Familiar console is familiar

Unillenium said:
my money is on vista/dx10 minimum.
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given vista's popularity and great move by ms to not make dx10 for xp, this would be like a suicide for anyone willing to sell big with their game ...
 
I heard that during the earliest showings of FO3 Todd Howard would just say, "Fuck Vista." whenever asked about it being a requirement.
 
Somebody pointed out how stupid Pete's comment was in the comments so they changed it so that Pete doesn't look as stupid. I hate it when this crap happens.
Obviously we are more familiar with the Xbox because we have used it for longer and the other thing is that the Xbox is much easier to take to tech shows.
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Jesuit said:
Why? Does it make you feel good when Pete looks stupid or something?
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You don't think it's bad form for a journalist to attempt to cover a PR man's tracks? Unless they misquoted him originally, it's not cool to suddenly switch quotes.

Shows how unsound gaming journalism can be, really.
 
What tracks are being covered exactly? The meaning of the quote is the same. The goal is to inform the reader about the game, not expose Pete Hines.
 
Jesuit said:
What tracks are being covered exactly? The meaning of the quote is the same. The goal is to inform the reader about the game, not expose Pete Hines.
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No, the goal is to be professional. This includes accurate quotes, neutral point of view (as much as possible), due diligence researching the topic. If the journalist is changing a quote then not is that person violating the basic tenants of being a journalist but also lying to his or her readers.
 
There are quotes around it. I'm not sure if you are familiar with journalist practices, but what I learned back in the editor's office is that all words in quotes must be accurately what the person actually said. If you are changing someone's words to clarify what he said, you use []'s.

In other words, it should now read ""Obviously we are more familiar with the Xbox because [we have used it for longer] and the other thing is that the Xbox is much easier to take to tech shows. ", unless the original quote was a misquote in which case there should be a little "in error" editing note at the bottom.

I know this does not look like a big deal to laymen, but journalism is journalism, and it's sloppy shit like this that means gaming media is still the dregs of the journalistic world.

As for "covering tracks", I am assuming it was edited to make Pete Hines look less silly than his words make him look. Hardly a major affront, but still covering tracks.
 
Jesuit said:
Why? Does it make you feel good when Pete looks stupid or something?
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OK, I'll admit it. It is particularly fun to watch a bullshitter say something that makes them look stupid. :P
But it could have reasonably been the journalist's fault. The world may never know.
 
Presuming this isn't a journalist error, or s/he didn't get the quote approved from Hines(how often does this happen?) I'm not gonna argue with the sloppiness of the brackets.

Still don't see the track covering as the quote probably should have been altered, albeit with brackets, to provide clarity for the reader, who more than likely doesn't care if Pete Hines is silly.

I'm also not convinced that the post I was responding to was concerned about brackets.
 
Brother None said:
There are quotes around it. I'm not sure if you are familiar with journalist practices, but what I learned back in the editor's office is that all words in quotes must be accurately what the person actually said. If you are changing someone's words to clarify what he said, you use []'s.

In other words, it should now read ""Obviously we are more familiar with the Xbox because [we have used it for longer] and the other thing is that the Xbox is much easier to take to tech shows. ", unless the original quote was a misquote in which case there should be a little "in error" editing note at the bottom.

I know this does not look like a big deal to laymen, but journalism is journalism, and it's sloppy shit like this that means gaming media is still the dregs of the journalistic world.

As for "covering tracks", I am assuming it was edited to make Pete Hines look less silly than his words make him look. Hardly a major affront, but still covering tracks.
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It could have been just a typo by Patrick, knowing him he's always doing 100 things at the same time, in those circumstances sometimes those typos happen.
 
Briosafreak said:
It could have been just a typo by Patrick, knowing him he's always doing 100 things at the same time, in those circumstances sometimes those typos happen.
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That's not what typo means.

And if you know him, ask what is up with his total lack of adherence to sound journalistic principle.
 
This is some hard-hitting counterjournalism. I have an idea: since the whole "[familiar]" thing is really just a stupid aside, let's talk FO4 for a second (cover your ears, TG):

Where would you set the next game? I'm just going to assume DC gets blown to kingdom come (again) and part 4 moves it either back westward or to the great white north (nucear winter, lol ect). People have mentioned Chicago and the midwest, since apparently FO:T dealt with the area. All I know is wandering into Wrigley Field and seeing the scoreboard frozen with an 11 run Cub lead at the top of the 9th with 2 outs in game seven of the World Series would be fucking perfect.
 
OK, lets do this.
Considering that in morrowind tamriel was a tropical jungle, but in oblivion it was different,
following bethesda's track record FO4 can be set on the west coast, but the surroundings are now instead of the bombed out west coast, a giant, dense magical forest filled with happy critters.
 
Simeon said:
Considering that in morrowind tamriel was a tropical jungle, but in oblivion it was different
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Well, just the majority of Cyrodiil and parts of Black Marsh really. But I take your meaning about their lack of adherence to their own established lore. Cyrodiil being mostly jungle goes back as far as the first TES game (Arena) even. Jungle could have been much more interesting than generic fantasy forest as it appeared in TES IV. Well, I guess that's the Bethesda way. :?
 
Jesuit said:
Everyone knows you have to skip every other Microsoft OS
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uhhh... no

MS has 2 branches of OSes.

windows:
3.1: good
3.11: ok, but problematical
95: good
98: better
ME: utter shit

NT:
4.51: good
5.0: great
5.1: good, after lots of patches, great
5.2: utter shit

where is this skipping every 2nd OS at? i only see 1 OS in each tree that sucked ass.
 
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