Creepy Skyrim Serial Killer Keeps Heads on Shelves
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Minecraft. STALKER. EVE Online. Whether or not they surpass Skyrim is open to discussion, and that is exactly my problem with the opening sentence of the article. "Well recognised as the pinnacle in open-ended and emergent gameplay" does not leave it open to discussion. It's the kind of choice of words that sparks a million forum flame wars because it is giving an opinion as if it were a fact.Capitano Segnaposto said:Name three others that have surpassed Open-ended and Emergent gameplay.
Seriously, I am just curious
That it is Skyrim that's being talked about makes no difference. This would be equally lazy, careless writing if it read "Modern Warfare 3* is well recognised as the pinnacle in first person shooters."
[sub]*or Battlefield, or Halo, or Doom or any other FPS[/sub]
The ironic thing about it is what's being talked about in the article is not 'emergent gameplay.' It's what's commonly referred to in sandbox games as dicking around. There is a big difference.
No, I don't think I'll bother, unless the opening sentence of the article ends with the words "...in sandbox style western RPGs."DRes82 said:
Funnily enough, this is precisely the point I was trying to make with my own post. It's fun to agree!AdamG3691 said:text doesn't convey sarcasm well
plus, this is the internet, I'm sure there are probably quite a lot of people who honestly do believe that a dragon killing a child is worse and more tragic a loss than a dragon killing 100 adults, simply because "ohes noes, protekt teh childeren! dey are teh futurez"
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To summarize my thoughts: People like to say that killing children defeats the atmosphere or underlying storytelling of the game (I'm referencing the Extra Punctuation article from a few days ago here, mostly), so limiting the game mechanics by making children immortal is the expected thing to do.
What this video we're discussing does, however, is to prove that "normal" mechanics (marrying, killing, decapitating, moving game objects around, looting) can be combined to achieve a much more macabre effect than kids dying along with their parents in dragon-attacks (which, unlike the serial-killer fun we watched, actually fits perfectly within the storytelling and mood of the game).
The point that - kids having the ability to die makes the game too dark or sick - is obviously easily refuted.
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My award-winning sarcasm has claimed another victim, it seems.stublore said:
If you think the Escapist counts as news, you are sorely mistaken brother. They have about as much journalistic integrity as Fox.Sixcess said:
I would like to remind you all that the Dark Brotherhood is about more then assassination. A primary benchmark for the Brotherhood is that it's members have a sick fascination with murder, and the fact that they get paid to murder folks is just good business. You have to be more then a simple sociopath to join... you have to crave murder. You have to delight in blood. To a member of the Dark Brotherhood, that moment when the life fades from a victims eyes is their very reason for living.
I do not find this video all that disturbing. Clearly, the bodies were arranged like that purely for effect. The same can be said for the name of the video. It's purely for shock value.
I do not find this video all that disturbing. Clearly, the bodies were arranged like that purely for effect. The same can be said for the name of the video. It's purely for shock value.
Dwarf Fortress says hi!Moeez said:
(ok its very diferent, but hell, it annoys me when developers go on about this amazing new idea of emergent stories in games, when the idea has been around for fucking ages)
It would be less creepy if they were clothed. The way they're arranged like they were/are going about their day-to-day lives loses its impact if they're nude/skivvied. That just screams "I didn't arrange this demonstration video because I wanted to scare people, I did it because I get and erection from it."
I think this whole thing could've been avoided had people didn't nitpick the article. I didn't even notice it until afterwards.Sixcess said:Minecraft. STALKER. EVE Online. Whether or not they surpass Skyrim is open to discussion, and that is exactly my problem with the opening sentence of the article. "Well recognised as the pinnacle in open-ended and emergent gameplay" does not leave it open to discussion. It's the kind of choice of words that sparks a million forum flame wars because it is giving an opinion as if it were a fact.Capitano Segnaposto said:Name three others that have surpassed Open-ended and Emergent gameplay.
Seriously, I am just curious
That it is Skyrim that's being talked about makes no difference. This would be equally lazy, careless writing if it read "Modern Warfare 3* is well recognised as the pinnacle in first person shooters."
[sub]*or Battlefield, or Halo, or Doom or any other FPS[/sub]
The ironic thing about it is what's being talked about in the article is not 'emergent gameplay.' It's what's commonly referred to in sandbox games as dicking around. There is a big difference.
No, I don't think I'll bother, unless the opening sentence of the article ends with the words "...in sandbox style western RPGs."DRes82 said:
Also, oh noes! an article is teh bias! Rage rage rage!
WHY U KNOW UNDERSTAND OPINIONS?Pyramid Head said:
OT: LOL. Bethesda, you done it again! And you created a monster.
Bng on as usual. Best ways to kill enemies when you have archery is finding spots where enemies have to run around to hit you, and then you jump down and they have to run all the way back. SO basicly i hit level 45 without having leveled any armor at all so i was pretty much forced to kill things before they could hit me, which is not really a problem, both giants and mammoths die quite fast with 3x sneak bonus.
When I first got the decap perk I stumbled on a mountain cave that contained a witch coven. The first hit on the obligatory guard witch was a decap. The head started rolling down the mountain. I said "what the hell" and followed it, and I kid you not it didnt stop rolling until probably a mile later.
I can't wait until a mod comes out that makes decapitated heads fly away....which would have been more appropriate considering my dude is a 2 handed hammer user.
I can't wait until a mod comes out that makes decapitated heads fly away....which would have been more appropriate considering my dude is a 2 handed hammer user.