Gabe Newell: Single-player games are like a feature film where your lead actor is retarded and autis
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Whateva
Is this occurrence really worth a discussion?
[QUOTE=Elstumpo;39482160]I like how everyone saying he went too far. I bet you guys I can find someone making fun of autistic people on this forum. :v[/QUOTE]
I bet you can find anything on this forum. Almost everybody here flops back and forth between being a white knight and a complete insensitive dickwad. The general public consensus is about as solid as a plastic straw.
mayb gabe has the tism
[QUOTE=gnome;39482519]Whateva
Is this occurrence really worth a discussion?
I bet you can find anything on this forum. Almost everybody here flops back and forth between being a white knight and a complete insensitive dickwad. The general public consensus is about as solid as a plastic straw.[/QUOTE]
Hey man, don't bring plastic straws into this.
Too far man.
[QUOTE=V12US;39481526]I viewed him as some Slovakian janitor who barely speaks English and was accidentally mistaken for Gordon Freeman, expert physicist, who just happened to board the wrong plane and never got to Black Mesa.[/QUOTE]
The right man in the wrong place can make all the di ffe rence in the world.
respect gone fuck valve i'm boycotting
[QUOTE=minilandstan;39480897]Oh god[/QUOTE]
This should be what the thread is about
[B][I]"Single-player games are like a feature film where your lead actor is retarded and autistic, but you can think of it like a feature film," Newell said. [/I][/B]
In this case "lead actor" obviously represents the player.
Valve makes their single-player games idiot-proof is what he's pointing out by the statement, although "retarded" and "autistic" might not have been the best choice of words to describe their lowest common denominator. If you remember they kept track of portal playthroughs and it turned out that some ridiculous amount their audience got stuck halfway through an extremely easy two-hour long puzzle game and gave up entirely. They talked about making Portal 2 super easy (through focus testing) in the developer commentary as a response to the overwhelming stupidity and impatience of the audience at large. You really can't blame Valve for having this general sentiment about their playerbase, and if you listened to this presentation, you're probably not the kind of player he's referring to. People who play videogames tend to be rather stupid after all, present company excluded obviously. :P
[B][I]"In a multiplayer game, these rules that you come up with don't work anymore. An example would be in Counter-Strike, we put the riot shield in, and our player number go up. We take the riot shield out, and our player numbers go ... up. How do you explain that?"[/I][/B]
He means even idiot-proofing methods and focus testing don't yield consistent results when designing multiplayer games, it's just too crazy.
Edit: Also the words he used kind of bring a new context for what he's thinking during fan visitations, lol.
holy shit being an autistic retard with no social skills I can now accurately project onto my favorite video game hero gordon freeman from my favorite video game Half Life 2
ok?
i'm not gonna stop liking him because he uses language that I probably would too
[editline]5th February 2013[/editline]
scrap that, language that I use an awful lot
This is just nitpicking, If you watch the whole video he gives a very informative lecture and by chance he says something he shouldn't; Everybody in the entire fucking world says something they shouldn't at some point.
Hes probably gonna make a formal apology sometime soon anyway since this is gonna get blown out of proportion.
[QUOTE=usaokay;39474179]So the only way for DoTA 2's number to go up is to remove Drow Ranger, and put her back in so it could drastically go up.[/QUOTE]
I honestly feel like that's the truth. Everyone throws a bitch fit when a new hero or any content at all isn't added. I can't imagine what will happen once we run out of heroes to add because I know many people on my friends list who only play to experience the new heroes then fuck off for a week or two until the next one.
Can't wait for websites to make an even bigger shitstorm out of this.
BREAKING: GABE NEWELL CALLS PLAYERS OF THEIR GAMES AUTISTIC AND RETARDED!
And then the Steam hate-bandwagon comes in. "I knew it! Fucking shit devs and their devil spyware Steam. DIE VALVE!
Maybe a bit too far, but I could see it happen.
Well considering a Google of the quote only returns this thread and a thread at neogaf, I doubt that this is going to be big
[QUOTE=Fort83;39482727]I like how people are defending him only because it's Gabe Newell. If it was someone at EA the same people would be calling them out on it.[/QUOTE]
You're stupid to make assumptions. I'm defending it because this thread is a bunch of retards making big deals out of nothing.
Guys, he used the unacceptable word. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T549VoLca_Q[/media]
So he's saying single player games are just oscar bait?
[QUOTE=Jetblack357;39480473]Yes it is, the word retard is perfectly fine, in fact my brother is retarded.
retard retard retard retard.[/QUOTE]
i should hold my tongue on this one but this is "jetblack357"s mother, and it is NOT fine. i also saw your little bit about how "retards are funny" and that your brother is funny. its real fucking funny that he has to have a feeding tube, and cant even fucking talk..you are a disgrace!! how COULD you? i am so glad i was able to see this for myself, i never wouldve believed it.
for those interested in how HILARIOUS mikes brother is, here is his facebook page [url]www.facebook.com/fortheloveoffrancishenry[/url]
he suffers from a rare disorder called moebius syndrome, among other things..yeah, its a real riot, isnt it?? :/
[QUOTE=DigitalySane;39484440]This is just nitpicking, If you watch the whole video he gives a very informative lecture and by chance he says something he shouldn't; Everybody in the entire fucking world says something they shouldn't at some point.
Hes probably gonna make a formal apology sometime soon anyway since this is gonna get blown out of proportion.[/QUOTE]
This is how journalism works though
If the character being controlled in single player is thought of as retarded, does that mean that hackers are idiot savants?
[QUOTE=Fatman55;39488789]i should hold my tongue on this one but this is "jetblack357"s mother, and it is NOT fine. i also saw your little bit about how "retards are funny" and that your brother is funny. its real fucking funny that he has to have a feeding tube, and cant even fucking talk..you are a disgrace!! how COULD you? i am so glad i was able to see this for myself, i never wouldve believed it.
for those interested in how HILARIOUS mikes brother is, here is his facebook page [url]www.facebook.com/fortheloveoffrancishenry[/url]
he suffers from a rare disorder called moebius syndrome, among other things..yeah, its a real riot, isnt it?? :/[/QUOTE]
huh
[QUOTE=Fort83;39482727]I like how people are defending him only because it's Gabe Newell. If it was someone at EA the same people would be calling them out on it.[/QUOTE]
I can't speak for anyone else here but I don't care what any big head at EA says 95% of the time.
[QUOTE=Ericson666;39488890]huh[/QUOTE]
I guess my brother had something to say about my other brother, and my mom got on my FP account and saw that. So yeah.
I eagerly await the gaben youtube poops using these new soundbites
[QUOTE=Fort83;39488387]And now you're resorting to insults, nice. Gabe made a mistake, he's only human. You need to come to terms with that instead of defending him like he's a god.[/QUOTE]
im defending him because all he is referring to is the state of an uncontrolled playable character stop being a moron.
[editline]6th February 2013[/editline]
[QUOTE=Fatman55;39488789]i should hold my tongue on this one but this is "jetblack357"s mother, and it is NOT fine. i also saw your little bit about how "retards are funny" and that your brother is funny. its real fucking funny that he has to have a feeding tube, and cant even fucking talk..you are a disgrace!! how COULD you? i am so glad i was able to see this for myself, i never wouldve believed it.
for those interested in how HILARIOUS mikes brother is, here is his facebook page [url]www.facebook.com/fortheloveoffrancishenry[/url]
he suffers from a rare disorder called moebius syndrome, among other things..yeah, its a real riot, isnt it?? :/[/QUOTE]
Yeah because look at how he's exclaiming how funny retardation is. He just said the word is fine. i hate when people use other peoples misfortunes to be drama queens.
especially since it is your son you should be ashamed of yourself.
[QUOTE=HybridTheroy;39489190]im defending him because all he is referring to is the state of an uncontrolled playable character stop being a moron.
[editline]6th February 2013[/editline]
Yeah because look at how he's exclaiming how funny retardation is. He just said the word is fine. i hate when people use other peoples misfortunes to be drama queens.
especially since it is your son you should be ashamed of yourself.[/QUOTE]
Nah actually he said something like "my brother is retarded, and he's hilarious" in another thread, and it's a bit unfair because he's never really had to deal with the trouble of taking care of him. Although I do agree it was a bit unnecessary.
[QUOTE=fruxodaily;39474237]Like in hl2 when you're in an elevator with alyx whose introducing herself, Gordon fucking freeman just stands there and decides to not even talk to her
Come on Gordon get it together[/QUOTE]
Gordan is too alpha to lower himself to females expectation. It works too seeing how much alyx cares for Gordon and clealy wants his HEV suited dick.
My nigga is a playa.
[QUOTE=Dr-Amazing;39488772]So he's saying single player games are just oscar bait?[/QUOTE]
If you wanna win an Oscar, you never go full retard.
I love that people manage to ruin an otherwise excellent - no, BRILLIANT - lecture that Mr. Newell decided to give out of his own free time by finding ONE thing he said that could be taken as slightly offensive.
Gabe said some really interesting and insightful points about running a business, his genius design for his company, setting up economies for his players, and even the future of business models. And instead of talking about those, you'd rather focus on a 2-second damn mistake that he briefly made.
Sometimes I want to rage quit life.
[QUOTE=JJ Isaac;39490492]I love that people manage to ruin an otherwise excellent - no, BRILLIANT - lecture that Mr. Newell decided to give out of his own free time by finding ONE thing he said that could be taken as slightly offensive.
Gabe said some really interesting and insightful points about running a business, his genius design for his company, setting up economies for his players, and even the future of business models. And instead of talking about those, you'd rather focus on a 2-second damn mistake that he briefly made.
Sometimes I want to rage quit life.[/QUOTE]
could you point to this straw man making a huge deal about this plz
I'm wondering what some of you would have wanted him to say instead, it was pretty casual remark that wasn't used in a derogatory way.
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