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Waypoint+ |OT| "Fuck Capitalism, Go Home"
- Thread starter Mezentine
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Recording of their PAX panel is up in the podcast feed (as today's podcast, I think). Gonna quote my notes on things lost in pure audio form:
and also if you're picturing Austin and Danika miming peeking through a chainlink fence at the relevant times, that's accurate
I guess Patrick also had a hairbrush he... found? but I'm not sure that bit was recorded since it was like 15 seconds before they actually started
and here are relevant tweets
and also if you're picturing Austin and Danika miming peeking through a chainlink fence at the relevant times, that's accurate
I guess Patrick also had a hairbrush he... found? but I'm not sure that bit was recorded since it was like 15 seconds before they actually started
and here are relevant tweets
A Fortnite series feels like reaching for relevance since they've already said that most of them have little to no interest in it over PUBG. But if it brings in the views, business is business.
hadn't really considering this might be a way to boost their video reviews but that does makes sense.
They should have done this 3 months ago when it was clearly booming, not after it's boomed. It's still a hot property but them attaching to it now feels like they're not as in touch. That sounds too harsh, it really does. But people have already found their favorite Fortnite streamers.
I like to imagine someone from Vice corporate slammed their hands on the table and shouted "Fortnite!" and Austin made it so
In spite of never playing it, I've always been kinda interested in Fortnite Horde Mode, while the Battle Royale seems like such a boring take on PUBG's--too small and arcadey to really capture what was fun about it.
I am afraid I'm not "With It" anymore...
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, I can't believe they replied to this.
I am afraid I'm not "With It" anymore...
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, I can't believe they replied to this.
I haven't watched the stream so maybe they presented it differently there, but based on the brief thing they said at the panel, it sounded like them playing Fortnite is like the thing they want to do with Warframe, isn't it? They're just playing it daily for two weeks to see what's up with it.
Nope (and there wasn't the last time they did a panel either). The theater it was in wasn't one that had streaming so they'd had to have had someone record it for them separately, unfortunately.
Nope (and there wasn't the last time they did a panel either). The theater it was in wasn't one that had streaming so they'd had to have had someone record it for them separately, unfortunately.
I mean, yeah, I'm far more curious about Warframe. Just meant it seemed like a specific limited thing rather than "we stream Fortnite now".
The problem with these zeitgeist-chasing streams are what Sunflower mentioned - the people that like Fortnite enough to watch longform videos of Fortnite really like Fortnite and probably don't have much interest in beginners (or semi-beginners) tooling about learning the ropes of the game. And they'll never be able to compete with the constant stream of content the dedicated streamers produce either. I just dunno.
I would enjoy them taking the piss out of the game and pulling it apart critically, but that's not really the tone their streams try to strike.
(Also, Fortnite is better than PUBG)
I would enjoy them taking the piss out of the game and pulling it apart critically, but that's not really the tone their streams try to strike.
(Also, Fortnite is better than PUBG)
No piss to take out, Fortnite is an exceptionally fun game!
Seriously it's really good and I love PUBG, but I agree with you. It's better. I barely go back to PUBG, I hit Fortnite every day or two.
we always knew this
honestly i think dannika is the protagonist in a waypoint anime.
Austin running late to the office with toast while Danielle runs past him at super speed and a vapor wave/jpop mashup plays
rob comes in at the beginning of season 2. Patrick is the other rival character at the beginning of season 1 but isn't technically an antagonist.
Ah, I just noticed that Patrick got an answer as to where the poop goes in A Way Out. (The answer: nowhere; the plumbing is fake. There are multiple other theories put forth, though.)
Good job, Patrick.
Good job, Patrick.
They've turned Patrick's written review into a podcast *and* a video. I admire the hustle. They should grab Graham Rowat from GWJ to do their readings.
They really should have done this kind of content from the start honestly. Good traffic drivers and I think the little discussion in the review podcast between Rob and the reviewer is a really good format.
This was the best Friday pod in a while. I remember all the hyperbole when that Dead Island trailer came out, it was ridiculous.
They didn't even mention the Dead Island 2 trailer (that game is officially still in development btw) with such a fake-Jack Black at the end that Jack Black actually came out and said it wasn't him.
Austin's take on how people just didn't understand the NMS pitch is disappointing.
The problem with the gameplay(!) trailer was that it shows a lot of things that are impossible in the game. And it's not just superficial stuff like graphics, it's systems like animals interacting with eachother. Even during its launch they left that one up on their Steam page insead of correcting it with a newer one.
Murray's interviews contained straight up lies, not just vague misinterpretations. His whole defense was that people expected a different game because of their own fantasies or whatever, which is wrong. Glad that Patrick was there to counter some of it atleast.
The problem with the gameplay(!) trailer was that it shows a lot of things that are impossible in the game. And it's not just superficial stuff like graphics, it's systems like animals interacting with eachother. Even during its launch they left that one up on their Steam page insead of correcting it with a newer one.
Murray's interviews contained straight up lies, not just vague misinterpretations. His whole defense was that people expected a different game because of their own fantasies or whatever, which is wrong. Glad that Patrick was there to counter some of it atleast.
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Personally, I felt that he addressed that, though? He didn't mention the animals specifically but he talked about some other stuff and the trailers in general, and how it was wasn't there. His point was that stuff being there would not make the game better, at least not to the degree that those excited for it wanted. Rather, it wouldn't make it the game they wanted to play. Like... would animals interacting really solve everything else? That's just another little detail that happens when you're doing the rest of the game, and a lot of the trailer stuff is like that, unless I'm misremembering something huge. I should say I only ever played about 3 hours of the game (I was in Japan at the time and my attempt at remote playing just made me motion sick), so maybe my memory is off, but is there any big gameplay thing people can point to that is missing that would make the game more satisfying?
And while they definitely lied about some aspects and misrepresented others, people also absolutely built up a fantasy that was beyond what they said- or did stuff like interpreting "procedurally generated" as "everything that is generated will be interesting to see", which also came up in the episode. Especially because closer to release when press got their hands on it, the news coming out of that clarified some of the focus on resources/survival stuff and people still got hyped about this endless exciting space game they could explore forever?
I don't think people were wrong to buy into the trailers, or (to a degree) be angry that what they were sold wasn't what they got. But I also think there were indeed other details coming out (and we can totally question how much they were pushed relative to the trailers) that the people extremely excited for it ignored, or didn't consider the impact of.