tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3493946997489326661.post1356422903631677632..comments2023-08-11T05:49:23.366-04:00Comments on Exploring Believability: There's A Whole Damn World Out ThereJ. Sheahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10652255892382558843noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3493946997489326661.post-52618645579893679702017-05-03T17:48:09.532-04:002017-05-03T17:48:09.532-04:00So what makes you think you are capable of judging...So what makes you think you are capable of judging the minor sphere? You have shown yourself to be adverse to empirical understanding the reality and instead use ideology to form your 'understandings'.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05119477682451240356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3493946997489326661.post-52330466610858790752015-05-02T05:15:21.667-04:002015-05-02T05:15:21.667-04:00Thanks for that. I was hoping you'd have disco...Thanks for that. I was hoping you'd have discovered some other hidden gems but what can you do?Malady Duckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06442872308311766239noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3493946997489326661.post-77830506831586305272015-02-22T11:12:41.318-05:002015-02-22T11:12:41.318-05:00>Which games would they be Shea?
http://explor...>Which games would they be Shea?<br /><br />http://exploringbelievability.blogspot.com/2013/09/recommended-games.html<br /><br />KODP is probably the #1 spot. It's a fantasy game that takes itself seriously and goes out of its way to weave a flawless and justified experience. Yes, there's still lots of combat, but it's done in a realistically endemic way - and the nature of the setting means that it's totally justified.<br /><br />CK2 is #2, Liberal Crime Squad is #3, Victoria 2 is #4 even though it's not a particularly good game (it's at least using politics as a mechanical system and trying to do something with it), and #5 is This War of Mine, which wasn't as good as it needed to be, but was at least trying to do something.J. Sheahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10652255892382558843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3493946997489326661.post-39926585408836055472015-02-22T05:04:11.902-05:002015-02-22T05:04:11.902-05:00Which games would they be Shea?
At this point all...Which games would they be Shea?<br /><br />At this point all I want is for game devs to take their premises seriously enough to go somewhere interesting. If you must make games about super humans destroying whole armies at least have people respond to that like human beings and not the latest model of the EgoFellatron 5000. <br /><br />Warstub, Even when game developers do hire "real" writers they hire schlocky fantasy writers who grew up in other schlocky fantasy worlds - asking for as much as a travel writer to help pitch in would be far too much. This is the industry that praises BioShock and Gone Home on the strength of their writing; at this point I honestly can't tell if these people never read or have just completely compartmentalised their standards. <br /><br />That said good strategy games have some applicability, and might help people to better understand why real world "bad guys" do some of the things they do, e.g. initiating aggressive wars to avoid fighting defensive ones, forming alliances with "bad people", executing POWs and so on. Within the confines of the genre as is one might easily make a game to help people better empathise with Hamas and Israel act like they do, without explicitly making propaganda - arguably some games already do. Malady Duckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06442872308311766239noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3493946997489326661.post-8580821731443486232015-02-15T13:51:42.152-05:002015-02-15T13:51:42.152-05:00"what happened to your cordial demeanor"..."what happened to your cordial demeanor"<br /><br />Fuck off, nerd.J. Sheahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10652255892382558843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3493946997489326661.post-75254662314105962962015-02-15T02:46:23.429-05:002015-02-15T02:46:23.429-05:00Whoah there dude what happened to your cordial dem...Whoah there dude what happened to your cordial demeanor, smoke a doobie relax. It's not that I believe it personally, I don't quite care enough to defend it, but it's more that I see him talked about in this manner . He's seen as a guy who hates Otaku, or at the very least his fans.<br />http://hideakiannohateseveryone.tumblr.com/<br />Things like this. <br /><br />I don't quite buy into his cult either, he supposedly hates some of this otaku crap yet he keeps it in the work, like the sexualization of the female characters. On the religious symbolism, I'm not exactly sure that it's pretentious in the way westerners do it, since Christianity is just an exotic religion over there, it's used in the same way The Matrix used Eastern religion, it's just aesthetic. There's little Jesus symbolism that quite makes traditional sense, at best it's a Shintoist interpretation of christiany stuff they've seen.<br /><br />Actually his recent Rebuild films have been feeling a lot like the Star Wars prequels but more insidious. At best I see him as not caring for evangelion,I've yet to see his rendition of Cutie Honey. Have you seen the Rebuild movies?<br /><br />Actually since you seem to dislike him, what do you think of this? Lol.<br />http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2014/08/26/studio-ghibli-co-founder-points-to-hideaki-anno-as-the-next-miyazaki Chimalpahinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13253712863324258942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3493946997489326661.post-17999792680009288462015-02-12T18:21:09.240-05:002015-02-12T18:21:09.240-05:00"Like Hideaki Anno, who also hates the otaku&..."Like Hideaki Anno, who also hates the otaku"<br /><br />seriously dude stop saying this unless you plan to actually back it up<br /><br />hideaki anno is the kind of dude who puts jesus symbolism into his robot anime because he thinks it makes him deep, why on earth would you think he's "anti-otaku"J. Sheahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10652255892382558843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3493946997489326661.post-87491261962221449582015-02-12T18:19:49.610-05:002015-02-12T18:19:49.610-05:00The Major Sphere is the only reason *anyone* likes...The Major Sphere is the only reason *anyone* likes *any* video game, dude. The number of games that actually tie into real life can be counted on the fingers of one hand. J. Sheahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10652255892382558843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3493946997489326661.post-34377958827324132192015-02-12T05:03:41.467-05:002015-02-12T05:03:41.467-05:00The Major Sphere is the reason why I and many othe...The Major Sphere is the reason why I and many others like/love Mass Effect - it was the great sweeping space opera we all wanted within a video game; something that wasn't Star Wars but harked back to the glory of Star Trek. The Minor Sphere of course is all the criticism that Mass Effect most rightly deserved - story/narrative, character arcs, mechanics, themes, etc. I think that, at least within the gaming "world", is what needs to be understood the most. I mean even though Fallout 3 got a bit of criticism - from you included - I still loved the experience of playing the game. For me it was fun.<br /><br />I just never understood how game developers/studios that tried telling a story within their game never - or at most, rarely - hired real writers; real 'professional' writers/authors. People who were great observers of the world and of the people around them. And there must be a whole swag of authors in this day and age who play video games and are interested in developing the medium in that respect. It frustrates me that video games are becoming caricatures of themselves, because all that the developers are influenced by are... surprise: other video games! Warstubhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12462907599044043765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3493946997489326661.post-74299702309370190282015-02-12T01:39:39.999-05:002015-02-12T01:39:39.999-05:00It's a shame your blog is full of 4-Channic di...It's a shame your blog is full of 4-Channic discourse, otherwise some good conversations may take place. <br /><br />Miyazaki's concern is even sadder considering how powerful and sanitized modern Japan is, I wonder though how much of this is a Tokyo and big city problem. Like Hideaki Anno, who also hates the otaku, how much of the rest of Japan have they seen? Would they really care about, oh say, the Ainu and their actual suffering in this industrial country?Chimalpahinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13253712863324258942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3493946997489326661.post-47758262090123328512015-02-12T01:30:01.555-05:002015-02-12T01:30:01.555-05:00But none of that is really new, we just have short...But none of that is really new, we just have short memories. The infant empire is in it's third age.Chimalpahinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13253712863324258942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3493946997489326661.post-10809432070379375832015-02-09T09:41:13.846-05:002015-02-09T09:41:13.846-05:00After last Summer we had GamerGate, Ferguson, the ...After last Summer we had GamerGate, Ferguson, the CIA Torture Report, etc etc etc. Lots of things that revealed our society was full of problems and many of those problems (sexism, racism, casual acceptance of heinous actions) were compounded by media, fictional and non-fictional.J. Sheahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10652255892382558843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3493946997489326661.post-42374413015285196962015-02-09T02:49:53.432-05:002015-02-09T02:49:53.432-05:00What happened last summer?What happened last summer?Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01237452707116851282noreply@blogger.com