EPTI know making a thread for a youtube video is frowned upon in these lands but the recent influx of people complaining about balance and general negativity has me tired and I think this video pretty much adresses the issue.
I was pretty much agreeing on the whole message until a starcraft reference was made and I could not agree more.
Posting in the general forum as I believe it applies to all games. Not just starcraft...
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I was asked to make clear that the name of the show is Pure pwnage and that this is a parody of Zero Punctuation...
Here is the message condensed by legatus legionis
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On March 08 2011 17:59 legatus legionis wrote:
Overtime it seems many people have forgotten the most important ingredient to a good game.
This ingredient is not graphics, cut scenes etc but the actual gameplay, the controls, the combo's you need to make, the puzzles you need to solve.
Gameplay is what makes the game fun to play.
If I want a good story, I can read a book. If you like cutscenes, Go watch a movie.
(if you really like that, you probably also like a bad movie because you're easily satisfied)
Games used to be about being challenged to explore new gameplay mechanics, about learning or solving new puzzles, about improving your skills against all types of adversaries, and about feeling proud of your accomplishments.
Nowadays, it's mostly shiny graphics that can even carry a soccer mom caliber gamer through a generic 3th grade story where anyone with atleast a tiny brain can pretend to be a hero and maintain the illusion that he isn't terrible at it.
You don't need a backstory, you don't need a portrait, you don't need new gear. If the process of playing a game isn't fun for you then maybe you're not a gamer.
Even though I beat these new players very easily I've started to notice that the amount of them is starting to negatively affect gamedesign.
Instead of innovating and coming up with something as huge as a new chess, we have a continuous stream of 8 hour long interactive B movie experiences for 60 dollars a pop, with unimaginatively reskinned sequels released every year.
So the people who are not good at games, who play these abominations of games are the ones that allowed for this industry to flourish and bring even more of them in.
Now, I would't actually care that much but as it turns out, these people are poor sports and hate on us! The gamers who play the games for gameplay. And so we are subject to the endless abuse of idiotic whiners, "rusherfag, no life loser, hacker, imbalance" (overpowered should be there aswell)
But the only imbalance is that you are just worse than other people. Maybe you weren't good at sports in school but that's no reason to cry when you're getting raped in game.
Even worse are the reviewers that review the games for public consumption. They are champions of mob mentality. But it seems that in the gaming media circle being a noob is some kind of prerequisite. Going through life without a reason can be frustrating but calling a 3 hour singeplayer experience the height of game design and comparing the dialog of GTA to the godfather is absolutely retarded.
Here's the unpleasant truth, your teachers lied to you when they said that anyone, even you, can become an astronaut. Some people are just naturally better at certain things than others, there's something called talent.
Many people have a genuine desire to challenge themselves to be better, this doesn't make them alien or cruel and certainly not "rusherfags", it just makes them ubergamers (better than you). There's no reason to resent them.
The next time you think, "I could beat all the progamers if I just played as much as them". Think again.
Overtime it seems many people have forgotten the most important ingredient to a good game.
This ingredient is not graphics, cut scenes etc but the actual gameplay, the controls, the combo's you need to make, the puzzles you need to solve.
Gameplay is what makes the game fun to play.
If I want a good story, I can read a book. If you like cutscenes, Go watch a movie.
(if you really like that, you probably also like a bad movie because you're easily satisfied)
Games used to be about being challenged to explore new gameplay mechanics, about learning or solving new puzzles, about improving your skills against all types of adversaries, and about feeling proud of your accomplishments.
Nowadays, it's mostly shiny graphics that can even carry a soccer mom caliber gamer through a generic 3th grade story where anyone with atleast a tiny brain can pretend to be a hero and maintain the illusion that he isn't terrible at it.
You don't need a backstory, you don't need a portrait, you don't need new gear. If the process of playing a game isn't fun for you then maybe you're not a gamer.
Even though I beat these new players very easily I've started to notice that the amount of them is starting to negatively affect gamedesign.
Instead of innovating and coming up with something as huge as a new chess, we have a continuous stream of 8 hour long interactive B movie experiences for 60 dollars a pop, with unimaginatively reskinned sequels released every year.
So the people who are not good at games, who play these abominations of games are the ones that allowed for this industry to flourish and bring even more of them in.
Now, I would't actually care that much but as it turns out, these people are poor sports and hate on us! The gamers who play the games for gameplay. And so we are subject to the endless abuse of idiotic whiners, "rusherfag, no life loser, hacker, imbalance" (overpowered should be there aswell)
But the only imbalance is that you are just worse than other people. Maybe you weren't good at sports in school but that's no reason to cry when you're getting raped in game.
Even worse are the reviewers that review the games for public consumption. They are champions of mob mentality. But it seems that in the gaming media circle being a noob is some kind of prerequisite. Going through life without a reason can be frustrating but calling a 3 hour singeplayer experience the height of game design and comparing the dialog of GTA to the godfather is absolutely retarded.
Here's the unpleasant truth, your teachers lied to you when they said that anyone, even you, can become an astronaut. Some people are just naturally better at certain things than others, there's something called talent.
Many people have a genuine desire to challenge themselves to be better, this doesn't make them alien or cruel and certainly not "rusherfags", it just makes them ubergamers (better than you). There's no reason to resent them.
The next time you think, "I could beat all the progamers if I just played as much as them". Think again.
