Jesus christ, all this paper thin melodrama. How the fuck did they get away with this garbage.
OH NO! All the Geth are somehow smarter now that they are independent and not a cohesive mind, better throw myself off the side of a cliff (but cut away before I actually fall cuz we're edgy but not THAT edgy) because all my people are fucking retarded.
"Tali no."
HAHAHA! Now I'm just waiting to see someone on the Bioware forums trying to defend that scene by saying how it was deeply emotional and made him cry.
I know some vegans, they're good people but yeah they can get self-righteous sometimes (I think it's a more appropriate adjective than snob in this case).
Still, you have to consider the issue from their point of view: if you believed that meat is murder and made the decision to not participate in the exploitation of animals, would you just stand there and say nothing when people around you are using meat, something that you consider immoral and ugly? I'm going to assume that you're not a pedophile, so wouldn't you speak up if people around you were trading pictures of naked kids and talking about how sweet the little boy they touched yesterday was?
Shit, son, I served in nVidia-ATI and SNES-Genesis. There I was! Pitch black! Covered in ash and soot! I smelled something burning. I turned to my friend, and there was just a smoking hole where his face was! In the distance... you could hear moaning. So I got up, and what I did, here's what I did, I got up and I said... I said... "Yeah! Well we got Vectorman!"
And then everything went white.
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Videogame hipsters on fire off the shoulder of Neogaf. I watched nerdrage glitter in the dark near the Bioware Social Network. All those moments will be lost in time... like tears in rain... Time to die.
I can't wait for the shitstorm this game is gonna cause. I'm rubbing my hands together and waiting for it to hit. Muahahahaha.
It's going to be incredible. Thousands of people losing their shit, calling each other names, entire forums ripping themselves to shreds, videoblogs of tearful scrawny nerds smugly attacking fat arrogant nerds for their opinion, all over wether a videogame was good or not. It will go down in history as the Bioware Wars of 2012-2015.
I am excited for GDC, but am excited to see how I am Alive turns out.
@Hailinel said:
My best wishes to Jeff. But as far as the site's content is concerned, I think that GB review or no review, the reaction to Mass Effect 3 is likely to cause an uproar around here and the week will be a memorable one for the site regardless.
You really think people will flip out once they've finished it? I read the leaked info and I flipped out, but do you think the masses will?
At this point I think it's inevitable. Half the internet is unhappy about Bioware and want to see them fall, and the second half is becoming increasingly defensive because they desperatly want ME3 to be good. If the reviews are good the first half is going to lose their shit, if they're bad the second half will cry bitter tears.
It's going to be absolutely hilarious in both cases.
As for StarCraft, it is a scene that is largely under the control of Blizzard because unlike fighting games or MOBA titles, it is focused entirely on one game, and many StarCraft tournaments and events are officially sanctioned and sponsored by Blizzard. Now, if Blizzard were to host a Cross Assault-like reality show in which the Team Zerg captain sexually harassed one of his own team members to the point that she throws a match just to be done with him, then not only the community, but Blizzard itself would have a problem because the community is tied specifically to Blizzard's product.
Interestingly enough, there was an incident at Blizzcon last year relating to homophobia http://gaygamer.net/2011/10/antigay_speech_at_blizzcon_201.html and the story progressed in a similar way: at first it was all "it's just a joke you guys, don't be so sensitive" but once enough people started complaining they apologized and said they would take measures to make sure it wouldn't happen again.
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