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The Giant Bomb Quick Look Thread 2
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John Rabbit
Banned
i'm really perplexed at people thinking tera looks beautiful.
i mean i guess it has some technical flair, but the art style is just gross. it's like all the worst parts of outland from WoW. and there are a LOT of terrible parts in outland.
i mean i guess it has some technical flair, but the art style is just gross. it's like all the worst parts of outland from WoW. and there are a LOT of terrible parts in outland.
The enemy design is pretty tits.
Brad was talking about about the people who were after nude mods, skimpy outfits, and talking about how hot they are when they are designed to look like pre-teen girls.
Some of them look like children. There's nothing sexy about children.
Typographenia
Member
You can't see the player in their chair.
I kid, I kid.
Still the creepiest gif I've seen in forever... ugh
edit:
You fight gorgeous breasts? Nevermind, I'm back in.
Oh gosh yes please.
B_Rik_Schitthaus
Banned
It should be DVD all playing together.
TheNamelessOne
Member
Looking at the TERA Quick Look and damn is it painful to watch Brad play.
Pancakes
hot, steaming, as melted butter slips into the cracks, drizzled with sticky sweet syrup OH GOD
Yea...I think I'll wait for Guild Wars.
B_Rik_Schitthaus
Banned
I keep waiting for the one in blue to fall.
Backfoggen
Banned
That needs to happen.
... How do they procreate? I'm genuinely curious since female children generally don't have biological offspring.
MuddyDonut
Member
That chat is pure class, I was enjoying it until Vinny pointed it out to Brad. ;_;
XANDER CAGE
Member
Stay classy MMO chat.
This is fucking gold.
B_Rik_Schitthaus
Banned
You want gold?
cuevas. PhD.
Member
You could probably just cut it to "if someone came up to me and asked me to have sex I'd say lets do it".
Wasn't it? He complained that the questing is too streamlined and yet was confused about what to do or where to go several times during the QL. He talked about not bothering to read the quests and yet missed the huge clickable bar that activates the flight path. He had some positive things to say about the combat and yet he hardly ever take advantage of the system to strafe/dodge enemy attacks. TERA is pretty easy mode in the hierarchy of MMO (thanks to WoW, everything in the genre is now made much more accessible. So if you want to complain about lack of exploration in games, Blizzard is the one to thank for that trend), and yet it felt like he still had trouble with the simplest mechanics. Granted he was distracted, but it's really amazing to witness firsthand the type of obvious things he can miss completely.
Oh, and don't get me started on the times he asked to group. I'm surprised no one in chat made fun of him for it. This game is so solo-friendly it's not even funny (yet another thing made popular by Blizzard, honestly, accessibility is the death of MMO).
in his defense, reading quest descriptions doesn't exactly make for the most riveting Quick Look
Honestly, I think Quick Looks are around 70-80% entertainment value and 20-30% information. If you're looking to get informed then Giant Bomb generally is the wrong place to be.
They are meant for you to be able to draw your own conclusions.
But that's just it. All MMO developers know by now that 99% of the players don't read quests/texts, so TERA made it even easier by hyperlinking important location/NPC/quest mobs, it even put important functions such as teleport, flight path, bank, etc, in big recognizable bars in the dialogue so people would know that they should click on them (the NPC probably even had a title called "Flight Master" or something to that effect), yet Brad somehow still missed it and then spent the next 30 seconds wondering what's going on. MMO designs are so streamlined these days it's baffling people can still be oblivious to certain things.
Felix Lighter
Member
Depends on the Quick Look, really. Some are obviously for entertainment purposes only and others seem to have a more informative tone.
In the end, the only times I get bothered is when they blame the game for not giving them enough information when the information is right there but they just weren't/aren't paying attention to it.
In the end, the only times I get bothered is when they blame the game for not giving them enough information when the information is right there but they just weren't/aren't paying attention to it.
Did those 15 seconds of him missing the flight master really frustrate you this much? Maybe he simply expected to get teleported, like in plenty of other games.
I am the 1%
I read everything in every game I play. Oh god the Mass Effect secondary codex is painful for me.
Who cares dude. He showcased, explained and complimented the quest hyperlinking in the video, anyone who needs to know it's there is aware of it. At this point you're just shitting up the thread.
Personally I like that in a lot of games we get to see the learning process as they fumble around a little. It feels like a better introduction to the game than seeing someone play who's already well-versed. If the trade-off is that they sometimes can't figure out what's happening because QLs aren't the best environments to read in-game text, well I can accept that.
I conclude they really should read the explanatory text more often
You should have concluded that, if you were the one playing, you would read that text.
Brad and Vinny chatting trying to make the video interesting, obviously don't.
But sometimes in making it more interesting they make it less interesting because then they fail to grasp how to do things and there's only so much entertainment value to be wrung out of them failing to do something despite being told explicitly how to do it
I don't have any particular video in mind. It's just a common thing I've noticed from a fair glut of QLs over the lifespan of GB.
I don't have any particular video in mind. It's just a common thing I've noticed from a fair glut of QLs over the lifespan of GB.
No, that's not the point. It's his tendency to complain/critique about systems/mechanics when it is obviously user error/ignorance. It's a behavior he consistently exhibit in these QL. And with that I'm done, because GB fans can't stand negative comments.
Plexirvones
Member
Quick Look: Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition (Youtube) (Jeff/Ryan) (32:15)
Yeah, that's very legit criticism, and annoying to watch. I wish the GB staff was a bit more willing to lightheartedly admit that they screwed up somewhere, instead of immediately placing blame on the game they are currently playing.
I didn't really notice any of that in the TERA quicklook though.
I value the QL's mostly as entertainment. Any info I need to know I just try and gleam from the game itself shown during the video. Mostly aesthetic stuff and core mechanics (look of Tera, action heavy combat for examples).
This is a sentiment that applies to many people nowadays, not just the GB crew. It's an entitlement that I find frustrating to witness, as games can't all be designed around the specific sensibilities of every individual person. The give-and-take attitude that was once prevalent among players has mostly been replaced with all take. If a game actually requires any give, it's often derided for having "poor design".
Haha, funny ending.
EmCeeGramr
Member
Ahahaha
a creeper gets Jeff and floods his mine.
I think Brad miiiight have had a little mine/cave behind his house that Jeff wasn't seeing?
John Rabbit
Banned
jeff seems to be the best at calling attention to when he's fucking up. it would be nice if every so often they reminded the viewers how hard it can be to explain a game whilst actually playing it with any degree of skill.