Gamemore

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  1. It sort of makes me half-giddy with excitement and half makes me want to barf my heart out. On the one hand there seems to have gone a surprisingly great amount of thought and effort into creating the alternate history nazi-super-reich and some pretty entertaining cheesy imagery (the referee shooting players on the field) but then we see also extensive scenes of the staff and patients of a mental hospital getting mechanically and unglamourously executed by a Nazi death squad and it seems to clash very much with the pulpier elements. I'm sure that there's some very interesting points to be made using this kind of visual and thematic language, but I'm sort of skeptical if the game is actually going to express that. (PS: For some reason (maybe because they are more outlandish and fantastical in their nature or maybe because they occur during gameplay bits, so you aren't necessarily forced to watch them play out) the more exploitative elements in the previous Wolfenstein haven't turned me off as much as watching the trailers for this one, so I don't know.)
  2. Since the aesthetics are so connected in the public perception to the Nazi-Party and the specific brand of german militarism at the time that the first reaction to a game that looks like it has nazis in it is going to be treating it like it is about nazis. The phrase about something looking like a duck and sounding like a duck comes to mind. If it then turns out that this game looking like it is about nazis is actually saying nothing about nazis but still invoking imagery that is connected to one of the biggest atrocities in world-history it kind of makes it look a bit like the creators are saying that the important part about the nazis and germany in World War 2 weren't the terrible things they did, but rather their shiny uniforms.
  3. Amy Hennig and Naughty Dog Part Ways

    Nope, it would have been better since Nazis > Dudes from the Ex-Soviet-Union. (As baddies in non-cold-war related media at least. In reality of course it was all Dudes from the then current Soviet Union > Nazis).
  4. Baby Animal Gif Emergency Rations

    OMFG Animal abuse! If it was a human child being read that spooky story nobody would think it's funny or cute. Ahem.
  5. Quitter's Club: Don't be ashamed to quit the game.

    NaissanceE is for the most part an amazing Myst-y puzzle platformer with a pretty evocative art-style inspired by Tsutomu Nihei's Blame! and german expressionist films from the twenties. There are some frustrating platforming sections where it isn't entirely clear whether or not you are going to actually make a particular jump as well as some unintentional obtuseness about where to go (as well as plenty of intentional obtuseness in some pretty mindfucky puzzles) but usually you'll have enough time to make a relatively informed decision and there's enough checkpoints to make death due to a missed jump not all that tragic. And then the final chapter is more or less a boss battle in which you have to escape by quickly jumping across rotating platforms. If you are too slow you'll either slide down the platforms and get eaten by the boss or just get eaten by the boss, if you are too fast however, there's the chance that the platform you wanted to jump on hasn't yet rotated enough for you to stand on and you'll fall off. It's completly possible to get stuck on level geometry during this sequence and the game is prone to occassionally letting you clip to the floor. This sequence takes about four minutes to complete and requires both near perfect execution and a good dose throughout the entirety of those four minutes and since judging from Youtube videos, there's not much to do in the game after this sequence, I'm not going to bother.
  6. Who are Your Favorite Video Game Reviewers/Critics?

    Tim Stone over at RPS and Eurogamer and others, since he manages to articulate what a game feels like at its best without disregarding the moment-to-moment experience of actually playing the game. Other than that, the german language blog "These Nerds" doesn't do reviews all that often but if they do, it's obvious they know their shit and better yet, know how to articulate it. Plus their frame of reference doesn't end with the Alien-trilogy and yet they don't constantly whine about ludonarrative dissonance.
  7. Recently completed video games

    Just finished Ol' Man Clancy's HAWX: It's remarkably dumb. As in somebody watched the dogfight in Hot Shots and thought to themselves "Yes, but what if we took it seriously?" It's great fun though and the best example of a keyboard controlled 3d flight game I can think of (i.e. you don't really have to aim all that much).
  8. Screenshots. Shots of your screen.

    Tom Clancy's HAWX is really trying hard to get the Thumbs crew going off on a silly tangent. Codename: Spectre The actual voice actor is lame and only talks about Ghost Recon, though.
  9. Feminism

    Yes, maybe I should try reading your posts Anyway, I wanted to argue that Burroughs seems to have at least taken responsibility for what he did and that Vollmer's death seems to be the result of a consentual stunt gone horribly wrong but then I realized how it really sort of boils down to "I like the guy".
  10. New people: Read this, say hi.

    Oi, I'm some dude on the internet who likes listening to dudes talking about video games on the internet and sometimes even plays them himself (the games, not the dudes). I'm currently waiting to go to university, so I don't have to help my father repair his dental practice all the time.
  11. Feminism

    I think that writing off a person's work for moral reasons related to the author is ridiculous when they are dead and therefore won't gain any material and psychic benefits from you consuming and liking their work.
  12. Feminism

    That shit doesn't even make me angry, it's just so out there. I mean, on an intellectual level I know such people exist, but somehow it still feels unreal.