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Is it just me or does Mega64 often go for the lowest common denominator if gaming humor by nitpicking all the lamest things that gamers as a whole focus on, or in general show a pretty severe lack of creativity by just going around in public and making gamers look like idiots by harassing strangers?
I think Mega64 was officially dead to me when they did that stupid Pokemon crossover with Pop-Fiction on GameTrailers.
I think Mega64 was officially dead to me when they did that stupid Pokemon crossover with Pop-Fiction on GameTrailers.
No Mike its not just you, its humor for the 4chan generation(so 95% of this websites community then.)
@Kyousuke Nanbu: so do people born in 1992 count as this 4chan generation?
I don't want to be apart of this 4chan generation :/
I don't want to be apart of this 4chan generation :/
@Kyousuke: NO! I was born in 93, am I a part of this 4chan Generation? I swore off that site recently... :'(
*born in 1992*
*still thinks Mega64 is okay*
*never uses 4chan*
Mega64 misses sometimes, but they're still funny. I thought this one was okay.
*still thinks Mega64 is okay*
*never uses 4chan*
Mega64 misses sometimes, but they're still funny. I thought this one was okay.
Mega64 are just a bunch of nerdy people who like video games just as much as you do. All of their influences come from video games, anime, etc. Saying they lack a severe amount of creativity would be implying that all "gamers" lack creativity.
Also, please stop referring to anything as the "4chan generation" or even acknowledging that regurgitating puke machine of a community. It demeans us.
Also, please stop referring to anything as the "4chan generation" or even acknowledging that regurgitating puke machine of a community. It demeans us.
Everytime I watch a Mega64 video, a part of me hopes it will be funny again. Instead it's two steps down from their previous video and I hate myself for expecting otherwise.
@TheNopeMan, @VicYoungblood
Don't let anyone define you, particularly based on factors you cannot change.
Don't let anyone define you, particularly based on factors you cannot change.
Yeah I don't even know what 4chan generation is. I just don't care for Mega64. There's always been silly/crude/stupid humor. When done right, its great. I don't have anything against M64, I just don't care for them personally. I would NOT lump them OR their fans in with 4chan though. Also, what Charlie said.
Looking through these comments, I can't help but feel like people are over analyzing a simple comedy video and taking it way too seriously.
Wait, that's not how I feel.
That's how it is.
I enjoyed the video.
It made a point.
Even if it was silly.
Wait, that's not how I feel.
That's how it is.
I enjoyed the video.
It made a point.
Even if it was silly.
Why are people worried about how scary Dead Space will be. It's not a horror game, it's survival horror, scariness is not a necessity.
@Taerdin
No joke, when people say they're scared by Dead Space I would love to see them play System Shock 2 or Amnesia.
No joke, when people say they're scared by Dead Space I would love to see them play System Shock 2 or Amnesia.
@MathewRD
My thoughts, man.
I usually don't go for Mega64, but I recently watched this one and their Sonic the Hedgehog Casino gag and both were great.
Humor doesn't need creativity as much as it needs timing, delivery and just about everything else.
"Not saying he has a brain tumor, but.... maybe!"
My thoughts, man.
I usually don't go for Mega64, but I recently watched this one and their Sonic the Hedgehog Casino gag and both were great.
Humor doesn't need creativity as much as it needs timing, delivery and just about everything else.
"Not saying he has a brain tumor, but.... maybe!"
@Mike Moran
Nitpicking on the "small things" is a popular element of comedy. The "small things," in these cases, are attributes that aren't of great significance but are harped upon endlessly online as though they are the most critical things in the world. Get into any discussion about screen resolution or frame rate from one port of a game compared to the original, then you'll see the "small things" in the forefront.
By playing up the "small things" angle, a comedian is highlighting just how ridiculous it was to begin with. Without exaggeration, where would comedy be?
Nitpicking on the "small things" is a popular element of comedy. The "small things," in these cases, are attributes that aren't of great significance but are harped upon endlessly online as though they are the most critical things in the world. Get into any discussion about screen resolution or frame rate from one port of a game compared to the original, then you'll see the "small things" in the forefront.
By playing up the "small things" angle, a comedian is highlighting just how ridiculous it was to begin with. Without exaggeration, where would comedy be?
In all honesty, that was more scary than Dead Space 1 or 2. They're still awesome games, regardless.
They should have poked fun at the universal ammo, and the FPS style crosshairs, and the gears of war cover based shooting, and the fact that the game play videos so far have 10 times more random bullet spraying than the last two games combined, and tried to hopelessly make each of those seem scarier than the last.
I agree with above posters that this kind of humor is very base level; I think you have to be pretty low-functioning to genuinely think that Mega64 is smart. Moreover, I think it's stupid that this shit gets front page coverage all the time.
@KilvasKills: When your popularity was founded on harassing strangers in public, I'm not willing to call that creativity.
@Tony: I'm not contesting the comedy of nitpicking, I'm contesting their choice of things to bring attention to. That, and I really question the assertion that they're trying to point out how silly the complaints really are.
Video complaining about madden sucking, check. Video about sonic sucking, check. Video about how Nintendo has no original ideas, check.
I'm pretty sure these guys are validating the nitpicking, not trying to reveal how silly it is.
@Tony: I'm not contesting the comedy of nitpicking, I'm contesting their choice of things to bring attention to. That, and I really question the assertion that they're trying to point out how silly the complaints really are.
Video complaining about madden sucking, check. Video about sonic sucking, check. Video about how Nintendo has no original ideas, check.
I'm pretty sure these guys are validating the nitpicking, not trying to reveal how silly it is.
I'm not really gonna press it any further. I'm not of the opinion that you're part of the 4chan generation or anything like that if you enjoy Mega64.
@Mike Moran
That seems to be like most video game humor on the web in general, I still don't quite get how something like Penny Arcade has gotten as popular as it has been.
That seems to be like most video game humor on the web in general, I still don't quite get how something like Penny Arcade has gotten as popular as it has been.
@taerdin
You are joking, correct? I'm concerned because apparently action games with dark lighting are now considered survival horror. If you have enough bullets to kill everything in the game without once considering flight, it is neither horror nor survival. I'm just distraught by the loss of a genre. I call this new genre "spooky action" as it more accurately describes what the genre was been distilled into. Take a look at system shock 2 for an example of survival horror done right. But certainly you must have been being sarcastic. Surely.
You are joking, correct? I'm concerned because apparently action games with dark lighting are now considered survival horror. If you have enough bullets to kill everything in the game without once considering flight, it is neither horror nor survival. I'm just distraught by the loss of a genre. I call this new genre "spooky action" as it more accurately describes what the genre was been distilled into. Take a look at system shock 2 for an example of survival horror done right. But certainly you must have been being sarcastic. Surely.
Mega64 have never been funny to me but I appreciate them pointing out how fucking retarded the changes to dead space 3 are.
And I go to various chans but this isn't their humor. Their humor is all the memes you fucks parrot after you read it on reddit or 9fag when they take it from the chans. Though it is extra lols to see people using "humor" that died a year before some tards on reddit finally discover it, or 2-5 years for 9fag.
And I go to various chans but this isn't their humor. Their humor is all the memes you fucks parrot after you read it on reddit or 9fag when they take it from the chans. Though it is extra lols to see people using "humor" that died a year before some tards on reddit finally discover it, or 2-5 years for 9fag.
It is amazing to me how these guys haven't lost the funny. After all this time, they still crack me up. I love their videos. Honestly, they never fail to crack me up.
Oh, and I do want to point out how incredibly, ridiculously, brain smashingly, fucking fuckingly tired I am of developers neutering their games. Seriously. Dead Space, the horror game designed to be scary, now has to be fucking neutered because it was TOO scary? Ok, first off, fuck you. Secondly, fuck you again. Thirdly, repeat first off and secondly.
When does neutering your game EVER, EVER, EVER help to gain more of an audience? When? Dragon Age 2 didn't gain more sales after watering down the entire game. Mass Effect 2 or 3 didn't sell more copies because they neutered the entire thing to appeal to a wider audience. Both of those games sold about the same. And almost every single other game that watered itself down to appeal to a wider audience is in the same boat.
Casualifying your games does NOT, I repeat, does NOT help sell more copies. ALL it does is alienate the fans you already have. Seriously, the proof is in the pudding, just look at sales numbers. So why do they even bother? What the hell is the point? You are NEVER going to get some casual gamer to buy your core game. It isn't going to happen. Call of Duty was a fluke and you are NOT going to re-create that success, so stop fucking trying you fucking fucktards.
Stop alienating the very people who ARE buying your games by trying to appeal to the ones who aren't. It is such a fucking stupid strategy that has been proven to not work, so why continue with it? Just continue making US, the people who actually buy your games happy, and we will continue to buy them. Continue pissing us off, and we won't.
When does neutering your game EVER, EVER, EVER help to gain more of an audience? When? Dragon Age 2 didn't gain more sales after watering down the entire game. Mass Effect 2 or 3 didn't sell more copies because they neutered the entire thing to appeal to a wider audience. Both of those games sold about the same. And almost every single other game that watered itself down to appeal to a wider audience is in the same boat.
Casualifying your games does NOT, I repeat, does NOT help sell more copies. ALL it does is alienate the fans you already have. Seriously, the proof is in the pudding, just look at sales numbers. So why do they even bother? What the hell is the point? You are NEVER going to get some casual gamer to buy your core game. It isn't going to happen. Call of Duty was a fluke and you are NOT going to re-create that success, so stop fucking trying you fucking fucktards.
Stop alienating the very people who ARE buying your games by trying to appeal to the ones who aren't. It is such a fucking stupid strategy that has been proven to not work, so why continue with it? Just continue making US, the people who actually buy your games happy, and we will continue to buy them. Continue pissing us off, and we won't.
@taerdin
You are joking, correct? I'm concerned because apparently action games with dark lighting are now considered survival horror. If you have enough bullets to kill everything in the game without once considering flight, it is neither horror nor survival. I'm just distraught by the loss of a genre. I call this new genre "spooky action" as it more accurately describes what the genre was been distilled into. Take a look at system shock 2 for an example of survival horror done right. But certainly you must have been being sarcastic. Surely.
You are joking, correct? I'm concerned because apparently action games with dark lighting are now considered survival horror. If you have enough bullets to kill everything in the game without once considering flight, it is neither horror nor survival. I'm just distraught by the loss of a genre. I call this new genre "spooky action" as it more accurately describes what the genre was been distilled into. Take a look at system shock 2 for an example of survival horror done right. But certainly you must have been being sarcastic. Surely.
Every time there is a Mega64 video, I see some excellent Shakespeare Theatre going on in these comments.
I shall don my finest hatments!
I shall don my finest hatments!
@dtomek
I'm not joking
There has been no loss of a genre.
People are making a whole thing out of nothing.
Survival horror is about tension, about being in situations that feel like you barely survive them. Horror and survival horror are different things, which is how we can have games like Killing Floor which are 'co-op survival horror' but not actually scary at all.
Maybe the genre has 'evolved', but I'm not convinced. I don't think the old RE games were really scary, nor did I ever really lack ammunition in those either. This whole 'survival horror is dying' angle is just BS perpetuated by blogs, and it's sad how many people buy into it.
I'm not joking
There has been no loss of a genre.
People are making a whole thing out of nothing.
Survival horror is about tension, about being in situations that feel like you barely survive them. Horror and survival horror are different things, which is how we can have games like Killing Floor which are 'co-op survival horror' but not actually scary at all.
Maybe the genre has 'evolved', but I'm not convinced. I don't think the old RE games were really scary, nor did I ever really lack ammunition in those either. This whole 'survival horror is dying' angle is just BS perpetuated by blogs, and it's sad how many people buy into it.
you guys can't turn your brain off for a few minutes to enjoy these vids? Jesus christ, everyone's so critical
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