Unpopular opinions! V2: I Don't like half life edition.
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However, high framerates in movies/TV shows look really terrible in my opinion. It would be fine if motion blur was kept in, but filmmakers like Peter Jackson strive to make everything look really crisp when panning around (which makes sense for his movies and I can agree with his idea, it's just that it looks bad in practice). This results in everything looking unnatural, because there's less motion blur in the movie than in real life.
This isn't exclusive to just 48/60 fps movies. Regardless of the framerate, any camera that uses a really fast shutter speed to remove motion blur ends up looking terrible. During action scenes in movies with a lot of shakey cam like Transformers or Black Hawk Down, the fast shutter speed causes the same effect, usually taking me out of the experience (not that I'd watch Transformers willingly)
The only time I've see fast shutter speed work is in 28 Days Later. Which is hilarious because it was shot on shitty MiniDV cameras.
I think mikeyt is a really dumb person
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[QUOTE=mikeyt493;46191674]Yea I dont get it. It's such a bullshit reason that literally does not make sense??? Films run smooth lmao that's the point. They run at 24fps cos they have motion blur meaning they don't NEED more frames. Games don't have motion blur so they need higher framerate (motion blur in games is not real motion blur it's just an effect that looks like shit)
I don't get how people still think 30fps is better like it LITERALLY makes for a worse feeling game experience due to input lag and response as well as the fact that it visually looks shit and sluggish compared to 60?[/QUOTE]
Ubisoft would rather make themselves look like a gaggle of morons than admit that they're bad at optimizing video games because they only care about the money.
[QUOTE=Crash155;46195972]I think mikeyt is a really dumb person[/QUOTE]
Even if he did make some dumb posts recently that's kinda really uncalled for you know.
[QUOTE=Crash155;46195972]I think mikeyt is a really dumb person[/QUOTE]
"I don't like his posts, I better give him more attention by posting about it. That will show him."
When something like gamergate or any sort of internet drama thing shows up, a person's opinion on the matter won't really change my opinion on them at all. That shit can bring the worst kind of person out of people and it's completely understandable
[QUOTE=feh123;46196906]When something like gamergate or any sort of internet drama thing shows up, a person's opinion on the matter won't really change my opinion on them at all. That shit can bring the worst kind of person out of people and it's completely understandable[/QUOTE]
For me its not a matter of their stance on it- they're entitled to think whatever they want about it- its how they express it and how they treat the people who disagree that potentially causes issue with me.
The NFL is a joke of an organization and the sport is highly overrated.
[QUOTE=Code3Response;46197004]The NFL is a joke of an organization and the sport is highly overrated.[/QUOTE]
Baseball has always been the best sport. Everything else is either wicked complicated and I can't get into it or too simple and it gets repetitive and boring.
Source: I was born and raised in Massachusetts, the birthplace of baseball.
I still don't believe games are art (I believe they have Artistic merit, but aren't art).
However, so many people seem so pissed off over games getting locked at 30FPS on Console (and PC in the case of The Evil Within), and get pissed off when a game developer takes their game in the course they want to. AKA Having creative control over the damn thing.
Art isn't dictated by the masses, it's dictated by the artist (Although artists can make art for the masses). And if you want to take that sort of creative control away from the artist, so be it. Just remember it won't be art any time soon.
[QUOTE=bdd458;46199137]I still don't believe games are art (I believe they have Artistic merit, but aren't art).
However, so many people seem so pissed off over games getting locked at 30FPS on Console (and PC in the case of The Evil Within), and get pissed off when a game developer takes their game in the course they want to. AKA Having creative control over the damn thing.
Art isn't dictated by the masses, it's dictated by the artist (Although artists can make art for the masses). And if you want to take that sort of creative control away from the artist, so be it. Just remember it won't be art any time soon.[/QUOTE]
Artists can do as they please. Though that doesn't mean we have to like it.
[QUOTE=Crash155;46195972]I think mikeyt is a really dumb person[/QUOTE]
Look who is talking
[QUOTE=bdd458;46199137]I still don't believe games are art (I believe they have Artistic merit, but aren't art).
However, so many people seem so pissed off over games getting locked at 30FPS on Console (and PC in the case of The Evil Within), and get pissed off when a game developer takes their game in the course they want to. AKA Having creative control over the damn thing.
Art isn't dictated by the masses, it's dictated by the artist (Although artists can make art for the masses). And if you want to take that sort of creative control away from the artist, so be it. Just remember it won't be art any time soon.[/QUOTE]
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I still don't believe games are art
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Art isn't dictated by the masses
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I don't believe in calling something "not art" just because I or someone else doesn't like it. As you yourself said; whether something is or is not art is not dictated by anyone but the artist.
Art is obsereved, not experienced. Which is the main reason I don't find Video Games to be art, and much like Roger Ebert once said, the rules of chess may be just as elegant but its not art either.
Like I said, games have pieces of Artistic merit (whether it be a good story, good visuals, etc...). But when you put them all together in a video game it ceases to be art, it becomes an experience.
There is nothing wrong with not wanting people to pirate your product.
Of course, going nuts about it (Lars Ulrich) or being hyper restrictive (Ubisoft) doesn't help, but it doesn't make a developer/producer evil if they just want to make money off of their work.
[QUOTE=bdd458;46199230]Art is obsereved, not experienced. Which is the main reason I don't find Video Games to be art, and much like Roger Ebert once said, the rules of chess may be just as elegant but its not art either.
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But isn't art in general an experience? When you look at a good painting, or listen to a song, does that not cause some form of an emotional experience? So why can't a video game fall under that category?
[QUOTE=SirLemon;46199353]But isn't art in general an experience? When you look at a good painting, or listen to a song, does that not cause some form of an emotional experience? So why can't a video game fall under that category?[/QUOTE]
You control the experience of a game, you dictate what you do based upon the rules.
A painting or sculpture on the other hand is always the same, but can cause different emotions to different people.
There's a difference between 'experiencing something' and being part of an experience. Games fall under the latter.
[QUOTE=bdd458;46199428]You control the experience of a game, you dictate what you do based upon the rules.
A painting or sculpture on the other hand is always the same, but can cause different emotions to different people.
There's a difference between 'experiencing something' and being part of an experience. Games fall under the latter.[/QUOTE]
Yes, you dictate what you do based upon the rules, but those rules have ben pre-designed by the creator of the game. You may have a series of options to choose from in a game, but in the end, every single one of them were pre-made by the guy who made it.
[QUOTE=Lordgeorge16;46198415]Baseball has always been the best sport. Everything else is either wicked complicated and I can't get into it or too simple and it gets repetitive and boring.
Source: I was born and raised in Massachusetts, the birthplace of baseball.[/QUOTE]
Baseball is boring as shit to watch and pretty much a statisticians wet dream of numbers.
Rugby and Ice Hockey. Real sports.
i like soccer the most
[QUOTE=ImpSnob;46201783]i like soccer the most[/QUOTE]
That's a solid fact.
[QUOTE=Crash155;46195972]I think mikeyt is a really dumb person
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well u picked the right thread to post that in friend :~)
I like the occasional sound of airplanes and cars when I'm going to sleep. They're relaxing.
I like hearing police sirens at night when I'm going to sleep, and the sound that helicopters do (I live close to an airport).
[QUOTE=mikeyt493;46191210]I guess this isn't really "unpopular" but kinda controversial, I literally cannot wrap my head around how some people prefer 30fps to 60fps when it comes to video games.[/QUOTE]
maybe their brains dont go as fast and can only run at 30fps
they need more ram
Gonna open myself up to a world of pain but w/e
Drag queens and stuff like that is a bastardization of the transgender community and paints an awful picture of those who actually deal with GID. It's disgusting, unattractive and gives more ammunition for transphobic people to put Trans* people lower on the social rung.
[QUOTE=Zillamaster55;46207026]Gonna open myself up to a world of pain but w/e
Drag queens and stuff like that is a bastardization of the transgender community and paints an awful picture of those who actually deal with GID. It's disgusting, unattractive and gives more ammunition for transphobic people to put Trans* people lower on the social rung.[/QUOTE]
I understand what you mean but that's an issue with media representation and general knowledge rather than drag queens themselves. Drag queens aren't always (or even often?) trans and are as you say not representative of the trans community and they don't really try to be. It's more of a fashion or expression thing than gender identity thing.
Unfair to blame them for being who they want to be, not to be dickish but it's almost hypocritical given the subject matter. If they want to dress up as queens that's fine, who you should really criticise is everyone else for misrepresenting them as trans people and all that. (same as how people think drag queens have to be gay and vice versa- not on them, on others for being uneducated and perpetuating misinformation)
[QUOTE=Zillamaster55;46207026]Gonna open myself up to a world of pain but w/e
Drag queens and stuff like that is a bastardization of the transgender community and paints an awful picture of those who actually deal with GID. It's disgusting, unattractive and gives more ammunition for transphobic people to put Trans* people lower on the social rung.[/QUOTE]
This kinda feels like the equivalent of stigmatizing "too flamboyant" gays as making homosexuals look bad. It's people giving a shit how other people dress up and spend their private lives that's the issue.
Unskippable cutscenes in video games are just horrible.
Actually cut-scenes in video games really need to be cut back on, the story should be told through the gameplay, not a .avi. Movies will always be better at being movies than video games will.
An example could be the start of mass-effect 2 compared to halo combat evolved. In both games you're on a doomed that is currently being attacked. However, in halo you get to play through the ship, fighting enemies while seeing the whole place go to hell. Power in areas is lost, parts get destroyed, your buddies get slaughtered. There are a couple cut-scenes in there, but they're very short.
In mass effect 2, your ship is being attacked as well. But in this case you have to watch a cut-scene that's several minutes long, while the only game-play is you walking along the bridge of the ship.
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