i gave my opinion was because someone asked. i honestly don't care what people think about this trailer.

  • Dead Island

    Quote from Dark

    I thought it was just as good as both of those in its own way. Why compare Most of the game trailers this year have been epic.

    why are you trying to convince others of your opinion? can't you just leave it at that?

  • Dead Island

    im saying it didnt work for me. how hard is that to understand?

    as you can see, this shitstorm happens every time i post my opinion, which is the reason i don't post it. there should be infractions here for trolling or other such drivel, i'm surprised i haven't seen that yet.

    and this is supposed to be a mature forum. hmpf.

  • Dead Island

    Quote from Minotauro

    lol only sentura would try to find the meaning of life in a zombie game Since when does a zombie game need to have morals to be fun?

    it was exactly these kinds of idiotic posts i wagered i'd see after posting my opinion. i never said a zombie game needs morals to be enjoyable, but we're not even talking about the goddamn game here, we're talking about a glorified trailer. maybe it did something for you. fine. but that doesn't mean it did something for me.

    ps: every decent movie out there, even trailers, have a moral. there needs to be a reason for a story to be told.

  • Dead Island

    Quote from Jetsetlemming

    What could be more interesting? It was intended to have a poignant, personal tragedy to showcase the larger tragedy of everyone getting killed by zombies. A montage of a bunch of different people getting killed would be more impersonal as there would be no time to feel for these characters before we move on to the next, leaving the trailer feeling like "just another zombie thing". The point of the trailer was to set a mood and cultivate anticipation for the game based on that. Being generic would go against that and make people dismissive.

    but that's the thing: it doesn't feel poignant, it just feels over done, as if it's supposed to convey some meaning but without having a trace of that meaning whatsoever. it isn't interesting, it's boring: zombies killing people. haven't we seen this before? so it's a family, are you supposed to feel different now?

    just because it worked for you doesn't mean it works for everyone; you're confusing opinion for fact. i'm sure rick would be proud of me now.

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  • Diablo 3

    Quote from Rick_D

    i 100% guarantee that if blizzard had made diablo 3 an isometric game built in the same style as d1+2, people would be complaining that blizzard can't make bold changes with art direction and that they are a 1 trick pony, or that the grimdark theme is so 1990's, why don't blizzard get out of the past? etc etc etc ad infinitum.

    seems more like they're a 1 trick pony with the current art direction, as it's the same as the world of warcraft one...

  • Dead Island

    ...except that's not the way this forum thinks, and it wouldn't exactly be the first time i would be called a troll for having an outspoken opinion on a universally acclaimed object of interest. but then again the world is full of morons, so ill bite... again.

    to me the trailer did nothing because: the graphics first off do not feel very real, and it seemed more like a cartoon about zombies rather than an actual trailer. the narrative in the trailer segment was, at best, mediocre, and the way the narration plays out backwards does absolutely nothing for the story. there was also no moral in the narrative, which just made it come off empty and dull. i also thought that the trailer was too long for what it actually showed during that time. the entire trailer also made me question who the possible protagonist of the game will be, or whether it was just a scene to show the "zombification" of an island, and if it was the latter, why not show something more interesting than a family in a hotel fending off zombies. the best part was definitely the end, where the shaky camera added some life into the dullness, but even then, the end does not justify the rest.

    i would not consider buying this game after watching this trailer.

    EDIT: if you want to see something i thought was better, the link efreak posted has a segment that lasts some 3 seconds, but tells a story better: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bH_qOpYzlB4 (from 0:21 to 0:24).