Re: oh for fuck's ake.
Martin said:
Look “Vince”, I know this is your private feud...
What feud? I'm not a big fan of the game. I respect Thomas for making two well-polished and surprisingly well-put together games, but I'm not his target audience. Contrary to what you may think I'm not attacking you because you dared to criticize a game I like. What you posted didn't make a lot of sense and I merely pointed it out.
... but I assure you I was not joking regarding my views of the game in question. I also was not selectively twisting around the content of my post to cover up or distort anything of what it actually says, that’s what you do. I did not deny anything, but just in case here: what I said in my OP is 100% true. Clear about the denial attempt? No denial here pal.
Ok. Let's try it again.
Martin:
The game is crap. I do not have enough sympathy towards cRPG indie developers to avoid recognizing that overall the game is a huge steaming pile of crap.
I clocked almost 60 hours to finish it. If it weren’t for all that highly enjoyable, challenging and immersive slow motion “exploration” I doubt this game would take more than 35 hours to finish.
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Highly enjoyable, challenging and immersive slow motion “exploration” ... Game mechanics and ruleset, character development in terms of statistics are a positive aspect to be honest.
Combat? Passable, some details to consider and nice touches due to the strong ruleset, a decent amount of options for this kind of title.
The game is crap. I do not have enough sympathy towards cRPG indie developers to avoid recognizing that overall the game is a huge steaming pile of crap.
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I clocked almost 60 hours to finish it. If it weren’t for all that highly enjoyable, challenging and immersive slow motion “exploration” I doubt this game would take more than 35 hours to finish, even if you did everything.
Also I didn’t pay for the game. So fuck you Basilisk Games. “Indie” status or not, as far as I am concerned you deserve to go under."
You can state whatever you like about my persona or my time spent in this forum, but you cannot cover up what is obvious. Just like if your game taken together can only be described as a pile of shit it will take a lot more to cover that up and actually make it a success than a niche friendly clique of sycophants and community leaders with their own vested economic interests or whose social life and status is based on this kind of community. But you already know that. And that’s why you are so careful with your fellow “indies”.
What's obvious is that a guy pirated a game, played it for 60 hours finding many things to enjoy, then made an angry post calling it crap and wishing for the developer to go under. Don't get me wrong. I don't care whether you pirate games or not. However, pirating a game, playing it for 60 hours, and then telling "fuck you" to the developer and telling him that he deserves to go under is douche-fucking-baggery and most people here seemed to agree with that. You can call them a clique of sycophants or you can re-examine your own position. Your choice.
What I written is 100% true from the perspective of anyone who experienced the game in question. I experienced all of it or 99% of it. Some “reviewers” put in the same time or close and gave this steaming pile of crap top scores. For me in a scale of 1-5 it doesn’t deserve 2. Do you agree with these reviewers? Do you lie somewhere in between? Do you disagree with my original post? Do you have arguments regarding the game that disprove or invalidate my points? Please go ahead. You already got me to post again, congratulations of course.
Which reviews? I've only read one, the RPGWatch one, and I do not agree with it. I think the review was embarrassing, both for the Watch and Thomas.
I mostly agree with your comments about the game, but I disagree with your conclusions and the angry "fuck you" tirade.
Basically, if you need some guidelines, if you played the game for 60 hours praising many features, you can't call the game bad. You just can't. Saying that you played it for 60 hours and then calling it crap is a "self inflicted ad hominem attack."
If you steal a game, you don't have the right to tell the developers "fuck you, you deserve to go under". If he does, it's because of people like you who actually enjoy his games enough to play them for 60 hours but don't want to pay for them.
But actually construing my post regarding the game like some sort of deluded rant that is “stupid” while not stating why in regards to the object of my post that is pretty damn low.
You mean it wasn't obvious?
Unlike yourself, for me this forum isn’t actually important, as in to my life or any of my goals or interests. You have an image to project and to protect I understand, enlightened self interest and all that. I really do.
I post rarely these days. I'm not a local "community leader with vested economic interests" as you called me. I don't have an image to protect. In fact, if I'm not mistaken most people here didn't even like Eschalon. So, no, you really don't.
I noticed you did not present a single argument regarding the points in my original point.
Has the art of reading comprehension escaped you completely?
"So, let me see if I get this straight. You downloaded a game without paying for it, played it for 60 hours, which is a long fucking time, and even though you thought that the character system and development were a positive aspect and the exploration was "highly enjoyable, challenging and immersive", you made an angry "fuck you Baslisk!" post wishing for the developer to go under, calling the game shite, and bragging that you didn't pay for it.
You, sir, are a gigantic fucking douchebag."
What's to explain?
Also when I said look at the threads I meant look at the threads. Look at the number of views of this thread for example. Quite a few of this visitors are laughing now but not at me.
Weak.
