Author Topic: The smartest person on the Internet (Read 108390 times)

NWR_Lindy · « **Reply #300 on:** December 22, 2009, 08:52:34 PM »

Malstrom had better watch it. Dyack could easily sue him for libel and slander based on that post.

D_Average · « **Reply #301 on:** December 22, 2009, 10:04:14 PM »

Quote from: NWR_Lindy on December 22, 2009, 08:52:34 PM

Malstrom had better watch it. Dyack could easily sue him for libel and slander based on that post.

He could also hunt him down, and punch him. Right. In. The. Face.

I know I will if I ever see him, he's hating on Mario World 1 AND 2 now.

KDR_11k · « **Reply #302 on:** December 23, 2009, 06:22:10 AM »

Hating on Mario World 2? You mean Yoshi's Island? I completely agree that YI was disappointing, I don't know whether it was the different physics, the graphical style or going back from SMW's multi-exited levels to linear arrangements with the only exploration being for a collectathon. I was a great fan of Yoshi back in the day so I thought I'd love it but no.

Quote from: NWR_Lindy on December 22, 2009, 08:52:34 PM

Malstrom had better watch it. Dyack could easily sue him for libel and slander based on that post.

Only one or the other, one is spoken, the other is written. Additionally, he cites an anonymous source there and "Sean Malstrom" is a pseudonym anyway.

Deguello · « **Reply #303 on:** December 23, 2009, 09:17:48 AM »

Quote from: NWR_Lindy on December 22, 2009, 08:52:34 PM

Malstrom had better watch it. Dyack could easily sue him for libel and slander based on that post.

Apparently, You can't even get banned from a forum for slander or libel these days.

Slander or libel have to have proven irreparable damages, and Dyack can't prove that Malstrom has affected him in any way.

UltimatePartyBear · « **Reply #304 on:** December 23, 2009, 01:19:40 PM »

I don't think "He plays Dawn of War 2 and polishes his sword instead of working" is worth suing over, even if it were both damaging and false (the other big requirement of suing for libel).

NWR_Lindy · « **Reply #305 on:** December 23, 2009, 07:42:17 PM »

I would normally say the same thing, but Malstrom's post seems to have no purpose other than to damage Dyack's reputation. I'm not sure what he gains by posting it, honestly. Besides, he can't prove that what that guy says is true, so he wouldn't have a leg to stand on in court (from what I know of libel laws).

His post just seems particularly vindictive, and quite a bit beyond your typical "So-and-so is an asshole" rant in a forum.

SixthAngel · « **Reply #306 on:** December 25, 2009, 12:51:53 AM »

His supposedly last post is hilarious.

He quits blogging because Nintendo changed to enviro friendly packaging and customers apparently care so much about it that it is really screwing them. The cases look fine to me. I usually leave my games in open air for a few days before I put them back in a dvd binder and I never had a problem though. I can't imagine anyone who is not "hardcore" is going to give a crap about a slight change in packaging.

He puts his own feelings into so many of his analysis that I can't help but laugh. He attacks Nintendo for user generated content all the time despite them only making one game with it, Wii Music. This means Nintendo apparently hates creating "content." He even tried to claim it was one of Animal Crossing's problems (I believe it was a big success in the past). He also recently attacks Nintendo a lot for being creative. He doesn't seem to realize that being creative and changing the formulas for games like Zelda isn't abandoning customers. It is in fact NECESSARY because people can and will get tired of the same formula again and again.

D_Average · « **Reply #307 on:** December 25, 2009, 01:24:24 AM »

I knew this blog was satire. There's no way anyone is that insane. At least I hope it's satire. If these are truly his thoughts I sincerely hope the dude seeks help.

Guitar Smasher · « **Reply #308 on:** December 25, 2009, 01:47:56 AM »

Yeah, I don't know where this one came from... I'm 50/50 on whether this is truly legitimate. I mean even when his arguments were suspect (see Zelda), he wasn't this ridiculous:

"This is an anti-consumer act. Now Nintendo is part of the problem instead of the solution."

"The purpose of the Wii was not to truly disrupt the industry but to make the console the top dog."

That's a giant stretch to make from just a change in packaging. Since he's always argued for the side of 'good business', it's baffling to see him outraged over a move that is 'good business'. I mean what company wants to be rated as the most polluting one out of its industry? Acting like consumers will react is simply crap. If packaging was an issue we wouldn't still see blister packs everywhere.

KDR_11k · « **Reply #309 on:** December 25, 2009, 04:59:32 AM »

Wasn't that image just a mockup based on an XBox 360 case?

Anyway, while the recycle logo is retarded (WHY? if you're going to reduce the amount of hard plastic why not cut out major parts instead of putting some giant logo in there?) you won't see it anyway because it's hidden behind the manual and all the extra health and safety bullshit any Wii game has. The openings below the disc are strange too (why not outside of the disc holder?) but there's still a fairly durable cover holder plastic over that so the disc cannot be damaged without ramming something sharp through the cover (which would likely pierce the disc as well). As for recycling I can only say "sigh, Amerikaner", in other countries you can very well see customers decide to buy more eco-friendly products because they are genuinely concerned about that.

BlackNMild2k1 · « **Reply #310 on:** December 25, 2009, 11:59:57 AM »

The new disc case started with Final Fantasy CC: TCB.

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I noticed it when I first got the game, but didn't realize everyone would be so mad about it.

But after seeing alot of the complaints, you should know that the new cases are pretty damn flimsy and are easily twisted and depressed, so if you ship a lot games from places like Amazon.com, "Handle with Care" and "Fragile" might be some of the special instructions you would want to put on the packaging.

*NWR has permission to watermark these images and use it for a story if necessary.

Arbok · « **Reply #311 on:** December 25, 2009, 05:24:18 PM »

Quote from: BlackNMild2k1 on December 25, 2009, 11:59:57 AM

*NWR has permission to watermark these images and use it for a story if necessary.

This brings up a good question... why aren't you staff yet?

BlackNMild2k1 · « **Reply #312 on:** December 25, 2009, 05:36:01 PM »

They wouldn't have me if even if I wanted the job

King of Twitch · « **Reply #313 on:** December 27, 2009, 11:18:46 PM »

Thank God, now mankind won't run the risk of running out of raw plastic materials and landfill space. Thank you Nintendo, that was a close one.

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But hey, Nintendo was never serious about the ‘revolution’ in the first place. The purpose of the Wii was not to truly disrupt the industry but to make the console the top dog. I’m convinced more than ever that Nintendo developers just want to make what they want to make. This is why we get abominations like trains in Zelda (because Anonuma reads a train book to his son at night), User Generated Content (because Nintendo has shown zero interest in generating content, original or otherwise), and motion control only being relegated to a few sports games and then ignored in every other part of Nintendo’s output. Nintendo developers are more interested in making games for themselves from Spirit Tracks, Mario Galaxy 2, to Metroid: Other M. Super Mario Brothers 5, an excellent game, should have come out ten years ago or so. Miyamoto and others at Nintendo knew people wanted a new 2d Mario. Instead of giving us one, Miyamoto kept trying to ram 3d Mario down our throats. Mario Galaxy was his last attempt and went so far as to make parts of Mario Galaxy even ‘2d’ to get Galaxy to sell like a 2d Mario game. Hilariously, Miyamoto was not heavily involved with NSMB DS and that game has outsold every Mario game in Japan except the first one.

This is the smartest person on the internet?

D_Average · « **Reply #314 on:** December 27, 2009, 11:31:46 PM »

Oh man, looks like he revoked his xmas present to the world. He isn't quitting after all.

http://seanmalstrom.wordpress.com/2009/12/27/email-the-last-bit-of-sanity/

BeautifulShy · « **Reply #315 on:** January 27, 2010, 03:37:43 AM »

http://seanmalstrom.wordpress.com/2010/01/27/kotakus-gut-check

SixthAngel · « **Reply #316 on:** January 27, 2010, 04:34:41 AM »

"Keighley specifically knows that Nintendo went the User Generated Content direction (all the game journalists know it), but none of them are reporting it. Why? Why do they continue to distort and say things that are not true?"

He mentions this in every single thing he says and it drives me crazy. ONE GAME DOES NOT MAKE A COMPANY GO IN A DIFFERENT DIRECTION. They made Wii Music, there were no other games based on user generated content available. Can you think of another example? I can only think of Warioware DIY (ds game, still not out) and random extras in currently successful games. He harps on this **** all day long. Nintendo didn't change everything around when this game only sold a few million. They were already making nsmb and Resort. This is like stating after Miyamoto made Pikmim "Nintendo is going in the RTS direction." He says a lot stupid things in his blog now but it drives me crazy that he keeps bringing this up as if it is actually true.

SixthAngel · « **Reply #317 on:** January 27, 2010, 04:38:01 AM »

stupid proxy server

D_Average · « **Reply #318 on:** January 27, 2010, 10:16:14 AM »

Yeah. The user generated rants make no sense. It was one game. You may as well say Nintendo needs to drop virtual reality or that it'll be 18 years for another 2D Mario since the last one took that long. He does it for attention and it works pretty well.

KDR_11k · « **Reply #319 on:** January 27, 2010, 12:02:03 PM »

Apparently the execs declared that their strategy some time ago. The drought followed after Wii Music failed, I wouldn't be surprised if they noticed their game projects were heading into an unsellable direction so they had to delay them all (internally, they didn't announce them before) for retooling and thus created the massive Wii game drought.

SixthAngel · « **Reply #320 on:** January 27, 2010, 02:05:03 PM »

Quote from: KDR_11k on January 27, 2010, 12:02:03 PM

Apparently the execs declared that their strategy some time ago. The drought followed after Wii Music failed, I wouldn't be surprised if they noticed their game projects were heading into an unsellable direction so they had to delay them all (internally, they didn't announce them before) for retooling and thus created the massive Wii game drought.

I don't think that is really a possible. Nintendo announces stuff late but not that late, its only been a little over a year since Wii Music. That would mean that they had a ton of games ready to go in about 4 months, had not announced them yet and cancelled them all. They released all the stuff they had planned like PUNCH OUT, Resort and NSMB. They did have a conference to announce a couple of user generated things, it was all on the DS.

They were almost entirely DS games that have no or little chance of coming to the US. More importantly announcements and cheap forays into new territories like this is expected by people who invest in the companies. Nothing ever gave the hint it was actually the direction of the company though. Nintendo makes a lot of different kinds of games and making a couple in the UGC genre doesn't "change their direction" anymore than making Mario Kart means they are changing the direction of the Mario series.

Deguello · « **Reply #321 on:** February 05, 2010, 02:41:04 PM »

Reading over his past postings so far, I'm come across a question that would make his head explode (and yours too) if you ever told him.

He seems to think uberly long and controlling narratives are a pox on games (and I tend to agree when they get really excessive and stupid) and says the best narratives (which he separates from stories, which is an interesting distinction) are ones the players at home create for themselves as they play the game. So, the question is, why is he so down on user generated content, we he seems perfectly fine with having the user create his own narrative playing the game?

The narrative is part of the content, whether there isn't any, (Pong, Mario Kart) only minimal amounts (NSMBWii, Final Fantasy 1, old Zelda, Pokemon), significant amounts (most 16-bit games, DS games, Zelda, most modern games), High amounts (Most modern RPGs, Current Gen shooters and action games, etc.), and way too much (Metal Gear.) The execution of it in any amount is still on the part of the game designers, and shouldn't be scraped onto the player (aside from multiplayer anecdotes for other players). I noticed this when he started talking about Koopa Kids being "governors" or "where all the yoshis went" and I'm thinking that Malstrom is apparently a supporter of User Generated Content as far as storylines go.

KDR_11k · « **Reply #322 on:** February 06, 2010, 03:00:50 AM »

The line is fine but user generated content is constraint-less design while freedom of action in a game is still acting within certain constraints (e.g.you buy stuff to make money, not just randomly). Additionally consider the mindgame involved: In a game where you are free to do things your mind is still thinking about how to best achieve the overall goals of the game (e.g. getting strong to beat the big bad), in a UGC editor your mind is focused on how the player will later experience the things you throw together.

For example Banjo Kazooie 360 let you design your own vehicles. Is that UGC? No, you are designing vehicles for a purpose and you have limits to account for, you may want to include fewer weapons to keep the weight down and whatnot. You have to make sure that the vehicle does its job and the game puts constraints on there that prevent you from just throwing together anything. When you design a player ship for Blastworks the only thing that even matters for the gameplay is the shot pattern and that's only constrained by the maximum number of bullets onscreen, you can make the pattern any kind of overpowered nonsense and completely break the game so the only reason not to go all out is your own restraint. The rest of the ship doesn't matter at all, it can be a single square and it will still fly all the same.

BeautifulShy · « **Reply #323 on:** March 24, 2010, 03:43:30 PM »

Guys I just wanted to point out the the last link that I posted wasn't about user generated content. The main point of the blog post was about how the media creates overly irrational fanboys and how the media back pedals on things when things aren't going their way.

And no I didn't bump this to just say that.

http://seanmalstrom.wordpress.com/2010/03/23/analyst-says-why-move-will-be-a-success

KDR_11k · « **Reply #324 on:** March 25, 2010, 03:24:48 AM »

Yeah, the argument that playing Wii is "embarrassing" is somewhere between retarded and hilarious. Grow up, kid!

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Author Topic: The smartest person on the Internet (Read 108390 times)