Archangel3371 said:

I'm about halfway in Resistance Fall of Man and it's a pretty average game. I know that it's nearly a 5 year old game but I was expecting something more impressive. No trophy support makes me sad as well.

"Pretty average" is the way to describe it, even at the time.

aspro said:

Archangel3371 said:

I'm about halfway in Resistance Fall of Man and it's a pretty average game. I know that it's nearly a 5 year old game but I was expecting something more impressive. No trophy support makes me sad as well.

"Pretty average" is the way to describe it, even at the time.

Do I have to school you guys about the correct use of  'average'  again? The word you looking for is mediocre

I don't think aspirations have anything to do with it. If that were the case, I think we would see the other side of the coin and see "jealousy" reviews too. Greg K's been out of the reviewer's chair for so long now, I don't think that was even taken into account. This is just a damn solid, great game! It's very unique but also very personal in the way that you play it. The options you are given weapon-wise, the adjustability of the difficulty, the new game + when you are done, the customizable weapons...

You take the game and make it your own... and that's the secret to the narration too:  It feels personal, like you are part of a living story. The quality of the voice-work, the words that are chosen and how they are said... IT'S all that and more! Sports have a language all their own and situations that tend to repeat themselves due to the nature of the sport itself. A game in which a narrator is describing what an individual is doing combined with the natural, flowing quality... it's like nothing else before it!

I hate to use the cliche, but you won't understand until you've played it yourself.

Fuck math. Buy a dictionary.

I'd rather buy a hooker.

Iga_Bobovic said:

robio said:

I'd rather buy a hooker.

You can only 'rent'  a hooker. Paying a woman money constantly so she only has sex with you is called a 'wife' .

No, paying a woman constantly so she only has sex with you is called a girlfriend. A wife is the same thing minus the sex.

Speaking of wives and no sex, Married with Children is on tv. See you guys tomorrow.

Iga_Bobovic said:

I am talking about the mathematical and statistical meaning of average. Unless you meant that if you take the summation of all first person shooters and divide them by the total number of first person shooters you end up with Resistance. Seeing as all the fps look alike lately, this might not be far from the truth.

phantom_leo said:

I don't think aspirations have anything to do with it. If that were the case, I think we would see the other side of the coin and see "jealousy" reviews too. Greg K's been out of the reviewer's chair for so long now, I don't think that was even taken into account. This is just a damn solid, great game! It's very unique but also very personal in the way that you play it. The options you are given weapon-wise, the adjustability of the difficulty, the new game + when you are done, the customizable weapons...

You take the game and make it your own... and that's the secret to the narration too:  It feels personal, like you are part of a living story. The quality of the voice-work, the words that are chosen and how they are said... IT'S all that and more! Sports have a language all their own and situations that tend to repeat themselves due to the nature of the sport itself. A game in which a narrator is describing what an individual is doing combined with the natural, flowing quality... it's like nothing else before it!

I hate to use the cliche, but you won't understand until you've played it yourself.

I can absolutely garantee there is more lines of dialog recorded for MLB The Show than in Bastion.  And also that the situations in Bastion are far more predictable than those found in a typical baseball game (since in a baseball game there is an endless number of variables which are discussed -- including pitch history, weather, pitch location, batter tendencies to name just a few).

Again, I've heard nothing bad about the game at all, all I am saying is that the use of dynamic commentary is not innovative.

This editorial on Bastion I posted earlier today describes it better than I can:

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How you talk to me matters

I hate that so many videogames have subtitles turned on by default. My brain reads subtitles in a very different way than it listens to voices. Ideally, you should have a compelling enough voice that I want to hear it instead of just quickly read it. For instance, the narration in Bastion.

Bastion’s narrator will comment on what you’re doing as you’re doing it. When this happens, and when it seems like it came from a choice I made, I feel like the narrator is paying attention to me. He’s not a canned voice playing out a script, like Cave Johnson in Portal 2. Instead, he’s talking directly to me, and we have a relationship, like GlaDOS. But unlike the carefully scripted Portal games, where GlaDOS speaks right on cue and the same way every time, Bastion’s narrator notices things that won’t necessarily happen all the time. He says something about the specific pair of weapons I chose at the armory, or about how I’m out of health potions and vulnerable to a specific monster, or how I’m taking so much time clearing out stabweed. The narrator is not just a recorded voice. He’s here, with me, watching me, commenting on what I’m doing, talking to me in a way that reaches beyond some guy in a sound booth reading lines. It’s one of the most startlingly human innovations since LA Noire’s facial expressions.