Wait what...? I thought Skrillex was a large series of tutorials for using synthesisers. ie not something any person actually listens to, unless they're off their face on ecstasy?

Shiiiit 

Every thirty seconds in a given song you can see he found another little knob on his control desk to fiddle with 

GOW better gameplay than Unreal?? Have you been smoking dog turd rollies?? GOW hardly had gameplay at all.

As for Skrillex, as someone who has been seriously into dance music for a long time, he is an appalling embarassment to the electric music genre (no his overblown childish screeching is nothing to do with dubstep at all).

Ricky no offence or anything but your taste is in your ass. 

Cane in the air, yes? 

Yeah, what the hell Shambler. What kind of loser are you? Next you will say that you dont like Lady Gaga, Rebecca Black or Game of Thrones even though EVERYONE DOES! Bet you *hate* Jar-Jar Binks too. Stop having an opinion, seriously.

As for dubstep, IM kick Skrillex ass anytime at that! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0DTHEQgses 

He can have an opinion, sure. He just needs to accept that it's about 15 years out of date. :)

And him having an opinion doesn't mean he can't be mocked for said opinion. Especially when it's hilariously wrong. 

 

Unreal might be from 1998 but it looked magnificent for that time. I think it was the first PC game that genuinely looked good. 

We're down to people are spouting ridiculous crap so they deserve to be trolled.

Oh, and before I forget ... :) 

Any Unreal (except for Unreal 2) > GOW (which isn't as bad as Shamb says, but still).
Music > Skrillex

This is not my opinion, it is the Truth.


You guys should go play some Binding of Isaac Wrath of the Lamb, it's better then all your silly games with'em polygons and such (and its music is awesome). 

France : 1 Internet : 0 

Binding of Isaac is terrible. There, I said it. 

You forgot to smiley. :( 

Oh shit ... :) Wouldn't want anyone's impotent rage to settle down or anything. :P 

the truth is that people have different taste, popularity is a measure for popularity and willem is holier-than-you :)

now, back to games?

playing deus ex without using multitools, lockpicks or hacking is fun! it would not nearly as much fun if I could not save and reload quickly.

the plasma gun is pretty useless though, I am currently waiting for the next mg to pick up. just visited the universal constructor and I got 4 augmentation containers in water basins in front me. if I dive down I get killed by electrocution. guess i will have to leave them there.

found a couple of new routes already. and the running and jumping augmentation is great fun. 

I like how Spirit always blames me in these things. Was I the one who rudely declared GoW was "dire", which was nothing but a pure troll move? No.

Was I then the one to further troll by declaring that "Willem likes Skrillex"? No. Who was that? Oh wait, it was you!

Nice. Back to games indeed.

:P~~~~~ 

Anyhoo, if you do have GoW questions nitin I'm happy to answer. Maybe shoot me an email instead of posting here though, if you want to keep the noise ratio down. 

now, back to games?

Some 200-odd posts ago I banged the drum for Lone Survivor, and I'll do it again since it very much deserves it.

Watch the trailer, and if it seems like just another zombie game to you, then buy it immediately just to find out how much more there is to it.
The most defining feature aka the soundwork will scare you, then soothe you, and get you pumped for the next round of dark corridors. The soundtrack is very eclectic and not just a bunch of pseudo-NIN droning.

The pixel-plus aesthetic is fantastic, the game looks like a living mosaic, the screenshots don't really do it justice. It's very charming despite (or because) of the 160x120 or whatever the hell low resolution.

And if you don't care about all the other aspects i.e. NPCs, sidequests, keeping your character in good mental shape, then know that there are lots of wretched abominations to deal with... and there's a gun. 

Neither was saying Unreal / UTx / Epic engines being brilliant.

Game Of Thrones is great tbh. Sometimes fantasy for the masses (like LOTR films) can be done really well.

Now then. Witcher 2 - watching t'bird play it....is it going to make sense at any point?? 

He just needs to accept that it's about 15 years out of date.

Yup all opinions are rendered null and void if they were held by people in the past.

Just so we can be sure about this, at what point in the past do they become invalidated? Is it a year, or a decade, or five minutes? :) 

Now THAT is a quality troll people. ZQF has you all beat. Step up your game! 

And I've never listened to dance music, or 'real' dubstep.

First of all Gears of War is better than Unreal in many ways - it has better graphics (in real-time), better animation, better engine, bigger, badder maps - it's more immersive. IMO. Which is valid, because it's mine, and it's an opinion. I do not require your validation on that, and any attempts to in-validate my opinion will be ignored because I know who I am, and I know what my opinion is.

Secondly 'dub-step' is a beat, not a style of music. I never said Skrillex was dubstep (though he does have some songs which are dubstep). I like Skrillex's tunes. And so do a lot of other people, though that is irrelevant to me, I only listen to it because I like it. I have listened to most of his tunes, and really like almost all of them. The ironic thing is that Full-flex is probably the most commercial-sounding song he has, and is the one with the most air play AFAIK. It's also one of my least-favourite Skrillex tune.
I frankly couldn't give a flying fuck if Shambler likes Skrillex, I'll wager he hasn't listened to very much of it, because I think that technically and artistically it is superior to a lot of the crap that is going around.
The dude is like 25 years old or something, he has already produced so much [good] music! Started off in a metal band too, BTW. I haven't heard of anyone shake up the world music scene as much as he has since Cobain. I mean everyone has heard of him, or heard some of his tunes. And it seems that people either really like it, or really hate it. Which is a sure sign of amazing music, if I ever heard it.
I think that what he has done is really clever. He plays some very sophiticated-sounding or just generally off-the-wall 'verses' and then powerhouses into his choruses with utter, utter filth. Gets old grannys bopping to really hard music. Which is good. Skrillex is not cheesy, but has subtle humour. People who don't like the sound can atleast admit that it's well-done. I mean srsly - get a life. THAT, my friends, is all.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvx5QM8nrZA 

Ricky ... he doesn't really care. You're typing paragraphs into the abyss, man. 

Willem: For the record. You seem to enjoy feeling superior to the often critical discussion that this message board features. Since your "I am so much above you" attitude annoys me I troll back. :)

Ricky: You listed things that GoW do better but did not mention anything that defines the game itself. Is it a better game?

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There is a new Humble bundle and they finally got back to exciting games: Bastion, Amnesia, Psychonauts, Limbo, and Sword & Sworcery

As usual, all on Windows, Linux and Mac.

http://www.humblebundle.com/ 

I heartily recommend Unreal, even those ten+ years later.