love people dis-regarding the mans accomplishments and knowledge of the industry.
Wow, are you for real?
Wow, are you for real?
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David Jaffe take on Betheseda acquisition
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He once gave the advice to women being sexually assaulted to start talking about comics in the hope the rapist would recognize their common humanity and stop. I would link it but it's at the old place and I'm not sure what the rules are regarding that. If you're good with Google you could probably find it easily.
Calling him suspect is massively understating it.
His career trajectory is really something else.
He makes a couple of okay points, nothing too insightful though honestly. His Mikami/Tango point is more wishful thinking than anything I think.
He makes a couple of okay points, nothing too insightful though honestly. His Mikami/Tango point is more wishful thinking than anything I think.
I still think Sony's first party is generally stronger than that of MS even with the Bethesda acquisition but MS needed to play catch up and bought a well known publisher. It's going to be a harder win for Sony this time around but I don't think they need to panic and counter buy. MS is still behind.
What would they challenge them with? Microsoft is no where near a monopoly in the video games space. And Sony has made their own purchases themselves.
Also Sony trying to get regulations and laws in to protect their market position is literal rent seeking.
Barlog didn't come on until well into the development of the first game. And then God of War 2 was very much an iteration of what Jaffe did with the first game. Not to mention Barlog went on the record several times with the success of God of War 2018 thanking Jaffe for creating the series.
I'm all for criticizing the man for what he deserves to be criticized for, but lets not just make stuff up cause we don't like the guy.
Telling people we should listen to racists will usually do that to your reputation yeah.
So him being a shit head takes away his body of work and view on the industry?
Got it.
^
Calling All Cars too, I actually liked Drawn To Death, but it was out at a bad time for me, and so much of it was cool like the intro of a class with a kid drawing in their notepad. Drawn To Death is like Twisted Metal with people instead of cars.
The mechanics were awesome, it just needed more characters and more players on screen I think it was max of 4.
Also yea came out during a weird time when fortnite was blowing up..
That's generally how it goes.
No one is airing The Cosby Show anymore, I'll tell you that.
Would you care about what JK Rowling has to say about writing?
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JK also has shitty opinions doesnt mean I wont be playing Hogwarts game. Also does not invalidate her work. Talented people can be shitty people.
I can separate the art from the persons personal/political opinions.
Also never read a harry potter book. But I enjoy that universe.
They are not but Cosby still gets mentioned to his genius as a early comic.
I'm not watching the video, but people that create stuff we like can be very stupid, and crappy. John Carmac said some weird stuff, but in a mad scientist way where he just doesn't care to tie himself to the cares of people haha, he still made and works on cool things. Elon Musk is crap, but I'm waiting to see what this battery tech he's involved with does, and I hope Starlink works out to get us away from these local ISP monopolies, and so on.
I guess it's best to realize he had experience in this monster of an industry, one where he burned out and never wanted to work on a AAA game again, but maybe talk about the other people that worked on the games too, the ones that haven't shown themselves to be creeps or biggots.
I guess it's best to realize he had experience in this monster of an industry, one where he burned out and never wanted to work on a AAA game again, but maybe talk about the other people that worked on the games too, the ones that haven't shown themselves to be creeps or biggots.
Yea, Like Cory. Who he had on his youtube show a bunch of times. I may find his political views garbage, but his insight and views on gaming industry is pretty good if sometimes out of touch on certain subjects.
In your head and to yourself you can but wider than that, not really. Fans of the IP are being directly weaponised against trans people and their rights in the UK. She's pushing trans people to suicide through both her output and the vocal support from many fans in rebuking us and our ability to lead a peaceful life.
I am aware. Just as I am aware that JK Rowling is a TERF promoting dangerous, deadly views and that Jaffe thinks giving racists platforms is a good thing to do.
The actual gravity and scale of what Cosby did and why he's spending the rest of his days behind bars is far an away worse than what Jaffe has done, but unlike what Papacheeks suggests, no one really talks about Cosby's early comedy career anymore. He's going to die in prison as a serial rapist and nothing more, and good riddance to that.
Jaffe is a shithead, not a criminal shithead, but one that promotes some very awful views, and in that regard, I have little reason to care that he created some good games in the distant past.
Honestly Microsoft is at a point that outside of EA's , CDPR and Larian I cant think of a big WRPG studio not owned by them
Well thats not everyone. And not me. I dont even have active twitter nor do I even use social media. WHich is what paints targets on people.
It sucks.
But I'm not going to disregard the body of work she has had.
That's kinda what happens when you spend a decade being a bitter shitlord on twitter.
Worse than Cliffy B? I must of missed the whole thing?
I dont pay attention to social media, because of my own beliefs for the most part.
So I guess I missed all the drama.
It doesn't just suck it erodes our rights and ends lives.
You're welcome to not disregard her work, just don't stand there and proudly state an ability to separate art and artist around something for which many don't have that privilege.
He may be questionable personality and I absolutely agree that his content shouldn't be shared.
But being an inside industry man he may have many good points there
I don't know what Jaffe did, but I heard that he said something bad. Cory still give him respect when it comes to games and GOW. Cory's twitter feed is very pro people and rights, and everything that makes you feel good, yet he doesn't shy away from thanking Jaffe for his gaming contributions.
Listening to him talk about the combo system in GOW is awesome. DIdn't know Jaffe originally wanted it more like zelda which you can see influence wise.
I know Sony's worth, but they are not going to throw around 7.5 billion on an acquisition.
Bluepoint is definitely a team I see them acquiring. A lot of talent there.
No one cares about David Jaffa's take on anything. Other posters have already made that point. He's still in the 90s mentally.
The guy used to get into anti-Xbox flame wars at 'the old site' while in charge of GoW. He's a total arrested development case, a literal man-child. Don't give him the clicks.
Yeah, used to be a big fan of David Jaffe, not because of the games he made, but because of how well he handled the opportunities he was given. However, I've since disregarded him as he turned out to be a super questionable person.
What bothers me about point 5 is that sony has plenty of WRPGs and they also have the majority of JRPGs. I just don't see this point being relevant.
Point 1 was relevant and the rest was kind of rambling. I think Sony does need to work on something, but as it stands, Game Pass right now is primarily older games with a few drops of big titles every few months. I think it's a steal for casual gamers that aren't buying games constantly or don't have a huge backlog. I think gamers like to own things, but as it stands I can see MS strategy working out just fine while Sony crushes it with the PS5. The strategies seem to be able to coexist for now. Sony should of course be thinking ahead.
What bothers me about point 5 is that sony has plenty of WRPGs and they also have the majority of JRPGs. I just don't see this point being relevant.
Point 1 was relevant and the rest was kind of rambling. I think Sony does need to work on something, but as it stands, Game Pass right now is primarily older games with a few drops of big titles every few months. I think it's a steal for casual gamers that aren't buying games constantly or don't have a huge backlog. I think gamers like to own things, but as it stands I can see MS strategy working out just fine while Sony crushes it with the PS5. The strategies seem to be able to coexist for now. Sony should of course be thinking ahead.
I know everyone points to the issue of 343, but I don't think it is mis-management from Microsoft as they have had a fairly hands of approach with studios since Phil has been in charge (in fact the mis-management, if any, could be not having hands on enough).
343 has bungled Halo since day one, and really hasn't created anything spectacular. I would say the MCC since it has improved a ton, but it launched in a garbage state. The issue with 343 is they gave the keys to one of the biggest IPs in gaming at the time to a bunch of people who had really no involvement with the franchise before hand. All the key people who built and developed Halo stayed at Bungie or had already left to go elsewhere. It would be like handing the keys for a Lamborghini to your 18 year old child who just graduated high school and expected nothing to go wrong.
I'm glad Joseph Staten is back at the studio now, and I think that was a move to get things back on track. While visually the game didn't look great, we still don't know much about the quality of multiplayer or single player story. Bethesda and the other studios will be fine, especially as long as Todd Howard stays around I don't see any issues. Even if MS tried to push Bethesda to do something stupid Todd has enough leverage to convince them otherwise. I'm excited though for the next few years to see what all these studios do with the money Microsoft has to back them and assuming they keep their hands out.
Well, now we have both sides, just like he likes it. Yeah? My self-serving baseless alternative facts, and your allegedly credibly story.
Wouldn't it be great if we met something in the middle? That way you learn something from me, and I learn something from you.
Because the middle is a great place to be.
So you're admitting you just made up a bunch of bullshit because you dislike the guy?
Man. I remember Jaffe releasing vlogs like back in the beginning of the decade or something like that. Dude has not stopped I see.
