This article's title is really funny.
A Few Words About Unfinished
I feel this will lead to confusion down the road. What if you want to cover a finished game, but you don't want to make it a quick look, are you going to make a third category? A fourth? I see it potentially becoming a slippery slope, trying to classify what you are doing now. For me, Quick Look covered any 'look" you want to give to any game, regardless of state. Now, trying to tie in a notion of 'game state' with the category of video is going to get messy down the road. Just my opinion
Look at Giantbomb continuing to set standards!
Unfinished is now a part of the gaming lexicon!
Thank you for not calling it drivatar!
"and locking them behind a paywall in UPF is a little weird, so we need something new"
Bless you. I'm a premium guy, but I'm 100% behind this decision.
Great! I had been confused as to why games that are half broken or not finished get the same treatment as finished games, with the new category ill have the proper expectations before watching the video!
I love the idea and I find it funny that when I first saw this article I thought it was going to be a Klepek write up about the state of early access games
Seems like a good way to let the guys open up about stuff they might otherwise hold off on. They always do great work so I wouldn't care what they called it. This seems more like it's a distinction they need. It will allow them to feel right about covering something.
The only thing I wish they'd separate are the developer/publisher/publicist guided stuff, calling that a Quicklook:EX never seems a good solution. Quick looks are often about Jeff seeing 'grimy textures', Brad moaning about framerate or Vinnie noticing a flaw and breaking a game wide open. Quicklook:EX's are neat in their way, but you can't expect full honesty from the guys while the room is packed with people generous enough to come out to show their game.
Can't wait to see where they're going with this.
"and locking them behind a paywall in UPF is a little weird, so we need something new"
Bless you. I'm a premium guy, but I'm 100% behind this decision.
Yay :)
"and locking them behind a paywall in UPF is a little weird, so we need something new"
Bless you. I'm a premium guy, but I'm 100% behind this decision.
I'm a big fan of the site but I've been broke for a while and without a subscription. It's been a bummer missing out on them playing some of these more off the wall, in development games so I agree, cool to make this an option and that will also free up UPF to not feel obligated to look at games like this.
Smart move. Early Access, Alpha, Beta, these are terms that are more common then ever in the videogame industry nowadays.
Looking forward to the multiple Unfinished: Star Citizen video's where Drew and Vinny show their hangar and ships. I feel those guys are interested in that game and this new video format is perfect for that!
Just the thought of being able to send and receive e-mails about the merits of early access coverage for work put a smile on my face. Is it weird that I'm happy you guys have such an amazing occupation?
Really enjoyed the first Unfinished and look forward to many more!
Wow, it took reading this article to finally understand that Bugbear's demolition derby game is not titled "Unfinished"
I think Putting the date is exactly how you approach this, Unfinished: game pre-alpha 1.34 is quite unwieldy .Putting the date also allows you to easily come back to a game say 6 months later after some major patches and show how much has changed in that timeframe rather than between v.5 - v.8, and of course people who care could lookup the notes themselves for a detailed log. The concept of looking at Unfinished games is pretty cool idea especially how popular alot of these games are this last year.
Simple solution to a simple problem. I like it.
What's hilarious about this is that, they said they would never do preview coverage on the site, and yet now because of early access as a trend, games are being sold as public unfinished previews, and they're forced to do preview coverage again.
Always glad to see more content, just surprised there was such a fuss over the name. I don't think there would've been anything wrong with using the quick look moniker, someone would probably chime in with a "this game is way far from finished" during the quick look and that'd be all I'd need to know. Why do I hear Brad saying that in my head, that's the bigger question.
we need a Steam Redlight ... a way for users to say "No don't put this game out yet! It's broken as fuck!".
MEZMERO FOR PRESIDENT
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