• Publishers turn down old-school tactical shooter because "Console gamers are too dumb to play this g
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[url]http://kotaku.com/5893236/christian-allen-wants-your-money-to-make-a-great-old+school-shooter-that-publishers-dont-think-you-want[/url] [quote]Christian Allen has a video game Kickstarter, too. And he hopes he isn't doing it wrong. Tim Schafer did it right. That guy just raised a few million for an old-school adventure game on Kickstarter. But Christian Allen knows he is no Tim Schafer, no big-name game developer with legions of fans who love him. Brian Fargo has made half a million dollars in a day, but Brian Fargo is talking about bringing back a classic called Wasteland and making a sequel to it. Christian Allen isn't doing that either. He is for real. He's made games you probably have played. Seriously. Christian isn't some lotto winner who has never made a game before. And the game he wants to make—the game he hopes you'll kick in some money for—is the real deal. Allen wants to make a shooter. An old-school tactical shooter (first person or third) like he used to develop at Red Storm. A game like the old Rainbow Six or Ghost Recon. (Here's his Kickstarter entry for it: Crowdsourced Hardcore Tactical Shooter.) This is what it would feel like to play his game, as he described it to me in San Francisco last week: "The biggest thing is tension. You've been given a scenario. It's non-linear. You've made decisions on where to go, where to place your guys, getting ready to go in. You don't know what's in there. A real [hostage rescue] team doesn't always know where everything is. There's only a few enemies, but you don't know where they are. If they get the drop on you, they're going to kill you. There is an element of reflex to it, but a lot of it is just proper planning and observation and figuring out your situation. But even if you do everything right, it doesn't mean you are going to succeed. " And what happened when he pitched his tactical shooter to publishers? Mind you, he was one of the top designers on Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter and Halo Reach. The pitch hasn't gone so well. "It's like pitching a flight sim," Allen says. And the publishers rattle off the excuses: "'It's a super-vocal audience.' 'They don't buy a lot of games.' 'They buy one game a year.' 'Console gamers are too impatient; they won't play this kind of game.' Console gamers literally are too dumb to play this kind of game.' Wait… did you catch that one? ""Console gamers literally are too dumb to play this kind of game.'" Really? Really, Allen said. "I won't say which publisher, but, yes, literally, 'console gamers are not as smart as PC gamers.' The logic is that, well PC gamers can install drivers and video cards. Console gamers are just 15-year-olds who sit in front of their couch and press a button."[/quote]
[quote]The logic is that, well PC gamers can install drivers and video cards. Console gamers are just 15-year-olds who sit in front of their couch and press a button."[/quote] Oh, the amount of dumb generalization...
I have no idea how to install a video card. Am I as smart as a console gamer?
[QUOTE=yawmwen;35139629]I have no idea how to install a video card. Am I as smart as a console gamer?[/QUOTE] You should pitch that as a TV show
Ahahahahaha. Alright boys, get your (rightfully deserved) circle jerkers out...
[QUOTE=yawmwen;35139629]I have no idea how to install a video card. Am I as smart as a console gamer?[/QUOTE] Open the catches, plug it into the slot, and download + install the drivers, which often come on a disk with it, or are a google away. Oh yeah, it might want to be connected to the PSU, too, but that's just stick in the wire.
Wow fuck that guy.
I wonder which publisher said this? [QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;35139616]Oh, the amount of dumb generalization...[/QUOTE]The majority of console gamers are pretty dumb though. [QUOTE=Raizo;35139666]Wow fuck that guy.[/QUOTE]Who Allen? The publisher made that statement, not Allen.
[QUOTE=yawmwen;35139629]I have no idea how to install a video card. Am I as smart as a console gamer?[/QUOTE] It's literally push into slot, turn two screws.
I want to see gameplay of this game.
wat is a driver
PC Gaming master race.
[QUOTE=Killer900;35139669]I wonder which publisher said this? The majority of console gamers are pretty dumb though.[/QUOTE] the majority of pc gamers are dumb, too
I would have said the name of the publisher. But that's just me.
seriously play bf3 for 10 minutes
[QUOTE=Kalibos;35139684]wat is a driver[/QUOTE] those things in cars
I have never installed a video card, yet I play games on both console and PC. Explanation??
[QUOTE=Shadaez;35139693]the majority of pc gamers are dumb, too[/QUOTE] An unhealthy amount are anyway.
[QUOTE=yawmwen;35139703]those things in cars[/QUOTE] That guy from San Francisco that keeps giving me the finger?
[QUOTE=Terminutter;35139659]Open the catches, plug it into the slot, and download + install the drivers, which often come on a disk with it, or are a google away. Oh yeah, it might want to be connected to the PSU, too, but that's just stick in the wire.[/QUOTE] dude i cant google when im installing a video card are you dense? my computer doesnt work noob
[QUOTE=yawmwen;35139629]I have no idea how to install a video card. Am I as smart as a console gamer?[/QUOTE] Let me help you. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DPQW0e9ufM[/media]
[QUOTE=Shadaez;35139693]the majority of pc gamers are dumb, too[/QUOTE]Yeah I know.
People are stupid in general. Just think about how dumb the average guy is, and then realize that half of the entire population is even dumber than that.
To be fair, when you realize that CoD is selling so well on consoles...
The point is that they still refused the game, after saying console gamers are dumb. Which is basically like saying "This sounds like a nice game, but since console gamers are holding back gaming community, PC cant have it either."
I've built a PC and play on both PC and console, does that make me a smart idiot?
[QUOTE=yawmwen;35139721]dude i cant google when im installing a video card are you dense? my computer doesnt work noob[/QUOTE] Most motherboards have an integrated graphics card which will serve to download drivers if you have to. Even then, a physical copy of the drivers often comes with the card.
[QUOTE=yawmwen;35139629]I have no idea how to install a video card. Am I as smart as a console gamer?[/QUOTE] You literally just stick it in a slot.
[QUOTE=yawmwen;35139629]I have no idea how to install a video card. Am I as smart as a console gamer?[/QUOTE] It's literally poking a piece into a motherboard.
[QUOTE=znk666;35139796]You literally just stick it in a slot.[/QUOTE] installing a video card: same concept as sex sadly that doesn't help me any
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