have you guys never watched this show..?
This is a show? like on G4 or something like that?just an internet show. has its high points and its low points. overall one of the better internet shows i've seen, but i'm not going to say it's amazing or anything.
Quotethe part i agree with wholeheartedly is his rant on the people who complain about hardcore gamers (including the video game journalists).
the problem with the self appointed "hardcore" though is they are almost all, to a man, complete wankers.
some of my favourite misguided shit :
1) the misguided notion that machines like the SNES and Genesis were no stop parades of AAA+ games unlike today. ::) There was at least as much shit on the older machines, all that is happening is people are compressing the whole library into one point in time and it suddenly appears to be this carnival of none stop awesome.
2) gobshiting about games they blatantly haven't played : "Rez? it's just a wire frame Space Harrier"
3) fawning over rare games based entirely on their availability rather than their quality as a game : see N.N. Pun on the PC Engine (absolute fucking garbage) , Jungle Park (an unplayable winnet), etc etc.
4) Games that are at least decent that get "disowned" because the "public" have shown an interest. see hilarious "Radiant Silvergun is shit" bollox.
5) THE biggest japafags on the web all happen to be hardcore retro nuts - watch in amazement as some of them brag about "this amazing RPG that none of you have ever played before by <obscure>! I knew about it, you didn't. Sucks to be you lot." followed by "well, i don't understand Japanese but the story is easy to figure out..." ::)
6) the general premise that if something sold or is popular then, obviously, it's garbage.
7) 3D is evil, every game should be in 2d - with sprites - all made with a maximum res of under 480i in mind. Then - when someone bothers to do this, complain that this is a waste or it should be on a different platform.
8) all handheld games are shit. They can't possibly be good and anyone developing games for them are wasting their and our time.
9) the hilarity of the cock waving! I've had several people cock wave, only to have their epeen not measure up. Then it changes to "oh you are just buying those so you can ebay them, you're just a scalper, you can't have played all those, you aren't as hardcore as me...". It's fucking comical.
I guess i've just had bad experiences in the retro/hardcore scene, maybe jiji has had a few similar experiences too but the scene attracts elitist cocks like flies to a rotting corpse. Go visit one of the many boards and see just exactly how loathsome some of the opinions are.
Oh and yeah, a lot of the hardcore hate portal. It's okay, they are all wrong. I know at least a couple who hate it but haven't played it ("it's just another FPS... yawn").
i was waving my arms at the hardcore in general, not at the show.the problem is that your generalization of "hardcore" is not in line with mine or the show's, which you were replying to. there's no point in discussing it if we're going to be talking about two entirely different things.
Anways, the show just felt flat - i realise what the point is, and i have mentioned to a few others that there is comedy potential in having a fake internet Hardcore personality, but the characterisation in this doesn't go far enough, it ends up being fairly hohum observations unfortunately.i assume this is the only episode you've seen. i'd say most of the good stuff is earlier in the series and that the 'hardcore' persona is getting tired, evident by the direction the series has gone and is going now. at this point, it's more of a routine, than a focus.
it's one thing to celebrate portal as a great game. i think it deserves 9+ all around--i agree that it's one of the best games in a while and i often recommend it as a 'must play' game without hesitation. but i would agree with jeremy that a 3 hour singleplayer experience is not the height of game design. i've had better gaming experiences.Quotei do think Portal is a great game, but i think he's right when he calls out the masses and their hailing it as some sort of second coming.
there you go then - it's popular , people like it, people are vocal about it being great... so lets call them out. it's the ultimate hardcore paradox. Portal is legitimately great , the fact lots of people like it should be celebrated. sigh, the hardcore are all insecure prawn cocks.