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UK/R.O.I GAF - Thread of geopolitical confusion
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Criterion at EA press conference. All the player names were named after royals and at the end the guy went "God save the Queen!"
Either 1500 (more likely) or 1800 - I don't know what time she booked. I'll be the good looking one who is also a duck.I might serve you if I'm working. When are you going to see it?
runlikehell
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Ha, alright. I'll post once I've got my rota and say hey or something if I'm in.
runlikehell
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GAF mini-meet.
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I think I signed up to this forum pretty much this time last year to criticise all the Nintendo babies during E3 (my opinion, pretty much, is that if you still prefer Nintendo games to those on Xbox / PS3 as an adult, then you haven't fully matured). Particularly, their idea that the infinite number of Call of Duties, Ghost Recons, Battlefields, etc. is somehow less acceptable than having pretty much 10 properties, for which you release new games every few years (Smash Bros, Mario Party, Mario Kart, Super Mario, Legend of Zelda, etc.)
Someone's response to this criticism which stuck with me particularly was "but they added drifting in one of the Mario Karts, and then having two character per cart", as if this was better than adding, say, a Spec Ops or Nazi Zombie mode. Hilarious. Now, I give even less of a shit about gaming (although the Splinter Cell trailer yesterday pissed me off royally), so at least the OT side is here!
Someone's response to this criticism which stuck with me particularly was "but they added drifting in one of the Mario Karts, and then having two character per cart", as if this was better than adding, say, a Spec Ops or Nazi Zombie mode. Hilarious. Now, I give even less of a shit about gaming (although the Splinter Cell trailer yesterday pissed me off royally), so at least the OT side is here!
No one is forcing you to play casual games bro.
Play Hard reset. The game will kick your sweet ass.
Joke post right.
hes joking, he clearly ain't played a PC game if he thinks xbox/ps3 games are mature.
Go have a sesh on DAYZ, enjoy biting your nails down to the skin with tenseness.
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Well, to a certain extent yes, but primarily no. We'll leave aside the comment about maturity, because that's obviously just my opinion and I can't claim it to be fact, but I'd really love to hear a justification for why there being 9 Mario Parties, 7 Mario Karts, 12 Zeldas (just this century), etc. is any different to the multiple Call of Duties. I know it's popular to hate on COD (and for the record, I haven't owned a console for a few years and I'm certainly not a COD fanboy), but really the only difference is Activision churn one out each year, Nintendo churn one out every few years. Okay, it's less of a 'churn' with Zelda games, I'm assuming, but the less involved, more cartoony games are really no different, and yet the Nintendo fans lap it up.
My statement was that if you prefer Nintendo games you are probably - on average - less mature. I did not say that liking PS3 / Xbox games makes you fully mature (we've all heard enough 14 year old COD player stories to know that's not the case). I've played DayZ and I love it, but my computer doesn't run it too well.
Because those seven Mario Karts are spread across seven different system, Mario Party across five (it did get rather bad during the GCN era which had four of them) and Zelda across seven (I'm assuming you are also referring to re-releases like aLttP GBA and OoT 3DS) whereas COD is seen an an annual affair with around six of them for the 360 alone. It's also the fact that the media laps them up every time while ignoring all the other fresh content out on the market. Criticism of the COD series doesn't just come from the Nintendo fans.
I'm not going to even touch that maturity argument.
I'm not going to even touch that maturity argument.
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The media laps it up because they are paid huge amounts to lap it up. In any case, we shall agree to disagree, BGBW!
Mecha_Infantry
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Even though I pretend to hate it, I love all this royal shit
Like thr uniforms and nostalgia. Love you Elizabeth!
Like thr uniforms and nostalgia. Love you Elizabeth!
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Call of Duty was part of a wholly separate argument - that both it and many Nintendo games release countless iterations with frankly minor differences. I'm not claiming Call of Duty to be the pinnacle of mature gaming.
they make kiddy games bro
Well I'll accept Mario games don't have the same mature, intelligent socio-political commentary that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 has.
I don't play call of duty games.
Super Mario world was the last Mario game i enjoyed. I'm not debating this further because my favourite mario game is SUPER MARIO BROS 3 and yours is Galaxy 2.. we are different gen Nintendo lovers.
Lets not forget Nintendo censored fuck out of MK/DOOM back in the day, There kiddy consoles bro and i ain't arguing about this on neogaf. I don't want to get banned.
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It's nice that Yenrot only seems capable of discussing COD. But I, too, don't want to get banned, so let's call it a day.
I was only using COD as an example because it is the ultimate dudebro game and it's clear every "mature" game coming out has been influenced by it, as evidenced by Microsoft's E3 conference yesterday. As for the games you had mentioned, Battlefield was, and I'd assume Ghost Recon has been dudebro'd too.
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To be honest, it's a sorry state of affairs if this discussion could get you banned. We've all been civil, and I don't think my stance is particularly offensive, just causes a lot of disagreement.
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Incidentally, my dreadful username can be blamed on thinking I would only join to make my argument and then leave. Got addicted, and in hindsight should have chosen a less...shit...username.
Ask a mod for a new username and a cool tag. Makes all the difference when posting. Now you mention it you do come across as a hit and run drive by poster.
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I'm funnier than him.
Tags don't work that way and if you do they might give you the boring "Formally known as..." tag.
CHEEZMO
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It's probably a psychometric test they're pulling on you. Be sure to let the employers know your reaction, or they might think you sympathise!
Quote of E3.
Hot Coldman
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Guys we need a new past-time. Where's the arabian car tricks forum, we'll make our new home there
I just looked at my bank account and agreed.
Mind you, wasn't games. I forgot my lunch one too many times and ended up spending little amounts here and there and it all added up. Oh well. First month lesson. Stricter wallet control from here on out.
... and I'm travelling to Bristol this weekend for a booty call, before hopping to Cardiff for Prometheus. I wonder how frugal I can get this weekend.
Mind you, wasn't games. I forgot my lunch one too many times and ended up spending little amounts here and there and it all added up. Oh well. First month lesson. Stricter wallet control from here on out.
... and I'm travelling to Bristol this weekend for a booty call, before hopping to Cardiff for Prometheus. I wonder how frugal I can get this weekend.
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