[Dr Lecter]

It breaks realities physics by going faster then the speed of light, I think.

To be fair, if you didn't break the laws of physics in a space game, you would have to wait about 4 years to travel between just 2 planets.

[Patch]

And also, in all fairness I can't expect a sci-fi MMORPG to be realistic.

[David-kyo]

Anyway, based upon the latest update, I'm guessing some butthurt fanboy went for the "your webcomic is shit so your review cannot be taken seriously"-argument, does anyone have a link to that? Can't be arsed to search around shit.

[Patch]

You know what David, stuff them. It may be the most fanboyish thing I've ever said and will ever say, but I enjoy Yahtzee's older stuff. I enjoy it because it speaks to me as a teenager/young adult reading another teenager/young adults work.

Yahtzee looks back and goes 'I was so young, please disregard that' but as a teenager I look at it and go 'huh, that's pretty funny'. I don't think Yahtzee should disown the stuff.

[David-kyo]

Yeah, I still get a good laugh at his old stuff, especially Chris & Trilby. I wish it had some kind of closure/resolution/whatever.

[Casual]

I don't think its fanboyish at all to admit I liked YTOTW, I think a lot of the humour was quite charming in a red dwarfish sort of way. Yahtzees web comics don't suck nearly as much as he thinks they do but I've noticed a lot of web comic artists are their own biggest critics (the omnipitant B^U being the obvious exception to that rule ).

I too have played the 14 day free trial for eve an it just didn't hook me. It was complicated, fiddly, space combat was repetitive and tactic free and the game takes MONTHS of play to get to the point where it might be considered "fun". Don't get me wrong the argument stands that once you have a battleship and a place in a big corp it probably is good fun but who can be arsed trudging through the boring shite for 3 months paying the whole time to get there?

This post has been edited by Casual: 07 September 2008 - 05:57 AM

[gabrielk4]

Ironically, when I was watching the review, there was a big EVE ad on top of the screen. It was watching me, waiting for me to look away before it threw a shuriken at my neck...with lightning.

[Spann]

Let's be honest, did anyone expect Yahtz's review of this to be in any way complimentary? I mean, it's an MMO, Yahtzee's mortal enemy. Plus, it's a ZP review; it was never going to be nice. It's just that this is the first time we've seen Fanboys come crashing through the doors of the forum to defend a game.

As far as Yahtzee's work goes: Some of it plain just doesn't interest me. I have absolutely no interest in some of the topics he writes about, and I don't really enjoy comics of any sort, web or otherwise. However, I don't think I've ever agreed one hundred percent with a writer on everything: Two of my favourite authors are Jeremy Clarkson, who I find to be slightly too right wing every so often, and Charlie Brooker, who is such a misanthrope I'm amazed he can even consider the concept of socialising without bursting. Does this stop me from me from enjoying their work? No.

So yeah, I don't particularly care about Chris and Trilby, or YTOTW, but I've read and loved both novels, all the games, the horror movie sequel reviews and the flowcharts.

So yeah. I think I just managd to write about a hundred words without really making a point, but I still feel like I've contibuted something.

[joshofalltrades]

So yeah. I think I just managd to write about a hundred words without really making a point, but I still feel like I've contibuted something.

Welcome to the FullyRamblomatic forums, where you contribute more if you don't make a point.

[Patch]

Let's be honest, did anyone expect Yahtz's review of this to be in any way complimentary? I mean, it's an MMO, Yahtzee's mortal enemy.

Um, actually...

I dunno. Yahtzee knew he was getting into an MMORPG, he made that pretty clear and he's made his opinions of them pretty clear. He didn't sound like he was going to enjoy it if he wanted to.

[joshofalltrades]

...Those seem like two very similar statements. Was that the point? It seemed like you were trying to contrast them.

[AdamM]

To be fair, if you didn't break the laws of physics in a space game, you would have to wait about 4 years to travel between just 2 planets.

Yeah, this was actually my favourite bit when I tried EVE; the realistic distances between celestial objects. If you read the backstory it says when man colonised the planets there were some kind of jumpgates designed for teleportation or slingshotting or something making space travel infinitely quicker, but each gate had to be dragged to its destination manually, which took months or years.

[Patch]

Actually Josh I was trying to compare them. I was trying to point out that someone had already said pretty much the same thing and was therefore noticed.

The only problem with slingshotting is it once again, breaks the laws of physics. But I'll get over it. That is, if slingshotting is using the gravitational pull of a planet while in orbit to gain momentum before jetting out into space.

[Dr Lecter]

Wrong Topic.

This post has been edited by Dr Lecter: 09 September 2008 - 10:02 AM