I don't have so much faith in a game where you fight explicit Nazis. They didn't need to return to Wolfenstein. Or Nazis. It doesn't seem like a good sign that the game is going to be anything more than another dime-a-dozen shooter, because they couldn't come up with a premise more interesting that "kill the only real enemy that the Americans ever definitively beat". As per playing as the Nazis, yeah, sure, why not? At least then they couldn't be cardboard cutout characters for you to shoot and feel no remorse about. It's not like most of these soldiers you traditionally killed were probably conscripts. They were all crack SS soldiers, who were raised from a vat and passed their sundays killing jews for laughs. Right?
@Godendag No, my potentially Dutch speaking friend. I want Michael Biehn to star in every science fiction game I play from now until the end of time. Also Blood Dragon 2: The Revenge of Sloan. I've already dreamed up a ... dream plot involving a Richard Crenna like character, Rex being forced into action to deal with a platoon of rogue Mk.V Cyber Commandos, who have been hijacked by a Soviet robot, who came back from the future and has kidnapped the president and is holding on an island in the Canadian wasteland. Rex Power Colt is pressed back into service, and he has 48 hours to rescue the president before MAD sets in.
But could you imagine a real proper Star Trek (TOS) game? One where there would be very little shooting, and mostly dealing with a moral issue, while trying in the background to resolve a minor technical problem that is preventing you from just leaving? That would be great.
...or maybe it would be one of those episodes where they discover an alternate Earth.
@Pulfasonic @Cowboy-Bebop And if we were to play a game about violent revenge fantasies (wait. that's every game ever.) that would be GREAT.
Personally, as someone who experienced bullying to a spectacular degree in public schools, I have this to say: We don't need to be cured of pain. Pain makes us strong.
"You know that pain and guilt can't be taken away with a wave of a magic wand. They're things we carry with us - the things that make us who we are. If we lost them, we lose ourselves. I don't want my pain taken away. I need my pain."
Pain is just another adversity, and we shouldn't seek it out just so we can overcome it, but we do not know ourselves until we have been tested by adversity. It reveals deeper truths about us. I know few people like pain, and I know that everyone looks better as their fair-weather self, but dealing with conflict and adversity is a part of life. It's not only about self discovery, but also about growth, and learning how to deal with those who would force their will upon us.
I don't know why. Well, I can guess. I'm currently in a job search in an extremely competitive market. Two degrees, still not qualified to work for people for free. It's currently the 8th month, and yeah, there are days where I am not actively looking for a job, and there are days where I don't get up until noon. Especially when I get to the advanced stages of an application and get my hopes dashed. It's frustrating. Oh, all my friends are currently in Belgium. I am not in Belgium. I used to be. So, yeah, it feels like I've been kept in a cage, and people only let me out to watch me dance, before sending me back.
But where there is life, there is hope right? The day has not yet dawned in which I won't continue to try to claw my way to the top. It's confusing when I hear people talk like in this video. I mean, I have some things in my life that are pretty crappy. This isn't a competition. But to hear people talk like this and feel some community with their plight; after all, who isn't a stranger to suffering. But it's confusing because you start to wonder if that's affecting oneself. I'm not going to lie, I've drown my sorrows in a bottle of wine on a lonely night and wanted to howl into darkness, but I also kept going. What didn't kill me, indeed, made me stronger.
I don't want to think of that as mental illness, or having to cackle at how absurd life can be. It sounds crazy. A lot of things SOUND crazy, but we're too quick to slap the word crazy on things that are simply things that aren't understood. You just need perspective. At part of the thing about leading a life of passion and ideals is that you are going to have lows with the highs. If you live life, then when you ... aren't, it's going to feel like a hole in your chest, no? The heightened excitement has to be highlighted by ennui. No?
@RE4WiiGirl @Verenti Better to be negative and be pleasantly surprised, then to have expectations dashed. Besides, what I really saying was that this game looks amazing.
Saying "we'll be back in two weeks" is Gamespot UK's equivalent of saying "I'm going to the corner store" and never coming back, it seems :/
But Johnny isn't leaving for a Feedback themed site named "Feedbackstein", right? right? You'd have to call "Show of the Week" just "Show". Because you only do one show a week.
This game is going to be a huge disappointment, because my expectations are through the roof. Especially after the James Cameron-eske all-fx-no-plot ship wreck (ha-ha.) that was Bioshock Infinite.
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