E3 2013
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Atomic Postman
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Is anyone else excited for Destiny?
It looks really fun, can't wait to play it, Bungie are one of my favourite game developers.
The universe looks rather interesting and the gameplay looks solid, but damn, those graphics and environments are spectacular, the enemy design is pretty cool too.
It looks really fun, can't wait to play it, Bungie are one of my favourite game developers.
The universe looks rather interesting and the gameplay looks solid, but damn, those graphics and environments are spectacular, the enemy design is pretty cool too.
Akratus
Bleep bloop.
Watching the intro for the sony conference, it really reminds me how disgusted I am by these conventions. I've been to Gamescom before, and noticed it there as well. I guess I shouldn't expect much but I just hope they'd have some self respect which becomes clearly foolish to me once I see their presentations. Not only for sony, and in fact probably even more so with surely Microsoft, but Nintendo I can't say yet.
It's a gimmick in the worst way. They think that some pop music and flashing images of their logo and products is a good first impression. They think they need to use the loudest sound and the most seizure inducing lighting, they think that dubstep and a phrase like "drop the base" is a good way to please gamers, they think that you should be glad to witness their awe inspiring marketing party and it drives me mad.
I know perfectly well that this is par for the course, but I can't stop being completely unmoved by their hollow hype and instead completely baffled at their lack of any real meaning.
The worst part is that gamers actually appreciate this and the other marketing diarrhea that comes out of the public faces of these big companies all the time. The journalists as well. It doesn't matter what it is, they'll give it praise. Completely undeserved and retarded praise for the most minute things. It's like a giant money circle jerk. They are actually excited by this snorefest of a giant ad, it seems. I feel intellectually insulted by the meaningless tripe these people are spouting about my favorite hobby.
It's even worse in games. In Destiny for example, AlphaPromethean, from 5 seconds of trailer I can feel like it's a way for Bungie to just do halo again. To just make it a do-over. They don't want to please gamers, or think about what they want to differently this time. They take the same shooter and pretend it's a big and amazing new thing so they don't SEEM like they're just churning out a new shooter. It's just colorful toy monsters and soldiers running around with some monologue only meant to convey the fake scope of the game.
It reminds me of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXnoW2SvQrQ
"We're building something, completely new."
It's a gimmick in the worst way. They think that some pop music and flashing images of their logo and products is a good first impression. They think they need to use the loudest sound and the most seizure inducing lighting, they think that dubstep and a phrase like "drop the base" is a good way to please gamers, they think that you should be glad to witness their awe inspiring marketing party and it drives me mad.
I know perfectly well that this is par for the course, but I can't stop being completely unmoved by their hollow hype and instead completely baffled at their lack of any real meaning.
The worst part is that gamers actually appreciate this and the other marketing diarrhea that comes out of the public faces of these big companies all the time. The journalists as well. It doesn't matter what it is, they'll give it praise. Completely undeserved and retarded praise for the most minute things. It's like a giant money circle jerk. They are actually excited by this snorefest of a giant ad, it seems. I feel intellectually insulted by the meaningless tripe these people are spouting about my favorite hobby.
It's even worse in games. In Destiny for example, AlphaPromethean, from 5 seconds of trailer I can feel like it's a way for Bungie to just do halo again. To just make it a do-over. They don't want to please gamers, or think about what they want to differently this time. They take the same shooter and pretend it's a big and amazing new thing so they don't SEEM like they're just churning out a new shooter. It's just colorful toy monsters and soldiers running around with some monologue only meant to convey the fake scope of the game.
It reminds me of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXnoW2SvQrQ
"We're building something, completely new."
Atomic Postman
Vault Archives Overseer
Akratus, did you watch the gameplay? it is very different from Halo's, and the universe is also new,with small ties to their previous games, a stamp of all of Bungies games.
Bungie has always been close to its community also, and is constantly active with it.
I otherwise completely agree, Bungie really is an exception though, they are actually great Developers, but previous years have been tough on them because of Microsoft looming over them, but now they're free from that.
Bungie has always been close to its community also, and is constantly active with it.
I otherwise completely agree, Bungie really is an exception though, they are actually great Developers, but previous years have been tough on them because of Microsoft looming over them, but now they're free from that.
Akratus
Bleep bloop.
While that seems nice, it did look like the alien monsters I've seen were a little bit too much of a retread of the covenant. Small versions, brutes with big guns etc.
It also looks like it could be an mmo, or a battlefield type game or something in between with what the trailer suggests. But it still doesn't look like much more than another shooter to me. So, sorry, for the lack of excitement.
It also looks like it could be an mmo, or a battlefield type game or something in between with what the trailer suggests. But it still doesn't look like much more than another shooter to me. So, sorry, for the lack of excitement.
a shooter ... beeing a shooter? Honestly what did you expect?
I am not saying that you do not have a point. I think to much in this industry is recycling of "old" formulas. Happens quite often, particularly when you consider how many games on E3 are always some kind of "Sequel". Not to mention most of the trailers you see for games in such early state, will probably not even show any features or stuff that you will see in the finished game. Compare the Trailers from Deus Ex HR to the actuall game. Its a great game! No doubt. But the trailers show you scenes and situaitons that never happen really like that in the game.
Anyway. If they create a game with the intention to be a shooter and if HALO was a very succesfull game (never played it), then it seems only natural that they do a game with similar approach.
*Edit, by the way where is your Avatar from Akratus?
I am not saying that you do not have a point. I think to much in this industry is recycling of "old" formulas. Happens quite often, particularly when you consider how many games on E3 are always some kind of "Sequel". Not to mention most of the trailers you see for games in such early state, will probably not even show any features or stuff that you will see in the finished game. Compare the Trailers from Deus Ex HR to the actuall game. Its a great game! No doubt. But the trailers show you scenes and situaitons that never happen really like that in the game.
Anyway. If they create a game with the intention to be a shooter and if HALO was a very succesfull game (never played it), then it seems only natural that they do a game with similar approach.
*Edit, by the way where is your Avatar from Akratus?
