Reminds me of T.O. tweeting the Jets to call him because he's still ready to play football...That's to say it's just an attention seeking tweet to remind people he's still around.
Just wanted to mention for once about one of the games we'll be playing on our little Hub group. We play all sorts of crazy stuff, and every week we fail to mention it. Well, this week we'll be playing Sub Rosa, a totally free game that's really quite cool.
The game centers around two teams making an exchange of items - documents for cash. However, there is a third team whose only purpose is to take anything they can get from either team. The game is totally open ended from then on with no real rules, and so things can play out in the thousands of classic ways that this sort of situation could. The game is finely balanced to promote greed to get on top, but also heavily penalizes overzealousness when things go wrong.
So, we'll be playing this game on this coming Saturday, 4PM EST (8PM GMT). If you'd like to be notified of that, join our steam group and we'll be putting up announcements as we approach the event. We'll be communicating on our mumble server and our chat.
We've also got this fancy new Google calendar that will be updated alongside our Steam events, for those who don't want to dig through Steam all the time for times and dates. You can add it to your own Google calendar - so you won't have to refer back here - through that button in the bottom right:
@DevWil: Well evidently you do not care to actually get to the bottom of this, which is rather flabbergasting to me. 237 responses and counting and you still don't feel any obligation to actually back up the claims you stick with. I can only hope the rest of Giant Bomb gets bored of this conversation as quickly as you've seemed to.
If someone wants to send me a copy of Hotline Miami on Steam, I promise I'll play it before the end of January 2013 (I'm busy) and write a review of it. I'm not saying this is a generous deal, but it's a promise I'm willing to make. I don't want to pirate the game (I prefer to pay for media created by living people), but I'm not rewarding them for what I perceive to be a negative influence on culture. If it's not negative per se, it is at least disagreeable to me (obviously)... so my purchasing decision will follow that sentiment.
You've got to be fucking kidding me. You realize that someone else's 10 dollars is just as good as yours to the developer if they buy that for you, right? Furthermore, sorry to tell you but your review is really not that valuable.
I told you, play Norrland and you will not need to scam someone of 10 dollars to speak intelligently about this developer. You will see they are definitely way too smart a bunch of guys to be putting out Hotline Miami without some deeper meaning.
As @MuttersomeTaxicab suggested, at least play Norrland and then tell us that the developers of Hotline Miami did not intend to have anything past the surface of the game. It's funny, because you're attacking the exact people that should by all rights be your champions, given your MO as a game designer.
@DevWil said:
But here's the thing with Hotline Miami: I think it'd be way more successful if it were just a short (like, 10 minutes or less) game in which you do some awful stuff to people and then are forced to reflect on it, and that's the entire arc of the game. However, the fact that the game asks you to do it over and over again (in the name of fun) really deflates any arguments for it being a strong commentary on violence. The reason people keep playing is for the violence, and most of the content really seems to be celebrating violence.
If your only criticism of Hotline at that point is that it's more than 10 minutes long, we both know that's really not much of an argument. There is clearly more to be said on what they're tackling then what they could manage in 10 minutes.
It's just the default. They're "Five Guys Style" because they're fries from Five Guys, just as McD's cooks their fries in their own "style". That dude was just messing with you on the salt part.
I'm really enjoying it so far. It's a more tactical Call of Duty, which is exactly what I want out of it. It's a little over the top when it comes to glorifying war, but is Call of Duty much better?
@Etnos the group is open, so just come right in! We discovered a bug where if you view the group through a web page while not signed in, it'll say it's a closed group. That is untrue. Maybe that's what you're experiencing?
Read her article, and she seems completely fair. It's a lot less inflammatory then many of it's ilk.
Matt Brice is for some reason working under the idea that someone who is not very fond of reading would still enjoy Ulysses. Complex pieces of art can only be expected to have reduced market penetration, for obvious reasons.
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