Solos

Yo are you still in Sheffield or did you finish?

It's not the IP getting bought by another company that people are naysaying, it's the "Save us Gaben!" Valve circle jerk that is. Valve's MO is to pickup small teams from mods or inde games with potential and give the people behind them the resources to realise their potential. CoH was a moderately successful MMO with a big company behind it. It's had its time in the sun, and while it has a very passionate fanbase it's a niche title that never really had widespread long term appeal. I think one day Valve may well work on an MMO since they've been branching out recently with Dota 2 and Gabe has seemed pretty interested in them in the past, but if they did i think they would want to build it from the ground up rather than acquire an 8 year old title with limited appeal. It's fine to throw your hopes behind another company picking the title up but don't do the whole Gaben patron saint of gaming, EA literally hitler thing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9rrS32ctQk

EDIT: Don't kid yourself though, Valve has no reason to pick up a dying, decade old MMO.

Can you link me to this evidence that proves i'm wrong? Anecdotally i know a bunch of people who bought a Wii because Wii Sports looked fun then they didn't really buy anything else except Mario because they remember Mario being fun. That's also how my sister got hers, from some woman trying to sell it off because she got bored of Wii Sports and Mario Galaxy.

But what is the demographic for that game? (I honestly have no idea) What Nintendo did right this time is market the Wii to people who would impulse buy it for the waggle stick and aren't really in to gaming traditionally. I'd also venture to guess that the original Nintendo generation are reaching an age where they have their own kids and want something to play with them. My argument is that it's a time sensitive issue, you can't extrapolate data from today and assume it would be true in the mid 90s.

That's great and all for you gaming connoisseurs but when your customers have grown to teen/early 20s you're probably not going to be winning them all over with Banjo Kazooie when they could be playing Metal Gear Solid or Gran Turismo or something.

Could you explain this analogy for the non-manchildren?

Emptyquoting this.

You're hearing the horror stories from the people who failed the classes. It's just as likely that he wrote terrible papers.

Is it a physics based platformer with cute flash graphics?

No, it's just it goes against the one thing that defines the medium, the interactivity of it. The only justification for videogames as an artistic genre is that you interact with the story which is what no other medium can offer (besides some plays i guess). By choosing a simple, linear game that you play through once because it has a cool atmosphere as the one game to represent it as a genre is doing it a disservice. Make them play Deus Ex, as even though it's a pretty rough game by today's standards, what it represents is the ideal for videogames as a genre.

Of course that whole argument is based on the assumption that the course's aim is to expose students to paragons in different artistic forms. Since it's about the students questioning what it is to be human i guess they can go with portal because it's about machines using humans as lab rats or something. But they should still make them play Deus Ex because the entire damn plot is literally about what it is to be human.

Lol what? Is this a fakepost or what?

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