Jimquisition: Photorealistic Sociopathy

[Shoggoth2588]

so THAT'S what was exactly said. What a stupid notion although it does make me realize that there are some standard DS games that aren't Pokemon I should pick up within the next couple of weeks. As I've said before in other threads Final Fantasy 4, 6, 7 and, 9 have brought on some pretty big emotions in me and I didn't even really care about plot/characters in games before Metal Gear Solid (that one game that looks like it was made using paper-craft you may have heard of). Whereas for modern games like Modern Warfare I couldn't even tell you the name of the protagonist or why I should care. When I first got to the nuke scene it was a big deal but it was marred by fact that my player character was just a nameless, faceless drone who I neither knew or cared about. If I knew he had a Terra Master card collection missing only one card before the bomb detonated, I would have cared that he ended up microwaved from the inside out.

 

[PunkRex]

Wow... do some devs STILL believe this crap? I know devs are just people to so their fully entitled to their own oppinions but hasn't EVERY bloody gaming website on the web basically been calling bollox on this chain of thought? Gah I thought this argument was over but I guess that was just silly of me.

 

[Dangit2019]

Well, now we know how Jim sounds while having sex. God help us all...

It was just so hot, wasn't it. No one else will ever be able to match the powers of the sex god that is Jim Sterling.

 

[praus]

I remember back when the entire escapist thought Jim was too full of himself and everyone wanted the show cancelled when he first started making these videos. Now I rarely see anything but praise for the Jimquisition.

Eat it, disbelievers. I love this show. Great episode.

The first few episodes were a bit rough around the edges. I can see why a few people might have been turned off (a lot of people lack vision). I liked them anyway and I'm glad I stuck it out. His videos are now some of my favorite webisodes out there.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

This is why most of my favorite games have had stylistic cartoony type graphics that weren't in any way realistic. I'm guessing these guys (the Crytek and 2k guy) have much the same attitude as James Cameron who waited 15+ years to make Avatar because the tech was ready yet instead of making the best use of the resources he had at the time.

Have no God before rendering, for it is a jealous God.

^THIS Is why the new console generation worries me.

Also this is why we can't have nice things.

 

[GonzoGamer]

They've been digging in that hole this whole Generation Jim.

When this generation began my wish was for a Burnout game that had bigger crash junctions. Sure maybe I was wishing small but I was playing a lot of Burnout Revenge at the time.
I didn't need them to look more realistic, what I wanted was more complicated intersections with more cars doing more things. Then they came out with a Burnout game for this generation and while it looked more slick, it didn't have any sort of crash junctions at all.
I feel that's kind of been the picture of the industry for this generation: using all the extra processing power to try and make things look more "realistic" when they should be making these virtual worlds feel more realistic.

 

[LostintheWick]

This video helps to illustrate the importance of indie developers. A place in the industry where there is true heart in the work.

 

[scw55]

Bastion made me cry.
Modern Warfare 2 didn't. I was gutted that Ghost died, but only because he had that bad-arse balaclava and we'd never see it again.

Mass Effect 3 made me very emotional too but that was Bioware and the graphics were always rather cartoony really.

 

[mdqp]

Well, text adventure were the beginning of the videogames, if I am not mistaken, and they exist and engage people even today, so what are we talking about?

As someone else said before, this is about money, and trying to pull in a crowd as large as possible, meaning "casual" gamers. I don't know if they are attracted by shiny things, but the industry seems to think so, so that's what they'll chase.

Photorealism has nothing to do with evoking emotions, or even simply making a good game. Design is what is important in the graphical department of game, and nowadays we have enough power to run basically all a designer might need (or want) to make a good game.

 

[Something Amyss]

Have no God before rendering, for it is a jealous God.

^THIS Is why the new console generation worries me.

Honour thy graphics card and processor is the one that worries me.
OT: Silly Jim. You want substance? *shakes head* Where did I go wrong?

 

[Something Amyss]

Bastion made me cry.

Speaking of making em cry, I remember my first major emotial response was to the end of Actraiser. A game that had blocky little dudes who made Minecraft look high end. Is it the deepest emotional reaction I've eve rhad? No, but there were a couple touching moments in the game.

Granted, this was a game pushing "Mode Seven" back when it was serious business, but that's not why it was endearing. It's also not why I still fondly remember it, even after playing games like Modern Warfare.

 

[Jimothy Sterling]

Playing a game just for it's graphics is like watching porn for it's plot.

"I think no religious statement has any place in something that isn?t a church or a religious topic." - Jim Sterling

Golly gee Jim. Maybe you should go and try to do some more of that actual Journalism you were talking about earlier. Do you even know where Dan Cathy made his statement concerning his personal opinion on gay marriage? Of course not. You're too busy stroking your outrage in defense of your liberal opinions. Here, I've done it for you since you were too busy to bother:

http://www.bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=38271

Here, I'll even reference some of your fellow liberals:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/17/dan-cathy-chick-fil-a-president-anti-gay_n_1680984.html

He said it in an interview with "The Baptist Press: News With A Christian Perspective". A relevant place for one to speak his mind on religious opinion? Have some crow to go with that side fat you'll be scooping out and eating. Maybe you can open an episode with you stuffing some Chick Fil A into your maw.

A) The last point I made was said entirely to facilitate the "Thank God for me" joke. It's a fairly bog-standard technique called Hypocritical Humor.

B) I'm a centrist.

C) Fuck Chick-Fil-A in its arse with my big gay penis.

 

[HalfTangible]

Dammit, I was perfectly ready to thank god for you and then you go and do that chick-fil-a crap AGAIN...

First of all Jim, 'i support traditional marriage' is a political opinion, not a religious one.

Second of all, you should at LEAST hate the food served somewhere before you cut out your own fat over it >.>

 

[daxterx2005]

Oh lord, Jim's sex noises are going to haunt me in my sleep.

 

[Magmarock]

I agree with both of your points, but I do kind of see where Crytek is coming from. I felt that the Xbox was the reason why Crysis 2 wasn't anywhere near as good as Crysis 1 and so I was glade that they are focusing on PC's instead. I remember you saying in one of your previous videos that consoles are just crappy PC's and I agree with that too and I even think they Crytek might as well.

I really enjoy PC shooters such as Crysis but I feel that console hold them back, but it's not due to lacking in graphical power, it's due to the games being dumped down for the console crowed.

 

[templar1138a]

...how the hell could anyone think "It tastes like hating gay people and shit!" supports Chick-fil-A-Holes?

As for graphics, I'm glad to see you're not an elitist prick who thinks graphics are completely insignificant, but you do feel damn good writing can make up for sub-par graphics. Too many gamers take a black-and-white stance. It's nice to see you know a thing or two about middle ground.

 

[OrpheusTelos]

Yeah, because, you know, FFVI wasn't an emotional game at all.

Great episode, Jim.

 

[nintendo414]

Disagree about ff13 but overall I agree with whats been said.

 

[mdqp]

...how the hell could anyone think "It tastes like hating gay people and shit!" supports Chick-fil-A-Holes?

As for graphics, I'm glad to see you're not an elitist prick who thinks graphics are completely insignificant, but you do feel damn good writing can make up for sub-par graphics. Too many gamers take a black-and-white stance. It's nice to see you know a thing or two about middle ground.

I guess some people find hating "gay people" so delicious that it overshadows even shit... And that might be part of what makes me hate humanity, just maybe.

 

[blackrave]

It is fairly simple for me
1.Story
2.Gameplay
3.Visual style
4.Animations
5.Controls
6.Graphics