This is so amazing to read. I'm so so happy it's working out so well. I love EZA and thank you for everything that you do!! Sending you all love and respect! =)
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This is so amazing to read. I'm so so happy it's working out so well. I love EZA and thank you for everything that you do!! Sending you all love and respect! =)
It's been a phenomenal year for video games so far. Sorry to hear about your limited and questionable taste in gaming if you say otherwise.
Edit: I don't mean to offend anyone, there really has been a lot of awesome releases week after week, to name a few:
Ace Combat 7
Resident Evil 2
Kingdom Hearts 3
Metro Exodus
Devil May Cry 5
Yoshi's Crafted World
Sekiro
Division 2
Days Gone
Mortal Kombat 11
Rage 2
Etc
Edit: I don't mean to offend anyone, there really has been a lot of awesome releases week after week, to name a few:
Ace Combat 7
Resident Evil 2
Kingdom Hearts 3
Metro Exodus
Devil May Cry 5
Yoshi's Crafted World
Sekiro
Division 2
Days Gone
Mortal Kombat 11
Rage 2
Etc
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Heres a list of every game I've played this year. Dont worry about the punctuation at the end, I can't be bothered to remove it:
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Gears of war: ultimate edition*
Resident evil 2 remake$
Kingdom hearts 3$
Apex legends#
Tetris 99#
Anthem$
Crackdown 3*
Far cry 2#
Ape out _
Baba is you _
Gears 2*
Gears 3*
Unraveled 2#
Mgs rising revengence#
Sekiro$
Picross 3d 2
Twilight princess picross#
Crypt of the necrodancer _
Gears of war judgment*
Falcon age
Gears of war 4*
Labo vr÷
Batman arkam asylum*
Shadow of the tomb raider*
Halo spartan assault*
Halo wars remastered*
Doom 2016*
Days gone^
Steamworld quest _
Halo 3*
Subnautica$
Divinity original sin 2$
Assassins creed odyssey
I wouldn't call my tastes limited, questionable maybe but the point is I've played a wide variety of games this year. I still think this year has been very lackluster. Most of the games I was excited for were bad, games I had no hype for were great.
I do want to play a plague tale and and dmc 5 but I'm waiting on sales for both after getting burned so many times this year.
Come on, man. That is a little on the needlessly hostile end of things, isn't it? Different strokes and all that...
There haven't been a ton of games this year that I've been interested in but the ones that did grab me, grabbed me hard. RE2, DMC5, Sekiro, and MK11 have all had me hooked for weeks on end, and being at work away from those games had me counting down the seconds before I could play again.
Nah. Tastes and opinions differ person to person. Just cause you like a game and they don't doesn't mean they have bad taste or they're ignorant.
Next time there's weird RNG maybe Ian and Huber could just skip straight to the next question and then edit that bit out of the video?
Despite the weird RNG, that episode was still my favourite so far thanks to way it came right down to the wire at the end. Can't wait for the next one.
Eh, while I don't entirely agree, I can see why some people would come to that conclusion. I think this year has seen a lot of "if you're a fan of x, you'll love y" and if you don't fit into some of those groups, there isn't a ton for you because there hasn't been a universally loved game like GoW or BotW this year.
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Unfortunately editing out questions means inconsistencies in how much HP or gold people have, so it could be confusing or frustrating for the viewers.
I think they meant the player gets another question, instead of skipping to the next player.
Oh, I didn't mean in the shows that're already taped, I meant in future ones. There could just be a button on Ian's end that immediately pulls in a new question.
Most significant 3rd part of a trilogy coming out this year.
My avatar change was more appropriate then I ever could have thought...
Cool cool. I had a hunch you wouldn't, but wasn't sure if it was mentioned.
Just dropping by to say I'm really enjoying Mysterious Monsters. So fun to answer the questions alongside the contestants.
He might, but he might not.
They never said anything specific about this (as far as I know), so we just don't know for sure.
I am sure EZA and EZA's fans miss Ian and while I want Ian to come back too, I hope he can finish the thing he's occupied with and I still wish him all the best to do so.
I don't know what it is, but I get the feeling he should get all the time he needs.
This. It sucks that we don't get to hear Ian's input that much lately, but there is no use in bringing it up constantly. He'll be back when he finishes whatever he has going on right now, and that's really all we need to know.
I think I saw some guy in the Patreon comments DEMANDING an explanation a while back, and was kinda taken aback by that.
Oh, I didn't even think about this. I hope they can make it work. The EZA betting specials make E3 a lot more engaging.
They already spoke about at length. They all went their separate ways, but miraculously found each other again while competing in the 2016 Snake Charming Regional Championships. In spite of their valiant efforts, most realised they were outclassed and out of their element. They reluctantly decided to give video games another go. Damiani, who took home the gold medal with his innovative rendition of Funky Town, still had duties to fulfil in several national and international tournaments, and thus couldn't join until later.
As someone who hasn't listened to the podcast yet this comment means nothing to me. Would you mind explaining it what it is about?
I'm not sure it's necessarily dumb. It just depends on the person and usually on the place they live/where they were born. I guess it's a cultural thing.
Some people find violence way worse and others nudity. It's just a difference of opinion and I don't think either one of them is the superior opinion (depending on the kind of violence and nudity, I guess).
I personally would find it awkward to play those GoW scenes with people next to me (whatever age they are), but I do think Belgium (and I guess Europe in general) has less problems with nudity in games compared to at least the US (and I guess a lot of the Anglo-Saxon countries, even though I am not sure about this and I hate to generalise). That said I'm actually not sure what side I'm on for this one. It depends on the content.
But again, it depends on which person you are asking. It's mature content (both nudity and violence) and because of that not everybody wants to be exposed to that. I know my sister doesn't like either of them in games and she is in her 30's.
A good example of nudity well done (imo) was the demo of Cyberpunk 2077. There were humans thrown away in the bathtub which were nude. It felt realistic to me and not done for the nudity itself. It felt to me like the scum that lived in that place would do this as they didn't care about those people, they were objects to them. It's not necessary to be in there, but it ads atmosphere and realism for that game in my opinion. Btw, I totally get that this stuff is not everyones cup of tea and I do think it would be a good idea to have sliders in games to remove or tone that stuff down. Everyone is different. The more options, the better.
Kyle said in corrections that there were some people last week who commented on the dad that asked for a sort of streammode for nudity and such in games (which I think would be a good idea) because he was playing GoW with his kids, but didn't want them to see the nudity. And the discussion is that some people find it weird that he is ok with showing them the violence in GoW, but not the nudity. There are some comments about this again this week.
I honestly think it's a cultural thing. Violence and nudity can be done well in games and they can get over-the-top and gross. Those lines are different to each person, which makes it difficult to discuss imo.
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man I feel like I ammissing out on all the good VR games with my Vive.
The Norse God RPG looked freaking great! A 30-50 hour VR game! Gimme!!!
And I would love to Play Lone Echo 1 and 2....
A Love and Respect where a dad was saying he'd be fine playing through the original God of War games with his kids when they got a bit older if it weren't for the sex/nudity scenes.
I'm not gonna deny that there may other cultural factors involved, but with video games this sort of argument: "why is murder and violence ok but sex isn't?" completely ignores all that damaging effects certain portrayals of sex and nudity can have. Case in point, in the original God of War games the women are gratuitous caricatures there for Kratos to enjoy and to titillate horny boys. This shit obviously has run-on effects. There is no evidence that a young person seeing violence in a game or movie means they're going to develop a penchant for violence or murder in real life, but it is absolutely the case that the way women are depicted in media whether it's games, TV or movies, does impact how men view women in real life.
Ignoring the very real impact of sexist depictions of women like in the original God of War because "don't take my game boobs away" and hiding it behind an argument of "oh you Americans are so puritan and backwards" is transparent as hell and that's exactly what the YT comment is about.
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I get you and I agree that the way women are depicted in the media should change. That said, we are talking about games meant for adult players. Which means they should be expected to be able to differentiate between a game and real-life. I am not saying that this justifies everything and while I haven't played any GoW, I have seen some of those scenes before and I am not convinced they add a lot to those games (from and outside perspective).
I know there are people who think it's fine to treat women like crap, which is obviously deplorable, but I am not convinced the depiction of women in the media has more impact on how women are viewed in real-life compared to violence. Adult people should be able to understand the difference. If they can't they shouldn't play those games imo.
To give my sister as an example again. She knows she doesn't like games with violence and nudity, so she avoids playing them. She doesn't mind that those games exist though (again, depending on how strong the content is, that Steam rape game obviously goes way too far and it's honestly shocking how somebody could get the idea of creating it).
I am not convinced that stuff should be in GoW (as this is clearly done for the nudity, which I usually roll my eyes to), I personally prefer a more natural way of showing that stuff if necessary (I personally don't think most games and movies/series should have that kind of stuff to begin with), but I don't care too much that it's in there either. That said, I for sure wouldn't play a game like GoW with my kids (and not only for the nudity). I am sure it's not going to do a lot of harm, but let kids be kids as long as they can.
But again, I get where you are coming from. I am all for a more realistic depiction of women (and people in general) in games and I do think it's best to be careful on how to depict people in media if it does have an impact on how people react to them in real-life.
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This is a cop out. Adult people should know not to be racist, sexist, addicted to drugs, steal, kill etc but they go ahead and do it anyway. Violence in video games is so rarely targeted like the sexualisation of women is. You're killing zombies, or bandits, or monsters, or demons. If a game had you only killing women with extreme violence, this would be an entirely different conversation. Violence in games is equal opportunity, sexualisation is not.
There is absolutely evidence that being exposed to violence can really mess you up. It's called post traumatic stress disorder. Some of the developers working on mortal kombat 11 reported symptoms of it from being exposed to violent content on a daily basis. Granted they were also seeing images/video of real life violence but the point still stands. Personally the "break her wings" section from one of the LOU 2 trailers messed me up for a couple days.
So yes, while the kid might not go out and attempt to break his friends arms with a hammer they can still be psychologically damaged by such images.
Absolutely, but I would say there is quite an enormous gap between something like God of War 1/2/3 (especially with the dated visuals) and a game known for it's ridiculous dedication to gore, and another that's all about horrific realism.
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