Nice story. It would be nice to have those genes, for sure.

(heh, he's big enough to be a character in Gears of War

Every 3 seconds somebody that watches this either thinks of watching Donnie Darko again, or loading up Gears of War.

So, initially I was gonna make a similar comment to sagemind, but then I had a think about it and changed my mind a little.

Ok, so male stereotypes exist too. See the hypermasculine Gears of War etc for example. Still, there are far more examples of male characters who are more than just a cliched exhaggeration of their gender. As a guy you might not identify with the character you have been given, but at the very least there is somewhat more diversity in male stereotypes, the stereotypes are frequently more "positive" then female ones, and there tends to a higher percentage of actual complex, realistic male characters in games. Still not enough, I'd agree, but still they exist.

Secondly, the male stereotypes that do exist aren't sexualised to the degree female characters often are. Sure, they are rarely unattractive, almost always in good shape etc but they aren't really sex objects. Female characters usually are. They are fantasy characters, but they are male imagined fantasy characters. What we have right now is the guy men want to be, and the woman they want to be in bed with. Games made by guys, for guys. I don't think its malicious sexism, its more sexism as a byproduct of a truly unbalanced demographic.

Things are improving. Gamers are getting older and more and more women are getting into games and game development. Perhaps even the male fantasy woman is changing - Alyx is sexy because she is smart, independent and capable, not because she wears a square inch of leather and relentlessly flirts with the main character. Not that I think we should do away with those stereotypes entirely, just that there needs to be a lot more balance and a lot less one dimensional sex objects.

I think messenger puts it kinda well. How many female characters in games would you be happy as a rolemodel for a sister or daughter? Not many.

I'm surprised he didn't make mention of the number 3 in this review.

After all, 2011 is the season of shooter number three:

Gears of War 3
Modern Warfare 3
Battlefield 3
Resistance 3

We even have Uncharted 3, though technically that's action/adventure despite it being largely a 3rd person shooter...

>> ^EvilDeathBee:

>> ^Yogi:
>> ^EvilDeathBee:
>> ^Yogi:
>> ^EvilDeathBee:
At least when the Mr Plinket reviews rip apart movies I like (like the Next Gen Star Trek movies and Ep 2 and 3) they're entertaining and rather pertinent. Yahtzee just nitpicks about inconsequential things the whole time, rarely saying anything of any worth and in the end comes across as an over opinionated dick (even when I agree with him), which wouldn't be so bad if it was just an online persona, and not his actual personality.
After watching a Plinket review: "Ha ha ha! You know you're right, but I'll still watch them. Is that the time? Man that review was long."
After watching a Yahtzee review: "We get it, you dislike brown and anything not Silent Hill 2, Portal or Sands of Time."
I think the initial appeal from the first several videos has long since worn off me.

I agree he nitpicks but I've wanted to say this to someone all day. Fuck Off.

Grow up

NEVAR!

Then at least never let yourself succumb to using phrases like "fag" and "noob". This is the one bastion on the internet free of such "discourse"


Fuck Off

>> ^Yogi:

>> ^EvilDeathBee:
>> ^Yogi:
>> ^EvilDeathBee:
At least when the Mr Plinket reviews rip apart movies I like (like the Next Gen Star Trek movies and Ep 2 and 3) they're entertaining and rather pertinent. Yahtzee just nitpicks about inconsequential things the whole time, rarely saying anything of any worth and in the end comes across as an over opinionated dick (even when I agree with him), which wouldn't be so bad if it was just an online persona, and not his actual personality.
After watching a Plinket review: "Ha ha ha! You know you're right, but I'll still watch them. Is that the time? Man that review was long."
After watching a Yahtzee review: "We get it, you dislike brown and anything not Silent Hill 2, Portal or Sands of Time."
I think the initial appeal from the first several videos has long since worn off me.

I agree he nitpicks but I've wanted to say this to someone all day. Fuck Off.

Grow up

NEVAR!


Then at least never let yourself succumb to using phrases like "fag" and "noob". This is the one bastion on the internet free of such "discourse"

>> ^EvilDeathBee:

>> ^Yogi:
>> ^EvilDeathBee:
At least when the Mr Plinket reviews rip apart movies I like (like the Next Gen Star Trek movies and Ep 2 and 3) they're entertaining and rather pertinent. Yahtzee just nitpicks about inconsequential things the whole time, rarely saying anything of any worth and in the end comes across as an over opinionated dick (even when I agree with him), which wouldn't be so bad if it was just an online persona, and not his actual personality.
After watching a Plinket review: "Ha ha ha! You know you're right, but I'll still watch them. Is that the time? Man that review was long."
After watching a Yahtzee review: "We get it, you dislike brown and anything not Silent Hill 2, Portal or Sands of Time."
I think the initial appeal from the first several videos has long since worn off me.

I agree he nitpicks but I've wanted to say this to someone all day. Fuck Off.

Grow up


NEVAR!

>> ^Yogi:

>> ^EvilDeathBee:
At least when the Mr Plinket reviews rip apart movies I like (like the Next Gen Star Trek movies and Ep 2 and 3) they're entertaining and rather pertinent. Yahtzee just nitpicks about inconsequential things the whole time, rarely saying anything of any worth and in the end comes across as an over opinionated dick (even when I agree with him), which wouldn't be so bad if it was just an online persona, and not his actual personality.
After watching a Plinket review: "Ha ha ha! You know you're right, but I'll still watch them. Is that the time? Man that review was long."
After watching a Yahtzee review: "We get it, you dislike brown and anything not Silent Hill 2, Portal or Sands of Time."
I think the initial appeal from the first several videos has long since worn off me.

I agree he nitpicks but I've wanted to say this to someone all day. Fuck Off.


Grow up

>> ^EvilDeathBee:

At least when the Mr Plinket reviews rip apart movies I like (like the Next Gen Star Trek movies and Ep 2 and 3) they're entertaining and rather pertinent. Yahtzee just nitpicks about inconsequential things the whole time, rarely saying anything of any worth and in the end comes across as an over opinionated dick (even when I agree with him), which wouldn't be so bad if it was just an online persona, and not his actual personality.
After watching a Plinket review: "Ha ha ha! You know you're right, but I'll still watch them. Is that the time? Man that review was long."
After watching a Yahtzee review: "We get it, you dislike brown and anything not Silent Hill 2, Portal or Sands of Time."
I think the initial appeal from the first several videos has long since worn off me.


I agree he nitpicks but I've wanted to say this to someone all day. Fuck Off.

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I guess I stand corrected, most gamers are now grumpy old men pining for the glories of yesteryear.

Fuck me, no wonder they advertize Viagra during X-Play.

I hear what you guys are saying, I just don't feel the same way. I guess part of it is that I don't really get the appeal of first person shooters anymore. I sorta liked 'em back when Doom was a hot name in gaming, and when I was young enough to think Duke Nukem 3D was groundbreaking for its mature themes. The last one I really liked was Half-Life, but that's because it heavily incorporated story elements, not because of the game mechanics (which were far from groundbreaking).

I thought Gears of War was a refreshing change of pace, and IMO presented the first real gameplay innovations we've seen in shooters since Doom. I'm glad there's been a lot of copying of their cover mechanics, since it adds real tactical considerations like cover fire and flanking to firefights. It's not enough to really make me a shooter fan again, but it's enough to keep me from being annoyed at developers for just continually putting new paint on 20-year old game mechanics.

I guess I just generally prefer action-adventure or sandbox games nowadays. Combat shouldn't be 100% of what games are about anymore as far as I'm concerned. If developers still want to make shooting the centerpiece of gameplay, then it should at least require some thought along the way, and force you to change weapons and tactics every now and then so it doesn't get stale.

Reverting back to "classic" shooter mechanics just seems like a step in the wrong direction to me.

Oh, and full disclosure, the only modern shooters I've played are Resistance, Gears, and Halo. Maybe I'm just missing out on something new and unique that everyone knows about from CoD or Battlefield, but from the sound of the reviews, I kinda doubt it.

>> ^NetRunner:

I'm starting to feel like Yahtzee is a bad reviewer of games. I haven't played Resistance 3 yet, but all I got from this was that he loves it because its mechanics are old-fashioned.
Maybe all of us gamers are starting to get a bit long in the tooth, but I've not become particularly nostalgic for "the good old days" of gaming. I mean, do most gamers spend a lot of time wishing old game mechanics would come back from the dead? I've played enough remakes of "classic" games I loved to realize that most of them don't hold up in comparison to modern games. Gaming has largely moved on.
I for one love the addition of cover and regenerating health to shooters, and don't really like the idea of going back to health pickups and strafing in and out of cover.
Oh, and maybe I just don't play a lot of shooters, but are any of the top-tier series really still all/mostly brown? The only ones I know of are Gears and Resistance...in their first iteration only. From hearing Yahtzee, you'd think this was some mistake developers are still making, but I can't recall the last game I played that didn't make use of a healthy portion of the color wheel.


I'd like to experience some of the good old days of shooters again not because games were better back then, much of the design has moved on, but now days there is just a flood of games all using the same mechanics as each other with no variety or substance.

Resistance 3 was a breath of fresh air, old school style gameplay mixed with modern mechanics. The health system, however was imbalanced. They could've done more to make it work better, but overall though, i really enjoyed Resistance dispite a few questionable design decisions. The fact that you can carry all the weapons at once nearly made me tear up.

DNF is a good example of totally cocking up the "old school" approach by implementing the WRONG modern features. Firstly the regenerating health. This right away causes a problem; you can regenerate your health, so for some challenge we need to make the enemies do a lot more damage to keep the player from abusing the system. What happens? You are almost always sitting back behind cover while waiting for your health to regen before firing again. That's not Duke Nukem! I heard other ideas were that you needed to kill an enemy to regain health, THAT is Duke.
Then there's the 2 weapon limit. George Broussard in all his game design incompetence said they couldn't find a way to implement a weapon wheel effectively on consoles... Resistance 3 seemed to do it fine. So did HL2 years back. Moron.

Regen health and 2 weapon limit can and do work for some games like Call of Duty, Halo and Gears of War, but FFS let's try something a little different once in a while. But some developers use them as a development crutch; less testing, balancing and design required. Less effort in other words. Or they use it to make the game less complex, which is a bad thing. Ninja Gaiden is a good example. It seems to be going down a path of less and less substance, there's only the combat. This is terrible. The original game's store, upgrades, potions, rewards for exploration, non-linear main world all helped to pace the game better rather than an exhausting trudge through constant unrelenting combat seen in Ninja Gaiden 2 and from the sounds, even more so for the third game.

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>> ^GenjiKilpatrick:

@lesserfool
ugh, please don't be a thoughtless dickface and ascribe some pretentious contrarian attitude to me just so you can start flamin'.
I don't buy food from McDonalds for a reason.
Not because McDonalds is too mainstream and I wanna fight "the man"..
But because McDonalds makes shitty, plastic filled, unhealthy as fuck food.
The first episode of Epic Meal Time was great.
This, however, is nothing more than a shitty viral advertizement for Gear of War 3.
Most people come to VideoSift in order to AVOID scrolling thru pages of mindless drivel and commercials.
I for one would like to keep it that way.


@GenjiKilpatrick
All I hear from you is a lot of name-calling and signs that you identify with a website too much. Who is the most pretentious person in this thread. I even agree with you in principle (within reason) but your crusade on this video is silly.

@lesserfool

ugh, please don't be a thoughtless dickface and ascribe some pretentious contrarian attitude to me just so you can start flamin'.

I don't buy food from McDonalds for a reason.
Not because McDonalds is too mainstream and I wanna fight "the man"..
But because McDonalds makes shitty, plastic filled, unhealthy as fuck food.

The first episode of Epic Meal Time was great.
This, however, is nothing more than a shitty viral advertizement for Gear of War 3.

Most people come to VideoSift in order to AVOID scrolling thru pages of mindless drivel and commercials.

I for one would like to keep it that way.