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The Official Thread of the 2008 Spike VGA's

I AM JOHN! said:
Name one bad Tim Schaffer game.
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Psychonauts bordered on it at times, at others it was awesome, tho it largely was just an average to poor platformer stuck in an interesting world with a lot of style. I'm worried about Brutal Legend since it seems to be an action game and not Schafer's forte of Adventure games.
 
MvmntInGrn said:
I never said shit. I said FROM THIS VIDEO it looks bland to me, the graphics look bland and the gameplay look bland TO ME.

I just asked what others see in it and people have to freak. God like I said I hope it is good but to me it looks no more than funny for now. At least I based my opinion on what I saw while others are in love based on little more than hope.
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we aren't basing it on hope, we are basing it on a career of making great games.

This is like telling people not to get excited for a new game from Miyamato or Bungie. Except Tim is like twice as good as them combined and set on fire.
 
I know I'm late but is someone really making a game about Dante's Inferno and turning it into generic action game #4356? Really? If so there is no hope for this industry. Better to burn it to the ground now and salt the earth so nothing can grow again.
 
Linkzg said:
Psychonauts bordered on it at times, at others it was awesome, tho it largely was just an average to poor platformer stuck in an interesting world with a lot of style. I'm worried about Brutal Legend since it seems to be an action game and not Schafer's forte of Adventure games.
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Oh come on. I know Psychonauts became "that" game - the one that everyone brings up in a discussion of most overlooked games, but that doesn't mean that it's now or was ever a bad game. Not even remotely.
 
StoOgE said:
we aren't basing it on hope, we are basing it on a career of making great games.

This is like telling people not to get excited for a new game from Miyamato or Bungie. Except Tim is like twice as good as them combined and set on fire.
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Ok I can see that. :D hope was the wrong word.

I wasn't a big phyconauts fan so maybe this just isn't for me. :D
 
Hellsing321 said:
I know I'm late but is someone really making a game about Dante's Inferno and turning it into generic action game #4356? Really? If so there is no hope for this industry. Better to burn it to the ground now and salt the earth so nothing can grow again.
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To be fair, it looked rather interesting until the stupid main character showed up and the whole... two? models actually shown were really good.
 
The worst thing about the whole thing is that they don't even know who the fuck Kojima is and put one of his colleagues in the center frame.

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Well, for one thing I thought Psychonauts was a fairly solid platformer. It's not Mario Galaxy or anything, but it was very good
better than LBP

Plus, big chunks of the game had no platforming elements at all.
 
Onix said:
Most people want to see it to get a feel for the graphics. Directing them to a shitty youtube video doesn't accomplish that.
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Sorry for aiding retarded fanboy stuff. I was just watching it for the game itself...

Weird, I know.
 
Throughout the whole show I was thinking how Jack Black was doing some pretty precarious things. Shooting that crazy looking flamethrower, housing some sort of spark machine on his dick, coming down from the roof on those spiked swings without a safety harness...
 
Flunkie said:
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Go play a good 3D platformer and say without any little bias you may have that Psychonauts plays as good as it. Psychonauts succeeds because of it's style, not it's stellar gameplay, which again does fluctuate from level to level.
 
Zeliard said:
Oh come on. I know Psychonauts became "that" game - the one that everyone brings up in a discussion of most overlooked games, but that doesn't mean that it's now or was ever a bad game. Not even remotely.
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no, Psychonauts' gameplay really was atrocious and the most boring i have ever played.
 
soldat7 said:
And what about that God of War III trailer? Purdy graphics there were not. Terrible trailer.
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What the fuck :lol

I didn't see the trailer, but I've seen gifs, and anyone calling those graphics terrible should just gtfo.
 
Linkzg said:
Go play a good 3D platformer and say without any little bias you may have that Psychonauts plays as good as it. Psychonauts succeeds because of it's style, not it's stellar gameplay, which again does fluctuate from level to level.
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I thought the first level had pretty decent platforming in it.

The Meatcircus sucked, the level inside the agents head with the cube was great.

But big chunks of levels: lungfish, the painter, the milkman, Napoleon had very little or no platforming in them at all. Those were more straight adventure game than anything else.

But that's not really the point, Psychonauts was not a platformer, it was an adventure game wrapped in a platformer. A fairly good platformer at that. Like I said, its not Mario Galaxy, but it wasn't bad either.

That's like harping on a Zelda game for having basic fighting mechanics. The fighting isn't really the point of the game.
 
StoOgE said:
Well, for one thing I thought Psychonauts was a fairly solid platformer. It's not Mario Galaxy or anything, but it was very good
better than LBP

Plus, big chunks of the game had no platforming elements at all.
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Apologize
Psychonauts was overrated. It was a mediocre game.
LBP has an amazing single player and has fantastic level design. Play the game.
 
Blader5489 said:
What the fuck :lol

I didn't see the trailer, but I've seen gifs, and anyone calling those graphics terrible should just gtfo.
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This trailer is all we've seen. I just call it how I see it. It was a waste of a trailer to boot (generic trolls (again) and generic skeletons FTL).

I'm a huge fan of the first game and only lukewarm on the second. I have very high expectations of the third but without Jaffe, who knows...

industrian said:
Well now that that's over I'm going to pre-order some games at Gamestop, buy some Mountain Dew and Stride, get a Blackberry, and then drop by my recruitment office. BRB.
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:lol :lol :lol
 
MoeEazy said:
Apologize
Psychonauts was overrated. It was a mediocre game.
LBP has an amazing single player and has fantastic level design. Play the game.
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I have played it, the platforming mechanics suck. The game is interesting and I like the creative aspects of it, but the core mechanics are not very good.
 
lol just clicked on this thread out of curiosity and noticed the OP has GTA 4 winning. I like the game but I'm sure there were all sorts of meltdowns since it's GAF's favorite game to hate on. :lol
 
StoOgE said:
I have played it, the platforming mechanics suck. The game is interesting and I like the creative aspects of it, but the core mechanics are not very good.
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Are we playing the same game? Because LBP is the shit
 
Stoney Mason said:
lol just clicked on this thread out of curiosity and noticed the OP has GTA 4 winning. I like the game but I'm sure there were all sorts of meltdowns since it's GAF's favorite game to hate on. :lol
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I actually enjoyed GTA4 a lot when it came out, but I would personally pick MGS4 any day of the fucking week for GOTY over GTA4.
 
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