Jimquisition: I Hate Videogames (Because I Love Them)
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Yes! Because marriage has aways been as it is now, and has never changed for all time! F@#K anyone who wishes to have it just to have legal rights like being able to visit your love in the hospital! It has always been the same!Hatchet90 said:
*bullshit
Yeah as others have said the solution is simple. Vote with the wallet.
Proactively I will not purchase games from
Ubisoft because their DRM practices.
Anything tied to Disney... because its an evil nazi, preteen sexualizing, still quietly homophobic, disgusting corporation.
EA sports titles because of trying to regurgitate the same game each year for a full price tag.
CoD games because of trying to regurgitate the same game each year for a full price tag.
And if Bethesda doesnt clean up their act soon I will stop buying their products because of trying to regurgitate the same game each year for a full price tag.
Granted.. that severely limits what games I will shell out money for, but if you stand for nothing you fall for anything, and its high time we started taking a stand against all the garbage being thrown at us.
Proactively I will not purchase games from
Ubisoft because their DRM practices.
Anything tied to Disney... because its an evil nazi, preteen sexualizing, still quietly homophobic, disgusting corporation.
EA sports titles because of trying to regurgitate the same game each year for a full price tag.
CoD games because of trying to regurgitate the same game each year for a full price tag.
And if Bethesda doesnt clean up their act soon I will stop buying their products because of trying to regurgitate the same game each year for a full price tag.
Granted.. that severely limits what games I will shell out money for, but if you stand for nothing you fall for anything, and its high time we started taking a stand against all the garbage being thrown at us.
You vomit out a ChikfilA sandwhich with KFC adds plastered all over Destructoid's page. All while telling everyone who accuses you of bias to go suck it, and calling out big publishers for their big business practices. It's elegant.
I agree with most of what you said, save for this comment:"take the nostalgia goggles off".
I am a multi-console user, I usually get all three of the big contenders for the living room and I even started dabbling with PC gaming this gen. That said, I have done this since the NES era of gaming, and I couldn't be more disappointed right now. Case in point, I have 5 games for my PS3, only 4 of which I like. The ones I enjoyed are MGS4, Little Big Planet 1&2, and 3D Dot Game Heroes (I am not counting all the HD remakes I own because those are from the last gen, really). Out of the 50+ games I've played for this console these 4 were the only ones I liked enough to buy. Do you know how big my catalog of PS1 and PS2 games is? I have 30+ for both those consoles each, all of which are just amazing games. For good contrast I never owned more then 10 games for my original xbox, and I used to consider that the biggest dud in my collection, but not anymore.
Speaking of the xbox I have about 15 360 games, but again - I am going to be honest here - I probably only truly enjoy about 4 of them. This is probably why my 360 collection is mostly made of of traded games I keep cycling through and changing. I can say without a doubt I wouldn't shed one tear if a meteorite hit my 360 collection. I would actually just sell my 360 right now if it wasn't for the fact that Shadow Complex is my favorite game this gen. Yeah.. that's basically all that's stopping me, nothing else... just that. I loved Castle Crashers and Harmony of Despair, but now that most people don't play them they are pretty much moot and dead (such is the problem with multilayer-only games), while Braid and Limbo are also in my steam library, so... yeah. Why own a 360?
And my wii is basically just that. There isn't much of a point to it outside of the Nintendo exclusives, which we all knew were going to be very few and in between. Now that it's run it's course, I am not sorry to see it go. Again, like the PS3, this thing had a drastically smaller selection of good games then it's predecessor. That's really all I can say about it.
Yet, in light of all this, I am still hunting down and playing some PS1, PS2, Dreamcast and SNES games for the first time and they are wowing me. That's not nostalgia talking, that's the here and now. At some point people are going to have to just accept the fact that the previous generations had a much different style of gaming (different flavors for each gen) and some people just liked some of the older ones better. It's really that simple.
I am a multi-console user, I usually get all three of the big contenders for the living room and I even started dabbling with PC gaming this gen. That said, I have done this since the NES era of gaming, and I couldn't be more disappointed right now. Case in point, I have 5 games for my PS3, only 4 of which I like. The ones I enjoyed are MGS4, Little Big Planet 1&2, and 3D Dot Game Heroes (I am not counting all the HD remakes I own because those are from the last gen, really). Out of the 50+ games I've played for this console these 4 were the only ones I liked enough to buy. Do you know how big my catalog of PS1 and PS2 games is? I have 30+ for both those consoles each, all of which are just amazing games. For good contrast I never owned more then 10 games for my original xbox, and I used to consider that the biggest dud in my collection, but not anymore.
Speaking of the xbox I have about 15 360 games, but again - I am going to be honest here - I probably only truly enjoy about 4 of them. This is probably why my 360 collection is mostly made of of traded games I keep cycling through and changing. I can say without a doubt I wouldn't shed one tear if a meteorite hit my 360 collection. I would actually just sell my 360 right now if it wasn't for the fact that Shadow Complex is my favorite game this gen. Yeah.. that's basically all that's stopping me, nothing else... just that. I loved Castle Crashers and Harmony of Despair, but now that most people don't play them they are pretty much moot and dead (such is the problem with multilayer-only games), while Braid and Limbo are also in my steam library, so... yeah. Why own a 360?
And my wii is basically just that. There isn't much of a point to it outside of the Nintendo exclusives, which we all knew were going to be very few and in between. Now that it's run it's course, I am not sorry to see it go. Again, like the PS3, this thing had a drastically smaller selection of good games then it's predecessor. That's really all I can say about it.
Yet, in light of all this, I am still hunting down and playing some PS1, PS2, Dreamcast and SNES games for the first time and they are wowing me. That's not nostalgia talking, that's the here and now. At some point people are going to have to just accept the fact that the previous generations had a much different style of gaming (different flavors for each gen) and some people just liked some of the older ones better. It's really that simple.
That is probably Arkham Asylum but I've never played so I can't say for a certainty.mrjoe94 said:
Also, that is one awesome conspiracy theory RabidKitten.
Out of curiosity, what was the steam punk looking game that showed up a few times?
Good video though, looking forward to the next one.
Good video though, looking forward to the next one.
I remember seeing this funny picture that has this Star Trek fan standing in front of this bookcase of Star Trek stuff with a little speech bubble saying "You know I'm the biggest fan because I hate it more than anyone!" And it's kind of true, you see a lot of hardcore fans of something complaining about everything they don't like about what they're supposed to be fans of. While I'm not against commenting on something you don't like, some fans take it WAY too far.
The problem with this is that it also hurts developers, not just the publisher. I really don't like giving money to EA, but I want to support Bioware so I buy their games.balberoy said:
Talvrae said:
Hatchet90 said:
Jim: I take it that you like the product (Chick-Fil-A sandwiches) but hate the business (Chick-Fil-A corporation). Just like you like games, but hate the business that sells them. And that's your God-given right.Jimothy Sterling said:
I think they do plan on releasing it but MS has that timed exclusivity they like so much but Bethesda does seem to have something against the ps3 as their ports are always more broken than the other versions.Kitsune Hunter said:
Besides the reasons Jim mentioned, I don't mind saying I hate my ps3 for that reason (and Bethesda isn't the only one with shoddy ports on the ps3)and for the reason that even Sony itself doesn't bother giving the ps3 any decent firmware support. It's like they want it to be sandbagged.
I do love Valkyria Chronicles though.
The real problem I think is that because so many gamers are too forgiving to the publishers (they keep getting more ballsy with their nickel and dimeing), the platform developers (how long was MS allowed to get away with the RROD?), and even the retailers (used games for $2 short of the new price or sold as a new game); it seems that these companies don't feel like they need to try very hard anymore. But the sad thing is that they do need to try harder because they are losing customers at a time where their consumer base should be expanding. I guess they feel they can reap (rape...whatever) more profits from the remaining (overly loyal) consumer base than they could by working hard to expand their consumer base. It helps that the industry has managed to convince many of the overly loyal gamers that if they don't fold for every nickel and dime scheme, that the industry will crash.
And who knows, maybe they really have painted themselves into that corner at this point.
This video is definitely something that I can agree with, mostly with regards to having dealt with fanboys (and haven't we all?). I honestly fail to see how people can completely and utterly ignore or trash the opinions of others on a game, despite the fact that opinions are just that: OPINIONS! A person says that they think a game's story is too convoluted and everyone jumps down their throat about how they're too stupid to understand the plot. Someone makes a topic about how they don't like X character for Y reason, and people call them a troll. You say that you're not a fan of the combat system but love everything else in the game, and you're told to "Go back to CoD n00b!" There's no level-headed discussion, no debate, just blind rage over something incredibly trivial.
People need to realize that loving a game does not mean that your are wholly committed to loving said game. Nothing is perfect, nor should anything be considered perfect, so why do people find it so damn hard to accept that their favorite games aren't perfect? I love Dark Souls and consider it to be one of the best games I've ever played. Yet its online is by no means the greatest, it's got its fair share of broken equipment for PvP, the lack of direction can bother some people, and there are nasty glitches that seriously screw with PvP. But, to me, all of that is offset by its incredibly deep lore, amazing combat system, wonderful atmosphere, and great player customization. So I recognize and accept the bad, and love the good. Is that such a hard thing for others to do?
People need to realize that loving a game does not mean that your are wholly committed to loving said game. Nothing is perfect, nor should anything be considered perfect, so why do people find it so damn hard to accept that their favorite games aren't perfect? I love Dark Souls and consider it to be one of the best games I've ever played. Yet its online is by no means the greatest, it's got its fair share of broken equipment for PvP, the lack of direction can bother some people, and there are nasty glitches that seriously screw with PvP. But, to me, all of that is offset by its incredibly deep lore, amazing combat system, wonderful atmosphere, and great player customization. So I recognize and accept the bad, and love the good. Is that such a hard thing for others to do?
I don't think I've ever eaten there, and given that they've actively donated money toward gross institutions like Focus on the Family, I don't think I will. It goes beyond hating the business and not wanting to put money into the hands of those who fund causes that disgust me.AdmiralMemo said:
I can see where you wanted this to go though and don't fault the attempt!
This is the wrong prespective.sindremaster said:
If the developer doesn't produce the games we want (what the apparently don't do anymore)
and it's the publishers mistake, those developers will search a new publisher.
But you still buy games and so nothing will change.
For me noone who still buys from EA, Activision and Ubisoft is a Gamer.
Sry, those "customers" pay for destroying our loved hobby.
I guess I thought too hard into your intro and thought it was more than a non sequitur, then.Jimothy Sterling said:
I'll have to bookmark this video. Not because I think it's intellectually stimulating. In fact, I haven't been able to load the damn thing. And as long as the Escapist insists on running that "Creators Project" ad in the upper right corner of the screen, it doesn't look like my current system wants to.
There are easier ways to sell me on the benefits of the subscription, guys.
There are easier ways to sell me on the benefits of the subscription, guys.