Giant Bomb |OT 21| YEEEEEEEEEEEEHAW!
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I haven't played one of these games but I'm just gonna say it the walking dead final season is a better the last of us pt 2
IMO, no matter what the 'messages' of the movie/game are, comparing a fictional video game to a movie about the Holocaust is bad taste. Full stop.
Absolutley. That's why I think Druckman just choose that movie because it evokes sadness and bleakness to the larger crowd.
He completely farts on the movie and the history with that tweet. It's just bad.
*Is at the shelf where there is basic spicy and 2x*
The 2X bowl: Wouldst thou like to live...deliciously?
Yeah the regular spicy flavor is my sweet spot. It is pretty spicy without being overly spicy. The flavor still comes through real well.
I've also tried a bunch of the other flavors (cheese, carbonara, etc) but the classic is still my favorite
I've also tried a bunch of the other flavors (cheese, carbonara, etc) but the classic is still my favorite
my favorite part is comparing every other game to john wick and then saying the last of us isn't like it
john wick
the film series where the protagonist is haunted by their past into lapsing back into constant acts of gratuitous violence, the world is an inherently hostile place, and characters' attempts at resolution only further fuel an endless cycle of payback
not like the last of us at all! the last of us has guitars, and monster men
john wick
the film series where the protagonist is haunted by their past into lapsing back into constant acts of gratuitous violence, the world is an inherently hostile place, and characters' attempts at resolution only further fuel an endless cycle of payback
not like the last of us at all! the last of us has guitars, and monster men
He's such a boomer he even haggles prices in his games.
Even ignoring the hyperbole, the awful insensitive comparison to a holocaust movie, the embarrassing "games can be art like the movies! Take them seriously!" subtext.....
his general point that most games are fun but the last of us is not fun but powerful and moving, is like, 10 years too late? Games have been doing the "it's not supposed to be fun" thing for years and to great effect. Spec Ops did it, Paper's Please did it, Pathologic, this War of Mine, Mafia 2,
hell the first Last of Us kind of did it. If you're only now realising that games can be things other than fun then where have you been the last 10 years, and how the fuck are you a critic? And just because something is serious does not mean it's better than something joyful but we won't even go there.
his general point that most games are fun but the last of us is not fun but powerful and moving, is like, 10 years too late? Games have been doing the "it's not supposed to be fun" thing for years and to great effect. Spec Ops did it, Paper's Please did it, Pathologic, this War of Mine, Mafia 2,
hell the first Last of Us kind of did it. If you're only now realising that games can be things other than fun then where have you been the last 10 years, and how the fuck are you a critic? And just because something is serious does not mean it's better than something joyful but we won't even go there.
If anything Jason helped me understand the brutal difficulty of game development.
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I was thinking that game fans would go nuts when it came to TLOU 2 but it turned out game devs and critics went nuts. 2020.
Yup. Over the years of reading Jason's pieces, it's really shed light on the industry that I used to consider a 'dream job' when I was a kid.
LOL I can't believe a Cannata Hyperbole Tweet of all things got this ball rolling. Goddamn.
First time I saw the first movie I was convinced it had to be based off of a comic series or something because that world seemed so fleshed out. I was so disappointed to find out it wasn't.
There aren't hard sales numbers on individual games, just whatever subscription numbers MS deign to release, which makes half-arsed punditry on forums a mite trickier.
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One of the funniest things about this is that Cannata still defends his God Of War tweet as being correct. He said in the replies "Everyone fucking agreed with it in the end, but I had to go through hell because everyone assumes they know more than they do." Lol
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The more people spend time away from Twitter, the better. This is the only good lesson to take out of all of this.
Well he's correct in the sense that God of War took from a lot of aspects from those better games and made them worse :P
Literally a white man who has managed to have a very successful career and is in a relatively safe well respected managerial position cranking up the internet crocodile tears to go, all want to do is hurt me aaaaaaah.
Saying that the journalist known for exposes on horrible working conditions in the industry's bread and butter is tearing down studios is, uh, a real bad look.
Things getting heated between Neil Druckmann, Jason Schreier and Cory Barlog on Twitter.
I hope for their sake and the sanity in here, things get sorted out sooner rather than later.
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We're at 2X spicy now.
This victim mentality from people who are, by the standards 99% of the other people in their field, in basically unassailable positions of power would be hilarious if it wasn't emblematic of a lot of problems in society.
Things getting heated between Neil Druckmann, Jason Schreier and Cory Barlog on Twitter.
I hope for their sake and the sanity in here, things get sorted out sooner rather than later.
We're at 2X spicy now.
Someone needs to bring back Celebrity Deathmatch so we can hash this shit out like civilized adults.
Things getting heated between Neil Druckmann, Jason Schreier and Cory Barlog on Twitter.
I hope for their sake and the sanity in here, things get sorted out sooner rather than later.
We're at 2X spicy now.
these game directors of million dollar franchises sure do love to play victim
*closes book on last 2 pages*
And that my friends is why the badass dudes and ladies rising up against an evil corporation power fantasy of Resident Evil is better than the pretentious and miserable "but are we the real monsters?" hand-wringing of Walking Dead and Last of Us.
And that my friends is why the badass dudes and ladies rising up against an evil corporation power fantasy of Resident Evil is better than the pretentious and miserable "but are we the real monsters?" hand-wringing of Walking Dead and Last of Us.
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