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Author: Suskie
Posted: February 07, 2012 (04:29 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
I can't wait for Psychonauts 2 to be a completely generic and unremarkable platformer that everyone will give a pass just because the writing is pretty funny.
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Author: wolfqueen001
Posted: February 07, 2012 (04:36 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Sometimes it doesn't matter if the platofrming is generic. If the premise is interesting enough, that alone can carry the game through. And me being fascinated with psychology, I totally loved the idea of Psychonauts.
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Author: honestgamer
Posted: February 07, 2012 (04:42 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
The idea has been being pitched for years, Leslie. It's just that no publisher was interested in taking the substantial risk and funding the project. Notch has the money to spare and apparently thought enough of the original game that he decided to put his financial means to positive use. Good on him, I say!
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Author: S-Cynic
Posted: February 07, 2012 (08:23 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
I can't wait for Psychonauts 2 to be a completely generic and unremarkable platformer that everyone will give a pass just because the writing is pretty funny.
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Author: SleazyBastard
Posted: February 08, 2012 (10:07 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Tim Schafer is a joke. The amount of respect that has supposedly catapulted him into the much-vaunted legendary status just because he made garbage that requires no knowledge in gaming design like Le Chuck's Revenge and Days of Tentacle is beyond baffling.
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Author: zippdementia
Posted: February 08, 2012 (10:15 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Schaffer's writing has always been good, but he never left behind his early adventure game days. If I approached people the way Psychonauts' approached gameplay, everyone would think I had some sort of shaking disorder. I've never seen a game which was so afraid of itself being a game. Which is silly, because Psychonauts actually had some great ideas on how to make its levels varied and fun. It just... failed.
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Author: SleazyBastard
Posted: February 08, 2012 (11:00 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
His writing is a laughing stock. Nothing in Grim Fandango made any modicum of lasting impression with me. Probably because i have a standard and have watched profound movies like Deer Hunter or The Lives of Others that i'm not impressed by 'sitcom-esque' writing , which is his trademark.
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Author: Suskie
Posted: February 09, 2012 (04:02 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
RunningFree, if you were as cultured as you pretend to be, you wouldn't be (a) crazy and (b) an idiot.
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Author: SleazyBastard
Posted: February 09, 2012 (05:07 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Leo Tolstoy stored rifles in his house because he was suicidal, and Gustave Flaubert criticized War And Peace's second epilogue as a naive, simplistic pamphlet, which would fit your a) crazy and b) idiot qualification.
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Author: zippdementia
Posted: February 09, 2012 (08:05 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
This is an awesome new approach to trolling, Running Free! I haven't seen the Ayn Rand side of you before.
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Author: S-Cynic
Posted: February 09, 2012 (03:30 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Do you think this hack has ever read War and Peace, Anna Karenina, One Hundred Years of Solitude, or watched Akira Kurosawa's movies ? Yeah, watch witty garbage without artistic merit on TV like Cheers and Seinfeld, and you are set to become a writer.
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Author: SleazyBastard
Posted: February 09, 2012 (03:44 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
It personally blew my mind. The structure resembles that of soap operas, the story jumps from one perspective to another. If you have no affinity whatsoever toward Christianity, you would think this is one of those Chick tracts that try to talk you into accepting Jesus as your Lord and Saviour, although without being patronizing. I've read 200 pages of Swann's Way, and i threw the book of the floor,because it was too 'panoramic' in the sense of creating an intimate place and vain. War and Peace is much more 'straight-forward', back then i was reading 70 pages each day.
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