wow this show rlly looks like it was made in GoAnimate
the animation in the pre-Zombie episodes looks handmade, but lacking in finesse
Zombie FG's stiff animation (in my view, without the writing, vocal performances, or design really backing it up) makes the whole ZOMG HANNAH BARBARA LIMITED ANIMATION BAD thing even more agitating to me
is it weird that i'm not offended by limited animation as a concept
similarly i'm not offended by the use of CG
I'm not offended by limited animation as a concept, it's the way it's used that matters.
H-B was able to, in its early years, wring some good use out of it (its early staff was comprised mostly of former MGM animation talent; the reason H-B existed in the first place was as a landing spot after MGM shut down its animation department), but as the years went on, the studio's assembly line speeded up, newer, less experienced talent entered the studio, and they ended up shipping the actual animation work offshore, so people crap on limited animation and H-B in general thinking their whole existence was the nadir (there were people within the industry at first who thought H-B was making dross, but in my view that stuff has redeeming value and, welp, they hadn't seen NOTHING yet)
There's a feeling that CGI is replacing traditional animation, and that's become the case with US feature animation. Until recently, good-looking CGI on TV wasn't really a thing, but even now it's mostly confined to commercials...
Urgh, Utahraptor. Killjoy jerk always shooting down T. Rex's brilliance.
OKay, I know that Utahraptor is supposed to be an actual good friend who is a bit more sensible and wise than T. Rex is, but he rarely strikes that balance. I prefer him when he goes along with T. Rex's stupid ideas like in this:
also expanding on earlier, in case you didn't know, H-B didn't invent limited animation; what we tend to think of as such was - not invented, but first put to extensive use - by UPA, but their cartoons have pretty much been out of mainstream circulation for decades and are only really known in animation circles
Urgh, Utahraptor. Killjoy jerk always shooting down T. Rex's brilliance.
OKay, I know that Utahraptor is supposed to be an actual good friend who is a bit more sensible and wise than T. Rex is, but he rarely strikes that balance. I prefer him when he goes along with T. Rex's stupid ideas like in this:
It's important to understand that Utahraptor has his own things going (see: intense hatred of homeopathy) and can't always drop his whole ethos just so he can loaf around with T-Rex for a bit.
i've actually found myself watching several more of his videos, in part to actually get some clue about what some of these recent big names are like. watch_dogs, for instance.
I feel that Yahtzee is sufficiently right about stuff that I can watch him, and when he's very, very wrong, I can refute him easily.
Specific examples being when he craps on Quantum Conundrum for having first-person platforming (yes, Half-Life tried it and it was terrible. that doesn't mean the idea's rutted as a whole), and his apparent vitriol towards the entire comic book genre.
You can get away with calling Superman a boring character, because he's really difficult to get right without making him stupidly grittier, but calling Lois Lane his consort and nothing more is unacceptable.
I mean, I think he has valuable input, but he's sooooooo soooooooooooooooooooooooo negative. It's borderline offensive to me, but I still have some deal of respect for what he does.
So apparently DayZ is a free-for-all PVP sandbox game. In which players, predictably, behave like horrible jerks in most cases. Backstabbing people who help you is apparently a normal thing.
I guess it's an important question to ask, to what extent are the players jerks, and to what extent is the game to be blamed for encouraging and/or enabling the players' being jerks.
Why is Yahtzee so against First Person Platformers?
Did he throw his controller after playing the Xen levels for Half-Life and wound the only person he ever loved?
I think it has to do with the idea that first person usually vanishes your own body from space and time, so understanding where you are in position to a platform is a no-go.
So apparently DayZ is a free-for-all PVP sandbox game. In which players, predictably, behave like horrible jerks in most cases. Backstabbing people who help you is apparently a normal thing.
So apparently DayZ is a free-for-all PVP sandbox game. In which players, predictably, behave like horrible jerks in most cases. Backstabbing people who help you is apparently a normal thing.
Why is Yahtzee so against First Person Platformers?
Did he throw his controller after playing the Xen levels for Half-Life and wound the only person he ever loved?
I think it has to do with the idea that first person usually vanishes your own body from space and time, so understanding where you are in position to a platform is a no-go.
But that's not an unavoidable element, and it's not always a dealbreaking element.
Mirror's Edge does the work to make Faith's legs visible while roofrunning through the world and kicking guards in the nuts. And Quantum Conundrum is only slightly hampered by the lack of feet.
It's almost as bad as the Nostalgia Critic's seething hatred of princesses.
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wow this show rlly looks like it was made in GoAnimate
guess what, you're not
(you are grounded, grounded grounded)
sadcow
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
it's actually better than flash poops
also i made a reference to "you are dead, dead dead, you are dead, dead dead" which is the game over song from Total Distortion
then is the script of Meet the Sniper a urinary tract?
Zombie FG's stiff animation (in my view, without the writing, vocal performances, or design really backing it up) makes the whole ZOMG HANNAH BARBARA LIMITED ANIMATION BAD thing even more agitating to me
similarly i'm not offended by the use of CG
H-B was able to, in its early years, wring some good use out of it (its early staff was comprised mostly of former MGM animation talent; the reason H-B existed in the first place was as a landing spot after MGM shut down its animation department), but as the years went on, the studio's assembly line speeded up, newer, less experienced talent entered the studio, and they ended up shipping the actual animation work offshore, so people crap on limited animation and H-B in general thinking their whole existence was the nadir (there were people within the industry at first who thought H-B was making dross, but in my view that stuff has redeeming value and, welp, they hadn't seen NOTHING yet)
There's a feeling that CGI is replacing traditional animation, and that's become the case with US feature animation. Until recently, good-looking CGI on TV wasn't really a thing, but even now it's mostly confined to commercials...
More evidence for T. Rex being a lot like me.
Also, more reason to dislike Utahraptor.
Urgh, Utahraptor. Killjoy jerk always shooting down T. Rex's brilliance.
OKay, I know that Utahraptor is supposed to be an actual good friend who is a bit more sensible and wise than T. Rex is, but he rarely strikes that balance. I prefer him when he goes along with T. Rex's stupid ideas like in this:
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
when you have a game like this, with a playerbase like this
why the fuck would i ever want to play this
why the fuck would ANYONE ever want to play this, except as a jerkwad power fantasy that lets people get away with doing stupid shit
and y'all obnoxious fuckers call them RPG Maker games "shovelware"
well, DayZ, that's your real shovelware, because i ain't touching shit with bare hands, i'm using a shovel
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
root your phone
mount your friends
MOUNT and FRIENDS have one letter in common, N
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
and also stepping on teleporters