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The only game I've played by them is WoW, so I wouldn't really know about their early games, which probably were pretty good.
I think Diablo II is quite well-regarded.
I should have picked it up from the pile of free stuff in my dorm, back when I lived there.
Diablo II sits alongside Baldur's Gate as one of those PC WRPG Holy Grail games. Blizzard are also responsible for Warcraft I - III, which are all very solid.
Oh, and Starcraft, which is probably their actual crowning achievement. Starcraft II was actually really good as well.
Blizzard is one of those developers like Valve, though. I'm glad they have the security to delay stuff until they think it's polished enough, but they keep returning to the same styles of gameplay all the time. Everything is an RTS or an indirect-control third person RPG, whereas everything Valve is a FPS. They're kind of like Western Nintendos, except Nintendo has enough popular IPs to mix it up a bit in terms of core gameplay.
Yeah, Nintendo played around with a greater variety of genres even back in the NES days--though probably not by much, since most of their first-party IPs were platformers of some sort--Donkey Kong, Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros., Kid Icarus, and Metroid. Granted, they were very different platformers, using rather different game engines, unlike, say, the Orange Box games (Portal, Half-Life, Team Fortress 2) which all use the same engine.
I don't know about other Valve IPs or about Blizzard IPs in general.
Careful. He's still willing to maul your face off.
What if I offer sacrificial victims?
This is a pretty worthwhile video to watch. In fact, I almost have to insist you all watch it, because it's actually pretty important.
Neither my Zelda collector's edition nor Wind Waker are in the correct boxes.
In BlazBlue, I mostly play Ragna, Bang, Noel. Noel because waifu the whole concept of Gun Kata has always appealed to me and she's got a solid and very whippy fighting style. Ragna because storymode got me use to him and he's very solid in that kind of Ryu-way main characters of fighting games tend to be.
I play Bang because BA BA BA BAAAANG! BURNING TAMASHI TAKAU KOKORO KOGE TSUKU HODO NIIII!
Let's see if it's as fuckawesome as I remember.
Also, that video I posted. Seriously.
>game overthinker
I'll just get my coat.
no juan, only i may use the coats
I don't always agree with moviebob's opinions on games or politics, but that video contains some excellent information and I think it's pretty important that we understand what this means in terms of game advertising and how games interact with the world of politics. Since we're pretty much past the "games are the devil" phase now, the medium is facing a point where various political agendas may become a much bigger part of the whole thing. Where the CoD franchise's military glorification was reasonably harmless in context of the original few titles and even in the original Modern Warfare, it's been stretching further into hypermilitary advocation and this appears to be the final straw.
Not that the trailer is much better on its own merits; "The world will always need men like us." Oh, gimme a break.
Oh, another "under $10 dollars" game I forgot to mention: Freedom Force, simply for being wonderful.
>I don't always agree with moviebob's opinions on games or politics,
I'm pretty sure I agree with him more often than you (particularly on consumer responsibility) but he does say some things that infuriate me.
OH GOD STORY ARC WHY THE FUCK.
Also Oliver Fucking North? What the fuck?
Just a note, here's how much of a joke Oliver North is to people in the know.
On a completely tangential note I actually think this song is the best thing Seth McFarlane's made, no lie. It combines his nostalgia humor with politics in a way that isn't just 'lol' references from your childhood'
Or rather it is, but it has an actual punchline.
Heh. Moviebob actually mentions the song I just posted.
I like the Game Overthinker story stuff.
As for the actual meat of the show, when he doesn't entirely know what he's talking about, Bob is really bad, but otherwise he makes pretty damn strong arguments. When he's good, he's good, but when he's bad, he's just awful.
IMO, he's more consistently good with the stuff he does about comics or movies than with videogame stuff, though he does have some insightful things to say about videogames. But...well, what Zennistrad said, pretty much.
I really do dislike how he doesn't call out publishers. While I certainly believe in consumer responsibility to an extent, Bob doesn't present the other side of the equation. Consumers will only buy luxury products that are
a) Easily accessible
b) Relevant to their interests
c) Or both
The AAA publisher style of the current games industry means that they have a complete stranglehold on the first point, and follow-the-leader design pressures ensure that the same things are rewarded time and time again. Consumers should absolutely be aware of what their money contributes to, but at the same time, I don't think it's unreasonable to call publishers out on their own kind of bullshit.
BUT SERIOUSLY.
OLIVER FUCKING NORTH.
THAT FUCKER IS A TRAITOR.
AND NOT 'TRAITOR' LIKE THE WAY SARAH PALIN LIKES TO SAY IT
HE SOLD WEAPONS TO ENEMIES OF THE COUNTRY.
WHAT
THE
FUCK.
The weird thing is, if he's talking about comics or movies, he does call out the industry just as often as he calls out the fans. But for videogames, he seems to make an exception.
I don't think it's entirely fair to say he never calls out the industry. The Sony episode in particular comes to mind.
I think it might be that he's more frustrated by the entitlement mentality that's the widespread highest I've seen in any entertainment community, and brother I hang out with comic fans.
His web moniker is Movie Bob. The Game Overthinker was what got him in the internet public eye, but his main expertise has always been, and still is, movies. He's outright said before that he wants to focus on movies more, but popular mandate has likely made TGO his "main" project.
^Well, no wonder he's angry at game fans :P
On the note of what Moviebob is talking about (rather than Moviebob itself) one of the things I really liked about the Megaman comic is how differently it treated Megaman's violence as agency.
Megaman is actively frightened by his power to hurt, and what it does to him. He views his violence as a burden and something he feels resorting to as a personal failure.
It's deep stuff for a kids comic, especially since so many 'more mature' comics don't even give a second thought to their violence.
Albeit annoying. Twelve tries and I still haven't beat that level where Captain America guy and the brainy alien guy are frozen and El Diablo has to save them.
Re The Game OverThinker - Episode 70: "Fall of Duty"
Very thought-provoking commentary.
I didn't really like the "acting" parts, especially Ivan, who seemed a bit gimmicky--I'd have preferred a pure commentary video, like GO's early videos.
But otherwise, that's an interesting take on the situation. Also, a very nice summary of the Iran-Contra affair for laypeople, going through the key pieces of a political scandal and how they related to each other.
Yeah, I don't know who started that nonsense (Maybe Linkara, but I'm inclined to blame Linkara for everything) but it's gotta stop.