Unpopular opinions! V2: I Don't like half life edition.
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A lot of people shit on Totalbiscuit for being an arse and generally a prick but I heavily disagree. He can be quite harsh at times but knows a great deal about gaming journalism and all it's underlying processes. He's pretty educated on a lot of topics and I respect him for his opinions, at least he's honest and has some ethics that he follows.
Although overrated, Pewdiepie's Happy Wheels videos are good for a short laugh
[QUOTE=junker154;43625391]A lot of people shit on Totalbiscuit for being an arse and generally a prick but I heavily disagree. He can be quite harsh at times but knows a great deal about gaming journalism and all it's underlying processes. He's pretty educated on a lot of topics and I respect him for his opinions, at least he's honest and has some ethics that he follows.[/QUOTE]
His videos seems fairly decent to me usually. Trying to discuss anything with him in comments though is just terrible. He can't accept any point that at all opposes his because he takes it as criticism of his character.
[QUOTE=God's Pimp Hand;43623032]or a sophist making the faddish but artificial distinction between graphics and the nebulous "aesthetics."
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But a game can have really low poly models and bad textures but still a great overall look, and visa versa
And I'd rather have a game that has a great artstyle than a game that looks hyper realistic.
[QUOTE=OHNOES;43628142]But a game can have really low poly models and bad textures but still a great overall look, and visa versa
And I'd rather have a game that has a great artstyle than a game that looks hyper realistic.[/QUOTE]
Just look at Fable and Fable Anniversary, Fable is lower quality but it has a better art style, Anniversary is higher quality but the faces look like shit and the art style is odd.
I thought DmC Dante was a hilarious and enjoyable character.
He's actual one of my favorite videogame characters.
He's so goddamn funny(and not in an ironic way) and I get a huge kick out of him whenever I play/replay DmC. Hell, I usually play it just so I can hear his lines.
A lot of people think he's just an immature douchebag but it's not like that if you actually play the game. He's just as chill and laid back as DMC1/3/4 Dante but he has a different way of insulting the demons he fights. DMC1/3/4 Dante's insults are more about wise cracking and being a smartass whereas Donte's are more vulgar straight up insults. He's still got the smooth moves and the nerves of steel, just a more brash and less coy way of doing things. I like it a lot better.
I intend to cosplay him at some point as well.
[QUOTE=OHNOES;43628142]But a game can have really low poly models and bad textures but still a great overall look, and visa versa
And I'd rather have a game that has a great artstyle than a game that looks hyper realistic.[/QUOTE]
yeah but what is a great overall look?
Most of the features that people like to cite as examples of good aesthetic design are really just a whole bunch of tiny photographic and kinetic details that the developers remembered or bothered to add into the game. And often times they require as much technical know-how and money to successfully implement as large texture resolutions.
Plus, good graphics are one of the few things that are pretty much universally liked in games, whereas the quality of aesthetics (or to use a more tendentious term, art-style) in a game is supposed to be much more subjective. Honestly, it seems like nowadays the only way you can objectively define "art-style" is whether or not it features pretty colors.
I Prefer iPhones.
[QUOTE=OHNOES;43628142]But a game can have really low poly models and bad textures but still a great overall look, and visa versa
And I'd rather have a game that has a great artstyle than a game that looks hyper realistic.[/QUOTE]
There is a point where things are too low poly to look decent though. A lot of N64 era games for example look really atrocious now. The only reason I think a game such as Mario 64 looks good in comparison to a lot of N64 games is because they used a lot of flat colors and were careful to not use textures that were too detailed for what it could handle. Some though, such as Conker's Bad Fur Day, managed to look really good regardless.
[QUOTE=God's Pimp Hand;43623032]The worst thing that has ever happened to the gaming community is the intellectualization of videogames. I can't spend more than five minutes browsing player-generated footage on YouTube without coming across
- some dude bloviating about a benighted consortium of publishers trying to appeal to "bro gamers" or some other phantasmagorical group, who in reality are just businessmen trying to make a profit like anyone else
- a Steam junkie aggrandizing the role of indie games as some sort of answer to the paucity of "artful" games on the mainstream market (what happened to the maxim popular among these revisionist types that "one's own definition of art is purely subjective"?)
- or a sophist making the faddish but artificial distinction between graphics and the nebulous "aesthetics."
All three of these examples are more or less part of a zeitgeist which believes that the apotheosis of videogames is marked by their attainment of an artistic status comparable to literature or cinema, which I don't necessarily agree with, because art is only one of the things that makes up the repertoire of human cultural activity, the others being entertainment, ritual, and sport. Videogames should be for entertainment.[/QUOTE]
man for someone who is anti-intellectualism in video games you sure managed to write that post in the most pretentious quasi-intellectual manner possible
[QUOTE=strayebyrd;43628766]man for someone who is anti-intellectualism in video games you sure managed to write that post in the most pretentious quasi-intellectual manner possible[/QUOTE]
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[QUOTE=Lordgeorge16;43624753]Or the well-dressed individual could be a wealthy, conceited bastard who cares about his money above all else, while the disheveled man is a more down-to-earth, friendly kind of dude who puts his friends and family above the way he looks.[/QUOTE]
You don't have to be wealthy to dress well. Entry-level suits look really good and aren't extremely expensive, and even for casual wear you can go thrift shopping and find some really nice stuff.
[QUOTE=thelurker1234;43629283]You don't have to be wealthy to dress well. Entry-level suits look really good and aren't extremely expensive, and even for casual wear you can go thrift shopping and find some really nice stuff.[/QUOTE]
Thrift shopping is amazing and it's where I get the majority of my clothes
However, imo suits look god awful unless they fit right. Few things look as awkward as someone in a suit that isn't tailored right
I was a bit disappointed by Starbound because I expected a game where I can quickly start a new adventure and do cool stuff. But instead I have to go through that Minecraft-esqe ore-grinding and pickaxe-crafting process. Why.
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Kirby is the best Super Smash Bro's character. Every single game.
In the rare times that I watch an anime, I highly prefer the English dub over Japanese. Reading captions not only keeps my eyes away from the action, but if there's a foreign character, or the setting is located in any country that isn't Japan, Japanese voice actors aren't exactly that great at replicating the appropriate accent. Because they don't do it at all. It really ruins the character.
[QUOTE=Lordgeorge16;43641628]In the rare times that I watch an anime, I highly prefer the English dub over Japanese. Reading captions not only keeps my eyes away from the action, but if there's a foreign character, or the setting is located in any country that isn't Japan, Japanese voice actors aren't exactly that great at replicating the appropriate accent. [B] Because they don't do it at all. It really ruins the character.[/B][/QUOTE]
But the majority of characters being Japanese in Japan and acted by English people doesn't throw them off character?
[QUOTE=Lordgeorge16;43641628]In the rare times that I watch an anime, I highly prefer the English dub over Japanese. Reading captions not only keeps my eyes away from the action, but if there's a foreign character, or the setting is located in any country that isn't Japan, Japanese voice actors aren't exactly that great at replicating the appropriate accent. Because they don't do it at all. It really ruins the character.[/QUOTE]foreign characters are always dealt with so terribly in TV and movies, either they're like lassie and everyone else understands their language perfectly, but they will NEVER speak it to them. Or they have an awful accent that nobody can understand
[QUOTE=Lordgeorge16;43641628]In the rare times that I watch an anime, I highly prefer the English dub over Japanese. Reading captions not only keeps my eyes away from the action, but if there's a foreign character, or the setting is located in any country that isn't Japan, Japanese voice actors aren't exactly that great at replicating the appropriate accent. Because they don't do it at all. It really ruins the character.[/QUOTE]
Butbutbut original language that sounds so much better even though I don't understand it!!!
[QUOTE=Toyhobo;43641666]But the majority of characters being Japanese in Japan and acted by English people doesn't throw them off character?[/QUOTE]
Surprisingly, no. But then again, I'm too used to my own, regular North American accent and, as I said before, I watch anime very rarely these days. So I attribute it to those things.
[QUOTE=Alice3173;43641943]Butbutbut original language that sounds so much better even though I don't understand it!!![/QUOTE]
I think it's a bit of a cultural thing. You English-speakers are used to pretty much always watch stuff in its original language since almost all the popular movies/series are American. In other parts of the world you'll be watching dubs all the time and get tired of them eventually (not to mention if your language isn't widely spoken the dubs are probably going to be shitty). So you'll probably get somewhat used to subs.
Also (but that's not about anime) I think that subs really are superior to dubs in live-action movies even if you don't understand shit. Because hearing the actors' real voices is simply better than some voice-over that doesn't fit the character and isn't properly lip-synced.
Never cared for Jessica Alba.
[QUOTE=Kljunas;43642190]I think it's a bit of a cultural thing. You English-speakers are used to pretty much always watch stuff in its original language since almost all the popular movies/series are American. In other parts of the world you'll be watching dubs all the time and get tired of them eventually (not to mention if your language isn't widely spoken the dubs are probably going to be shitty). So you'll probably get somewhat used to subs.
Also (but that's not about anime) I think that subs really are superior to dubs in live-action movies even if you don't understand shit. Because hearing the actors' real voices is simply better than some voice-over that doesn't fit the character and isn't properly lip-synced.[/QUOTE]
I'm British and I've always used subs
Not anime though, just foreign movies
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[QUOTE=Kljunas;43642190]I think it's a bit of a cultural thing. You English-speakers are used to pretty much always watch stuff in its original language since almost all the popular movies/series are American. In other parts of the world you'll be watching dubs all the time and get tired of them eventually (not to mention if your language isn't widely spoken the dubs are probably going to be shitty). So you'll probably get somewhat used to subs.
Also (but that's not about anime) I think that subs really are superior to dubs in live-action movies even if you don't understand shit. Because hearing the actors' real voices is simply better than some voice-over that doesn't fit the character and isn't properly lip-synced.[/QUOTE]
I was actually mocking people who insist on watching anime in Japanese which is a surprisingly huge portion of them. To the point where sometimes it can be hard to actually find a dubbed version of an anime even when it exists. Out of all the people I know who watch a lot of anime only two aren't American and only one of those doesn't speak English as their first language. Only the one that doesn't prefers subs there but when it comes to Americans that watch anime that I personally know, I only know one person other than myself that prefers them dubbed.
The general rule is:
If the dubs are good. Go with the dubs.
If not; Go with the subs.
Simple realy.
[QUOTE=junker154;43625391]A lot of people shit on Totalbiscuit for being an arse and generally a prick but I heavily disagree. He can be quite harsh at times but knows a great deal about gaming journalism and all it's underlying processes. He's pretty educated on a lot of topics and I respect him for his opinions, at least he's honest and has some ethics that he follows.[/QUOTE]
He's interesting, but I hate his video style. I don't want to sit here for 40 minutes listening to you ramble over some footage with either no clear points or points that are clear but you go over them dozens of times.
It is unnecessary. EDIT YOUR VIDEOS. I can barely be asked to sit through a [I]good[/I] 40 minute video from someone who actually puts effort into it, let alone an unedited piece of rambling. If he condensed his videos into short, precise criticisms of a game, then they would be good.
It also irks me when he whines about not making money because people use adblock and other services. First of all, I turn adblock off if I think the channel puts enough effort into their videos, and 40 minutes rants just don't show effort for me. Secondly, you should have chosen a career with more job security. Putting all your eggs in the Youtube basket is a terrible idea and you should expect uneven paychecks. That is what happens. That said, I don't support what Youtube has done, but I never though monetization of channels was a good idea in the first place.
[QUOTE=The Jack;43642371]The general rule is:
If the dubs are good. Go with the dubs.
If not; Go with the subs.
Simple realy.[/QUOTE]
My personal method is simple. If there's dubs go with that. If there isn't then don't bother watching it unless it's really good. (Which is the reason I watched Steins;Gate but dropped Monster even though it seemed interesting. Monster is rather slow going and with subs on something so slow going your mind just kinda starts wandering and you start missing things.)
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