First up on the rant was Clint Hocking (Far Cry 2), who may have set a new record for most usage of "fuck" and "shit" in a rant. Prefacing with a comparison to the film industry, Hocking said, "pound for pound we're the most fucking creative industry in the whole world." The focal point of his rant came from something a friend of his said: "dude, it's code ... we can do anything."
Whereas independent games have been able to create an emotional impact, Hocking said, mainstream titles have largely focused on mindless action. "Why can't Call of Duty ... actually be about duty. Why isn't Medal of Honor about honor? Imagine what it'd be worth to you if you could put honor on a box and sell it." Hocking mentions Marriage and Passage that are free to download and wonderful.
Halo 3 made $300 million, but at $50 copy that means it's only making one-tenth of the Lord of the Rings audience. "Do you really think a glowing dagger that can detect Orcs or a fucking +5 rope is what moved people? What people care about is that Frodo trusts Sam ... It doesn't surprise me that the most meaningful relationship we had in a AAA title this year is with a fucking cube." That last comment drew massive applaud and laughter.
Concluding, Hocking repeats his previous mantra: "Dude, it's code ... We can do anything."
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Stop sucking its cubed tits.
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ok, dude
I'm just asking because the line doesn't seem to be very long...
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In fact, I'd say he was complimenting Portal on the idea that the game has managed to get players to actually care about an inanimate object that has such a small roll in the game.
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At any rate, yeah, he was paying a compliment to Portal.
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Oh man! i was walking down a hall and collecting stupid coins and then this nameless wife died and then so did I, oh what an emotional connection i made in all 5 minutes the game lasts, cry cry cry.
anyone trying to pass off Passage as a game or art is a moron.
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(Warning: Spoilers)
1. The way the graphics were compressed on the right side of the screen when you had your full life ahead of you, and compressed on the left side of the screen when your life is behind you. The realization that you've already done and experienced more in your life than you will in future.
2. Leaving you deceased wife behind and moving forward, even though there were no compressed graphics left ahead of you. What is the point of living when everything is behind you?
3. Collecting things has no effect on the game. No matter how rich or successful we are, we are all bound equally by time.
Your reward is being emotionally void for the rest of your life. Have fun! Now go play Halo.
While I'm at it, these *fucking* developers are really brilliant in their rants by only using the *fucking* word "fuck". They're bright people, why don't they use the other 6 or 7 swear words? In ranting, people grow tired of listening to someone if they sound like a broken record.
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Yeah, that film sucks. If I wanted to girly-men drama queens overacting I'll watch youtube.
www.rottentomatoes.com/top/bestofrt_year.php?year=2007
Audiences are too busy masturbating to Micheal Bay explosion-porn. Who's really to blame when a turd like Spiderman 3 makes more money than all the Academy Award nominees for Best Picture COMBINED!
Gamers have generally been unreceptive to serious games with emotion... like jdeuel above who says that anyone who cries while playing Passage is "a huge pussy". Many gamers seem to want games that make them feel big by "pwning" others online. Any game that isn't about manly-men killing each other is attacked as a "casual" game. The only way to get most gamers to buy a game with any emotional content is to "sneak" it into a game in the form of a cube.
if i had to list a game to get emotionally attached during, I might offer up titles like harvest moon where you have to court your spouse for a while, or maybe even something like the nuke scene from cod4
Probably because that would make them...*gasp*...boring as shit (Not that I'm a WW2 shooter fan).
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1. Oh god, here come EVEN MORE cutscenes.
2. Great, they're trying to turn gaming into some sort of Steel Magnolias/Bridges of Madison County bullshit. (Don't get me wrong, I'm no Michael Bay fan either.)
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