SYSTEM WARS MONTHLY (February 2008) (Interview with Kevin_V, and more!)

Oh, ths issue is great, thanks for asking!

And I'm not pissed off. I fully expect that I will be attacked until the end of time when I don't give every game the exact score every single person on earth expects (doing so will involve writing an individual review for each living person, and I'm too busy watching Daft Punk videos for that). I'm genuinely curious whether I was being unclear, though I think there is an obvious difference between a button-pressing minigame (in which you have to press particular buttons in a particular sequence within a specific time period, as in God of War and Resident Evil 4), and standard button-based combat (in which combinations of button presses result in various attacks and combos).

I'm also curious if there's a bit in invisible ink that I can't see up there about thinking I don't make mistakes (and I have, and I know, trust me).

Kevin-V

You were clear but it can be mis-interpeted. Technically the combat in No More Heroes is hit A until you get prompted to do a motion. It's border line mini game, but it isn't at the same time. It's something borrowed and something new, and there's nothing wrong with it.

Great interview. Great questions with great responses.

Oh yeah the rest is good too.

OK this is the last time I read this magazine until they get a lemming on board because the overall tone towards the 360 is overwhelmingly negative and you hardly talk about any 360 games. :xJiveT

im more lemming than anything, but i also like to write articles that aren't about specific games, we do that enough on the forum.

Good work guys. Interesting interview with Kevin as well. Although I found a lot of fault with Assassins Creed I understand exactly what he means. Hell, if it was up to me The Warriors and Manhunt would have had higher scores. The Warriors is one of my most favourite games of all time. If art didn't contribute to that then I'll be damned.

[QUOTE="rocktimusprime"][QUOTE="Kevin-V"]

[QUOTE="Willy105"][QUOTE="Willy105"]Kevin_V said there are no innacuracies in his reviews. Anybody agree?TheEndBoss

I didn't say that regarding inaccuracies anywhere in that interview, nor did I say it wasn't possible. What words in the interview are you using to jump to that completely unreleated conlusion?

Also, I specifically mention timed button-mashing minigames that are ripped off from God of War and Resident Evil 4. That's a lot different from general "button mashing." I suppose if you stretched the limits of reason you could draw a parallel between timed remote swings in No More Heroes and timed button presses a la God of War, but the implementation of the mechanic is far different than timed-button ripoffs like those in Jericho or Silent Hill Origins. I assumed it was clear to the average System Wars reader that there is a difference between button-mashing combat and a God of War-style button pressing minigame. Perhaps I overestimated?

way to go willy youve gone and pissed Kevin V off, you should be ashamed.

Seriously, Willy. He was nice enough to give us an interview, and you go and slam him for something he said?

OK this is the last time I read this magazine until they get a lemming on board because the overall tone towards the 360 is overwhelmingly negative and you hardly talk about any 360 games. :xJiveT

This is great!

"what's wrong with crack anyway?" - lol

I liked the interview with Kevin-V. Interesting to see a reviewer rub elbows with the plebes :o. His perspective seems decent.

Oh, ths issue is great, thanks for asking!

And I'm not pissed off. I fully expect that I will be attacked until the end of time when I don't give every game the exact score every single person on earth expects (doing so will involve writing an individual review for each living person, and I'm too busy watching Daft Punk videos for that). I'm genuinely curious whether I was being unclear, though I think there is an obvious difference between a button-pressing minigame (in which you have to press particular buttons in a particular sequence within a specific time period, as in God of War and Resident Evil 4), and standard button-based combat (in which combinations of button presses result in various attacks and combos).

I'm also curious if there's a bit in invisible ink that I can't see up there about thinking I don't make mistakes (and I have, and I know, trust me).

Kevin-V

I think the... Quick Time Event's ( as I think they're called) in RE4 were a little... too prevalent. Though it made some of the boss battles very interesting indeed. They just put in too much, I'd say.

Oh, ths issue is great, thanks for asking!

And I'm not pissed off. I fully expect that I will be attacked until the end of time when I don't give every game the exact score every single person on earth expects (doing so will involve writing an individual review for each living person, and I'm too busy watching Daft Punk videos for that). I'm genuinely curious whether I was being unclear, though I think there is an obvious difference between a button-pressing minigame (in which you have to press particular buttons in a particular sequence within a specific time period, as in God of War and Resident Evil 4), and standard button-based combat (in which combinations of button presses result in various attacks and combos).

I'm also curious if there's a bit in invisible ink that I can't see up there about thinking I don't make mistakes (and I have, and I know, trust me).

Kevin-V

You!

Great job.

what happened to the comics?jg4xchamp

This.

OH your good. your really good.jg4xchamp

Well, I try.

Hey Willy, you might wanna put Interview Kevin-v in the title cause wow we're like at only 70 posts nowkcpp2b

i was thinking the same exact thing lol.

[QUOTE="kcpp2b"]Hey Willy, you might wanna put Interview Kevin-v in the title cause wow we're like at only 70 posts nowrocktimusprime

i was thinking the same exact thing lol.

Great minds think alike

[QUOTE="Shinobishyguy"]Last time I checked SSBB was hyped AA.Tsug_Ze_Wind

If it gets AA...do you really think anyone will truly consider the hype met? Aside from a few of our damage-controlling kin? ;)

Either way, SW will get a huge reaction with A, AA, AAAA....this is the game to decide everything on the sheep side.

And hopefully I'll be around to report it next month. :(

[QUOTE="Tsug_Ze_Wind"]

[QUOTE="Shinobishyguy"]Last time I checked SSBB was hyped AA.darkslider99

If it gets AA...do you really think anyone will truly consider the hype met? Aside from a few of our damage-controlling kin? ;)

Either way, SW will get a huge reaction with A, AA, AAAA....this is the game to decide everything on the sheep side.

And hopefully I'll be around to report it next month. :(

The hype threads fail because the all the "official hype" means is that the group chickened out if it's low, and were stupid if it's high. There's rarely a middle ground, but then, it could also be said that that's just clas-sic SW.

[QUOTE="JiveT"]OK this is the last time I read this magazine until they get a lemming on board because the overall tone towards the 360 is overwhelmingly negative and you hardly talk about any 360 games. :xWilly105

I told you what I want you to do. Round out your creative team. :x

[QUOTE="Willy105"][QUOTE="JiveT"]OK this is the last time I read this magazine until they get a lemming on board because the overall tone towards the 360 is overwhelmingly negative and you hardly talk about any 360 games. :xJiveT

I told you what I want you to do. Round out your creative team. :x

We have our lemmings, they just aren't the ones that write about the games.

Plus, the 360 did have a mild month. The real game news (Gears 2) came too late for a full article on it.

[QUOTE="Tsug_Ze_Wind"]

[QUOTE="Shinobishyguy"]Last time I checked SSBB was hyped AA.darkslider99

If it gets AA...do you really think anyone will truly consider the hype met? Aside from a few of our damage-controlling kin? ;)

Either way, SW will get a huge reaction with A, AA, AAAA....this is the game to decide everything on the sheep side.

And hopefully I'll be around to report it next month. :(

[QUOTE="darkslider99"][QUOTE="Tsug_Ze_Wind"]

[QUOTE="Shinobishyguy"]Last time I checked SSBB was hyped AA.LINKloco

If it gets AA...do you really think anyone will truly consider the hype met? Aside from a few of our damage-controlling kin? ;)

Either way, SW will get a huge reaction with A, AA, AAAA....this is the game to decide everything on the sheep side.

And hopefully I'll be around to report it next month. :(

Hype threads should be put up 2-4 weeks before a game comes out.LINKloco

That wouldn't work.

Hype stops getting recorded once there is a SINGLE review.

Wow, this is the first time I've seen this magazine!

It looks great and I can see that everyone has put a lot of effort into it!

Great interview with Kevin_v!

Wow, this is the first time I've seen this magazine!

It looks great and I can see that everyone has put a lot of effort into it!

Great interview with Kevin_v!

fabz_95

We thank u for the kind comments

Amazing issue like always, but i have a little problem..

were are the little funny toons you make about sheep,lemmings and cows??

btw iron shop judges were biased:P

Amazing issue like always, but i have a little problem..

were are the little funny toons you make about sheep,lemmings and cows??

btw iron shop judges were biased:P

JuarN18

Here.

nice thread as always, but i didn't liked/disagreed with few of the articles esp the pc gaming one and Rising to the Debate ones naval

Just curious.

[QUOTE="naval"]nice thread as always, but i didn't liked/disagreed with few of the articles esp the pc gaming one and Rising to the Debate ones jethrovegas

Just curious.

while i agree that violence does affect people , i totally disagreed with the first half of the article. the first half painted a false picture(the guy used to play cs 3-4 years ago and he did not played it to train and ignored stuff like practicing 10 minutes with real gun is much more than practicing in any game.

secondly from what i see most of the this accusations are mostly made by people who want attention etc. Do you really think jack cares about violence in game ? if he did he would have taken more proper steps rather than all the showbiz stuff he says or does. again you say gamers should inform these people nicely ! but do these people really care about being correct ? if they really wanted to be correct they could have found it quite easily themselves the truth most of the time rather than directly raising accusations. imo, people should totally ignore such cases, the less attention they get lower their motivation to such stuff but by all means engage in debate with people who know and research about what they criticise. i don't think any gamer would really be against that.

So, what i mean to say in short is while i agree with what the message you want to give, i did not liked the examples you presented

[QUOTE="jethrovegas"]

[QUOTE="naval"]nice thread as always, but i didn't liked/disagreed with few of the articles esp the pc gaming one and Rising to the Debate ones naval

Just curious.

while i agree that violence does affect people , i totally disagreed with the first half of the article. the first half painted a false picture(the guy used to play cs 3-4 years ago and he did not played it to train and ignored stuff like practicing 10 minutes with real gun is much more than practicing in any game.

secondly from what i see most of the this accusations are mostly made by people who want attention etc. Do you really think jack cares about violence in game ? if he did he would have taken more proper steps rather than all the showbiz stuff he says or does. again you say gamers should inform these people nicely ! but do these people really care about being correct ? if they really wanted to be correct they could have found it quite easily themselves the truth most of the time rather than directly raising accusations. imo, people should totally ignore such cases, the less attention they get lower their motivation to such stuff but by all means engage in debate with people who know and research about what they criticise. i don't think any gamer would really be against that.

So, what i mean to say in short is while i agree with what the message you want to give, i did not liked the examples you presented

I think that perhaps you mis-interpreted what I was saying. The first section of the article was not making any sort of opinionated statement about the shooter or his Counter-Strike habits; it was merely a recitation of the news.

I for one don't think that there is any evidence to suggest that video games caused that guy to do what he did: I was just reporting what various media outlets were saying to give readers an idea of the setup leading to the inevitable reaction by gamer culture.

And yes, Jack Thompson is an ambulance chasing idiot. But what good does stooping to his level do?

If our opponents make un-informed attacks, then we should make informed defenses.

In essence, we should fight from higher ground.

[QUOTE="naval"][QUOTE="jethrovegas"]

[QUOTE="naval"]nice thread as always, but i didn't liked/disagreed with few of the articles esp the pc gaming one and Rising to the Debate ones jethrovegas

Just curious.

while i agree that violence does affect people , i totally disagreed with the first half of the article. the first half painted a false picture(the guy used to play cs 3-4 years ago and he did not played it to train and ignored stuff like practicing 10 minutes with real gun is much more than practicing in any game.

secondly from what i see most of the this accusations are mostly made by people who want attention etc. Do you really think jack cares about violence in game ? if he did he would have taken more proper steps rather than all the showbiz stuff he says or does. again you say gamers should inform these people nicely ! but do these people really care about being correct ? if they really wanted to be correct they could have found it quite easily themselves the truth most of the time rather than directly raising accusations. imo, people should totally ignore such cases, the less attention they get lower their motivation to such stuff but by all means engage in debate with people who know and research about what they criticise. i don't think any gamer would really be against that.

So, what i mean to say in short is while i agree with what the message you want to give, i did not liked the examples you presented

I think that perhaps you mis-interpreted what I was saying. The first section of the article was not making any sort of opinionated statement about the shooter or his Counter-Strike habits; it was merely a recitation of the news.

I for one don't think that there is any evidence to suggest that video games caused that guy to do what he did: I was just reporting what various media outlets were saying to give readers an idea of the setup leading to the inevitable reaction by gamer culture.

And yes, Jack Thompson is an ambulance chasing idiot. But what good does stooping to his level do?

If our opponents make un-informed attacks, then we should make informed defenses.

In essence, we should fight from higher ground.

When you say we should inform them , do you really think they want to be informed or they want some attention ?

When you say we should inform them , do you really think they want to be informed or they want some attention ?

naval

I think that they want attention, but not from gamers

I think they want attemtion from the mainstream press and from un-informed individuals in the public.

It's the job of gaming culture at large to make sure that those people in the public are hearing both sides of the story.

When people like Jack Thompson go on rants on Fox News, then the gaming press (and yes, gamers as well) need to make a publicized and educated comeback, both locally, and on as large a stage as we can possibly get.

And then there are people who actually do want to be informed, like that woman who wrote a blog questioning the video she had seen of Resident Evil 5.

That woman had no hand to play; she had never commented on video games before. She just wanted to know why a bunch of black people were being shot in a video of a game that she saw.

When people like that come on the scene, then yeah, we need to inform them and try and assauge some of their fears about something they don't understand.

It won't work every time, but it beats the hell out of insulting the woman, and spamming her blog's comment section with racial insults, which is pretty much the only reaction this woman got from gamers, that I could tell.

[QUOTE="naval"]

When you say we should inform them , do you really think they want to be informed or they want some attention ?

jethrovegas

I think that they want attention, but not from gamers

I think they want attemtion from the mainstream press and from un-informed individuals in the public.

It's the job of gaming culture at large to make sure that those people in the public are hearing both sides of the story.

When people like Jack Thompson go on rants on Fox News, then the gaming press (and yes, gamers as well) need to make a publicized and educated comeback, both locally, and on as large a stage as we can possibly get.

And then there are people who actually do want to be informed, like that woman who wrote a blog questioning the video she had seen of Resident Evil 5.

That woman had no hand to play; she had never commented on video games before. She just wanted to know why a bunch of black people were being shot in a video of a game that she saw.

When people like that come on the scene, then yeah, we need to inform them and try and assauge some of their fears about something they don't understand.

It won't work every time, but it beats the hell out of insulting the woman, and spamming her blog's comment section with racial insults, which is pretty much the only reaction this woman got from gamers, that I could tell.

aww.... its turning into a discussion which i don't want to have. so this time i will keep it smaal. agreed that they want attention from others and people should make sure that very general population doesn't get a wrong image of games, but i don't think its really so simple thing.

also, i really don't think that woman realy wanted to be informed seeing all the accusations she made withut having any knowledge of he stuff

Really good issue! Good job guys. :DHomesrfan

Thank you!