@ChristOnIce: Okay, so you clearly have a problem with people.
I have seen people give up spaces and have done so when I saw a plate or sticker. Maybe everyone is a self-righteous egotistical prick where you come from, but from what I've seen it's a very different situation where I live. Has nothing to do with naivety.
As I said before, there are assholes out there who don't care one way or the other. Yet the ratio from decent person to asshole seems to be very high in favour of decent people - at least where I live.
@MrKlorox: I liked the paranormal stuff in Indigo Prophecy, but when Lucas died and came back to life and had a Matrix fight with the trenchcoat guy and then the Internet became sentient and tried to freeze the world - yeah, you can see how that game fell apart in its narrative.
Heavy Rain would have benefited from the cut content, though. Shelby being the killer did not make any fucking sense in the current version, and Ethan's blackouts were dropped and forgotten. They should've kept it all, in my opinion.
@ChristOnIce: People have a natural resistance in this society to being told what to do. Especially when it comes to putting others before themselves. If someone holds a door or lets a handicapped person get a nice parking spot, letting them feel like they did something nice for someone else is a better way of reinforcing that behaviour instead of saying "ONLY THE GOOD SPOTS ARE FOR CRIPPLES". When you do stuff like that, you're turning that behaviour into legislated compassion, and it pisses off plenty of people to the point where they will take those spots, or just shuffle past a cripple to cut down on their wait (for whatever line or what-have-you). They do this as a passive-aggressive stand against the fact that they are legally being told how to behave and treat others.
And of course, you've got the assholes who do it anyway because they don't give a shit.
I've expressed myself (and many others have as well) for a desire to have paypal support. Giant Bomb (or better to say Whiskey Media) did not listen. That's fine. They won't see any money from me.
I just hope that if they have another PBS-like donation drive they remember it's because they refused to support one of the primary methods of internet financial transactions.
Handicapped parking is the most retarded thing this society could have done to help the cripples. Legislating compassion for the lame only fuels resentment.
That said, people who can't park (and I mean park, not block some cripple's access) annoy the hell out of me. These people who park in spaces crooked or leave me with zero room to get into my vehicle deserve the dent my door will give them.
Like the topic title says, it's generally accepted that games cost a ton of money. We've heard figures ranging from $20mil up to the insane number of $100mil. I'm not doubting these, but I do have to wonder exactly what that money is going toward. I imagine a fair chunk of it is to pay employees, but what about the rest?
If anyone could provide a breakdown of a game's budget, that'd be awesome. I've been wondering about this for awhile.
@samcotts: I agree entirely. I truly felt the weight of the world on my shoulders after I became King and saw what Logan had done to the treasury. From that point on every dime I earned was dumped into the treasury. I didn't get the 6.5 mil, but I was damn close and, as a result, feel satisfied with my decisions. I am content to know that I did the best I could with what I was given.
Brad I feel is representative of a group of gamers who feel cheated when the story a game tells sacrifices player strength for compelling narrative. A lot of people hated Red Dead Redemption's ending because of this, and more still for Fallout 3. I thought both endings were spectacular, and while I was bummed about not playing post-endgame for Fallout 3, I understood why the developers didn't allow that - it would've made for a far less compelling climax.
Fable 3 attempted to do this, and while they succeeded on many levels, they failed on a couple of others. The Crawler and its legion feels half-baked. While they did provide the "SHIT JUST GOT REAL" moment of Fable 3 for me, I also felt it ended way too abruptly, like there was much more left to tell.
@wasteguru: I got the better ending, I think. I had almost 6 million gold and did not break a single promise. I did make some compromises, and at the end Theresa lauded me for doing the right thing and not becoming a tyrant in the process.
So really, Fable 3 tests your character. Are you strong enough to do what is necessary (not what is easy), or will you fold like origami and become the thing you wanted to stop?
If Brad did what you did, then I'm glad he hates Fable 3 and doesn't want to play it again. He failed, and his Albion/world is reflected by it.
Vanquish had a neat idea, and I can get behind the whole over the top silly nature they're going for, but at the end of the day this is a decent game and nothing more. The shooting feels like I'm hitting enemies with BB guns and there are serious gameplay flaws that make me scratch my head. Such as how everything, no matter how minute, depletes your heat meter. If you like the game, good on you, but if anyone is considering Vanquish for GOTY they haven't played many games this year.
" I want the creators to somehow destroy every Saw film except 1, then it would be a classic. I don't care how the series ends at this point. "
@SethPhotopoulos said:
" @KaosAngel said:
" This week is a special week in cinema, as it is the last week that we will get a Saw movie. "
HA! Good one. "
I dont get why people are coming into a post clearly made for dans of the movie and shit on it, nothing better to do with your time "
If you like the Saw movies past the first one, you are everything that is wrong with horror films today.
The SAW films starting with Part II moved away from the psychological tension, claustrophobia, and damn uneasiness that made SAW a good horror movie to some, and an instant classic to others. It had nothing to do with the traps, but the struggle the characters went through to try and survive this sick, fucked up game Jigsaw was playing. Saw II threw everything that made SAW work out the window and decided to focus on gore and cheesy plots to make up for their lack of intellect and filmmaking skill. The only way I can imagine ANYONE appreciating the SAW "series" is if they've been repeatedly dropped on their head by their meth-addicted trailer park mother and maybe beaten with a frying pan by their alcoholic, welfare collecting father.
Also, regardless of whether or not the thread was made for "dans" of the movie, people will go wherever they please and give their opinion. So far people have only said "I don't like them" or "Heh, there's no way this is the last one". To get up in arms about that just makes you look silly.
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