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10/26/09
10/26/09
R2 was much better paced over all, and I thought the Chicago level was a masterpiece. I thoroughly enjoyed R2 and can't wait for the third one, but I'd love to see some of the strategic gameplay from FoM come back. (The gun wheel and bullet dodging.)
Oh yeah, another thing I missed in R2 was campaign co-op, especially split-screen. Bring that back too? #resistance2
10/26/09
I remember the big hubbub about the Cathedral level in the first, and how the Church of England through a shitfit, and Insomniac started apologizing and backpedaling about it.
Shoulda said, "Look, people need real things in the real world to defend. It was SUPPOSED to be tragic that it happened, but this was A) a work of fiction taking place in B) and alternate dimension, so C) shut the fuck up and deal with it.
I understand we live in a global economy, but it's getting stupid with all the censorship. European games can't have Nazis, Australian games can't feature anything more violent than balloons, and here in the US N'Gai Croal throws a hissy fit about anything Resident Evil, or that even vaguely looks like racism if you squint real hard and jam your fingers in your ears and shout "LA LA LA LA LA!" at the top of your lungs.
Bottom line, Insomniac, go with what you know to be right and fuck them if they can't take a joke, otherwise you just compromise your art into mediocrity.
ps-- Yes, I read your initial post, N'Gai, and all fucking 60 pages of comments, and to the whole shebang I say, "Quit crying wolf". Racism is a wound that will not heal if you rip off the bandage and smack it to make it bleed every time a new person comes along to impress, and the only concerns your criticism of the game brought to mind is that, shit, if a zombie outbreak happens in a non-caucasian country, they're just fucked if the most highly trained agent isn't black.
Oh, and one more thing: Zombies, my good man, come from Voodoo culture. Voodoo, you might recall, seeded in Africa and found its home in Haiti. So zombies in Haiti isn't racist, it's a homage. And besides, wasn't the second playable character from... Africa?
10/26/09
The first game, while a little lacking in some gameplay areas (like AI) utilised its awesome idea, WW humans VS space aliens.
But in the 2nd game, there was barely a hint of the humans WW era afoot, the soldiers were in what looked like traditional Hurr durr Space marine uniform.
2nd one had pretty graphics and better gameplay, but in exchange lost everything that set it apart from every other shooter...
...it became Haze. #resistance2
10/25/09
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So, I suggest making something different because you are not pulling hardcore COD fans away from their game, and if its just like COD you won't get the people who are willing to try a different type of FPS because we will think its exactly like COD so I might as well play COD. #resistance2
10/25/09
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..but somehow they still manage to be heard enough to define "the mainstream". Apparently Guerilla Games people read NeoGAF, according to Eric Boltjes. Which he pulled up in defense of making the control-scheme in kz2 less difficult, and much less immersive - along with unbalancing the game, because it changed substantially from what was beta-tested.
But hey - instead of doing something new, why not take the attiude that... if enough people complain that bullets will do damage - then bullets should just do less damage. Because giving people what they ask for, on internet forums, without an argument other than "waaah" - is just so much better than going for what the devs think is a good idea for the game.
History show countless examples of this. #resistance2
10/25/09
10/25/09
...ok. What about: "there are no place on the intertrons with as much misplaced arrogance or pretentiousness as NeoGAF"?
It's pretty amazing, really. The explicit argument of the entire site is that since people want the simplest and least complex solution to everything, so no one can argue against the noise of NeoGAF. Because since stupidity and arrogance exists to the exclusion of everything else, the weight of those unargued opinions must always be larger than anything else, because they are many - and never mind impossible to argue against. After all, they're stupid and arrogant and won't change their opinions. While everyone else who are intelligent can be amenable.
Hence, their orchestrated floods of fake posters to developer forums, along with the self-promotion the staff engages in, to inflate both the site's importance and the significance of stupidity.
It's really my favourite site on the internets, really. Making a stand for originality in the gaming industry, and introducing us to instant tropes such as "the award-winning story-telling of Infinity Ward and Bungie". #resistance2
10/25/09
10/25/09
Right. They fear the noise NeoGAF and other sites are able to drum up. It's the same every time.
They know that reasonable people don't have the time or dedication to make an impact over something as silly as just a game. So no matter how much sense it would make to adjust the game into a more wholesome experience - that might perhaps be fun to play for more people - they fear doing so for bad press.
The KZ2 controls was a perfect example of that - the review that was used as "many reviews say the controls are shit" for the noise-operation - actually insisted that while the controls were untraditional, you would get used to them very quickly. But GG caved to people who had decided they were going to hate it no matter what, even if it meant that large amounts of the community - and the developers themselves, Seb said as much - would have to adapt and change the way they played.
And what we got was generic shooter, and a game that could've been unfathomably better online, and much longer lived.
So here's a question for developers who are depressed about "user feedback", particularly when it come to making things more like COD: do you think bad press at NeoGAF is going to affect sales more than making a game that only appeals to the ultimate hardcore COD gamers?
It's a serious question, because it certainly looks like it's a very hard and difficult issue to decide on. #resistance2
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When you buy a house you choose a house, but if you want it, well, the way YOU want it, you do a thing called build it yourself. Otherwise you take what's out there. AND THAT'S A HOUSE! I can't relate to sitting on your asses playing games, but not knowing shit about building one, and yet thinking you have a voice to determine what the product should be.
This article just sparked these thoughts, and I noticed that in some of the comments in the article, "What Do You Hate About Games", Kotaku fans were bringing up how the sense of entitlement is awful. The latest boycott on L4D2 with those two jerks is one of the latest examples of this. All that energy: why don't you go run your own business? Sorry, off topic, but if I was Resistance I'd feel pretty bummed too. #resistance2
10/24/09
Well then developers are entitled to every person gushing over their games. Gamers are entitled to their opinion. If gamers want to tell a developer how to make a game, they can go ahead to do so. Developers don't have to listen to gamers either. Look at IW. They want to continue making their online matchmaking on the pc despite gamers protesting against it. Do they have to listen to us? No. Do we have to lie down and praise whatever they shit out? No we do not. It works both ways. Just as we are not entitled to developers listening to our every whim, developers are not entitled to our money and opinions. #resistance2
10/24/09
My major disappointment was that I couldn't play through the SP campaign with a friend. The 'mission' based co-op to me was ok... but playing through R1 couch-co-op through the campaign was a helluva lot of fun.
Hear that Insomniac? Bring back the co-op style from R1 so I can play through the campaign with with a friend! #resistance2
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