Mr. GOH!
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I didn't say MAchine for Pigs isn't a video game; just that it is barely a video game.
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All video games are interactive experiences. Not all interactive experiences are video games. *waits patiently for a mod to remove all these off-topic posts and put them in a separate thread*
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Video art experiences, maybe. "Game" implies more than the limited and facile interactivity you find in the vast majority of Machine for Pigs. The real problem with MfP is that is fails as an interesting video art experience, too. Here's great video game for you, FDS. http://www.pippinbarr.com/games/theartistispresent/TheArtistIsPresent.html
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Please explain to me how my way of thinking is archaic.
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Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs. I appreciate what it tries to do, but it falls short in so, so many ways. The story is creepy; I'd give it about 7/10 as a horror narrative, and the writing quality is fantastic for video game prose. The game, though, the game! It just is not there. The gameplay consists of walking, hitting obvious buttons, and running from monsters maybe four times. Furthermore, the environments are repetitive and ugly. What a missed opportunity for environmental storytelling! Even with limited resources and ugly assets, Fallout 3 was far better at telling stories through area design. All that said, I completed it and did not hate it. It overstayed its welcome just a tad. If you like horror and have 4 or 5 hours to kill, it might be worth it. Wait until it's really cheap in a Steam sale, though.
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You have to pay for Diablo III to play it, as far as I know. And there has been constant goldspam whenever I log into MP. I always thought spam was just something MMO players were used to dealing with.
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Why must they jack accounts? Can't spammers just get copies of the game and create accounts for spamming? I thought that was what happens in Diablo III.
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Have paywalls alone ever been enough to stop goldspam? I'm not a huge MMO player, but I know even Diablo 3 had a shitload of goldspam in multiplayer.
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Hotheart: I challenge you to a duel for the base calumny of your assertion that the terrible TMNT: Out of the Shadows is the best TMNT game ever. Pistols at dawn.
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Haha, but it is! I mean, you can't really replace the nostalgia and memories of the old games (though, I would accept that some are better than OOTS in co-op...due to bugs) but they don't hold up today. OOTS captures the turtles better than any other game.
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.... I'll be your second GOH.
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You guys don't know!
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Tense is the correct word.
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The reason i got the PS3 version is because my 360 isn't hooked up to the TV. Also because I assume folks around here will tend to get the PS3 version and I might want to play some multiplayer with folks I know.
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My feelings about Gabe/Mike's dickishness are that I think he falls somewhere on the autism spectrum and might not understand why or how his words hurt other people. He comes off as very focused on what he likes and not worldly at all. He just seems like someone who is out of his element when he discovers that what he does and says affects a lot of people. then again, maybe I'm just being condescending and should embrace the view that he's kind of an asshole. Tycho gets no excuse; he's just an asshole, especially re: dickwolves issue.
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I imagine they'll do a better job optimizing for PS3 this time around. Did Red Dead have the same performance discrepancy?
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Machine For Pigs is longer, but certainly in the same vein. It's pretty decent at being scary, too.
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I assume there is no cross-platform play. Sad. It would be fun to put together a PXOD forum crew to wreck shit in the new multiplayer.
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I played the first five minutes of the original Amnesia. Although that lacked combat, I am told it features far more chase sequences and hiding than Machine for Pigs, and it has an insanity mechanic not present in Machine for Pigs. Never played Dear Esther.
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Quick question: those of you getting this, what platform are y'all getting it for? I got it for PS3, since the 360 is old and not hooked up to the TV.
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What does that even mean? I've played it for two hours and not a single thing has really happened. Gameplay is all walking through the environment while reading notes or your character's journal, listening to recordings and listening to telephone conversations between your character and a mysterious male voice, and that's it. No chase scenes, no combat, no real puzzles. Yet, I am enjoying it.
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Playing Amnesia; A Machine for Pigs. Very strange kind of anti-videogame videogame.
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It feels wrong, true. But the practice is widespread in other subscription industries, except that the purchase fee is couched as an activation fee. Gyms, cable companies, my moviepass service; all have relatively high up-front fees for new users.
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The Shield is not a solution, I totally agree. And, for the record, I'm just giving you a hard time. Also just bragging that my girlfriend is totally awesome for giving over the big screen TV to my gaming while she streams/surfs on her Macbook. The reality is that most TV or movies we watch, we watch together. For the few hours of shows a week she watches alone, she tends to watch it before I get home from work or just before bed anyway, so bedroom watching isn't an issue. I echo Thursday's feelings re: Penny Arcade. Then again, I have a feeling (or maybe i read?) that Gabe is on the autism spectrum and may not truly understand the impact of what he's saying. But then I feel like I'm being condescending to him for thinking that, so I resolve to think of him merely as an insensitive asshole. Edit to prevent double post: I also pre-ordered this little gem of a small budget indie game for the PS3:
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Naw, This is about Remote Play as a desirable feature for putative adults.
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I suppose I'm only interested in TV that requires my full attention, and so is my girlfriend. She and I are fine being in different rooms when we're both preoccupied, so it works. More often than not, she chills with her laptop on the couch next to me while I game on the TV. It also means I don't waste money on subpar gaming equipment, which is winning in my book.
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Ethan: you live in Kansas, not downtown Tokyo. I'm sure you have space in your home. So do yourself a favor and get a second television set. I suppose you could, in the alternative, get a new wife who watches stuff streaming on the laptop rather than on 'live' TV. SMH at remoteplay. Oh, aslo bought this:
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Why are you getting the inferior versions of those games, Ethan?
