1. Lower taxation, these things cost money (initial outlay and ongoing costs) to keep an eye on a populace that, by and large, aren't doing anything wrong. Most of us don't want em, don't need em and don't want to pay for them.

2. Changing rules aka slippery slope. The people who agree to big brother on the first day might become victims of it later down the track. Once you establish a state where the citizens are constantly under surveillance and have accepted that onus, you can implement worse measures. Look at post 911 USA... Land of the free? As long as you don't mind the government setting up camp in your rectum 24/7.

3. There is no such thing as "safe". CCTV doesn't deter crime, it just catches the idiots too stupid to take it in to account (ie. people who cut down poles sans facial coverings for example...). Much like any other precaution, criminals find ways around CCTV. That is not an argument for more surveillance, it's an argument about the futility of it in the first place.

4. Sometimes the rules should be broken. How many things were illegal 100 years ago that are perfectly legal now? Worse, think of the things that were legal 100 years ago that are outlawed now (*hint: most of them are self harm crimes such as drug use etc) How often have nanny states tried to decree what you can and can't do only to find that people do not want to live under that rule? The camera is the start, if they can see what you are doing constantly, they can stop you. Why do you think organisations like Anonymous exist? To quote a memorable cutscene from Sid Meir's Alpha Centauri, "We must dissent...".

Send 10 bucks to the charity of your choice.

>> ^jonny:

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Fixed and thanks.

>> ^sillma:

Probably doesn't have the Max Payne feel because it's not developed by the same studio who did 1 and 2. Guessing it's going to be more of a GTA-esque max payne, looks a lot like the latest GTA.


Yeah, that's one reason. Rockstar are developers that just seem to watch movies. They watch movies, they write their games like movies, their games feel like movies.
Remedy on the other hand seem to read. Max Payne 1 and 2 was written to feel like a graphic novel. Alan Wake was written to feel like a novel. I bet Max Payne 3 will feature more in game movie-like cutscenes and less graphic novel cutscenes.

>> ^heathen:

>> ^TheSluiceGate:
Actual gameplay: http://www.fraserking.co.uk/spectrum/screenshots/Commando.png

Yeah, it's hard to get much from a pre-rendered cutscene trailer. Fortunately we already have gameplay footage for Farcry 3.
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/e3-2011-far-cry-3/716741


And the difference was incredible. I hate to be a miserable arse, but trailers like this are becoming almost standard. They display absolutely nothing of substance in their advertisement of the game. Trailers like this i only watch for the story, and take nothing away about the game. They may as well film 2 lesbians going at it for 2 minutes with ea's latest title printed across the bottom.

The only thing saving this video from disdain is that it's a nice little machinima. Should be criminal when it's on a tv advert.

>> ^TheSluiceGate:

Actual gameplay: http://www.fraserking.co.uk/spectrum/screenshots/Commando.png


Yeah, it's hard to get much from a pre-rendered cutscene trailer. Fortunately we already have gameplay footage for Farcry 3.
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/e3-2011-far-cry-3/716741

Took me some effort to get into Peep Show, i'm so bad at those really painful comedies, no matter how goddamn hilarious they are (like Extras). Trick I used was to play Boarderlands (a simple, straight forward, grinding game with NO story and/or cutscenes) while watching it, so I had a bit of a distraction for when it got really painful thus never receiving the full brunt of the agony.

Now I can watch it no problem, and I'm amazed at how it's still just as good in series 7 as it has ever been. Brilliant show!

Yay, finally a trailer for Max Payne 3. Oh, my mistake, it's only Grand Theft Payne, I was expecting a dark comic noir style sequel to two of my favorite games. What have they done? Where are the comic noir cutscenes? The only things reminiscent of Max Payne are the music and the voiceover.

Very well done, and I did enjoy the *animation. But I can see how it might not necessarily add that much to the story. Alternatively they could have written in some dialogue maybe like:



"Supe: Here's the crystal spaceship that I used to travel back to Krypton to search for my family. (gestures to ship/part of ship/model/picture of ship/10 second cutscene of ship...)

Lois: Did you find anyone/anything?

Supe: Only a rock filled with Kryptonite (and loneliness.)

End scene!"

4 minutes and 9.75 million dollars saved!

With the advent of superb digital animation (such as this) too many films try to cover up poor planning/writing and ultimately sacrifice good story-telling with, well, high-production cartoons and special effects.

>> ^EMPIRE:

to be honest, it's a bit too long, but I kinda liked it. With better editing they could have left it in.

you're forgetting "quickly irritated by smarminess and superiority complexes." settle down.

sorry for hijacking the thread...

>> ^mentality:

>> ^residue:
ah, I see, yes that is impressive
>> ^ElessarJD:
>> ^residue:
That didn't look any different from "the graphics of today" to me. Now if that were gameplay footage I would agree, but cinematics of that quality seem pretty common already

That was a game engine tech demo, not a cinematic. So technically it was "in-game". Proceed with being impressed...

wrong, I didn't know what a "tech demo" was, and thanks for the "help," anus. wolfie and ellessar already clarified the matter.
>> ^mentality:
>> ^residue:
That didn't look any different from "the graphics of today" to me. Now if that were gameplay footage I would agree, but cinematics of that quality seem pretty common already

I see you don't understand the difference between prerendered CGI cinematics and a real time cutscene.


I see you also have a short temper and a childish penchant for name calling.

ah, I see, yes that is impressive

>> ^ElessarJD:

>> ^residue:
That didn't look any different from "the graphics of today" to me. Now if that were gameplay footage I would agree, but cinematics of that quality seem pretty common already

That was a game engine tech demo, not a cinematic. So technically it was "in-game". Proceed with being impressed...


wrong, I didn't know what a "tech demo" was, and thanks for the "help," anus. wolfie and ellessar already clarified the matter.

>> ^mentality:

>> ^residue:
That didn't look any different from "the graphics of today" to me. Now if that were gameplay footage I would agree, but cinematics of that quality seem pretty common already

I see you don't understand the difference between prerendered CGI cinematics and a real time cutscene.

>> ^residue:

That didn't look any different from "the graphics of today" to me. Now if that were gameplay footage I would agree, but cinematics of that quality seem pretty common already


I see you don't understand the difference between prerendered CGI cinematics and a real time cutscene.

This reminds me of the awesome cutscenes for MWII. Or the latest Medal of Honour... Or Bad Company 2, or COD:Black Ops etc etc. When you actually get in game, same old shit, at least irt the single player game.

Here's hoping BF3 doesn't traipse down the same path.

>> ^fataltourist:

Though this aspect is not covered in the game, I now want to go play Railroad Tycoon.


Well the original did show trains crashing into each other, and off bridges. Not the same, but oh so awesome.

I never built wooden bridges if I could help it to avoid the scenario of a train falling into off the washed out bridge (because you were too cheap to install signal towers to HOLD all traffic)... except that one time when I really wanted to see the cutscene.

Also, this is a fantastic bit of background music to drown out whatever "meh" they had going on.
(Seriously sifting this up in response... and because I like it, of course.)
http://videosift.com/video/DJ-Tiesto-remix-Resistance-by-Muse

>> ^kronosposeidon:

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Fixed and thanks.

>> ^campionidelmondo:

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Fixed and thanks.