well, a big part of the problem is CGI works better in certain circumstances than it does in others. It's a specialized tool, but filmmakers often treat it like a swiss army knife.
Put it this way; if you wanted to dig a hole in your backyard to plant something, could you use an ax? Absolutely. Would it be easier than doing so by hand? Probably. Would I ever advise you to do so? Hell no, get a shovel and save your back. save the ax for chopping wood.
It's the same with CGI. It's absolutely fantastic under certain circumstances when it's used properly, but there are other circumstances where another tool would work much better. We call most of these other tools practical effects. Make up, prosthetics, animatronics, sugar glass, physical props, lighting, all work better under the right circumstances and are often cheaper than depending on CGI.
That's not to say CGI can't be front-row center under the right conditions, look at avatar, fantastically beautiful movie in no small part due to the CGI, and (even if you hate the story) the Green Lantern movie, where the CGI actually worked for the costumes and effects, but often times, CG just looks out of place, because it's the wrong tool for the job.
funny enough, I just got a black label copy of last revelation for PSX at a local game shop...
thank God for emulation, all I'm saying
you forgot the tidepods challenge that the 'journalists' actually turned into a problem, lmao.
The meme was already dying, and then a local tv news outfit ran with the story, turning it into a national 'crisis,' and then some kid who would have never even seen the meme actually tried to eat one...
another problem is good cgi looks like good practical effects but it's cheaper(ish), whereas shitty practical effects have a charm that shitty cgi will never have.
...Also, a lot of the films people look at and go "why does the cgi from the nineties look so much better than modern CGI!?!" actually don't look better, you're just confusing a practical effect for cgi, or they actually played to the strengths of cgi when choosing when and where to use it.
The actual cgi effects in, say, jurassic park look pretty awful if you look at them carefully (the stampeding dinosaurs scene, the brontosaurs in the background in the establishing shot for the park, etc.), but you don't really notice it unless you're looking, because they were extremely careful when and where to use CGI instead of, say, animatronics, or guys in rubber suits. You'll also notice they don't linger too long on a digital effects shot for very long, so your eyes never get a chance to notice that the lighting doesn't quite match up properly, or a dino's skin is a little too shiny.
nah, I get it, just making a dumb joke, lol
the difference is an actual interest in the hobby as opposed to it only being about attention.
As an example, there's a youtuber, gab smolders, slightly lefty on political topics, has a lot of girly games in her selection (nancy drew, stardew valley, etc), but she actually enjoys the games, as opposed to acting like it's all about getting attention on her.
her format's a bit long-form for my tastes, but she's fun to watch sometimes, as opposed to say the stereotypical twitch thot who's trying to figure out which orifice to shove the controller in to get the most bits...
I thought we were calling them future doctors now? lol
ha, funny thing is, you can tell a "gamer girl" from an actual gamer who happens to be female pretty easily. The former has no real interest, and the latter you can hold a conversation about the hobby with just like anybody else.
nah, it was still mary sue... basically, they'd caricature male gamers as woman-hating losers who would attack any female daring to like video games as a "gamer guuurrrlll" (see also the law and order episode about a gamer who went around murdering people).
wasn't really part of gamergate back in the day, pretty much disregarded like most people as some nonsense kerfuffle and moved on with my life.
started paying attention to this kinda stuff after the dreadful ghostbusters remake trailer dropped. Let's just say my eyes were opened and leave it at that...
I read the zoe post later, but after rereading it, I'm trying to decide if this chick is a straight up psychopath or if she has BPD (think amber heard for a more recent example...)
how about the blatantly pay-for-play "reviews" in EGM back in the nineties...
how about the blatantly pay-for-play "reviews" in EGM back in the nineties...
(meaning it can't do anything new or unique)
well, they could always go east...😏
the biggest problem these days is story often comes at the expense of gameplay, when gameplay is the most important element of a game.
i'll give two game franchises that are completely opposite in this regard; legacy of kain and katamari damacy. They're older games, but they illustrate the point well. kain is a truly facinating story, but the gameplay, while not awful, fails to hold attention in all but the later entries in the series.
katamari damacy ont he other hand, has this absolutely batshit insane story that feels like it was inspired by the same mind-altering substances that inspired the graphics, but the gameplay loop is simple, inuitive, and enjoyable(with a few notable exceptions in specialized levels), encouraging the player to grind for hours to achieve higher and higher scores.
yeah, but I've been around long enough that you can have two separate games in the same genre/style, and one's great, and the other sucks Dragonballs...
outside of journalists crapping on this game, is it actually any good?
all gameplay becomes repetitive after a while
well, there's repetitive and then there's repetitive... there are some games where you'll have millions of options to beat various enemies, but you figure out pretty quickly that spamming one or two combos kills pretty much everything in five seconds, and then there's others where things may be the same moves over and over, but you don't even notice because the developers actually hit on something that stays fresh throughout the combat loop.
and then there's games that fall somewhere in the middle.
that being said considering this is a gaming 'journalist' we're probably dealing with somebody whose "gamer cred" was they once played candy crush for fourteen hours straight
american exceptionalism
they waffle on the issue when it's convenient.
sidenote: personally, I've always liked the term but I always felt the formulation was wrong. Americans aren't just naturally better than everyone else, if anything, we have a duty to be better, to expect more from one another and demonstrate tot he world our way is better.
well, the problem is the voter base wants it to be true so they can be the white saviors that protect the poor, helpless minorities from the big, bad, evil, racist republicans, and assuage their white guilt for being closet racists...
right? christ I bought an apple ][e whent he school was getting rid of them, and I went around asking, and a dozen or so teachers gave me a shit ton of software and games for them...
Dunno how many horus I lost playing this snake clone called "viper" that had been ported from an IBM compatible...
that's the line they try to give... but a few years back, a reporter proved otherwise.
Well, there are a whole lot of people, especially people who live in rural communities, who don’t – there’s no Kinko’s, there’s no Office Max near them. People have to understand that when we’re talking about voter ID laws, be clear about who you have in mind and what would be required of them to prove who they are."
fucking christ, I had mercifully forgotten this tripe... Yes kamala, farmers have printers...and the internet. Hell, I lived in a town basically held up by a grain elevator, and we had fiber optic internet in the early 2000s. Granted it was shear luck that the fiber optic cable was being built right past (through? I dunno) the town, but shocking though it might be to big city sophisticates, rural folk can manage modern technology...
look up "push polling" and thank me later
...pretty sure he's been brain-dead for eighty plus, so... 🤷♂️
also, thank you for attending my Ted Talk, lmao.