Joewintergreen

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  1. Far Cry 3

    I think it gets points for even acknowledging all the murder, though. The idea that having to kill a bunch of guys should even affect the main character is often just skipped right over in games. Semi-related, I was watching my semibrother play Ass Revelations the other day. Ezio runs into a lady he knows on the street. She explains that she's waiting for a package she ordered to arrive but it's taking forever because the ship it's on is being held by customs or something. Charming Ezio is all "Leave it to me, I have ways of getting around these things". "Oh wonderful, bring it to my place later?" "Sweet." Ezio then sneaks aboard the ship, sneakily kills like seven guys (not really optional), and finds the package. It's the most absurd thing. After that, hearing Jason Brody acknowledge even a little bit that murder is a weird thing to do is pretty refreshing.
  2. Far Cry 3

    I actually thought that conversation was one of the more interesting moments, and you skipped over the reason why. He doesn't just say "killing feels like winning" jump cut back to gameplay, he says the thing, and then there's a super uncomfortable silence and the girl is obviously a little freaked out, to which Jason's reaction felt to me like "oh wait, you can't actually say this weird psychopathic shit to people, my bad". He starts the conversation by getting her to relate her anecdote about winning at swimming or whatever because he's trying to explain his crazy state/relate to her, but it doesn't work because it turns out killing a dude is pretty different to being good at swimming. I think it's after that that he starts with the "they don't understaaaaaaaand" shit, which actually didn't strike me as petulant, because they totally don't, because they didn't just kill a bunch of guys. Obviously as a whole the transition from Some Dude to crazy hunter murder dude is super fast (I guess, it depends how long the main story is supposed to take, it felt like a couple weeks to me?) but toward the beginning I didn't really find that . It seemed to me like he was freaking out at every little thing for the first few hours, and didn't start his weird "fuck yeah i'm winning at murder" talk for quite a while after that. Acting like an asshole to his girlfriend didn't seem that weird to me under the circumstances. I have no idea how their relationship was beyond the implied "not so great" and now he's dealing with abductions and killing people and, presumably, going fuckin' insane.As for the delivery, I thought it was mostly fine, and I guess I don't really know what a Californian-xtreme-sports-douche is. He just sounds like an American male to me. I may not have the cultural context to auto-hate the dude?
  3. Breaking Bad

  4. Far Cry 3

    I guess I just finished this game. That was kind of a weird ending (either one). Weird game. Fun though. I don't really get the internet internet hating the player character, I found him pretty likable.
  5. Far Cry 3

    Actually they don't have an engine in common. Far Cries 2 and 3 don't use Cryengine. edit: Fwoop, apparently the Dunia engine is actually based on Cryengine and was made by a couple o' dudes when they worked at Crytek. I don't know shit!
  6. Life

    those are the same link, you silly man
  7. Steam Item Trading and/or Community Market

    I've made like $30 through random internet guys wanting items I somehow acquired in TF2 without having played it in years. People paying me real money for things on the internet that are worth nothing to me! TF2 is great.
  8. Full Bore: Its a game I'm making

    That is a super visually cool game.
  9. Steam Greenlight

    I totally posted my first Greenlight announcement.
  10. Far Cry 3

    Yeah, I really want the Far Cry 2 map in my Far Cry 3.
  11. Steam Greenlight

    I instinctively looked for the thumbs down button on that
  12. Why you so bad: Dialogue in Video Games

    Half-Life 1 totally had a "guy interrupts another guy" part that worked pretty well. It's the part just before the test chamber where a guy says "although I will admit that the possibility of a resonance cascade scenario is extremely unlikely, I remain uncomfor-" "GORDON DOESN'T NEED TO HEAR ALL THIS HE'S A HIGHLY TRAINED PROFESSIONAL". The second line cuts off the first one entirely when it begins, which for whatever reason isn't always at exactly the same time. The .wav for the first guy's line goes all the way to "I remain uncomfortable with theuerrrrr....." Of course, this was easier to do back then, when there was no manual facial animation going on - people's mouths in HL1 just opened and closed based on the volume of the .wav they were speaking and there was no other animation going on. Relevant!
  13. Far Cry 3

    I totally got my first undetected-camp-takeover bonus, completely undeserved. When I showed up a leopard had eaten most of the guys, and the rest burned to death when I blindly threw a molotov. Good game is good. Definitely considering the hud-disabling thing though.
  14. How do I contribute to this forum?

    I have totally turned out to benefit career-wise by posting on forums about vidjagames. I don't think that would have happened if I had been doing it for that reason rather than just "good times" though.
  15. Far Cry 3

    It is indeed
  16. Plug your shit

    Also, to use the gyro you have to switch it on in the pause menu
  17. Plug your shit

    Haha, great. All the ones I can see are positive, peculiarly enough.
  18. Plug your shit

    Mad grats dude. I'm just at #63. I still think you're incredibly silly for worrying about it not being good enough. Thousands of people just told you it totally is.
  19. Plug your shit

    Haha. Could you screencap the reviews? I don't get to see them all, it does some dumbass regional thing.I guess I could put a santa hat on the truck or something, but much beyond that would require more time to devote to it than I have, unfortunately. This other game takes up all the tiiiiiiiiime.
  20. Breaking Bad

    Yeah, the single line reveals so much about his character
  21. Breaking Bad

    I feel like that should have been spoilered for ThunderPeel's sake. edit: as you noted! But yeah, it's an interesting observation TP. The question for me at that point was, how was Walt ripped off, and was he even ripped off? He has an interesting turnaround from being okay, if a little awkward, about attending Gretchen and Eliot's party in Season 1 to which I assume is what you're up to
  22. Plug your shit

    Vroom is on the app store, and there is also a pc version (you can also get it on desura). It used to be a dollar, but it stopped selling at all, so I made it free and 50,000 people suddenly downloaded it in a day. It died down after that week but the average is still above 100 downloads a day, so I figure I should give these people an opportunity to give me a dollar.
  23. Project Godus: Don't believe his lies

    The video worked backwards on me. I was in favour until I heard them talk about it
  24. Plug your shit

    I am not generally a fan, but I was thinking of charging a buck for the big-ass-open-world thing I made recently
  25. Plug your shit

    hoooray my game Vroom just got a shoutout on Unreal Engine's facebook and twitters I should probably monetise this thing in some way