Yes, amazing. Some people can be so spiteful. When will they realize that the ability to enjoy a video game about an albino dragonslaying gigolo is a direct metric of a person's intelligence, and that that's just how it is?Vasil Bratinov said:
Zero Punctuation: The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings
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Intelligence and attention span are two different things you know.mechanixis said:
Amazing how console players always get so defensive about their "intelligence" when no one has even brought that up as a factor.
Thats odd, because I found it to be one of the most fun games i've played in the last 2 years and i've played about 60 in that time frame.dcrane said:
Its a question of taste. Not everyone wants to sit down and read war and peace, in fact most would rather read comics, that doesnt make them less intelligent but it also doesn't mean that the comics are better than war and peace.
The funny thing is that he'd definitely not trolling. The PC gaming fanaticism around here is actually that bad; he's just saying so.Ishiro32 said:
You can open the manual in the steam overlay if you have to.solidstatemind said:Admittedly, it's not hard to get the manual itself, but alt-tabbing back and forth between the manual and the game is a pain in the ass. I suppose I could just print it out, but that'd be one less thing I could complain about...synobal said:
You've probably already been quoted on this, but he isn't. He's stated specifically in a podcast that he's "more of a console boy myself", as well as on his IAMA. So either he's made his 5 billionth self-contradiction, or he's a console gamer. To be honest, I think the former is more likely, but whatever.Imp Emissary said:
All very logical things that rely on the common uses of the space-bar during cut-scenes. Developers know that when people want to skip a cut-scene, they first press the space-bar, so to not work upon that would be silly, yes?Worgen said:
but my pea brain isnt big enough to figure out having to press multiple buttons to do something duhhhhhh
The intelligent thing for the developer to do is having the controls be logical, not "space-bar + right or left click". But alas, you are a mad, mad fanboy that cannot even acknowledge basic faults with the game (i am a huge Oblivion fanboy, but even i admit that the combat could be more fleshed out and the voice actors were repetitive). Admitting to something so blindingly obvious won't reduce the game in any way, shape or form, you can still like the game.
So please, a more grown-up response would be appreciated next time.
Although I think that he should have read the manual, Yahtzee does have a point.
The game SHOULD teach you how to play it. It shouldn't make you read the manual the whole way through just to know the basics, and likewise the game shouldn't not introduce you to mechanics when they're needed.
This process natural progressions from manuals because you learn the mechanics while actually enjoying the game, and the fact that you're gradually introduced to new mechanics means the difficulty can be curved extra well. An example of this would be Dead Space, I suppose.
While manuals are good, teaching the player the mechanics while they are playing, and more importantly introducing the mechanics as they are needed (thus giving you a prime chance to learn them, and also not sh*tting all over you progression wise) is ALWAYS better.
If I need to know something to get past a certain stage, and the game does not and never has until this point told me what that something is, then that game has failed in teaching its own mechanics and the experience is decidedly poorer.
The game SHOULD teach you how to play it. It shouldn't make you read the manual the whole way through just to know the basics, and likewise the game shouldn't not introduce you to mechanics when they're needed.
This process natural progressions from manuals because you learn the mechanics while actually enjoying the game, and the fact that you're gradually introduced to new mechanics means the difficulty can be curved extra well. An example of this would be Dead Space, I suppose.
While manuals are good, teaching the player the mechanics while they are playing, and more importantly introducing the mechanics as they are needed (thus giving you a prime chance to learn them, and also not sh*tting all over you progression wise) is ALWAYS better.
If I need to know something to get past a certain stage, and the game does not and never has until this point told me what that something is, then that game has failed in teaching its own mechanics and the experience is decidedly poorer.
Or you do what sensible people do and buy decent hardware. You know, that costs more than the box it comes in.The Ultimate 2 said:
But seriously, unskippable cutscenes are the worst. Sins Creed 2 is particularly bad at this ~_~.
It looked a bit like trolling. When you fight with fanboys and you resolve to hate language it is a bit of trolling. But to be fair you troll harder.mechanixis said:
This is even worse than W2 defense force, since they actually try to come up with someting smart.mechanixis said:
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if it didnt literally show you how to skip it when you pressed a button then I might be more kind but it does, press almost any button on the keyboard and a lil icon shows up at the top corner that indicates right click to skip, no part of that is hard to figure out, I remember the exact cinematic that he was talking about and I had to skip it a few times, I have no idea how he couldnt figure it outHyper-space said: