Author Topic: I've got your Miscellaneous Links for ya, 2012! RIGHT HERE! (Read 38250 times)

Shale · « **Reply #375 on:** September 14, 2012, 11:00:51 PM »

Obsidian Entertainment would like you to give them money so they can make a new party-based Infinity Engine-ish RPG.

Please don't suck please don't suck please don't suck please don't suck please don't suck

Grefter · « **Reply #376 on:** September 14, 2012, 11:37:36 PM »

If they are self publishing it won't be pushed out early and half baked. If they are self publishing they won't be inheriting someone elses shitty broken arse 10/10 GOTY engine that has a wake of terrible bugs.

It also means that they have to write their own engine though...

Edit - I mean of course I threw money at it. More than I should have. It is Obsidian.

Fenrir · « **Reply #377 on:** September 15, 2012, 05:09:09 PM »

Love Obsidian. Was expecting a better setting from them than extremely generic fantasy. (anything else)

Lance · « **Reply #378 on:** September 15, 2012, 10:42:40 PM »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q76r-3z4Ckk

I want one.

VySaika · « **Reply #379 on:** October 02, 2012, 07:30:01 PM »

http://www.playconclave.com

Been playing a bit of Conclave. Fun little multiplayer SRPG type thing. If anyone else gets into it and wants to go hit quests together, let me know!

Sierra · « **Reply #380 on:** October 03, 2012, 10:31:45 PM »

http://www.penneydesign.com/folio_IM_lostgame.html

Like most things, Lost would be distinctly improved were it an adventure game produced by LucasArts in the 80's.

Bobbin Cranbud · « **Reply #381 on:** October 04, 2012, 02:22:47 AM »

Speaking of adventure games, this is the last day of the Kickstarter for Homestuck's.

Anthony Edward Stark · « **Reply #382 on:** October 04, 2012, 04:48:17 AM »

Don't they have like a zillion dollars already?

Bobbin Cranbud · « **Reply #383 on:** October 04, 2012, 04:54:00 PM »

Quote from: Rob the Stampede on October 04, 2012, 04:48:17 AM

Don't they have like a zillion dollars already?

Yeah, I linked more for people who wanted a shot at the reward tiers - the RPGDL is, I think, where I was introduced to MSPaint Adventures around the end of Problem Sleuth - than because they need the money.

I didn't have enough to get the (overpriced) physical copy of the game, so the last reward tier doesn't much matter to me, although I'd be happier to know there WAS a proper archival copy of the comic floating around out there.

metroid composite · « **Reply #384 on:** October 09, 2012, 09:43:41 AM »

http://features.peta.org/pokemon-black-and-white-parody/

PETA makes a pokemon parrody. I almost feel like I should default to IOTD with anything made by PETA, except I actually enjoyed the gameplay and thought it was well-executed >_>

Grefter · « **Reply #385 on:** October 09, 2012, 09:51:25 AM »

Okay so authentic Pokemon gameplay in that if you pick it up at random there is a bunch of moves and no description of what the shit they do. So that is cool (!??) I guess?

Yoshiken · « **Reply #386 on:** October 09, 2012, 09:57:47 AM »

Haha, I got linked that yesterday, via an article that pointed out that it is apparently perfectly fine to electrocute people in PETA's eyes. Also, one of my friends on Facebook pointed out that the game seems more like a parody of PETA's dumb shit than anything else.

NotMiki · « **Reply #387 on:** October 09, 2012, 03:07:24 PM »

PETA long ago descended into self-parody. My theory is PETA is a front by the seal-bashing industry to discredit animal rights activists.

Cotigo · « **Reply #388 on:** October 09, 2012, 04:23:04 PM »

Cmdr_King · « **Reply #389 on:** October 10, 2012, 09:18:22 PM »

http://penny-arcade.com/patv/episode/beyond-fun

Some of you may recognize this as things I have tried (and probably failed) to say for years. Hurray people better spoken than me.

Sierra · « **Reply #390 on:** October 11, 2012, 12:21:54 AM »

I've come to suspect I don't actually need to watch Extra Credits because it will just be people saying a bunch of stuff I will completely agree with.

*watches video*

Theory confirmed. Science!

Lady Door · « **Reply #391 on:** October 11, 2012, 01:02:16 AM »

Oh my goooooooood do I hate the word "engaging." D:

Also, while I feel like the EC video says something I can agree with, I don't think it goes so far as to make a point. It's just a rant.

Grefter · « **Reply #392 on:** October 11, 2012, 01:43:20 AM »

Not that I have watched it yet (but given they have just recently talked about Spec Ops: The Line), not sure if there is a point to be made other than "Maybe you can enjoy things for more reasons than stimulating the brain in the same way candy and masturbation does".

If you want more, watch their 2 parter on Spec Op: The Line from last month. SPOILERS is that Spec Ops is the gaming equivalent of Apocalypse Now! style plot.

Hunter Sopko · « **Reply #393 on:** October 11, 2012, 03:39:14 AM »

ZP also said roughly the same thing about Spec Ops: The Line. Good ep, that was.

Cmdr_King · « **Reply #394 on:** October 11, 2012, 03:42:21 AM »

It's really more of a first step, the wake-up call, than actually making a particular point.

AndrewRogue · « **Reply #395 on:** October 11, 2012, 03:39:38 PM »

The problem is I feel it really kind of failed at properly navigating what the difference between engaging and fun was, which means a lot of people are going to take the actual point the wrong way, one way or the other (either lulz games shouldn't be fun how stupid or lulz im gonna make Wuthering Heights the game).

NotMiki · « **Reply #396 on:** October 11, 2012, 05:15:05 PM »

http://unlifecomic.com/

To anyone going to NYCC, my friend Josh will be there pushing product. Table V10.

Fenrir · « **Reply #397 on:** October 11, 2012, 06:00:57 PM »

Devil's advocate!

This felt like a really demagogic rant. It could have been accurate decades ago?

Most games aren't only about fun. Even Call of Duty isn't only just about fun, as unelegant as it is about its deeper themes. (See the No Russian level)
I don't get how you can blame games today about this and then praise freaking Star Wars?
Matrix, Assassin's Creed, Lord of the Rings, Zelda, Star Wars all have about the same amount focus on "fun".

There are a hell of a lot more games that aren't primarly about brainless fun nowadays. So much more. They are mostly indie or XBLA/PSN only games with a lot less publicy. (Play Passage by John Rohrer. It's free and it takes 5 minutes) But honestly? Movies are the same here too! Movies that aren't fun (ok: or romantic like Titanic) never have a big budget (or they become a commercial failure) Inception sold itself on big fight scenes, Black Swan on LESBIANS.

Cmdr_King · « **Reply #398 on:** October 11, 2012, 06:09:02 PM »

The issue is not that games are ONLY about fun, so much as fun is inserted into places where it does not belong, and where risks are taken and fun ignored, the game is judged for this lack of fun. Now there are still examples of accepted games that don't rely on fun in any way (hello Silent Hill 2), but it's too easy to write these off as flukes. It's comparatively much more common for another medium to find success without fun.

It's really just a thought exercise, no more.

Fenrir · « **Reply #399 on:** October 11, 2012, 06:46:06 PM »

I dunno, this only seemed to be one part of the rant?

This doesn't really seem particularly relevent and specific to videogames though. Those fight scenes (in the snow) in Inception I mentioned earlier are honestly similar, for all that I loved the movie. Completely irrelevent action.
Franchises being raped by somebody other than the first author? No recent Silent Hill or Resident Evil game can possibly be as terrible as American Psycho 2.

Silent Hill 2 actually does rely on fun! It's pretty much in the same boat as Braid, Limbo, Journey, Papo&Yo... "Art" games have been well accepted lately because gamers really really want to justify their favourite medium. (I admit that I may be guilty about this too)

This is honestly a pretty unfair comparison to begin with, because you can't have a 20-30 hours long game that constantly needs your input to be, for example, a soul draining experience, like a 90 minutes movie can. (One of the reasons why all those games that are primarly not about fun are short indie games)

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Author Topic: I've got your Miscellaneous Links for ya, 2012! RIGHT HERE! (Read 38250 times)