Decline Indie Faggotry: Gone Home developers pull out of PAX

[Kane]

seriously, all these bastards spend all their freetime posting in forums and blogs instead of doing something productive. what's wrong with them???

as 5000th posts go, this one is p. good

Hah, didn't even notice! A worthy 5000th post I agree.

 

[J1M]

From the gone home trailer i watched, the only gameplay that it seemed to have was the choice between turning on an off a desk lamp and turning on and off a floor lamp.

 

[taxalot]

Sometimes, a game is not about gameplay.

 

[J1M]

Books and movies are not games.

 

[Metro]

Sometimes, a game is not about gameplay.

No, that's never the case.

 

[Roguey]

Gone Home is a going to be an interactive movie, not unlike The Walking Dead. The future of the medium.

 

[Gurkog]

Gone Home is a going to be an interactive movie, not unlike The Walking Dead. The death of the medium.

*fixed

 

[MapMan]

I don't know what penny arcade is. Sometimes I feel like I'm in the wrong place. Seriously.

 

[Alex]

I guess they gave up and just gone home then?

Damn, I wish I could. I wish I could...

 

[AstroZombie]

Dumb decision on the developers' side. They lose out on a lot of exposure for their game, plus anyone praising them on their decision will have forgotten all about it in a week or so, so they don't even get any real respect or admiration out of this. Lose-lose situation they put themselves in.

And all because they let themselves get trolled by some guy posting a few dickish comments on the internet.

I disagree, this seems like a calculated marketing decision to me. Check some of the comments here http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=599331 and here http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2...ue-to-organisers-stance-on-a-number-of-issues

 

[Tom Selleck]

"You know, I don't really want this 3D walkthrough of a house to be represented at a convention with thousands of people that would buy our thing game, because one of the organizers thought women had vaginas."

That being said, more people are going to know about this than might have seen their crummy booth at PAX, and as such, all the people who are "Fucken rights, stand up for Liberty!" on GAF might buy the game.

So, hooray!

 

[Tehdagah]

NeoGAF

 

[dnf]

Gone Home is a going to be an interactive movie, not unlike The Walking Dead. The future of the medium.

Holy shit, marriage and traditional family aren't enough for fags, now they want to destroy games...

 

[villain of the story]

involve any antagonist race aside from Anglo-Saxon and you’re called a racist.

This is so true. People ripped even Prometheus to pieces because (among other things) the master engineer race is (literally) WHITE oh noes THATS RACIST!, even though the design was clearly to make them look stand out in an alienating way despite the shared human anatomy and despite that they were genocidal psychopaths who were en route to earth to destroy it. These people are completely out of touch.

 

[Grunker]

involve any antagonist race aside from Anglo-Saxon and you’re called a racist.

This is so true. People ripped even Prometheus to pieces because RACISM

No, people ripped Prometheus because it was a piece of shit.

 

[DragoFireheart]

What's that? Developers with a thin skin?

Nothing of value was lost.

 

[DakaSha]

i don't even know what exactly penny arcade is

 

[Tommy Wiseau]

Gone Home is a going to be an interactive movie, not unlike The Walking Dead. The future of the medium.

The Walking Dead was good. Never heard of this game, though...

Good to know where they stand on this. I'll make sure not to but their game.

 

[villain of the story]

involve any antagonist race aside from Anglo-Saxon and you’re called a racist.

This is so true. People ripped even Prometheus to pieces because RACISM

No, people ripped Prometheus because it was a piece of shit.

Some people ripped Prometheus because it is a piece of shit. Some people ripped Prometheus because they are piece of shits.

 

[DalekFlay]

"I am very disappointed in you, Penny Arcade! For shame!"

 

[Trash]

I stopped taking Penny Arcade seriously after I saw how Tycho and Gabe looked like IRL. Jesus fucking christ.

Best post of the entire thread since it actually made me look them up. Holy fucking lol.

Fuck that whole Mccarthynistic attitude surrounding this btw. It's genuinly creepy to see how gleefully the pc brigade jumps on the bandwagon of holier-than-thou fingerpointing and crying for blood. A little sense of perspective wouldn't fucking hurt.

And what the fuck is it with RPS having turned from an amusing website about games with consistent shit reviews into self-appointed gender equality and political correctness fighters out to cleanse the net?

While Penny Arcade artist and founder Mike ‘Gabriel’ Krahulik is no stranger to controversy, his latest stream of Twitter ignorance towards trans folk, apparently provoked by death threats but coming off the back of his refusing to condemn a (later revised) PAX panel which appeared to shrug off bigotry in games as just a bit of fun, caused a chain of events which finally made Goliath flinch. There was a lot of powerful writing on the subject of PA’s long history of controversies and their responsibilities to their army of devotees, but most likely candidate for smoking pistol is The Fullbright Company’s decision to pull Gone Home from PAX. The notoriously unrepentant Krahulik finally offered an apology, a pledge to stop declaring that gender is defined only by genitalia and, later, a $20,000 donation to The Trevor Project. After years of escalating rather than placating when challenged, it’s a big step for Penny Arcade. They’ve done amazing things with PAX and especially Child’s Play, but their name was beginning to take on less positive associations. Hopefully he’s truly reassessing his attitudes rather than just detoxifying his brand, though given that he’s neglected to explain why he was wrong, I do wonder whether Krahulik’s amends will enlighten the fans who were convinced that his former aggression was fine, even heroic.

Dat attitude...

 

[Crooked Bee]

Sometimes, a game is not about gameplay.

No, that's never the case.

Generally true, but not when it comes to storyfag games like PS:T or MotB

Is always the case with indie games, though. Gameplay or bust!

 

[Spectacle]

Sometimes, a game is not about gameplay.

No, that's never the case.

Generally true, but not when it comes to storyfag games like PS:T or MotB

Is always the case with indie games, though. Gameplay or bust!

I think there's a valid conceptual space for interactive experiences that are not "games" in the strict sense, whether they are story focused or not. It remains to be seen if this potential will be realized anytime soon, or just be a playground for hipsters doing random shit.

 

[evdk]

I think there's a valid conceptual space for interactive experiences that are not "games" in the strict sense, whether they are story focused or not. It remains to be seen if this potential will be realized anytime soon, or just be a playground for hipsters doing random shit.

Sure, but they shouldn't be marketed as games, nor should they be lauded as the next step in gaming by the press. If you want to create some crazy conceptual interactive artwork uncovering the truth about human condition by repeatedly walking around empty rooms it belongs in a museum gallery not on Steam, with 11/10 reviews from mainstream gaming sites. The same thing goes for using the medium for a simple political message (unless you actually bother to package some gameplay with your propaganda piece).

 

[Tehdagah]

And what the fuck is it with videogame media having turned from an amusing media about games with consistent shit reviews into self-appointed gender equality and political correctness fighters out to cleanse the net?

Fixed

Btw, I laughed:

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Hopefully he’s truly reassessing his attitudes rather than just detoxifying his brand, though given that he’s neglected to explain why he was wrong, I do wonder whether Krahulik’s amends will enlighten the fans who were convinced that his former aggression was fine, even heroic.