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Post by Mister Buch on Oct 17, 2009 16:20:48 GMT 1
This is an extremely funny and right-on piece about everything that's wrong with games today. It's a couple of years old and I don't know how famous it is, but I was just reminded of it and thought I's share. www.cracked.com/article_15748_gamers-manifesto.htmlThe author followed it up with a (slightly) less funny second article - The 7 Commandments All Video Games Should Obey www.cracked.com/article_16196_7-commandments-all-video-games-should-obey.htmlThe second article features the brilliant quote - "Gordon, the whole world has been taken over by a race of malevolent aliens. All of humanity is depending on you. Here's a goddamned crowbar."
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Post by Zarsthor on Oct 18, 2009 5:38:01 GMT 1
Thatb article was a lot of ranting fun to read.
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Post by Knightfall on Oct 18, 2009 9:24:59 GMT 1
*sigh* Reading lists like that makes me a sad panda. It's like, all this stuff SHOULD be absolute, and gamers have been ranting about stuff like this for years. But game designers just can't be bothered to listen to most of it. Having an NPC buddy is what killed RE5 for me. And I've yet to take on a companion on Fallout 3 for that reason.
Almost took Dogmeat with me, but I would have been really sad if he had died. I play very loose with the nuclear weaponry and he would have, without a doubt, been caught in the crossfire.
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Post by Mister Buch on Oct 18, 2009 13:47:15 GMT 1
I found Dogmeat, took him out, found my first Deathclaw, he died. I find him rather pointless in that regard. I think the idea of Ressi 5 was that you play it with someone, and the NPC buddy was thrown in. Another reason not to take someone with you in Fallout is because you're 'The Lone Waderer'.
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Post by Zarsthor on Oct 19, 2009 1:00:35 GMT 1
Res evil. We tried to play that but it controls like a schitzophrenic fat kid dancing the mumba. I got real sick and tired of screaming "Aim you bitch AIM!!! Why did they give you a fuckign gun if you can't fucking use it! No don't run into that wall or the zombie! I said go right why are you spinning!?!?!?" Yeah that got real old after 10 minutes of playing.
The worst buddy I've ever encountered though, has to be baird from Gears of war 2. That bit enar the end where you're going through the queen's stronghold and he just keeps running up to the mawler and dying and of cours eif your AI goes down you fail the mission. You cannot convince him to stay back or wait for you soon as you cross some invisible line ... woah there he goes and there he dies. Daniel and I must have played that level for 20 hours just trying to kill anything in bairds way before he died. In the end it was Daniel with the grinder and me with a fully loaded Bomber wailing fire on those locusts arses. Stupid baird. Stupid AI. Stupid invisible line. Stupid command system.
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Post by Tillian Panthesis on Oct 19, 2009 6:27:40 GMT 1
Well... you get puppies perk with broken steel
but yeah I've agree, the companion for RE5 just shits me. "Hey Shiva! How many times I've tell you NOT to pick up those mines? Now we're in a huge disadvantage from those infected villagers!"
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