Jimquisition: Emotions, Polygons, and Ellen Page

[teh_Canape]

okay so
polygons = emotions
pixels = feels ?

OT: can't comment, really
never played either indigo prophecy nor heavy rain and even less omikron, so... yeah, I don't know whether or not the guy actually knows his shit when it comes to emotions and such
except for the "you gotta have polygons to properly show emotions", that's bullshit

 

[Kunzer]

Best Jim Sterling video imo. My sides hurt from laughing!

 

[C14N]

hrm... really not feeling this one at all.

Señor Sterling just comes off as a bully, making fun of the little fat boy who likes ballet. Following him around and doing exaggerated, parodic impressions of him in the halls between classes so that all the other kids will laugh at him.

Nobody is forcing you to go to his recitals Jim.

I don't really see the point, the purpose or the motive behind this kind of engagement other than that Jim might just be a giant fucking douchebag.

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I felt the same way, making fun of someone's accent when English isn't even their first language always struct me as particularly dickish. I wouldn't appreciate it if I learned to speak French and had some French guy mocking me for my accent. Not really sure what Cage did that was such a sin and there was really nothing constructive said in this video. Jim's always talking about different types of games filling different types of niches and, believe it or not, Cage's brand of point-and-click adventure has a niche too. I'm not going to pretend that the dialogue is always great or that the character models of Heavy Rain never slipped into uncanny valley but I don't think that's any reason to make a video that basically says "stop trying forever you stupid foreign idiot". I haven't played Beyond Two Souls and don't really plan to but what I have seen made it look like the actual character's look a lot better and I don't see any reason to deride anyone who pushes graphical technology. I know graphics aren't everything but they are something and some devs would rather try to have something that looks like real life instead of something heavily stylised. This just seemed like complaining about the Matrix because it had better visual effects than Star Wars.