MrMisanthrope

Ironically, when someone sees something that harms no one, gets offended by it and demands the practice be changed to accommodate their tastes and makes a big stink of it as done in this article, it's typically pretty obvious that they need to grow the fuck up.

I'm talking to you, Patrick. This whiny, stupid article is a joke. Booth babes? You're getting upset about BOOTH BABES? And you argue this while posting yaoi fanart you found online objectifying a male character? Seriously? Can you really be that detached? Sex sells, always has always will. Trying to vilify the drive that motivates every living creature on Earth is childish. Are you afraid these women will give you cooties?

To think a woman would claim it was an assault on her self esteem. The audacity, the selfishness. Does she think she's the center of the universe? She feels she's assaulted because she doesn't feel as pretty as these women?

Should Cirque Du Soleil fire the Gemini Brothers because male audience members feel inadequate by comparison? Should world famous chefs be forced to close shop because normal husbands and wives feel their self esteem is wounded because they can't cook as well? Should the Olympics and athletic sports be shut down entirely so as not to offend everyone who wishes to be that athletic, but hasn't gone through the training? Why give out grades at school? The less intelligent students might get depressed they don't perform as well as their classmates. Unbelievably childish "ME ME ME" thinking.

Not to mention the remarkable immaturity of the mindset that any descent from your opinion is trolling. Anyone who disagrees is a misogynist or trolling to stir up controversy. Why address their arguments when you can dismiss them with an ad hominem, right? You don't have to listen to what those big ol' meanies say!

Here's a thought Patrick, if you don't like what goes on at E3, don't go to E3. If it offends you so much, get a job in another field instead of kicking up false controversy in the hopes of getting in on some of that internet feminism money.

To simplify, grow up Patrick. Just grow up.

It really depends on what's being offered, who's offering it, and how they offer it.

Tim Schafer's project was a success because he's built up a ton of good will, and time and again proven himself to be trustworthy, friendly, funny, and dedicated to delivering quality products. He was also offering a type of game that otherwise simply couldn't exist. It was the perfect pitch.

Wasteland 2 kind of rode that success, delivered a pretty good -if partially vague- pitch for another style of game that otherwise people simply would not get. It was supported by everyone who missed the old non-FPS Fallout games.

Then the crowdsource shooter kickstarter was posted, and I just saw nothing to get behind there. The market is flooded with shooters, and nothing in his pitch made it sound unique. It didn't help matters that he insulted gamers (even if second-hand) by stating he'd been told Console Gamers were too dumb to buy his game. Or that he admitted in the description he put it up entirely because of the success of the Double Fine Adventure.

Honestly though, what's really hurting it now is that certain sites are now blocking discussion of it, perhaps feeling like they've become a platform for e-begging. Currently you will be banned on 4chan if you attempt to post a link to a kickstarter page. If the projects can't go viral anymore, they can't get support.

Oh, and the whole thing lost some legitimacy with the posting of the Your World project, not to mention indiegogo's Arkh Project, which has been an embarrassment for much longer.

I don't think that's being fickle at all.

Imagine someone informs you they're going to make you your favorite meal. Something exquisite that you for some reason haven't had in years. Then they come running up to you with a plate full of shit with the name of the meal you wanted printed on a small sign inserted into the shit and suggest you "Chow down!" And you're like "What's this? This isn't what I wanted! This is a plate of shit!"

Then they're like "Oh, nah, I was just kidding, here's the actual meal." At that point you stop caring about the plate of shit. It no longer replaces your favorite meal, it's in addition to it.

For the record though, describing the FPS remake lovingly as "dared to do something new" is like describing a murder victim as "being given a chance to rest." The FPS guts the franchise utterly, it has virtually no similarities to it's namesake, and it stinks of the same "Politics first, game... who cares about the game?" attitude I'd expect from Bioware. If the first trailer showcasing how it was an FPS with virtually none of the original game's elements, and the fact that they were touting the only thing kept from XCom being the name of the fuel didn't seal my opinion of it, then the first gameplay video they released showcasing as a selling point the fact that the invasion forces the US government to work with a "gay Communist scientist" whom you're on a rescue mission to save certainly did.

How utterly horrible that game sounds doesn't make Enemy Unknown terrible by association though. Even in spite of your attempt to make a tenuous connection between the two by proclaiming "They even had conversations with each other sometimes!"