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So murdering is a masculine impulse?We tip our hat like a proper gentleman, and we kill anyone we want. The game rewards those masculine impulses without fail.
While there's some low quality flavor of the moment thinking in that piece I think it's a valid criticism of open world games to point out the limitations of the game world. As far back as Ultima npc have had schedules with set activities. There are of course severe limitations to this because it's not practical for good game content to have even an on rails Westworld "simulation". That would make the player a bystander more often than not - however there are better and worse ways to handle the illusion of spontaneity. Randomly spawning in events out of nowhere can kill the illusion of an unfolding world. Processing power is such that there probably won't even be a simplified a-life simulation any time soon but it's still possible to have some tracks for characters with random events happening to them in the cone of the players interaction
That has to be a fake tweet. Sweet mother of God. That has to be fake
Yes they are, shut the fuck up holy shit.
https://archive.fo/baK5q (archived link as to not give this trash any clicks)
This is what passes for "games journalism" these days. Somebody complaining that NPCs are scripted and not powered by some incredible (non-existent) AI. How little do you have to know about games and how they are made to even suggest such non-sense is beyond me. But I guess I shouldn't be surprised that an NPC doesn't understand the concept of NPCs, they're not created to think for themselves after all, but only to regurgitate the narrative they've been fed.
Yeah I saw Tim Pool's video on this.
Heather is one of the worst journalists in gaming. So are many of Kotaku's hires this decade though, like Patricia. That is why I pretty much stopped reading the site.
I used to love Kotaku back in the early days of the site. Back in the 00's. Then these hires started. Now you have people writing about games who are not there because they are gamers. It goes back to that other topic - people who are getting hired are not going into games media out of love of gaming. Sure, they may play games, but that isn't who they are.
Imagine if ESPN started hiring commentators who were not big sports fans, but were instead, fashion and style commentators. You'd start getting articles interjecting their interests into articles. Comments on why a team's uniform isn't fashionable, or about a player's fashion choices off of the field. This would piss off sports fans, right?
It's so sad seeing what it has become. When I read Kotaku back then I got the impression that it was a site made based on respect and love towards videogaming. I suppose nobody gets this impression now.
Yes they are, shut the fuck up holy shit.
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If this is real her name should be changed to simple pat.Kotaku , the click bait masters since forever......
Nah, it makes perfect sense. Gamers Are Dead, after all."Players aren't necessary for gamers to exist" is literally the worst sentence written by a gamer journalist ever. It requires a whole new level of unthink for it to make sense.
This is a really great post imoFuck right off, if this has the most puppet like NPC's you ever experienced, I question how many games you've played.
Wrong, you will be punished for killing anyone you want. You are not rewarded for it unless we're talking about looting the corpse, you are in fact made more evil with each murder.
There is no other alternative you fucking absolute worthless hack. Tell me how you have a game with NPC's that exist for another purpose other than to be there waiting for me to interact with them. It's infuriating that we're in a place where you have to tell a professional games journalist that games are entertainments products made with the primary, in fact I'm going to say only, goal of giving the person who bought it a good time. Go make a fucking grievance game where I have to sit in a chair and have no agency, and must listen to NPC's lecture me, make them exist not for my entertainment but to shame me and educate me on all the ways I and people like me who might enjoy a game like Red Dead are problematic members of society. Go make that game, please.
Sounds like a pretty cool little NPC side-mission, how can she find this problematic?
If he existed persistently, how would you know? This woman does not understand the medium she writes about.
No, it's not true "to a certain extent", it's a fundamental aspect of videogames. They exist for the player. Everything in it exists for the player, and I would be curious to hear their description of a game that wasn't built for the player.
One wonders how she manages to live in a modern city with all the NPC bugmen.
Actually I think you've had your head up your own Idpol ass for so long you are unable to even see the game for what it is anymore. You focus on the puppeteers and the strings to the detriment of all else.
NPC wants respect and freedom for all NPCs.
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This must be an elaborate troll. At which point she starts to advocate for NPC free will and rights?
From what I’ve seen and experienced in more recent times, seems like there are a fair share of journalists are not too knowledgeable or really are passionate about gaming.
I feel some people who get these type of jobs are just there for money or to make a political statement and not because they genuinely love gaming. I’m sure that applies to practically any industry though.
I too am starting to suspect that 'gaming' is just the low-hanging fruit of journalism.
#NPCLivesMatterIt will be coming eventually, I guarantee it.
Which would you prefer to be stuck in an elevator with:
5 game NPCs
or
5 game journalists
I wanted to post something in relation to that picture but honestly... I don't have the words other than this.
Which would you prefer to be stuck in an elevator with:
5 game NPCs
or
5 game journalists
One group can operate an elevator.What's the difference?
Yeah, but she has put out enough garbage to make it believable.
lol. I really hope their salaries are low.Yeah, but she has put out enough garbage to make it believable.
No one is acting offendedYa'll act offended over a dumb article.
I don't think I've ever genuinely despised a website more than I do Kotaku. I can't believe people are actually getting paid to be this fucking stupid. What the fuck kind of world are we living in?
I went to school for journalism so seeing the state of games journalism in 2018 actually does offend me xDNo one is acting offended
I too am starting to suspect that 'gaming' is just the low-hanging fruit of journalism.