TentPole

From Hell it is.

@RaidenMitsuru said:

This article is ridiculous, how about we talk about the sheer lack of content & new ideas at this years E3, Pat?

Didn't you listen to the bombcast? Only little bitches complain about E3 when it comes to games.

Alright I'll come clean. I am cwolf267.

I woud be okay with that.

@Hailinel: I agree with you 100%.

@TeenageJesusSuperstar said:

Alright. That is kinda embarrassing.

@Zenaxzd said:

@jakob187 said:

I can see the part of this where Patrick is saying "yo, we should stop treating women like objects as a society", but the question is this: when women either allow themselves to be treated like objects or dress themselves up to be objects, how can you start saying "women shouldn't be treated as objects"?

If you read a few pages back I tried to make the same argument. Patrick's response was that this article is about how booth babes "portray the industry" and "has nothing to do with the women themselves" which like I said before the article doesn't read like that at all. Honestly each time I re-read the article the less sense it makes, I don't get -what- point Patrick is trying to make.

However, you brought up a great point with stuff like peter's balls and such, that does a far worse job portraying the industry than some measly booth babes. I'd theoretically show my mom booth babes trotting out some 3DSes before I'd show her half the content GB does, in reality, though, I don't care either way. Nothing wrong with booth babes and nothing wrong with wanting to play with some old balls.

If that is his point and it is not a matter of sexism then it is worth pointing out that E3 booth babes do less damage to the industrie's image than games like Saint's Row. But I am comfortable enough with myself that I am not worried about people thinking I am immature for playing a silly game so I love the hell out of Saint's Row. People never take anyone series as long as they wringing their hands worrying about whether everyone else is taking them serious or not.

I have zero issue with using pretty woman and attractive men in any form of advertising.

@jakob187 said:

You know...

I'm sitting here and thinking about it...

Isn't this the same website that talks about stabbing dudes in the face and neck? The same website that makes inate sexual references on a regular basis on their podcast and in video content? The same website that spent a lengthy amount of time talking about Peter Molyneux's balls?

I mean, I get it - it's all in the sense of humor. At the same time, it's that immature sense of humor that people continually latch onto, and in turn, the Giant Bomb crew provides us with more and more of it on a daily basis. While we eat it up and beg for more, they are now posting up an article that is basically saying "hey, E3 needs to grow up because boobies shouldn't be at trade shows".

Yet...you guys can get paid for being immature, podcasting via live-stream under inebriated circumstances while other game developers do the same thing, and Jeff can make creepy jokes about games like Otomedius Excellent...and it's somehow magically better than some half-naked chicks trying to get a paycheck at a trade show?

I mean, it's not like the exhibitors are paying these chicks to blow you while you play the game. They are paid to look pretty, just as models ALL OVER THE WORLD are paid to look pretty. If you don't want to play the DS that is attached to the lady, then don't. That's your right...just as much as it's the right of the exhibitors to use scantily-clad women if they want to.

If it makes someone uncomfortable, well hey...guess what? I was made uncomfortable by the Bombcast talk of eating someone's leg. I mean that - I was literally uncomfortable to the point that I kept trying to skip past it...and it kept going and going and going. So, since I'm uncomfortable about you guys talking about eating someone's leg, can you now not talk about cannibalism again?

No. That's just me being uncomfortable with it. It means I skipped ahead and I avoided it, just the same as how you avoided playing DS games attached to some lady.

So...preaching about immaturity in the games industry when your website features a plethora of immaturity...seems like a bit of a double negative, yeah?

I'm not saying you guys aren't intelligent, that you don't talk about serious stuff, that you guys are jerk-offs or anything. I'm saying that if you want to complain about one thing, then you need to complain about everything else and even point the finger back at yourself.

Valid and astute.

@artgarcrunkle said:

@TentPole: I plan on being as dead as possible by then. The average person really is getting dumber, I don't believe entertainment that appeals mainly to uh.....maybe the lowest common denominator is going to become more intellectual as time goes on.

I simply disagree that videogames cannot and will not ever pertain to more than the dumbest among us. If that is your view on games that is fine, but I will disagree with you. There will always be dumb games but the smart games are getting smarter and will continue to do so.