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Title: lets watch the VGAs
Post by: fistfulofmetal on December 10, 2011, 07:40:07 PM
http://www.spike.com/events/video-game-awards-2011/live-video/oxv45o

video games awards i dunno
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Post by: brob on December 10, 2011, 07:42:40 PM
"catch the online exclusive preshow."

boy don't i feel special
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Post by: cool breeze on December 10, 2011, 07:43:56 PM
I have it on in the background

I saw the hitman trailer.  The gameplay video was limping but the trailers are coo.
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Post by: fistfulofmetal on December 10, 2011, 07:45:15 PM
VGA EXCLUSIVE!!!!! THERE ARE ANTS IN SKYRIM
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Post by: brob on December 10, 2011, 07:46:43 PM
oh lol.. this stream isn't actually available to me, so I guess it's exclusive after all.
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Post by: brob on December 10, 2011, 07:49:05 PM
the fat cats of hollywood gaming doesn't care about us druggy. :'(
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Post by: iconoclast on December 10, 2011, 07:51:26 PM
Oh wow, the Tony Hawk game looks like a remake with an all new engine and such. I thought they were just going to upres the PS1 games. Awesome.
Title: Re: lets watch the VGAs
Post by: cool breeze on December 10, 2011, 08:00:28 PM
new Tekken - EXCLUSIVE
Title: Re: lets watch the VGAs
Post by: BobFromPikeCreek on December 10, 2011, 08:09:22 PM
let me know if a spartacus game is revealed and how much ass it looks like. my friend's girlfriend works for the developer.
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Post by: iconoclast on December 10, 2011, 08:12:48 PM
 :lol the Black Eyed Peas guy almost fell down the stairs. That would've made this show A+
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Post by: fistfulofmetal on December 10, 2011, 08:15:44 PM
A zombie game developed by Naughty Dog... didn't expect that, dude.
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Post by: cool breeze on December 10, 2011, 08:16:04 PM
EXCLUSIVE Sony game "The Last of Us" is from Naughty Dog

The Road + Walking Dead

+ Juno
Title: Re: lets watch the VGAs
Post by: fistfulofmetal on December 10, 2011, 08:16:38 PM
would be cool if you play as ellen page
Title: Re: lets watch the VGAs
Post by: cool breeze on December 10, 2011, 08:18:06 PM
would be cool if you could use your hamburger phone as a weapon
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Post by: fistfulofmetal on December 10, 2011, 08:18:35 PM
Does it use Move?

they didnt say. hopefully not
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Post by: Sho Nuff on December 10, 2011, 08:22:29 PM
cool bro another zombie game
Title: Re: lets watch the VGAs
Post by: fistfulofmetal on December 10, 2011, 08:25:23 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/TGd9M.jpg)

dat ellen page
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Post by: BobFromPikeCreek on December 10, 2011, 08:26:39 PM
zombies ugh
post-apocalypse ugh
Title: Re: lets watch the VGAs
Post by: fistfulofmetal on December 10, 2011, 08:29:31 PM
GENERALS 2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: lets watch the VGAs
Post by: cool breeze on December 10, 2011, 08:34:11 PM
it actually looks pretty cool.  all the other zombie games are the early days of the outbreak, while this looks like life after a while.  fighting both zombies and other survivors.

the city shot reminded of enslaved
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Post by: Diunx on December 10, 2011, 08:38:28 PM
Old Max Payne and Ellen Page fighting zombies? fucking day 1!
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Post by: brob on December 10, 2011, 08:38:45 PM
is it campy pulp or super mature grimdark?
Title: Re: lets watch the VGAs
Post by: fistfulofmetal on December 10, 2011, 08:40:09 PM
it actually looks pretty cool.  all the other zombie games are the early days of the outbreak, while this looks like life after a while.  fighting both zombies and other survivors.

the city shot reminded of enslaved

plus the zombies are mushrooms

(http://i.imgur.com/fEMgO.jpg)
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Post by: Don Flamenco on December 10, 2011, 08:49:34 PM
Cool teaser, can't wait to see/hear about the gameplay


blech fungus zombies

the city looks chicago-ish
Title: Re: lets watch the VGAs
Post by: brob on December 10, 2011, 08:51:06 PM
saw the trailer for the new naughty dog game. looks like the road as a power fantasy with the looming threat of "tension breaking" situational comedy.
Title: Re: lets watch the VGAs
Post by: MyNameIsMethodis on December 10, 2011, 08:52:19 PM
itt a bunch of jealous xbots trash naughty dog and their amazing new game because theyre idiots who have no games
Title: Re: lets watch the VGAs
Post by: cool breeze on December 10, 2011, 08:52:23 PM
no one claimed the OT for Last of Us on gaf yet  :teehee
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Post by: Don Flamenco on December 10, 2011, 08:55:03 PM
itt a bunch of jealous xbots trash naughty dog and their amazing new game because theyre idiots who have no games


this game looks terrible

can't believe Naughty Dog is stooping to subtle nubile girl teasing.  as amy henig once said: "never underestimate the pedophile market" before she devoured a bucket of chicken
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Post by: demi on December 10, 2011, 08:55:59 PM
ALAN WAKE!!!!!!!!!!

I'm surprised they brought back Mr. Scratch
Title: Re: lets watch the VGAs
Post by: cool breeze on December 10, 2011, 08:56:40 PM
people on gaf are already debating her age  :lol

"SHE'S SO FINE, uh, I mean, if she's of legal age"
Title: Re: lets watch the VGAs
Post by: fistfulofmetal on December 10, 2011, 08:57:13 PM
ALAN WAKE!!!!!!!!!!

I'm surprised they brought back Mr. Scratch

from the dlc?

i havent played any of the Alan Wake DLC. how does it compare to the main game? i thought it was pretty good until around the 4th chapter (the concert stage setpiece) then it went downhill a bunch.
Title: Re: lets watch the VGAs
Post by: cool breeze on December 10, 2011, 08:59:06 PM
ALAN WAKE!!!!!!!!!!

I'm surprised they brought back Mr. Scratch

from the dlc?

i havent played any of the Alan Wake DLC. how does it compare to the main game? i thought it was pretty good until around the 4th chapter (the concert stage setpiece) then it went downhill a bunch.

Alan Wake DLC is fucking awesome.  I wasn't a fan of the main game.  Really liked both DLC.
Title: Re: lets watch the VGAs
Post by: cool breeze on December 10, 2011, 09:05:43 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJt-mlLk10k

Quote
The Last of Us is a genre-defining experience that blends survival and action elements to tell a character driven story about a population decimated by a modern plague. Abandoned cities are being reclaimed by nature and the remaining survivors are killing each other for food, weapons and whatever they can get their hands on. Joel, a ruthless survivor, and Ellie, a brave teenage girl who is wise beyond her years, must work together to survive their journey across what remains of the United States.

her name is Ellie  oh gee
Title: Re: lets watch the VGAs
Post by: brob on December 10, 2011, 09:06:58 PM
I hate it already. fucking video games...
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Post by: Don Flamenco on December 10, 2011, 09:07:45 PM
she isn't 12, she's a 3000 year old goddess that just looks young so it's not sick, she'd actually be in the Mature category :derp
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Post by: Joe Molotov on December 10, 2011, 09:08:02 PM
Hottest she's been since Hard Candy. :bow2
Title: Re: lets watch the VGAs
Post by: fistfulofmetal on December 10, 2011, 09:09:00 PM
wise beyond her years. god-tier justification
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Post by: Sho Nuff on December 10, 2011, 09:09:08 PM
I wonder how much the insurance cost for the girl cutting fruit with a live blade
Title: Re: lets watch the VGAs
Post by: brob on December 10, 2011, 09:14:23 PM
I love how her response to hearing her friend - and most likely only reason for still being alive - fighting for his life upstairs is to go "oh dear  ::)" and pull out a switch blade like she's gonna go fix shit.

 hollywood super hero popcorn wrapped in this "daddy seid people used to walk the streets before the mushroom men came" levels of fax-obliviousness.


I'm angry this exists. catching feelings like a motherfucker over here.
Title: Re: lets watch the VGAs
Post by: cool breeze on December 10, 2011, 09:36:07 PM
Epic's new game Fortnight  is....A ZOMBIE GAME

HAHAHAH
Title: Re: lets watch the VGAs
Post by: fistfulofmetal on December 10, 2011, 09:37:04 PM
zombies :rock
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Post by: Joe Molotov on December 10, 2011, 09:49:41 PM
ZOMBAHS TOOK OUR GAIMEZ!
Title: Re: lets watch the VGAs
Post by: cool breeze on December 10, 2011, 10:00:51 PM
kojima forgot his lines and is just saying sorry a lot  :lol
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Post by: chronovore on December 10, 2011, 10:03:33 PM
wise beyond her years. god-tier justification

I imagine kids living in a "society has collapsed and you are in constant danger" scenario tend to wise up fast.
Title: Re: lets watch the VGAs
Post by: fistfulofmetal on December 10, 2011, 10:05:08 PM
kojima forgot his lines and is just saying sorry a lot  :lol

i think he was having trouble with his english
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Post by: chronovore on December 10, 2011, 10:08:39 PM
Oh wow, the Tony Hawk game looks like a remake with an all new engine and such. I thought they were just going to upres the PS1 games. Awesome.

Wait, what? Are we going to get THPS3 with a new engine? Holy crap, that would be great.

I will still never play any online though. There are probably still people who can connect all the pieces of each park with contiguous Tricks, and own the entire park, finishing it in the last 5 seconds. In their sleep.
Title: Re: lets watch the VGAs
Post by: iconoclast on December 10, 2011, 10:09:28 PM
I hope MGS Revengeance has transfarring


Oh wow, the Tony Hawk game looks like a remake with an all new engine and such. I thought they were just going to upres the PS1 games. Awesome.

Wait, what? Are we going to get THPS3 with a new engine? Holy crap, that would be great.

I will still never play any online though. There are probably still people who can connect all the pieces of each park with contiguous Tricks, and own the entire park, finishing it in the last 5 seconds. In their sleep.

No, it's an HD remake for XBLA/PSN that "features select levels from the first two games" or something like that. Looks good though.
Title: Re: lets watch the VGAs
Post by: cool breeze on December 10, 2011, 10:10:08 PM
kojima forgot his lines and is just saying sorry a lot  :lol

i think he was having trouble with his english

same thing since the lines were already written

either way, he was having trouble.
Title: Re: lets watch the VGAs
Post by: Joe Molotov on December 10, 2011, 10:17:59 PM
wise beyond her years. god-tier justification

I imagine kids living in a "society has collapsed and you are in constant danger" scenario tend to wise up fast.

And if they were some of the last fertile females on earth, it would be for the good of mankind that you were having sex with them. You'd practically be a hero!
Title: Re: lets watch the VGAs
Post by: cool breeze on December 10, 2011, 10:19:14 PM
so, it seems like The Last of Us has Uncharted 2's leading talent on board.  I guess that explains Uncharted 3.
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Post by: Eel O'Brian on December 10, 2011, 11:22:28 PM
where can i just watch the trailers for all this stuff

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Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on December 10, 2011, 11:23:46 PM
They played this instead of the Beavis and Butthead mini marathon on MTV2 :maf :maf :maf
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Post by: brob on December 10, 2011, 11:27:48 PM
Eel, everything should be on gametrailers by now. gaf probably has compiled it in a neat little PR package in some thread.
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Post by: Eel O'Brian on December 10, 2011, 11:39:09 PM
cool, thanks
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Post by: Eel O'Brian on December 10, 2011, 11:46:48 PM
what a misleading piece of text at the beginning of that "last of us" trailer. so what if it was captured off a ps3, it's still a fucking animated cut scene. hey everyone, here's five minutes of a little game called avatar, captured directly off a ps3.
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Post by: Van Cruncheon on December 10, 2011, 11:51:17 PM
american moe, icky!
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Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on December 10, 2011, 11:55:11 PM
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/vga-2011-diablo-iii/724829

get hype
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Post by: Eel O'Brian on December 10, 2011, 11:55:13 PM
wise

beyond

her

years

 :-X
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Post by: Eel O'Brian on December 10, 2011, 11:56:07 PM
spider-man looks like...you'll be fighting a lot of robot spiders
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Post by: Eel O'Brian on December 10, 2011, 11:57:20 PM
yeah, this is definitely looking like the last year of games before a new console generation
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Post by: recursivelyenumerable on December 10, 2011, 11:57:58 PM
Aren't a lot of the recent Japanese cultural pathologies really due to the shitty economic situation they've been in for the last couple decades? So we can expect the same sort of things to sprout here more and more.
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Post by: Don Flamenco on December 11, 2011, 12:10:08 AM
wise beyond her years. god-tier justification

I imagine kids living in a "society has collapsed and you are in constant danger" scenario tend to wise up fast.

And if they were some of the last fertile females on earth, it would be for the good of mankind that you were having sex with them. You'd practically be a hero!


many gaffers have already felt the suspension of disbelief and have thrust themselves into the role of the hero
Title: Re: lets watch the VGAs
Post by: Don Flamenco on December 11, 2011, 12:14:23 AM
Aren't a lot of the recent Japanese cultural pathologies really due to the shitty economic situation they've been in for the last couple decades? So we can expect the same sort of things to sprout here more and more.


There's some growing disillusionment-- baby boomers told Gen X/Y to "just jump through the undergrad hoop and you're good to go!"  and that's turning out to be so not even close to true.  people who relied on this and didn't see a huge need to be an innovative go getter self starter are getting screwed as a result and told they're lazy.  every degree but medicine and engineering seem to be devalued.

but i hope it doesn't lead to love pillows.  actually, i'd be much more afraid of american pathology in the face of trouble.  prob much more violent than the Japanese.
Title: Re: lets watch the VGAs
Post by: fistfulofmetal on December 11, 2011, 12:19:25 AM
I am very interested in seeing if The Last of Us is going to be a genuine serious take on the zombie apocalypse genre. There hasn't really been one. I trust Naughty Dog's ability to tell a story, I want to know if they can tell a serious story and not the camp stuff we see in Uncharted.
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Post by: Trent Dole on December 11, 2011, 12:32:02 AM
yeah, this is definitely looking like the last year of games before a new console generation
This gen is kinda crazy long. 360 launched in 2005 and its successor isn't coming until 2013. We've been at the ceiling for what the current machines can do for a while now.
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Post by: brob on December 11, 2011, 12:32:19 AM
I am very interested in seeing if The Last of Us is going to be a genuine serious take on the zombie apocalypse genre.

no.
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Post by: Eel O'Brian on December 11, 2011, 12:43:02 AM
yeah, this is definitely looking like the last year of games before a new console generation
This gen is kinda crazy long. 360 launched in 2005 and its successor isn't coming until 2013. We've been at the ceiling for what the current machines can do for a while now.

Yeah, it's definitely a console swan song year, games are starting to circle around on themselves. Starhawk, Halo 4, GTAV, etc.  I'm actually looking forward to a new round of consoles, and glad some games (like the next Red Dead) won't come out until then.
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Post by: cool breeze on December 11, 2011, 12:44:51 AM
I think we'll still be seeing this gen games until 2013, even though new consoles might come out.  PS2 was still kicking it in 2006.

Wii U is probably going to share a lot of games with Vita, while the loop and PS4 move on.

I am very interested in seeing if The Last of Us is going to be a genuine serious take on the zombie apocalypse genre. There hasn't really been one. I trust Naughty Dog's ability to tell a story, I want to know if they can tell a serious story and not the camp stuff we see in Uncharted.

I don't really care much for the story as much as I would for an experiencing somewhat mimicking survival.  I mean, it isn't survival if you're expected to get through it.  If ND tried something interesting with the gameplay, where there wasn't a goal other than survival, maybe had procedural elements, and story was entirely dependent on actions and how characters react, then yeah, it could be great.

I'd be disappointed if it was just "we have to find x to solve y" and it was about a journey.  well not really because that could be cool too.  I just think a game that really embraces survival could be great.  It probably won't be this game, because if the girl or guy die it would be game over and you'll never deal with the consequences.  even simple things, like without a partner you can't carry as many supplies, some places couldn't be accessed alone, some other survivors react differently, etc.  I'm rambling now.
Title: Re: lets watch the VGAs
Post by: Oblivion on December 11, 2011, 12:47:06 AM
How the hell is this filth still going? I remember seeing the very first one in 2003, and thought it would never be replicated. Why?   :yuck
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Post by: Himu on December 11, 2011, 12:47:15 AM
anything good come from this
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Post by: brob on December 11, 2011, 12:49:22 AM
anything good come from this
tony hawk
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Post by: Himu on December 11, 2011, 12:50:50 AM
MGS, Alan Wake, Bioshock short clip, ME3 short clip, Last Of Us is a new IP by Naughty Dog that could be cool even if t uses Zombies, Epic's new game is zombie tower defense, Tony Hawk HD remake which is awesome, Hitman!, and that's about it

:hyper
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Post by: cool breeze on December 11, 2011, 12:56:36 AM
stubbs the zombie for xbox was pretty cool.  you played a zombie and it was set in the 1950s, but was a comedy game.   kinda like destroy all humans (I think that was the name...the pandemic one where you played an alien)


edit: holy shit there were 4 destroy all humans game? the fuck
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Post by: Great Rumbler on December 11, 2011, 01:02:34 AM
Epic's new game is zombie tower defense

:rofl
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Post by: Himu on December 11, 2011, 01:27:00 AM
Play Stubbs the Zombie.

No really go play it, best Zombie game ever.

.
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Post by: Vizzys on December 11, 2011, 01:50:25 AM
zzzzzombies
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Post by: Trent Dole on December 11, 2011, 01:57:51 AM
I MAED
A GAEM
WITH
ZOM
BIES
IN IT
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Post by: MCD on December 11, 2011, 02:06:16 AM
Quote from: Allonym
The girl having here ovulation cycle may be too mature for some but I think being used once through the game and finding a convenience store to get tampons would be cool if used correctly and once during the game since there may be a day and night cycle.

PS3 fans.
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Post by: MCD on December 11, 2011, 02:16:54 AM
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=33364082&postcount=1406

And oh...gifs everywhere, someone please post that Silent Hill guy gif to shut them up.
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Post by: cool breeze on December 11, 2011, 02:20:33 AM
it would be cool if it wasn't a scripted sequence.  it's a trope of zombie fiction that's not really handled in games.  the mundane can be vaguely interesting if finding tampons was a dynamic objective.  you have to find the store, plan around the zombies, other survivors, or any environmental hazards.  you're not sure if the survivors are hostile, so you have the choice to start a dialog, or engage them in combat, or use stealth to sneak in unnoticed.  and instead making it unscripted means it's not some scene like "UR BLEEDING R U BIT... oooo :-X," you could be working to get past a blockade, and suddenly "objective: she's periodin" pops up and you gotta adapt.

I'd be down for move support if it had an expanded MGS3 healing system with Trauma Center wii controls.  Waggle to tampon. 
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Post by: Owl-faced Wizard on December 11, 2011, 03:36:26 AM
http://www.kloonigames.com/blog/games/bloody

Best zombie game ever, by far.
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Post by: pilonv1 on December 11, 2011, 03:42:05 AM
developers like zombie games because they don't have to program decent ai
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Post by: Owl-faced Wizard on December 11, 2011, 03:50:58 AM
Epic's Minecraft/Team Fortress/Zombie/Tower Defence looks shameless but I was rolling my eyes pretty damn hard at the 'has to be a cheap downloadable' comments.  The barest whiff of non-realism and the mouthbreathers decide it can't be full-priced retail.
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Post by: Timber on December 11, 2011, 07:02:58 AM
If the Epic game is actually derivative of proven mechanics and has a good L4Dish procedural thing going then I can see their game being cool. At least the trailer promises a game instead of a po-faced NARRATIVE EXPERIENCE like Aeroshock/Zombie Dog.
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Post by: Vertigo on December 11, 2011, 10:31:34 AM
Bloody heck that 'Last Of Them' thread has gone interstellar distinguished mentally-challenged fellow the Gif boys are getting lots of use out of them. and the OMG NAUGHTY GODS posting is just  :yuck

I like ND but they deal in spectacle. I don't think they have it in them to have game with little combat and more exploration ala first Tomb Raider i mean how scary was that game when you went ages without coming across any other life. I want every encounter to actually be scary when we come across 'infected' or hostile humans although i do have to ask why if humans are dying out people would happily kill other humans, surely surviving together is more wiser but whatever...



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Post by: Third on December 11, 2011, 11:52:28 AM
That's because humans are usually worse than the zombies.

Look at a movie like 28 Days Later, or read a novel like The Stand. Humans will eventually make the situation worse than it actually is...

If it weren't for a society and its rules, humans wouldn't be nothing more than just filthy savages.
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Post by: Vertigo on December 11, 2011, 12:24:52 PM
You're  probably right.

Have a look at how some of us behave when their are half price consumer items on sale. Ready to trample over one another to get the cheap goods. If something cataclysmic did happen on this planet i'd say most people would be killers by the end of the first week.  :(
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Post by: drew on December 11, 2011, 12:47:16 PM
Another zombie game? Jesus fuck this I'm done.

you guys do this to yourself, really. ignore the bad ones and play/love the good ones that come out once every so often
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Post by: iconoclast on December 11, 2011, 04:49:12 PM
The lead designer for Enslaved is working on Last of Us as well. That's a good pick up for Naughty Dog, he should fit right in.
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Post by: Don Flamenco on December 11, 2011, 06:56:36 PM
2005: RE4
2006: replayed RE4, played Dead Rising
2007: replayed RE4
2008: replayed RE4
2009: replayed RE4
2010: replayed RE4
2011: replayed RE4
2012: Last Of Us

fucking zombie games everywhere JEEZ
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Post by: Eel O'Brian on December 11, 2011, 07:06:12 PM
i am as tired of the zombie theme as anyone, but two of my favorite games over the past year or so have featured zombies (dead island and red dead undead nightmare), so i guess it all depends on what they do with it
Title: Re: lets watch the VGAs
Post by: Don Flamenco on December 11, 2011, 07:08:46 PM
at the risk of sounding like NAUGHTY GODS :derp 

i was legitimately impressed with the Road-esque tone (though the girl is empowered vs. the boy in the road), the fungus zombie, teh graphics, and well, it was all just pretty intriguing, unlike most trailers for all games.  just gotta see that gameplay.  for all we know it's an arena twin stick shooter
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Post by: duckman2000 on December 11, 2011, 07:10:17 PM
Well, Naughty Dog is damned good at making games, so I'm interested. As for the theme, I'm always up for a good zombie game. Given that it's Naughty Dog it will probably be great, so hurrah.
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Post by: Smooth Groove on December 12, 2011, 12:19:34 AM
So basically they gather up all the people that would rather make movies but are stuck making games?  Great idea!
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Post by: MCD on December 12, 2011, 02:34:42 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/RdPFf.jpg)
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Post by: duckman2000 on December 12, 2011, 02:51:36 PM
sort of reminds me of that chick from Inception, whatsherface
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Post by: Timber on December 12, 2011, 03:24:57 PM
That's her face right there, the one on the right.
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Post by: brob on December 12, 2011, 03:30:17 PM
she looks like a pixar cartoon. or a person who has had multiple cosmetic surgeries to look like a pixar cartoon...

shit i dont know real talk tho she ugly
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Post by: tiesto on December 12, 2011, 04:03:12 PM
I didn't watch it, what did the mau5 do on the show?
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Post by: BobFromPikeCreek on December 12, 2011, 04:08:58 PM
existed
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Post by: cool breeze on December 12, 2011, 10:04:21 PM
more info came out about the Last of US.  firstly, they say it's not going to about the zombies, but the relationship between Juno and the guy.  Which sounds like they're going to stray from a 'finding a cure' plot.

also, Gustavo Santaolalla is doing the music

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-12-13-the-last-of-us-scored-by-oscar-winner-gustavo-santaolalla

(wondering if this should just be changed to a Last of Us thread, or just make a separate thread)
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Post by: drew on December 12, 2011, 10:42:07 PM
is this augmented reality thing real? it can't be. :o
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Post by: Owl-faced Wizard on December 13, 2011, 12:47:35 AM
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Like the Uncharted games, The Last of Us has a third-person perspective, in which you see the character on-screen, but it has a more realistic, cinematic look. "We're trying to move the medium of video games into an area elevated in the same manner of respect of film," Balestra says. "We want to redefine what our medium is even called. 'Video game' is not an accurate name anymore. It is not necessarily a game with rules and a winner and a loser. It's an experience."

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/gaming/...&dlvrit=110941

 :lol

 :'(
Title: Re: lets watch the VGAs
Post by: Great Rumbler on December 13, 2011, 12:49:44 AM
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Post by: iconoclast on December 13, 2011, 01:48:43 AM
 :lol cinematic experiences are about half a step above Nintendo's non-games. modern gaming :lol
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Post by: Himu on December 13, 2011, 01:54:09 AM
Cinematic experiences? What happened to Naughty Dog? :( Going from tight platformers to this?
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Post by: BobFromPikeCreek on December 13, 2011, 02:53:05 AM
 :lol :lol

Well there goes any chance of that being good. Fortnite sounds like it could be cool though.
Title: Re: lets watch the VGAs
Post by: Timber on December 13, 2011, 05:55:18 AM
Stooping so low as to use the "redefining the medium" line means Naughty Dog have fully embraced their inner David Cage. Press x to shout "Ellen Page where areee youu i'm just gonna weep with raaaw emotion if you got et by a zombie ooh myy good the new york times are gonna looove this."
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Post by: brob on December 13, 2011, 10:15:43 AM
I knew it. Hollywood gaming deluxe. Naught-y Dogs indeed.
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Post by: cool breeze on December 13, 2011, 10:41:49 AM
That quote sounds bad but reading it optimistically, maybe he means it doesn't have a linear progression, like beginning to end, but a prolonged experience.  The story comes from the gameplay, in that your interactions with the other character drives it forward.  Making a game that tells a story unique to video games, instead of aping cinema.  And because it's about survival, you can't win or lose, because dying or living on are both equally valid 'endings' to your experience; dying isn't game over with continues but a diegetic concept.  Emergent, non euclidean, procedural, other buzz words.  The Last of Us will be a BBC in gaming's sea of limp white penisi.  By denying this game its due credit, you're basically justifying slavery of your prefrontal cortex.


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but seriously, I wonder how many pipes will break as you're climbing them.  tension, huzzah!
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Title: Re: lets watch the VGAs
Post by: brob on December 13, 2011, 10:46:29 AM
lzg, that post upsets my delicate sensibilities. because I know gaf will be aflutter with such nonsense, and even after the game comes out their minds will contort in such ways as to say it lived up to these absurd expectations. And they will be loud and shameless.
 :(
Title: Re: lets watch the VGAs
Post by: Trent Dole on December 13, 2011, 11:44:49 AM
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Title: Re: lets watch the VGAs
Post by: Don Flamenco on December 13, 2011, 11:48:40 AM
the thing that's annoying about that quote is that it's still obviously going to be a game.  He's just talking about covering up the game aspects, but he's using the douchiest language possible.  One way to do this is with autoplatforming.  But you can't gloss over the fact that zombies eating your head = death and reload screen.  by "cinematic," they mean ellen page will yell "Leon Noooooooo!" when you die and probably over 9000 hours of cutscenes/QTE sequences.
Title: Re: lets watch the VGAs
Post by: brob on December 13, 2011, 11:52:55 AM
remember that part in uncharted 3 where you got chased by museum security? fail states all over the fucking place, you had to run it exactly like they wanted. that is what I get from this quote. "as long as you do what we want you to, it's gonna look great!"
Title: Re: lets watch the VGAs
Post by: Don Flamenco on December 13, 2011, 01:04:46 PM
remember that part in uncharted 3 where you got chased by museum security? fail states all over the fucking place, you had to run it exactly like they wanted. that is what I get from this quote. "as long as you do what we want you to, it's gonna look great!"


yep, there's just no way to "un-game" a section where you have control, except to make it arbitrarily finicky and against the logic of the  person in control.  Except, you know, to make it a movie. 

hey waitaminute...why don't these fucks just make "gritty, mature" Pixar movies?!   (also, loved Jeff Keighley's generic use of gritty and mature to describe this game.)  Come to think of it "Why don't devs of cinematic games just make animated movies?" might be a fun topic on gaf...one of you unbanned folks should do that (curseofthegods)  be sure to say it's in response to Naughty Dog's quotes for extra joy.
Title: Re: lets watch the VGAs
Post by: brob on December 13, 2011, 01:16:12 PM
Why would they put themselves in a pond with fish who are skilled in their craft, when they can just play catch-up to films in the video game space and get lauded for it?
Title: Re: lets watch the VGAs
Post by: Don Flamenco on December 13, 2011, 01:51:09 PM
I don't know...i guess just because i say so

Title: Re: lets watch the VGAs
Post by: brob on December 13, 2011, 02:01:35 PM
maybe naughty dog will lose the pretense and eventually start calling their products visual interactive fiction or some such.
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Post by: Brehvolution on December 13, 2011, 02:10:43 PM
:bow Mojo

How's it been bro?
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Post by: Brehvolution on December 13, 2011, 02:17:00 PM
Good so far. You get that other job?
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Post by: Great Rumbler on December 13, 2011, 02:22:17 PM
Screw Naughty Dog.

Play Skryim instead.
Title: Re: lets watch the VGAs
Post by: Brehvolution on December 13, 2011, 03:39:07 PM
Good luck boss.  ;)