Neither party handled this situation with any amount of civility or grace, whether it was the journalist that was just "doing his job" in the scummiest way possible, or Fish acting like social media has the power to force him to say things.
There's no need for gamers to choose a side in this instance. It's just a sad turn of events altogether.
@Matgrowcott
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Dude's kind of a dick, but it's still sad to see.
He has fallen prey to the pressures of social media, which seems to operate as a kind of judge, jury and executioner nowadays, sad as that may be.
Companies and indeed human beings themselves live and die by the whims of a formless, digital mob in this day and age.
He's basically just getting out before the guillotine drops.
...people DO get pissed off, even when it has nothing to do with sexuality.
When SuckerPunch changed Cole for the sequel to Infamous, people blew a gasket. When the Prince got more BADASS for the sequel to PoP, people hated him. I remember it all so well.
If anything, it is the exact opposite: randomly making women more sexy seems to go over better than if anything else is adjusted.
You're actually right, and I apologize. I HAVE met some crazy, stupid Nintendo fans, but I also know plenty of good, honest Nintendo fans as well.
I don't usually let myself slip into this kind of douchebaggery, I'm sorry.
I wasn't being a drama queen. No need to throw crap like that into the discussion.
And funny enough, you two guys did more to validate my assertion than I could possibly have tried to argue.
They just need to focus on single projects at a time.
Borderlands, Brothers in Arms, and even the two original Half-Life expansions prove that they are capable of doing things right, but when they start picking up random projects here and there, it becomes very obvious that they put next to no effort or time into them.
That really just makes it more puzzling to me. It would be easier and in fact truer to the game's roots to simply port the majority of the assets over, if the aim was to keep things as close to original as possible (albeit in HD).
It also confuses me, slightly, that Nintendo fans praise the company for all the graphical enhancements (even the ridiculously obnoxious, mid-2000's bloom effect) and then conversely praise the company for all the features that they doggedly...
It all technically qualifies as art. People are just unwilling to make a distinction between what is not art and what is uninspired art.
People too often look at pieces of art they don't like and simply label it "non-art."
Well, at least until consumers forget...then they'll just try again.
Oh, you don't have to be a pro-gamer to utilize the natural fecal-storing properties of the common household sock.
No sir...I would wager you don't have to be a pro-gamer at all.
No, no. The VAST majority of pro-gamers don't make anywhere near that, and in fact many do not make enough money to support themselves on a pro-gaming salary alone.
Plus to make the big bucks, it takes an unbelievable level of commitment and skill...like...unbelievable commitment, man.
I'm pretty much with you there. To be perfectly honest, I've got no problem with it morally, but it ends up squelching creativity a lot of times. Women are pretty much just...sexy. They don't really account for any kind of context or interesting design 90% of the time. They're just...sexy. No one knows or cares why they're dressed like that...just sexy.
Not that I feel like it should be wiped from games altogether, but it's too often used as a crutch t...
What else is there to get from it, really? You basically just prefer Halo to Killzone and the X1 controller to the PS4 one.
Personally, even if Microsoft's launch lineup was irrefutably superior I would still be going with the PS4. It's just a matter of principles and I think that's the general thinking of a LOT of gamers right now.
Hypocrisy cannot be used as a logical defense for an argument (not that there even was any). In fact there is a named logical fallacy for it: tu quoque.
The fact remains that Microsoft was attempting to establish policies that were not conducive to consumer rights....so people got angry. Imagine that.
If anything Double Helix should feel a little flattered that people are just upset that KI is not coming to a console that they want to play it on.
It means that people want to play their game....they just don't want to play it on a system that was designed for painful consumer rapings.
What's sad is that this obligation certain groups seem to have to participate in "console wars" (on both sides, mind you) trivializes all the BS Microsoft is trying to pull.
There are things Microsoft was trying to do that made even me, a proud owner of both previous Microsoft systems, angry and confused. And yet, every time I express my discontent, I am accused of being a fanboy...as if Microsoft WASN'T trying to take a huge dump on my consumer rights, and ...
Uh...I don't mean to interrupt this obligatory console war BS, but I'm fairly sure that the booing was more the result of the game being demonstrated at a competition-centric fighting game convention, and Killer Instinct:
1. Looks very much like it is catering to a broad, casual audience (see: ridiculous micro-marketing techniques)
and
2. Was handed off to a development team that has quite literally developed nothing but crap.
At the end of the day, the company is just being horribly mismanaged.
- They STILL have no clue how to manage their online market (horribly inadequate VC support, "one-time" downloads...no online multiplayer in Smash Bros!?).
- They've got next to no third party support at this point.
- They do stupid "WTF" stuff, like the whole youtube fiasco that ends up hurting them more than it saves them sales.
...
Whether or not it's a bigger issue than Microsoft is irrelevant; Microsoft is PART of the problem and therefore just as worthy of scrutiny.
It's already scummy for them to sell data to unauthorized third parties for purposes of advertisement. In fact, it has been shown that companies freely spreading consumer information like that simply gives thieves more places to look. So even if it's not a government issue, it should at least be looked at as a consumer rights ...
I didn't know there was such a stigma surrounding the game, to be honest. I hold the PS1 version too near and dear to my heart to ever admit that a remake could be better, but at the very least, I thought it showed proper respect to the original.
Good read too, btw. Kind of nice to see something that doesn't have to do with the console wars right now.