It’s like hearing someone say “there were no strong female leads in movies before the Hunger Games”
Video games
Submitted 3 weeks ago by InterestingUsername@lemmy.ml to [deleted]
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EggInDisguise@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
PattyMcB@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Ellen Ripley enters the chat
Blackmist@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Foxy Brown looks on from the back of the bus.
TastyWheat@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
“Did IQs just drop sharply while I was away?”
boonhet@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Yes I’m pretty sure her actress replied to that. At least in the screenshot that was posted here, no idea if it was real or not
heartSagan5@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Sigourney Weaver enters the chat
MML@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Sucker Punch came out a year before
FluidBeef@quokk.au 2 weeks ago
Steady on now!
Redditmodstouchgrass@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I was about to post that. Thanks for saving me the trouble.
thiscat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
i love how it says 1972 while showing the original super mario bros
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Anyone else with fond 1970s memories of finding the parents’ lock to the coinbox of the home NES?
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Super Mario Bros was published in 1985 not 1972 but yeah.
Back in the 90’s, video games were new enough that you could forgive the film industry for not being familiar with them. It’s been 30 years. They still don’t get it.
grahamja@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
They don’t play video games, they do coke or children. They live different lives than us poors.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I kinda stand with Yahtzee Croshaw on this: The video game industry is a lot bigger than the film industry and makes a hell of a lot more money, so filmmakers should probably do a little learning their place.
LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
I mean, lets be fair here. Its both coke and children.
AngryRedHerring@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You’re being too generous. In the 90s we were playing PlayStation and TV shows were still using the death sound from Atari Pac-Man
GreenShimada@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yes, like GoldenEye. No one played it, and it was definitely not a popular FPS where you jumped on enemies. It’s an obscure game based on the obscure movie where James Bond jumped on every single woman he saw. /s
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
There have been more good Movie: The Video Game releases than Video Game: The Movie.
gigastasio@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Have I been playing Skyrim wrong all this time?
rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Someone call a psychiatrist, we have another case of Other Games Syndrome.
You’ll be ok. Let’s just sit down and play either of your games. Do you want to play Super Mario, or Last of Us
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
No, it’s the same thing. You’re an arrow who jumps on the heads of enemies.
Wait, you didn’t think you were the person with the bow did you? The stealth archer is inconsequential to the story. It’s the arrow that matters.
ms_lane@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You owe Todd a lot of quarters missy.
realitista@lemmus.org 3 weeks ago
There are actually very few games overall where you jump on people.
Renat@szmer.info 3 weeks ago
Assassin creed series
alekwithak@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Church climbing simulator?
BigBananaDealer@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
this is the real reason why the people of lemmy hate the industry
pjwestin@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Honestly, I’m more angry about the meme creator thinking that Super Mario Bros. was 1972.
BilSabab@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
1972 Mario would’ve been a literal room-size machine
pjwestin@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
kamen@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’ve got a suspicion that this is one of those “say something intentionally stupid so that everyone jumps on the train to correct you and create engagement”.
boonhet@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Next up: post a math problem with no right answers and watch the post get a million comments (where only 10% notice the lack of a right answer)
HoneyMustardGas@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s Cunningham’s Law in action.
selokichtli@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
That’s how everything in the internet works nowadays. I just can’t do it. Everyone (mostly bots I suspect) seem to want to get pissed off or feel themselves like correct or interesting.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
You can’t just call people on the spectrum bots :P
kamen@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I try to “vote with my wallet” on these things whenever I can.
ohulancutash@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Or someone says something evocative of their meaning but not fully fact-checked and cited because they aren’t a clanker.
kamen@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
There’s not all that much fact checking about something like that. It’s not like they claimed something and got one small detail wrong. It’s just a blanket statement that is unsubstantiated. Assuming they have common knowledge of the industry they’re in, it takes just one game that is not coin-operated and has some save functionality to make the original statement invalid.
myyass@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That’s right because playing Dark Souls, I had to insert my sanity in the coin slot every time I died and it said Thanks Obama.
BreadOven@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
EonNShadow@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
Wonderful mod, that one
myyass@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah I got a good giggle out of it.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
Nobody else inserted quarters into their computer whenever you died in Doom?
Klear@piefed.world 3 weeks ago
You can’t die in Doom. Per the quote - you die after jumping on enemies. The lack of jump button and infinitely tall monsters were specifically implemented to prevent player death.
MarcomachtKuchen@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
That’s why it’s considered a milestone game. Truely astonishingly design.
spicytuna62@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I did once. The quarter fell onto some solder points and short circuited a bunch of stuff. Fried the whole machine. This was back in the early 90s, of course, when a typical computer cost as much as a nice used car and maybe four people in the county had one, much less knew how to fix one. Something about getting beaten with jumper cables. Sometimes the hard lessons are the ones that stick with you most because as I got older, I learned how to solder and perform board level repairs. It’s an insanely useful skill.
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 3 weeks ago
The Last of Us what the first game yo could play without quarters? I had no idea. That’s pretty incredible.
kreiger@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Super Mario Bros came out in 1985, not 1972. Pong was 1972.
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Vespair@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
That’s literally not the joke though. The joke doesn’t change at all if we correct the date to 1985, so clearly the error not only isn’t the joke, it’s not even a part of the joke. How is this so upvoted? People just slackjawed reacting like “omfg I remember the Simpsons!”
kreiger@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
No, the joke was that since 1985 there’s been no games, but the image says 1972.
TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Grateful for you both bc I did not catch that part of the joke lol
bequirtle@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Philomena Cunk on video games
Ryanmiller70@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I was listening to a podcast recently, New York Videogames Critics Circle, and they talked about The Last of Us 1 and 2 and Neil Druckman as if it was the first game to ever make the player feel emotions. Like not just that it did so successfully, but that it did it at all.
THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The Last of Us is just something I cannot get in to. Been trying for 10 years. I just do not care and it bores me to death even when I was trying to force myself to stay with it. Turns out as I get older, I still don’t want walking simulators. I still just want more of the games I played as a kid, and luckily I still have them all.
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It is fine to have a different experience and taste in games. But The Last Of Us is absolutely not a Walking Sim. For one thing, Walking Sims, by definition, have no combat. You just walk around and explore a place and uncover a story along the way. TLOU is filled with stealth combat and 3rd person shooting, survival horror style resource management, as well as exploration and an unfolding story.
I think what you mean is that you dislike Narrative-driven adventure games. Walking Sims are a sub-genre of narrative driven games, but not all narrative driven games are Walking Sims. The Last Of Us is an narrative- driven action-adventure survival-horror game.
Einskjaldi@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You can bypass 90% of the game challenges by just running past it, it works alarmingly well.
criss_cross@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I like walking sims but I hate stealth action games. Will never be able to play TLOU.
Also hearing about what they did in the 2nd one kinda kills my interest.
blartcap_@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Did what in the second one? Made the stealth action more involved?
Evotech@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I agree. Rogue lites and choose 3
v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
+2 +2
Zahille7@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’ve been balls fucking deep in Spider-Man 2 lately. I got it a couple weeks ago and haven’t stopped since. I’m already almost 100% done with my NG+ run. I got a bunch of costume mods and some gameplay tweak mods, and I’m having a blast swinging around the expanded NYC (including Queens and Brooklyn) in all these different costumes that all honestly look fantastic.
It’s just more of the same/similar Spider-Man games we’ve all been playing for the better part of 20 years, but it’s just so goddamn fun.
myotheraccount@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I absolutely loved playing The Last of Us. But I find no enjoyment in ever playing it again (I tried and got bored). It will be like rewatching a movie I’ve seen, but meanwhile having to relearn how to watch it as well. I think these storydriven games have their place, but there are surely more engaging games.
SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 3 weeks ago
TLoU is as far as I know the only instance of a movie or series adaptation of a video game being better than its source material.
tias@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
If we want to be charitable there’s a nugget of truth to what he’s saying though. I’m 48 now and I’ve played computer games since I was seven, and I’ve worked with game development myself. TLOU was the first game that felt like it had a story for someone who’s 40+. It felt like some kind of milestone. The art of games has matured significantly in the past 15 years.
FluidBeef@quokk.au 3 weeks ago
I got pretty fed up with always needing change to play Counter Strike.
orioler25@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I guess Zionism is a bold innovation in video game storytelling now.
whereitsat@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
movies and tv shows are pretty simple – you had charlie chaplin and leave it to beaver and then the last of us on HBO.
i have a private school/ivy league education in film theory btw. i’m short for time, so excuse the grammer.
BreadOven@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
As far as I’m concerned Pong is the ONLY video game worth playing.
Anchorxiety@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
I have to admit I miss the days before the invention of the home console and PC in 2012 😣
collapse_already@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
I can’t think of any aspect of The Last of Us that didn’t appear in an earlier game. It was well enough done, but I don’t feel like it was innovative in any way.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The showrunner of TLOS was also the head writer for the game.
DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth 3 weeks ago
Is that a real quote?
ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
I keep jumping people in leisure suit Larry and they aren’t dying is this a bug
OriginEnergySux@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Lol can you imagine the jump if that’s how it was 🤣
abbiistabbii@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Clearly the showrunner has never played a video game.
boletus@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Craig Mazin never said this at all. The closest source I could find on it is a seemingly bot generated article about a sarcastic tweet that someone made about him.
LazyOldPervert@lemmus.org 3 weeks ago
You kinda undercut your point when you say that the most famous video game of all time was released aover a decade before it actually was. . .
umbraroze@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
Things have changed significantly since Super Mario Bros. was released. For example, vast majority of video games released these days feature no senseless violence toward turtles. Many even portray turtles in factual, chilly way! 🐢
Stefan_S_from_H@piefed.zip 3 weeks ago
It’s frustrating how people in charge are so far away from reality.
Remember when Kathleen Kennedy said that writing for Star Wars is hard because there aren’t any books and comics?
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
She can’t have said that.
TallonMetroid@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Hate to break it to you, but…
superherohype.com/…/472176-kathleen-kennedy-claim…
Stefan_S_from_H@piefed.zip 3 weeks ago
https://www.rollingstone.com/feature/lucasfilm-president-kathleen-kennedy-interview-rise-skywalker-future-star-wars-912393/
NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Lol what? That’s like saying drawing is hard if there’s no connect the dots
static09@piefed.world 3 weeks ago
I have a biased take here, but:
It’s so much worse than that. It’s like saying “We can’t trace any completed connect the dots drawings” when there were 200 already completed connect the dots drawings specifically based on Star Wars.
I would kill to have a Darth Bane movie trilogy or two movies based on Revan. There’s even a Star Wars zombie book they could have turned into a movie at the height of the zombie media craze for crying out loud.
Horribly, horribly mismanaged.
snooggums@piefed.world 3 weeks ago
It is like she is saying filming Lord of the Rings was hard because there were no books to start from.
brb@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
There are Star Wars books and comics??