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and every visual novel protagonist and Bella are forces for getting your dick hard.
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Bella isn't about getting your dick hard, Bella is about telling teenage girls to never try to become a more interesting person because attractive boys will swoon for you for no reason. Then once you get them, be completely submissive to them even if it means completely alienating your family and getting killed by their demon spawn baby ripping itself out of you.
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yay.
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That works entirely in concept, it dies in execution. After a few hours you can't help but call attention to everyone interacting with a cardboard cut out. It works with the super soldier or space marine because of context. They don't matter because it's about the monster/enemies and the environments, not character development. Half-life is trying to be more and it becomes increasingly more awkward.
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@Squirrel: I for one have always loved MGS in all of it's hour long cutscene-laden glory. MGS2 is arguably my favorite of all the games, and I thoroughly enjoyed the movie-like experience of playing/watching MGS4. But I do not fault anyone in the least for feeling otherwise, I've just always liked that sort of thing. I'm kind of the opposite: when it comes to games, I'm all about the story; I can forgive bad gameplay if the plot or characters engages me enough.
As to Gordon, while all the points people have made so far in his favor are salient, my annoyance lies more in how the fanbase/video game community insists on exalting him as they do. I always prefer characterized protagonists to blank slates myself, though I'm more forgiving in an RPG context, where the whole point is to build you character and his relationships from the ground up. But when you have a situation like in Half-Life where you have characters talking at you and (in Alyx's case) trying to establish a romance, it just gets ridiculous and serves to counter-productively take you out of the proceedings. It works better in, say, Portal, because Portal isn't really about Chell, it's about GlaDos (and Cave Johnson/Aperture as a whole come Portal 2). -
Milk, I'd agree with you were it not for the numerous times in the series where characters acknowledge Gorgon as a mute person. They do it jokingly, but it's there.
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I don't give anyone grief for liking MGS. It's just that over done cutscenes aside, the story and dialogue were painful for me. The 3rd time Snake mutters "war has changed", I stopped giving a damn about any characters or that plot.
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Understandable, to be sure.
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Getter said:
Milk, I'd agree with you were it not for the numerous times in the series where characters acknowledge Gorgon as a mute person. They do it jokingly, but it's there.
It can't have a sense of humour?
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Of course it can, but acknowledging his muteness makes him more than just a force. It seems like they want to have it both ways.
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You're reaching why I react with pure hate whenever I hear/read something wishing more characters were like those in half-life. The only things that separate Gordon and the original doomguy is that one has a crowbar and we're told he's a physicist. Being a blank slate in a pile with the rest having one word etched in them isn't an accomplishment, it's being lazy and trying to call it uniqueness instead. As for Alyx, every article on the interwebs cries for more "strong female characters" like her in games, but she exists to be a tag-along/escort character (which I want less of in games) and whose characterization is "loves the guy who shows no interest because he is literally worse than a soulless puppet."
That's enough of me ranting for now, so on the MGS front I'll just say I agree with squirrel. -
Squirrel said:
Changed it because I thought of Pants vs Zombies
Why is everyone still talking about Gordon's characterization and not about this typo? That's what I want to know. -
"Think we'll play this one by the Calvinball book."
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I think my neighbors just heard me burst out laughing hysterically, Squirrel.
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You laugh, but I went to an elementary school that mixed suburban middle class with projects lower class. This actually caused a huge to-do one year after Christmas break, when kids were comparing gifts from Santa. Apparently, he was a big fan of us suburban middle class kids, but he couldn't give two fucks about the projects kids. I believe the PTA had a meeting over it.
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I was referring to Squirrel's post
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Yeah those are some pretty epic translations.
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The image was posted, I assume, because it was found to be funny. My point stands.
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Yeah, that's true.
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Sex and barbecue? Sign me up.
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http://www.cracked.com/article_19612_star-wars-vs-star-trek-objective-analysis.html
I'v never quite seen the appeal in comparing Star Trek/Star Wars, but alas some of this is true. The new Trek movie was still pretty good, though the lack of intellectual/thematic heft is well noted. -
Reportedly there was talk of making Sulu actually gay in the new movie and J.J. Abrams was like "nah, Star Trek's not really about them social issues." and, I hope, then everyone in the room went AMG WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT.
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I don't remember where I heard it, but I think Abrams said he's never watched Star Trek.
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NthDegree256 said:Squirrel said:
Changed it because I thought of Pants vs Zombies
Why is everyone still talking about Gordon's characterization and not about this typo? That's what I want to know.
Because anyone who read that zoned out and ignored it. I only know one other person who likes PvZ beyond, "yeah it was cute/alright".
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RED. FUCKING. MATTER. And also you can see Vulcan from anywhere, except Earth, which is either two minutes away or two hours depending on whether or not you're a Romulan from the future.
The more I think about the new Star Trek movie, the more I'm forced to admit that, for the first time, I am too angry about the terrible science of a movie to be able to enjoy it. -
Look, I liked Plants vs. Zombies and got some good playtime out of it, but I have no idea how you can spend hundreds of hours on it, Ian. I mean, it gets boring after a while. It's more a novelty than anything else.
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Look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair.
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That's not that much time played. I've done worse.
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Plants vs Zombies and PixelJunk Monsters, 2 games that I will just keep playing. Not something I can explain and not something I expect others to understand. There are few who do, and that's our little personal club. We have a handshake to.
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That doesn't include iPhone, Android, or Xbox.
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There's nothing to explain, it's really comforting to play something for crazy amounts of time. You don't need to think anymore. I play games like that when I want to take a nap but don't feel like putting in the effort.
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I have over 250+ hours on DCUO. I'm amazed I've spent so much time on such a mediocre game.
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When you don't feel like putting in the effort to sleep on your bed?
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I have 200 hours in Tales of Symphonia, 500 hours in Oblivion without finishing it, out of the 4 years I played WoW I have spent a year in-game, about 350 hours in Kotor 1 and 2, 200 hours in Empire Total War, haven't a clue about the previous Total War game but it shouldn't be too far off, and I can keep going. I do not lack for games to play but sometimes I get stuck in one thing and will keep playing it long after I've gotten everything out of it. Being PvZ doesn't make it any different.
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Digitalguardian said:
When you don't feel like putting in the effort to sleep on your bed?
I don't like sleeping in my chair and I don't feel like moving. Remember, I'm the person that took a 2 hour nap rather than taking a poop. I am lazy at times.
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That log can be verrrry off.
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Squirrel said:
Plants vs Zombies and PixelJunk Monsters, 2 games that I will just keep playing. Not something I can explain and not something I expect others to understand. There are few who do, and that's our little personal club. We have a handshake to.
insert masturbation joke about you and your dick being the only members of your club with a handshake
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Works for me.
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I have 1454 wins in LoL. I probably have a roughly equivalent number of losses. I don't think I really want to know how many hours that is.
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I think finding out that number is just as fun as opening presents on Christmas.
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I feel like I'm doing the math wrong somehow but I multiplied 1454 by two and gave you an average of 30 minutes per game and came up with 1454 hours. Divided by 30 again and it's 48 days.
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Why would you divide the total hours by 30?
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I got into a habit of making HoN accounts and getting them to 1800. I had about 1000 games on my main, and roughly 200 on about 4-5 others... not to mention ones I'd make to play with my bad friends that would only last about 10 games. Average game length of 38 minutes =(The Joel said:I have 1454 wins in LoL. I probably have a roughly equivalent number of losses. I don't think I really want to know how many hours that is.
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Oh. Whoops. 24 days.
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your shit's all retarded
