That guy - 2016-04-17
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Two Jar Slave - 2016-04-17
Is Maniac Mansion preferred by hipsters over Day of the Tentacle? Do they see some sort of coarse majesty in its inferior graphics, interface, sound, and writing?
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Mr. Purple Cat Esq. - 2016-04-17 Most importantly the gameplay, the choice of most of the various playable characters seemed redundant + it seemed pretty easy to get it into a broken state where you couldnt finish it.
Though dont underestimate the power of nostalgia, when youre a kid you will play through every path of a game like that relentlessly. I missed maniac mansion as a kid, my 1st lucasarts game was zak mckracken which I now love and regard as amazing.
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boner - 2016-04-17 I totally revered these games and kept trying to make my own adventure games.
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bongoprophet - 2016-04-18 Guys, we had this hipster thing figured out. That is not what it means. Let us not regress.
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EvilHomer - 2016-04-18 Of course hipsters prefer Maniac Mansion. Hipsters prefer Maniac Mansion because it's the better game.
Sure, Day of the Tentacle was more polished on a surface level, but what of it? Godzilla '98 was more polished than Godzilla '54, yet I think most people - hipsters and normies alike - would agree that '98 lacks that inner spark which made '54 so brilliant. '98 was a reasonably competent exercise in using a budget. '54, was a revolution.
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Two Jar Slave - 2016-04-18 Except that, no, '98 Godzilla was criticized for looking bad, sounding bad (thanks Mr. Combs), and making no sense. It wasn't a reasonably competent anything, unlike Day of the Tentacle which took a good look at its own objective and knocked it out of the park. So... not a great comparison, then.
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EvilHomer - 2016-04-18 Hipsters criticized Godzilla '98 for looking bad and making no sense, but objectively speaking, it looked far better and made more sense than Godzilla '54. Godzilla '54 was a cheap, rubbery mess, so the question here is whether you, as a critic, place more value on production quality, or on soul.
You are certainly entitled to choose production value over soul (G '98 made a killing at the box office - to date, almost 100 times what the original has made), but I don't think it's fair to fault hipsters for having their priorities the other way 'round!
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