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Originally posted by FragFodder
"So, as a gamer, you value your history of playing games, and your knowledge of what makes a game good, as inferior to that of Raven and Lucasarts? Amazingly enough, even though you don't work for Raven or Lucasarts, you DO know just as much about aspects of game design as the people who work for the companies do (well, I have doubts about you personally). Games testers are generally just gamers who have blagged a job in the industry. All they do is play games and comment on them. Exactly what Dimebag, and now myself have been doing. If you don't think such comments have any value, I think you really should consider finding a different game to play, as you clearly don't Love this one enough..."
The diff between u and Dimebag is that the game testers have been playing this game all the way through the developemental phase, they've seen the forst attempts and probably cringed at how good/bad they may have been, and they've sat down with the developers and said "look you should try this, this and this". They also do it for a living and bottom line.. Praccy make perfect.
You clearly have no idea about the Games Industry, although your post shows that. Pick up a copy of Edge, look in the back, you will see adverts for game testers, no experience is required except for lead tester positions. As for 'Praccy make [sic] perfect'. What exactly do you think they do other than (capitals for this again, maybe they'll manage to work into your brain this time) PLAY GAMES? Yes, that's right, they do nothing but play games, EXACTLY the same as any of us. If a fault is noted by a consumer that hasn't been picked up by the Testing team, it is a problem, and something that needs to be changed. It doesn't matter one whit whether this game is based around the Star Wars universe, as it's not part of Star Wars canon. That much has been said repeatedly by George Lucas, the only things that ARE canon are the films themselves. Thus a claim that it's Star Wars and meant to be like that doesn't work.
Also I didn't say your comments where worthless, I just dont agree with the way u put them over. You've gone out of your way and not considered many angles that make the difference between most games on the market and Jedi Knight. That major diff is that JK is set in the starwars universe, a fictitious place that came from the inside of George Lucases Head. You can speculate on how things should be but at the end of the day, anything he's said in this field kinda gets noted down as gospel, or do you know more about his own creation than he does
There's no angles to consider, this is a game. If problems exist then they should be fixed, THAT'S IT. There's no 'this is Star Wars' fan boy rubbish. The fact that it's a fictional place makes no difference than trying to defend bugs in say Dai Katana by claiming it's a fictional world that exists only in Romero's head. The creation of Jedi Knight had NOTHING to do with George Lucas other than being set in a world of his creation. That is it, read an interview with any of the licensed creators of Star Wars games and you'll see that GL has no direct bearing. Even titles like X-Wing, a game produced internally by Lucasarts is the product of Larry Holland's mind, NOT GL's. Also, for reference, I'm not aware of Mister Lucas ever making comments as to the targetting system, the ability of various races to resist knockback from a disruptor beam, the spread and aiming ability of races from close range using an Imperial blaster rifle. These are all variables conjured up by Raven Software. That fact that you can't even begin to see this is tragic in itself, as it really belays your lack of knowledge about a game you claim to be a fan of. I'm guessing you are probably too young to remember even the Original game, and that's a shame.
"PS for reference, a fan boy is on who irrationally defends a product simply because they Love the game and refuse to see any faults with it, much the same way as you have done."
Ok, i'll give on this one. I'm defending the game. but not irationally. I'm taking into account what the critics have to say and returning arguements. Is that so wrong? Or where u kinda hoping people would just listen to some of the stuff u've come out with!!
No, I was kind of hoping (nay expecting) that the people on this forum would be mature enough to approach flaws in the game without blindly disregarding them as the cries of 'whinging skill-less' players. The irony being that they were originally put across by a Forum regular who has been registered with BW since June 2000, almost two years, whilst the fan boy responses are from members who have been registered for less than a month.
Anyway.. I think this has gone on for long enough.. maybe its just time to "Agree to Dissagree" on the issues raised in this thread coz bottom line, neither of us are gonna budge so why bother?!
That, ladies and gentlemen, is the saddest thing I have ever seen, it's a written admission that your mind is closed on the subject, as such I'd recomend you don't bother replying anymore, because there's no way I can listen to your rants.
Congratulations on being the archetypical fan-boy, it's always amusing to see people conform to stereotypes so exactly.
Good day to you sir.