"If your interested in Prototype,your an *******" Says Eric Holmes

Not just any *******, but "******* of the highest order". Prototype's lead designer, Eric Holmes, thinks that the type of person interested in a game like Prototype is the same type of person that, well... isn't very nice.

"People who play this sort of game are ******* of the highest order, and you can't make them care about the good things. The metaphor of the school bus on the side of the bridge and saving the screaming children -- you put someone in a videogame environment like that, they don't want to save the kids."

Linky

lol true Ill rather see the bus go down

The entire point of a video game is to divorce concequence from action, therefore introducing safety.

This guy is clearly an idiot, not only are the children not real in the game, nothing will happen if you save them or not. If you were presented with such a situation in the real world, you wouldn't be able to do anything about it anyway. Keep your moral cavalier attitude out of the game industry and the world will be a better place.

So if I'm an a-hole, I guess the lead designer is a d-bag.

Not just any *******, but "******* of the highest order". Prototype's lead designer, Eric Holmes, thinks that the type of person interested in a game like Prototype is the same type of person that, well... isn't very nice.

"People who play this sort of game are ******* of the highest order, and you can't make them care about the good things. The metaphor of the school bus on the side of the bridge and saving the screaming children -- you put someone in a videogame environment like that, they don't want to save the kids."

Linky

MachoBuzzzy

...The guy misses the whole freaking point of video games, and he designs them?

Call me an a**hole, one more time..... :evil:

Seriously though, i'm not even that interested in Prototype.

Bye bye bus.

...The guy misses the whole freaking point of video games, and he designs them?

Verge_6

...The guy misses the whole freaking point of video games, and he designs them?

Verge_6

Yeah seriously. Why is he designing Prototype then?

I think im a nice guy :(jg4xchamp

...The guy misses the whole freaking point of video games, and he designs them?

Verge_6

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...The guy misses the whole freaking point of video games, and he designs them?

jjenkins78x

I think you are missing the point of video games as well.

And you can't expect somebody to not be held accountable when they just called their entire audience a bunch of **** I do, however, think this is just a publicity stunt.

I can't believe he said that!

Not just any *******, but "******* of the highest order". Prototype's lead designer, Eric Holmes, thinks that the type of person interested in a game like Prototype is the same type of person that, well... isn't very nice.

"People who play this sort of game are ******* of the highest order, and you can't make them care about the good things. The metaphor of the school bus on the side of the bridge and saving the screaming children -- you put someone in a videogame environment like that, they don't want to save the kids."

Linky

MachoBuzzzy

[QUOTE="Verge_6"]

...The guy misses the whole freaking point of video games, and he designs them?

jjenkins78x

Who put the schoolbus there in the first place? :roll:

My God I have never seen people take things so literally in my entire life. This is literally stunning. jjenkins78x

im pretty sure thats a jokemurat8

That was nice of him.

Did the blogger Daniel Landis do the interview? If not can you provide a link to the original interview in which Prototype's designer said these? Thx.

[QUOTE="jjenkins78x"]My God I have never seen people take things so literally in my entire life. This is literally stunning. JLF1

If he believed that everyone would choose the evil route they wouldn't even code the good one. Look up the word hyperbole. Learn not to take things so literally. Even the article outlines what he is saying.

Forget this, I am done. You have all lost your minds if you can't figure this out.

Children or adults, they're still only fictional characters made up of polygons and spites and I will do whatever I like with them.

I don't discriminate, everyone is hated equally.

If he believed that everyone would choose the evil route they wouldn't even code the good one. Look up the word hyperbole. Learn not to take things so literally. Even the article outlines what he is saying.

Forget this, I am done. You have all lost your minds if you can't figure this out.

jjenkins78x

Well this shows the type of "intelligent" buyers this game is made for.

"You gotta be totally ca-rrrrrraaaaaaazzzzzzy to play this totally rad game, dudes!"

Infamous will be superior in every way.

have you ever played grand theft auto? have you ever killed someone in it when you havnt had to? sped through the streets accidently killing people even? if you have played it then i doubt you drove at the same speed as the other cars or killed anyone for any reason without being told to.

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If he believed that everyone would choose the evil route they wouldn't even code the good one. Look up the word hyperbole. Learn not to take things so literally. Even the article outlines what he is saying.

Forget this, I am done. You have all lost your minds if you can't figure this out.

JLF1

hyperbole =/= sarcasm D:

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[QUOTE="jjenkins78x"]

If he believed that everyone would choose the evil route they wouldn't even code the good one. Look up the word hyperbole. Learn not to take things so literally. Even the article outlines what he is saying.

Forget this, I am done. You have all lost your minds if you can't figure this out.

skelebull3000

hyperbole =/= sarcasm D:

Lol, I agree...I'd not only push the bus over the ledge, but demolish it in the process :)...I know it's a joke lol but I'm not interested in Prototype...

LOL, you guys can't take a joke. This guy > your headSenor_Kami

*shrugs* I just like its open world sandbox design.skrat_01

LOL, same here. I think he could have chosen a far better way to market the game to prospective buyers. As where I come from, calling someone that is an insult. I am sure he meant it in a different context of course, but maybe he should have just chosen another word instead....like maybe 'bad ass.' You know, something that would suggest more of a compliment, as I do not think anyone wants to call themselves an A-hole, lol.

true. quite disturbing game.

btw wtf is the difference with this and inFamous?

true. quite disturbing game.

btw wtf is the difference with this and inFamous?

hyperkass

BeforeEric get's tooantsy about it he should remember that 'right' and 'wrong' can be subjectiveanyway.

true. quite disturbing game.

btw wtf is the difference with this and inFamous?