GDC08: Watch highlights of (the first half of) the Developers Rant
by Ross Miller 
on Feb 23rd 2008 4:00AM
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Reader Comments (32)
Posted: Feb 23rd 2008 5:33AM (Unverified) said
Wow,what a crappy list of games. Apart from Halo of course - the greatest game of all time, Zelda killer.
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Posted: Feb 23rd 2008 5:34AM am2 said
Seems like the guy wrote his presentation, then added a few random "f**king" words here and there. Seemed quite out of place to me.
Speaking of rants, now that GDC is over i hope i won't have to see the words "Veronica" or "Mahalo" on the frontpage for a while. Getting damn sick of reading that, and seeing every video start with "Hello this is Veonica Belmont for Mahalo Daily". Enough already!!
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Speaking of rants, now that GDC is over i hope i won't have to see the words "Veronica" or "Mahalo" on the frontpage for a while. Getting damn sick of reading that, and seeing every video start with "Hello this is Veonica Belmont for Mahalo Daily". Enough already!!
Posted: Feb 23rd 2008 7:53AM (Unverified) said
i was thinking the same thing to. it seemed the f' bombs were outta place and seemed forced and like they were used only to make them sound like they're actually mad.... but they did bring up some good points
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Posted: Feb 23rd 2008 7:03AM (Unverified) said
Yea funno why they are saying fuck all the time, doesn't sound natural.
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Posted: Feb 23rd 2008 8:42AM (Unverified) said
Watch a bunch of geeks who fail at life rant about games? not my cup of tea, ty very much.
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Posted: Feb 23rd 2008 11:36AM (Unverified) said
but the word fuck is sooooooooooooooooo funny, right?
lolololfucklololololol
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lolololfucklololololol
Posted: Feb 23rd 2008 9:49AM (Unverified) said
I never thought I'd say this, but that video had too much 'fucking' for my liking. It seemed fake, set up, forced.
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Posted: Feb 23rd 2008 8:09PM (Unverified) said
Unfortunately, there are a lot of people just like that IRL.
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Posted: Feb 23rd 2008 12:01PM erh said
I agree with what Clint Hocking had to say, but not the way he said it. Clint wants games to be taken seriously as a medium for serious subject matter, but no one is going to take the game industry seriously when the people behind it swear like immature kids.
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Posted: Feb 23rd 2008 1:03PM (Unverified) said
Vidikron: I think you misparsed the sentence. It's not "swear, like only immature kids do," but "swear in a way that sounds more like an immature kid than an adult".
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Posted: Feb 23rd 2008 12:13PM (Unverified) said
I wish the video had more of Jane McGonigal's rant. She has the energy, experience, and forethought to change this industry for the better; at least the parts of it that need changing, or even creating for that matter.
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Posted: Feb 23rd 2008 3:13PM (Unverified) said
WAAAH Those mean people said fuck! WAH!!!! I'm gonna go cry to my mommy!
what a bunch of fucking pansies.
I guess you guys don't listen to the the 1up podcast very often.
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what a bunch of fucking pansies.
I guess you guys don't listen to the the 1up podcast very often.
Posted: Feb 23rd 2008 3:22PM Mr Khan said
The 1up podcast is meant to be a commercially distributed piece of entertainment. It caters to the core college-age gamer
GDC is supposed to be a symposium of the best and brightest, the paragons of the industry. When the two sound the same, you realize a few of the problems the industry has with gaining ultimate acceptance
Granted, they're supposed to be rants, so i imagine this is just part of the facade, but still
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GDC is supposed to be a symposium of the best and brightest, the paragons of the industry. When the two sound the same, you realize a few of the problems the industry has with gaining ultimate acceptance
Granted, they're supposed to be rants, so i imagine this is just part of the facade, but still
Posted: Feb 25th 2008 1:34AM DarknessBear said
Mr Khan.
ITS CALLED DEVELOPERS RANT YOU FUCKING IDIOT. That's the whole point! Its for developers to go off on tangenets and bitch at stuff in the industry. And yes that includes the FUCK word. The keynotes are there for inspiring creativity and different ideas in a civilized manor, the rant is there to say "FUCK!!!" and I love it and I would love to see more.
Its because people like you guys that games are still mindless idiot fest's . Try to discuss things, but noone will ever listen. Its time to change games for the better...
YOU GUYS ARE IDIOTS.
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ITS CALLED DEVELOPERS RANT YOU FUCKING IDIOT. That's the whole point! Its for developers to go off on tangenets and bitch at stuff in the industry. And yes that includes the FUCK word. The keynotes are there for inspiring creativity and different ideas in a civilized manor, the rant is there to say "FUCK!!!" and I love it and I would love to see more.
Its because people like you guys that games are still mindless idiot fest's . Try to discuss things, but noone will ever listen. Its time to change games for the better...
YOU GUYS ARE IDIOTS.
Posted: Feb 23rd 2008 4:04PM (Unverified) said
I dunno I see that more as the general social bullshit mindset of "If you are smart person, you can't use your vocal chords and your lips to combine certain sounds together that make words and phrases that people have marked 'dirty' because of silly superstitions"
To dismiss the absolute brilliance of that first rant because of the usage of the word "fuck" is, in my humble opinion, FUCKING stupid.
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To dismiss the absolute brilliance of that first rant because of the usage of the word "fuck" is, in my humble opinion, FUCKING stupid.
Posted: Feb 25th 2008 9:11AM (Unverified) said
That is a very valid point Logan, I will agree that a lot of the f-bombs sounded very forced (especially the last two presenters).
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Posted: Feb 23rd 2008 3:21PM (Unverified) said
I'm all for more FUN in games. I don't always want to be challenged to the point of redoing an area 15 times to get by some stupid choke point in the game. I want to have mindless fun. It seems that most games now are more 'work' then fun. When did 'easy' become a bad thing?? Why do we have to have INSANE modes?... I don't have the time or the patience to devote weeks in a game like I used to.. I just want to have fun.
PGR series is a good example.. the KUDOS system is just a PTA. Why not make huge core changes to the game based on EASY MEDIUM and HARD? Not just more enemies and higher hit points.
I think this XNA news from MS is a good thing.. forget the fancy graphics and lets get back to simple fun games that have good core gameplay.
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PGR series is a good example.. the KUDOS system is just a PTA. Why not make huge core changes to the game based on EASY MEDIUM and HARD? Not just more enemies and higher hit points.
I think this XNA news from MS is a good thing.. forget the fancy graphics and lets get back to simple fun games that have good core gameplay.
Posted: Feb 23rd 2008 3:58PM (Unverified) said
can I do the rant next year? I've already got it ready! It goes something like:
Bla bla bla give a shit bla bla bla fuck bla bla bla fucking bla bla bla fucking bla bla fuck fuck bla bla give a shit bla rope fucking bla bla..
Is that good?
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Bla bla bla give a shit bla bla bla fuck bla bla bla fucking bla bla bla fucking bla bla fuck fuck bla bla give a shit bla rope fucking bla bla..
Is that good?
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