As for the original comments: about demos, he makes a good point (although it is wrapped up in frat boy lingo); I have no intention of buying (for example) Mercenaries 2, since the demo seems to cover the game quite nicely. As for his quote on Mirror's Edge: asking for more gun gameplay: retarded. Requiring a real incentive for a fast paced dash: makes sense.
Let me put it this way; in the original Matrix movie, would the first chase have been nearly as exciting if Trinity hadn't had an Agent who could match her pace chasing after her? In other words, as scary as being shot at is, it seems (and is displayed in the demo) that all you have to do is hop up onto a one story block and you can laugh at the pudgy donut-scoffing police jumping up and down beside you. Since the pistols at least seem highly inaccurate from anything more than ten metres, it's hardly terrifying. However, I have heard that later in the game there are police snipers. That does sound like a good gameplay element (and an incentive to run).
ThePlasmatizer said:
I don't care if you met him and he was like the pope, these quotes are words he actually said and what can you judge someone on other than what words come out of their mouth?
Well obviously that upon meeting him in person you would hear him saying words too. Don't they count? For that matter, I'm fairly sure meeting someone in person is a more accurate account than reading a quote, possibly out of context, on some website from a possibly rudhed interview. I don't like Cliify B by the way; ever since I found out he enjoyed trash-talking I've thought of him as obnoxious, but since the previous quote is the only words I've heard from someone who's actually met the man I don't see how they should be considered less important.
Richard Groovy Pants said:
yonsito said:
Cut him some slack. He's got a game out in a few days, so he's doing some publicity.
And as long as his games are good, he can talk all the crap he wants, for all that I care for.
That's just the problem, they aren't.
You're opinion doesn't always represent reality. I've always held that while it takes brains to make an informed about, say, art or politics, it doesn't require intelligence to know what's fun. So if lots of people buy a game and enjoy it, it's probably a good game. Note this doesn't mean I think only popular games are any good, but when I see tens of thousands of people playing Halo 3, I do have to wonder whether they would be doing it if they didn't enjoy it.
