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Shenmue's Much-Hated Forklifts Feel Revolutionary Today

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Re: Shenmue's Much-Hated Forklifts Feel Revolutionary Today

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I bet game "journalists" have an inside competition where they have to pick the most annoying (or overplayed) filler put in games as an after thought to bump the game play hours metric, and write the most romanticized elegy full of pseudo philosophy and grandeur.

I've seen this for everything in shenmue, for the endless grind in FF, even for the coding bugs(!) and reused art in Mother.

Re: Shenmue's Much-Hated Forklifts Feel Revolutionary Today

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The idea of a game playing the player is also explored in Spec Ops: The Line where (according to the developers) a valid response to the atrocities in the game is to simply stop playing the game, giving up before completing it.

Oh man, Spec Ops is one of my top games, but I've only played it once. Same feeling as watching Requiem for a Dream--once is enough. It's difficult to recommend it to people without giving away the experience of walking in to it thinking "it's just another mideast shooter".

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Never hated the forklift. A claim without basis, common on clickbaity Kotaku.

A lot of people hated the forklift segment. “Why am I coming home from my job to relax by doing another job?” was a common refrain.

The article is a stretch, but is is downright mundane compared to the explanations of game designs I’ve heard straight from the mouth of Japan’s rockstar designers who made them. They enjoy wearing sunglasses and black leather jackets and getting extremely abstract about game design.

Re: Shenmue's Much-Hated Forklifts Feel Revolutionary Today

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post #4

Never hated the forklift. A claim without basis, common on clickbaity Kotaku.

A ton of other people hated it though. Is there a reason people hate Kotaku so much? It's always seemed like a pretty normal game site to me except for the fact it leans a little more liberal on social issues.

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post #4

Never hated the forklift. A claim without basis, common on clickbaity Kotaku.

A ton of other people hated it though. Is there a reason people hate Kotaku so much? It's always seemed like a pretty normal game site to me except for the fact it leans a little more liberal on social issues.

Conservatives hate it because of the Gamergate nonsense

Re: Shenmue's Much-Hated Forklifts Feel Revolutionary Today

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post #15
post #4

Never hated the forklift. A claim without basis, common on clickbaity Kotaku.

A ton of other people hated it though. Is there a reason people hate Kotaku so much? It's always seemed like a pretty normal game site to me except for the fact it leans a little more liberal on social issues.

"Liberal on social issues" is all it takes for a vocal chunk of gamers to obsessively hate them and everything they write.

Re: Shenmue's Much-Hated Forklifts Feel Revolutionary Today

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post #15
post #4

Never hated the forklift. A claim without basis, common on clickbaity Kotaku.

A ton of other people hated it though. Is there a reason people hate Kotaku so much? It's always seemed like a pretty normal game site to me except for the fact it leans a little more liberal on social issues.

Far left nonsense
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