Im_CIA

1 hour ago, Sniveler said:

 

Ross:

 

I write this as someone who considers himself a dedicated fan of Freeman's Mind. I realize that I might be in the minority here, but I'm not really a fan of when Gordon goes "off-script" and does things that aren't usually possible in the game.

 

As I wrote on my blog, if I were to pitch Freeman's Mind to a prospective viewer, I would say this: "Hey, you know all that time you were playing as this game character and going through this adventure? Ever wanted to know what was really going through that character's mind all that time? Here it is!" That's one of the core draws of the series, and it only works when said character is only doing things that the player could actually do.

 

It's understandable if you take the occasional shortcut to skip puzzles and other portions of the game that would be boring in a Freeman's Mind video, but adding in new areas of the game world have little point. It lacks the aforementioned appeal of riffs on material the games' players have experienced.

 

If you wanted to, you could put something really wacky in a new area, like a pyramid of watermelons surrounded by dead headcrabs who seem to have been worshiping it. It would be funny, perhaps, but it wouldn't fit in with the established style of humor of Freeman's Mind.

 

Freeman's Mind works best when it works within the constraints of playing through the games while staying in character as its version of Gordon. This occasionally leads to another entertaining aspect of the series: Your being challenged to go through the motions of Gordon while staying true to the character you have developed for him. You can't canonically attack the vortigaunt in the rail car, so how will you explain why your version of Gordon doesn't attack him? Modding the game so that Gordon does shoot him feels like kind of a cheat.

 

Continuing from my comparison of Freeman's Mind to Mystery Science Theater 3000, I am reminded one controversial point in the latter. In a very early episode, they manipulated the movie in a way that went beyond what their audience characters would be able to do. For example, the silhouette of Joel put his hand over the mouth of a singing woman in the movie, and her voice was non-diegetically muted. A writer for the show apologized for this in the episode guide, acknowledging that it violated the show's unwritten rules.

 

That's my opinion, anyway. Take it or leave it. Thank you.

 

I'm in the camp that could care less about half-life- it was a boring ass game that I could never force myself to finish. Freeman's MInd is the only way that I can actually enjoy this little slice of Valveicana, so I would rather see Ross take liberties with the game than compromise on Gordon's character

47 minutes ago, kerdios said:

what was the guy in the sewer pipe saying? I couldn't here him over all of freeman's loud ramblings.

Yvan Eht Nioj

22 minutes ago, potty_admiral_bop said:

4 monthes since the last game dungeon. 4 MONTHS!

vidya games? *yawn*

9 hours ago, BTGBullseye said:

Nah... Anyone with monetary sense outsources to China, and makes millions, then lives in a villa in a country that doesn't tax them.

this is nope-tastic 

50 minutes ago, ProvUnitV said:

This is quite difficult because I have a lot of favorite movies and I don't even know which one to choose.

Movie about being named Shinji and getting in the fucking robot 

End of Evangelion

2 hours ago, kerdios said:

it's like a bureaucracy of a 3rd world country

they deserve it for living in New York. Anyone with monetary sense lives in Jersey and commutes to NY 

7 hours ago, kerdios said:

 

Yeah, it's pretty retarded over there

9 hours ago, kerdios said:

 

>video(s)

On 4/24/2021 at 3:05 PM, Im_WalterWhite said:

 

6 hours ago, kerdios said:

 

 

 

36 minutes ago, Eshanas said:

Some people have too much time on their hands.... 

 

If you don't like Ross, no one is forcing you to make him live rent free in your mind, or bitch about it.

Ross Scott once sold me a set of matching chrome hubcaps he "found" in the parking lot of a Denny's. They, the hubcaps I mean, were embossed with tiny Graham Annable cartoon skulls and what I think was a dialect of Gnomish. After installing them for me, he is a master craftsman after all, he told me there was a curse on them, the hubcaps I mean. "If you go over 165 miles an hour they, the hubcaps I mean, will explode. So, try not to do that." As he faded into mist I tried to point out that my Geo Metro could barely get to 50 before vibrating into the past but he was gone.

That car died years ago, but they, the hubcaps I mean, still hold a place in my heart and in my closet.

Does Postal 2 count as a marijuana game?

7 hours ago, The Screw said:

I'm sure a new video will come any day now.

 

You didn't see the new BHunter Game Dungeon yet?

1 hour ago, kerdios said:

you clearly haven't watched the video, because if you had you'd have known that that's not space

Why is there an emoji in space?

7 hours ago, kerdios said:

 

Why is there a faberge egg in space?

On 4/19/2021 at 2:42 AM, BTGBullseye said:

I understand sports perfectly, what I don't understand is betting away your hard earned money to make a sleaze rich whether you win or lose.

You will never understand...

3 hours ago, potty_admiral_bop said:

OH NOO

Excellent, but still nope

On 4/6/2021 at 7:24 AM, Im_WalterWhite said:

Nope

372juan

he had accomplices 

7 hours ago, kerdios said:

Then the answer is "Physics"

1 hour ago, grayling said:

i don't know if anyone is going to see this and i hope this post isn't against the rules but i'm hosting a combat surf server in tf2 for the time being. the server is named "flagman21's Combat Surf". i'm going to refrain from posting an IP unless i get the okay from one of the moderators. the server is NA, so i'm sorry to people in europe but you're gonna have bad ping if you want to check it out

BANNISHED

AH-HAHAHAHAH

9 hours ago, BTGBullseye said:

I think he means cap

I believe that the term is lozenge., good sir.