Zero Punctuation: E3 2012

[MB202]

"Stick to the things everybody hates" is not the same as "stick to the thinks that I hate". :/

Although, I must admit, I was a bit annoyed with games like New Super Mario Bros. U and Rayman Legends showing off the multiplayer aspects of games when I, like Yahtzee, usually play alone...

 

[ManupBatman]

She is being deliberately harrased to make us white knights care about her.

Wow, that's so inaccurate it's not even funny. And what, caring about a character suddenly became a perversion overnight while I was sleeping?

Since when did you need a tragic back story that expands an entire game to explain a blank slate character? Oh yeah, because she's a she.

Further more, why do you need motivation to protect a character. YOU are the character. Once again, because she's a she. Even the developer says you aren't suppose to be Lara, you're suppose to be her protector. The idea of depowering a female so that a male can take care of her is borderline sexual. She's the delicate little flower that you must water and care for, but she's your delicate little flower and no one will take her away.

http://kotaku.com/5917400/youll-want-to-protect-the-new-less-curvy-lara-croft

and more sensationalist

http://jezebel.com/5918222/the-rapey-lara-croft-reboot-is-a-fucked+up-freudian-field-day

 

[NezumiiroKitsune]

Well we already have an E4, and I suppose that dreadful E! thing can be E1. The Endearingly Erogenous Endangered Eel Extravaganza 2013 will be affectionately christened E5.

 

[Bindal]

Well we already have an E4, and I suppose that dreadful E! thing can be E1. The Endearingly Erogenous Endangered Eel Extravaganza 2013 will be affectionately christened E5.

Maybe one day, we reach the E-infinity (or "E-Finity"), too - we got already a good bunch numbers covered, going to that just seems logical.

 

[Michael Ellis]

Since when did you need a tragic back story that expands an entire game to explain a blank slate character? Oh yeah, because she's a she.

That's just it: they are making her MORE than a blank slate character. In case I have to remind you: THIS IS A REBOOT.

Further more, why do you need motivation to protect a character. YOU are the character. Once again, because she's a she. Even the developer says you aren't suppose to be Lara, you're suppose to be her protector. The idea of depowering a female so that a male can take care of her is borderline sexual. She's the delicate little flower that you must water and care for, but she's your delicate little flower and no one will take her away.

You completely misunderstood the developer. They are fleshing out Lara's character so you can emphasize with her, so that you will care about what happens to her and feel a connection with her that you do not with most video game characters. Because let me tell you: - for similarity's sake - as much as I think Uncharted 2 is a great game, I never cared about Drake. While I'm at it, I don't think I ever cared cor Gordon Freeman, Alyx Vance, or Chell either. Funny that, how people usually bring up Chell as a strong female character when she is as devoid of personality as Gordon is.

Lara isn't put trough hardship to make her look weak and attainable, the game just depicts a realistic survival situation which Lara overcomes. To believe that that is not the reason Tomb Raider is designed the way it is is to be a wackjob who sees sexual undertones everywhere in life, even in goddamn bus stop signs.

Besides: the developers have explained that it will be those hardships that will form Lara to be THE Tomb Raider people know and love. Well, mostly.

I see nothing wrong with making us emphasize with a video game character. In fact, it is moving the industry forward. Again: there is JACK SHIT inherently sexual about Lara's torment in Tomb Raider. Anybody who finds even the slightest hint of sexualization in it has only his/herself to blame. And anybody who voices this "observation" of theirs lacks the maturity to be regarded as an adult human being.

http://kotaku.com/5917400/youll-want-to-protect-the-new-less-curvy-lara-croft

and more sensationalist

http://jezebel.com/5918222/the-rapey-lara-croft-reboot-is-a-fucked+up-freudian-field-day

Jesus Christ, you read that schlock? And SUPPORT IT? I mean fuck, the only thing worse than those articles are the comments.

 

[Sheo_Dagana]

I didn't get hyped up for anything at E3 this year. They showed far less of the one game I cared about (Transformers: Fall of Cybertron) than I expected and everything else was just as shooty and generic as it was before. I was pretty happy to see a new side-scrolling Castlevania get announced, though.

Captcha: Dear cookie

How the HELL did the Captcha know I was writing a letter to a girl named Cookie earlier?!

 

[Noble_Lance]

I'm so excited for Watchdogs.

for me its watchdogs and dishounored.

My games are AC3, Watchdogs and possibly dishonored. I already was going into AC3 with my blind optimism and enjoyment of the game. Watchdogs feels like AC only in modern day and a whole lot of toys. Dishonored I heard a few good things about it, like it takes a Deus Ex approach to gameplay, but I need to see it for myself before I get really giddy about it.

 

[Stabby Joe]

In regards to Assassin's Creed 3, the French seem really intent on the American (only) market. All previews make me forget all those other times they insisted that the protagonist was neutral and would kill on both sides.

 

[Terramax]

Nice to see yahtzee catch on to this pathetic obsession with showing FMVs to advertise games, a gripe I've had for the best part of 10 years. Amazon.co.uk are the worst for this. You click on a trailer for a game and you can guarantee there won't be a single piece of gameplay footage, especially if it's a Japanese title.

 

[porpoise hork]

But Dishonored showed more than just stabbings! It has great atmosphere and art design and jumpy maybe magicy bioshocky gameplay!

Too true. Yahtzee forgot to mention all the pushing your stabbing victims over after you stabbed them, some clenching of your left hand at random intervals an tossing the occasional grenade in the trailer as well.

As for the art design well I glad to see they were able to really use so many vibrant colors for the environment. There are so many shades of grey that other developers simply overlook but not Bethesda. Oh no they fully embrace grey in all its expansive array of depth and splendor that it brings a tear to my eye from the sheer beauty of the greyness of it being grey.

 

[Nurb]

E3 Exposes the shittiness the large publishers have made created in the industry.

I don't see a point in even having E3 around anymore if they do nothing but have the same trailers as they release to the net, just with really expensive, stupid stage shows.

 

[Formica Archonis]

My God, those initials on the van were one HELL of a callback. That was (looks it up) the Haze [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/93-Haze] review! He was still using other people's music back then!

 

[ritchards]

Stab people with sideburns? Is there another new Prototype out?

 

[daxterx2005]

Master chief with a tophat...DLC

 

[Erttheking]

Eh...he does know that Halo 4 showed us gameplay right? I'm ok with him not liking what he saw but it kind of annoys me when he says things about it that are flat out wrong. I mean look at this, around five minutes of gameplay right here.


He could have said that he didn't like it and I wouldn't have had a problem with it, but there's a difference between that and saying that it doesn't even exist.

 

[Lunar Templar]

well that was disappointing, i was expecting Yahtzee to be more bitter and jaded about E3 then i was

oh well .....

 

[ManupBatman]

Hey man, you asked how, I told you. I understand what you mean but that is another view of the reboot that is held by many people in the industry and there is a reason for that. Just because you don't have a problem with it doesn't mean that other's don't have a reason to have issue.

Personally I don't think any judgement can be made until the actual finished project is out.