PandaBear

Fuck this.  I want an Aliens game where I can sell out my squad mates for a fucking percentage.  Also, I would rather have seen Obsidian's Aliens RPG built instead of another goddam shooter.  It'll probably be a COD/MW clone, but instead of fuckin' zombies, you got fuckin' Aliens(c).

@Alraiis:  
  
(maybe I am going to far here, but I like to explain something. I hope, it's interesting for someone on GB) 

I get the intention using (pop)music for game trailers.  
I get the necessity for using music. 
 
My very personal beef is: I associate the pop-songs already with 'something'. 
 
We are in reverse Psychology territory here:  
 
Using music that is 'cool' - attaching it to a movie-trailer, gameplay etc - sends the message: "The music is cool = our game/film is AS cool! We are even! This (our stuff) is exciting!"  
 
That's marketing psychology beyond just "having music" in a trailer. There is an intention behind it, working. Intrusive. Infectious. For someone like me, even close to offensive.  
 
The Gears of War + Adam Lambert's "Mad World" trailer works on the other hand. It is 'funny' for some, but more important than that, it captures the emotional intention of the song! It stays true to the material. That's why it 'worked'.
 
Portishead "Machine Gun" mixed with blurry promises of 'something' only leaves the song 'doing the work'. The game footage tells me nothing - the song speaks of a dark relationship, emotional dispair, very personal fears.  
 
There is no room for a FPS... unless you give me something narrative, that carries a complementary message. Like a film negative to a positive.
 
(Again- sorry for going on about this. But hey, I get it. I have to swallow these things and live with them. Grumpy old man, that I am, haha. :)

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" @Bib said:

" I like you, Patrick, but: This is a Kotaku article. "

EXACTLY what I was thinkin! "

You guys aren't the only ones. "

And as someone who doesn't visit Kotaku on a regular basis, I'd like to be informed whenever something totally rad like this rolls around- especially on slow news days. Thanks, Klepek. "

You forget, once one website posts news that's its I guess.  You can only read about it at that one place.  How dare you receive that same news anywhere else!  I wonder how these people live their lives when they hear news on CNN but then see the same news on Fox.  It must blow their mind!! "

You're totally missing the point. It's not that the story is on both Kotaku and Giant Bomb, it's that it's a Kotaku quality story. If Kotaku broke a SERIOUS news story I'd expect it here too, but not fluff stories like this.

Kotaku is basically the Entertainment Tonight of video game news - sensationalised crap, unsubstantiated stories and Brian Ashcraft and co. fawning over Japanese school girls. Leave this kind of "Look it's a cake that looks like Gordon Freeman!!!" stuff to lame blogs like Destructoid (you know, that site that Jim Sterling killed).

We we're promised a NEWS guy, and instead we got another video game blogger. Sigh.

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Another video game bloggger? Really? Patrick's articles so far have been of a quality that is not often seen (by me at least) on most video game websites. His articles on the Activision memos were fairly fascinating reads that I enjoyed immensely. Even if you do believe that this exact posting is insubstantial, that does not automatically expunge the rest of his work thus far on the site. "

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" Not to sound like a bossy boots, but people really shouldn't buy these until they fix the game.
Buying it now is sending a message that it's okay for them to pump out these broken games. So if you buy it now, and they release a New Vegas 2 game later this year which is just as broken as before, it'll be your own fault.
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good advice.I've held off so far.  With so many games coming this year I'll just wait until they fix it and bundle it all up on a single disk for me. "

it's been fixed for a while on PC at least, so... waiting for all the DLC is fine but saying that it's broken is just wrong;  and I would love a new vegas 2 "

Here's the thing. That game shouldn't have been released in the state it was in anyway. If by "fixed" you mean a combination of developer patches, user mods and wiki guides telling you which quests will corrupt your save... that's not really fixed.

I bought the Fallout 3 GOTY edition a few months after it was released and never once encountered a real problem with the game. How did they manage to take the same game and not only counteract all of the work from those patches, but also create new problems they felt didn't have to be fixed for release? I know this is old news, but boo them.

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" @MrKlorox said:

" @I_smell said:

" @Bib said:

" I like you, Patrick, but: This is a Kotaku article. "

EXACTLY what I was thinkin! "

You guys aren't the only ones. "

And as someone who doesn't visit Kotaku on a regular basis, I'd like to be informed whenever something totally rad like this rolls around- especially on slow news days. Thanks, Klepek. "

You forget, once one website posts news that's its I guess.  You can only read about it at that one place.  How dare you receive that same news anywhere else!  I wonder how these people live their lives when they hear news on CNN but then see the same news on Fox.  It must blow their mind!! "

I love this idea that people say "if you don't like him ignore him" ... Fuck that! Jim Sterling is the reason I stopped reading Destructoid ... his bullshit headlines that lead to stories about nothing and his sheer arrogance is awful and made me abandon a site I used to like. I think people have a right to stand up and say he sucks. How many of us complained about that stupid Leigh Alexander when she ruined the Bombcast? You have the right to say what's shit.

You LIKED Wolfenstien... no offence duder but you'll like anything if you liked that train wreck. Try Superman 64 as well.

It's an odd additon... but the crunchy texture adds a lot to a burger.... so yeah, you could say i'm a big fan

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Rowr said:

"not sure. Cant remember very well it was like 6 or 7 years ago.

All i remember was that i got a whopper and it tasted very non distinct. Like a regular boring hamburger.
I came away not very impressed anyway.
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Wow okay.... that's a bold statement because I think the Whopper is pretty good... not great but better than most.... thanks Rowr!

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No i mean i was unimpressed with the burger king whopper, or its equivalent, I cant even remember if it was called a whopper.

sorry i wasnt clear.

The Hungry Jacks ones are Bloody Awesome.
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