First Dishonored video footage

[PlausibleSarge]

Oh bioware...when will they learn that only idiots are stupid enough to think that button->awesome is a good gameplay mechanic

[Undisputed]

I'm sold and not even that much information was given, looking forward to game footage.

[Jonas]

Oh bioware...when will they learn that only idiots are stupid enough to think that button->awesome is a good gameplay mechanic

Only idiots are stupid enough to think that button -> awesome is meant to be a "gameplay mechanic".

It's a design paradigm. And a completely valid one that's been the cornerstone of enormous successes, too.

God of War, anyone?

[AEmer]

Whatever you think of the statement "button - > awesome", people who are using it as a catch phrase? Probably have a nuanced point of view somewhere in their minds that's reasonable and has some level of depth.

I mean, yeah, taking such a statement out of context misrepressents the person making the statement, but the people who are doing that are also making statements, and they're not generally trying to ruin this particular mans reputation by misrepressenting him...By quoting him unfairly, they're making a point of their own about games, not a point about how much of a retard this individual is.

They're trying to make a statement on what's good for games, and what's bad for games, and using this quote as a reductio ad absurdum argument in favor of the opposite of a larger "button - > awesome" design trend. I don't think they question whether it's popular, or whether it's valid in the sense that it can make a game developer money, either - I think they question the quality of the experience that comes out of that approach, which is a different concept altogether.

So Jonas, yeah, I agree, it's completely unfair to this person who made this statement (and the idea of attacking people like him running the industry is BS, unless you consider it in abstract terms, rather than concrete ones), but that's not really relevant to what's being said with this clip...It was never about the person who said this anyway. It was about illustrating a concept as being fundamentally bad.

Which...well, it might be. It might not be. It depends on how litterally it's taken, how immediately it's supposed to be understood, I guess.

[Jonas]

OR! Maybe the person who made the video... is just an idiot.

[AEmer]

OR! Maybe the person who made the video... is just an idiot.

So...He's an idiot because he makes a superficial statement about someone being an idiot?

[Jonas]

Took you a while to get the joke, but you got there in the end. I award you 6 points out of 10

[EER]

Well, you can't expect non-Danes to understand Danish jokes of course... oh wait ...

[AEmer]

What do you mean got the joke? Was there a joke inthere?

[Jonas]

...

Anyway, Dishonored looks awesome

Can't wait to play it.

[AEmer]

I have a feeling my metacritic rating just went down

[VectorM]

Pretty sure they don't support negative numbers.

[AEmer]

You're correct; The system is coded up in C, and apparently some bright fellow came up with storing the score in an unsigned int, so currently my score is 4,294,967,290.

Unfortunately, it's about as useful as that amount of frequent flier miles.

[EER]

If you have that amount of frequent flier miles to spare, I'd be happy to take them off your hands. Turns out they only let you board quickly, skip queues and go into airline lounges if you have a decent amount of frequent flier miles.

Also you could use them as credit towards buying even more flights. In short, if you have THAT amount of miles it's definitely not useless. Unless you don't like flying.

[AEmer]

Don't have any of those, sorry.
I'm pretty sure I can't trade away any of my now glorious metacritic rating either. It's too bad, too.

But if the airlines use the same system as metacritic, you can try this:

Order a flight from Amsterdam to New York a weak from now, then catch a ride on a freighter going there, then sneak onto a flight going from New York to Amsterdam. You will then have flown your flight in reverse, and if they don't support negative miles in their system either, you'll either be entitled to around 2^32 or 2^64 frequent flier miles depending on which size unsigned int they use.

Although, knowing your luck, they probably use floats.