This week: Kyle, Del, Marcus, and Mark talk about Halloween games, Robert Florence “stepping down”, Medal of Honor Warfighter, Doom 3 BFG Edition, Steam Linux beta, and more!
Thinks just become more convenient. As someone with no experience making podcasts though, I don’t know if this would cost you money or something though.
I haven’t listened to the entire podcast yet, but I will comment on this. DLC isn’t really all that bad, considering that many times, it is worth the value if you really liked the game. However, there obviously are many cases of bad DLC where the publisher is just trying to squeeze as much money out of its audience as possible.
The thing is, though, it’s bad to compare DLC to selling the Mona Lisa piecemeal, because 99.99% of games are really not art. Some might be, but the games industry doesn’t really deserve to be looked at in that kind of way yet. There are so many industry standards that are just purely bad game design, things that even most of the best games ever made use. On top of that, there are almost no game designers that are seriously attempting to give you any core feeling besides either having fun or being scared.
I don’t want to make this post too long, so I won’t elaborate very much, but just think about any time you did experience anything besides either fun or being scared in a video game. Then, try to think of more than a couple moments like that outside of cutscenes.
videogame design is an artform. doesnt matter if the goal is fun, the designers are still expressing themselves. i know the biggest difference between mona lisa and vid games are that vidgames are entertainment. so, replace the mona lisa with citizen kane and there, a more apt comparison for the joke pic.
get it on itunes
This. Seriously. I mean it’s not a major hassle to download, but it would be even better if it did it automatically because I am a lazy bastard.
This. A million times this.
Thinks just become more convenient. As someone with no experience making podcasts though, I don’t know if this would cost you money or something though.
Anyone got the mona lisa picture he was referring to?
Nevermind, found it myself.
http://d24w6bsrhbeh9d.cloudfront.net/photo/2525499_700b.jpg
I haven’t listened to the entire podcast yet, but I will comment on this. DLC isn’t really all that bad, considering that many times, it is worth the value if you really liked the game. However, there obviously are many cases of bad DLC where the publisher is just trying to squeeze as much money out of its audience as possible.
The thing is, though, it’s bad to compare DLC to selling the Mona Lisa piecemeal, because 99.99% of games are really not art. Some might be, but the games industry doesn’t really deserve to be looked at in that kind of way yet. There are so many industry standards that are just purely bad game design, things that even most of the best games ever made use. On top of that, there are almost no game designers that are seriously attempting to give you any core feeling besides either having fun or being scared.
I don’t want to make this post too long, so I won’t elaborate very much, but just think about any time you did experience anything besides either fun or being scared in a video game. Then, try to think of more than a couple moments like that outside of cutscenes.
videogame design is an artform. doesnt matter if the goal is fun, the designers are still expressing themselves. i know the biggest difference between mona lisa and vid games are that vidgames are entertainment. so, replace the mona lisa with citizen kane and there, a more apt comparison for the joke pic.
Can’t wait to get home and listen to this.
YES, regular podcasts now! My body could not be more ready for this.
GAH SHIT WARN ME BEFORE YOU PLAY THAT SONG 0/10 SPOOKED THEN SHUT OFF
Why is my voice so depressing? I even made an active effort to not sound depressed after last podcast. Oh well.
Just play this in the background and you will be happy forever. Or at least 10 hours: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxopViU98Xo
Oh man, Darksouls. Fuck those skeletons, and the Taurus demon, god it felt good to beat him, he killed me sooo many times.
That whole Eurogamer fiasco…Sad…Sad… I guess you can’t call anyone out, or else there gonna use any excuse to make you look bad…you misogynists pigs
I enjoyed this podcast guys, keep it up!
Not sure, but it seems like you still can’t buy non-BFG Doom 3.
You also didn’t mention that “BFG edition” lacks mod support, graphic options, console and almost lacks the Wolf3d levels of Doom2.
On that note, a new version of Brutal Doom should come out today, and everyone has to try it.