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Seriously...did SOE do any balancing regarding the weapons - especially the rifles and pistols. I say this becuase playing NC in Planetside 2 is frustrating when your bullets go all over the fricking place no matter how in control you are. Even with the forward grip cert - there is little change to CoF for NC weapons. The recoil is horrendous.
I just want to say, that I did an experiment. I have now played all three factions in this game and as I see it, the majority of NC weapons are crap. Plain and simple. I created a Vanu character and a TR character to see the differences. Vanu hands down have the best over all weapons in the game. That includes main battle tank - practically zero drop in rounds as the fly to target - it's like using a laser it is almost that accurate - and at a distance - it beats any of the the other two factions main battle tanks.
Going back to combat arms. I started PS2 playing NC. I noticed that the NC whenever they went against Vanu or TR, even if we out numbered them, we had a hard time taking ground. It's becuase the Vanu and TR have superior fire power. I would rate them like this.
You noticed the other I put in the list. That's because anything else is better than the NC in this game. NC just plain suck. Maybe that is why on many of the games servers they are dominated by either Vanu or TR. NC is garbage.
As I mentioned I did an experiment. I can say this without a doubt, because now that I have played all the factions for some time, my K/D for the various factions is not even in the ball park with one another. I am a decent FPS player. I had a decent K/D for PS1 and I expected the same going into PS2. Imagine my surprise to learn that my faction of choice is the most gimped faction of the game. I just couldn't believe that the NC weapons were as bad as I was seeing. Surely the other factions weapons are just as bad.
Not even. My first experience with NC weapons I left the game scratching my head. I was like, why can't I hit anything? I can't be that bad of player. I managed a .5 K/D with the N/C my first 10 hours of gaming with them. A .5 - that means I died twice as much as I was killing( 1 to 2 ratio). Like I said, I am a decent FPS player. I can shoot a player off a castle wall in a full gallop from the back of my mount in Mount and Blade: Warband with a bow. Anyone that has played that game knows that is no easy task. I have played countless hours of PS1, BF2, CoD, and a smatterig of other FPS games. So it is not my ability or skills as a player - I am not that bad. Hell I do not even use a recticle to aim with in Skyrim. Really, I am not that bad of FPS player. Except in PS2 playing NC.
I really couldn't believe I was that bad. I was right...I am not that bad. I created a Vanu character and right away, I knew things were like night and day. In my first fight as a Vanu, in the first battle I dropped into, and in the first 3 minutes I made rank 2. By the time that battle was over I had battle rank 4 and a K/D of 7/1 - yes, that is right - 7 to 1. For every 7 players I killed I died once. The basic starter weapon for the Vanu light assault is like a killing machine. That is just their basic starter weapon!
The infiltrator pistol is extremely deadly and accurate as hell and can pick people off at insane distances. Don't even get me started on the differences of the starter sniper rifles. People say Vanu are weak in that area. Not even. It is a semi-auto, that shoots further with little drop, and is accurate as all Vanu weapons. So easy to get headshots with that weapon at a distance compared to the NC and TR starter sniper rifles.
By the way, my K/D on my Vanu character stands at 5/1. That is after 12hrs of game play on it.
TR weapons are almost as good as the Vanu. Little, to no, recoil, less damage, but hey...when you are firing a gazillion rounds in a matter of seconds - what does it matter. You kill what you aim at 75% of the time. I managed a 4/1 K/D on my TR character. Compare the Vanu and TR K/D's with that of my NC character with it's poultry K/D of 1/2. Something is not right with the game balance in Planetside 2.
SOE needs to buff the NC weapons to be on par with the Vanu and TR. It is sad that there is that much of an extreme difference in the factions. It became clear to me after playing the three, why so many people were playing Vanu and TR compared to NC. NC weapons are the suck - there is no other good way to say it.
So unless you like a serious challange - stay as far away from NC in this game as you can. I'd be like everyone else and go either Vanu or Terran Republic - at least with these two factions you have a decent balance. For me, I am not even sure I'll continue to play unless SOE fixes this. I love playing for the NC and if I can't play NC...why play at all. :(
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Not played tr
Have a nc alt on one of the American servers
The nc sniper rifle is way way better than the vs one.
Before I reply to Teala's post,
Shakymo, you are stating that ONE weapon makes up for an ENTIRE arsenal of crap equipment? Like Teala said, the mag can basically snipe targets (Has the hover advantage already to boot). Majority of your weapons maintain no drop and have great damage at long distance (Which is broken I admit, but even so that needs fixing asap). What do we get? Weapons with a spread of COF that blooms bigger than a sunflower, a tank that lacks engine power and granted does have a nice boom factor on the weapons. We also get totally craptard Jackhammer ripoff that requires you invest hundreds of cert points to extend the clip size. Those are just the highlights.
But nevermind, our sniper rifle owns. That's great, I don't even play Infiltrator.
As for Teala's actual post, I agree with everything you say. And because I agree, it explains why half the time I'm playing this game I'm either piloting a liberator, flying a reaver or driving a vehicle of some sort. And on foot I tend to be the engineer behind the max repairing him and reloading his ammo. Because in a fair 1v1 fight, the other enemy infantry can take me down easily before my 4th bullet lands (Due to constant misses when past close quarter combat).
EDIT: Like Teala, consider myself also to be a decent FPS player. My K/D as it stands on NC is 1.7 after over 52hours played. My K/D on my TR toon is a 8.9 still after 16hours played.
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But the weapons are pretty balanced. The factions weapons are meant to behave differently.
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Validate your statement with raw data on weapon A vs weapon B vs etc... otherwise it's just your opinion. Being better in one faction than another may simply mean your play style is better suited to overcoming that factions defecits.
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Very rarely are you and I completely of opposite opinions but seriously...
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P.S. Devs have acknowledged in the forums that NC does infact suck though. Vanu have no bullet drop. TR have fast reloads. NC is supposed to be slow and powerful but it kinda fails.
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Well if what I am saying is wrong, than why are their dozens of threads in the official forums, reddit, and other game websites all saying the same thing.
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Originally posted by Ikeda
If that information on Weapon Data is even remotely accurate, then we sure have a lot of aimbot using TR on my server cause they sure seem to 1 shot, 1 kill me with sniper rifle where as I need 2-3 shots. Yes, I know headshots are 1 shot, but I never and I mean NEVER take more than 1 hit from TR snipers.
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...played all 3 sides.......close balanced, a bit of a difference yes, nada to cry about on the guns....the airpower I agree on.
Originally posted by Ikeda
I just came from the main forum boards, two of the top post were about this very issue. People leaving NC and TR to play Vanu, and weapons imbalance - yes, Planetside is balanced and has no issues. ::rolls her eyes::
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Originally posted by Ikeda
i'm confused. your sources say nc is UP. teala says nc is UP. don't you two have the same opinion here, or am i missing something?
that said, i have a 1.6kdr as an nc, so i'm not sure what everyone's complaining about. (not as nice as a 5kdr or 7kdr, but i'm not a very good fps player).
Basically, half my kills from my compact gauss S on my engineer are from the Grenade Launcher attachment. Because even though I have Single, burst and fullauto fire modes, I stand no chance unless I get the drop on a TR or VS Engi with even a standard issue weapon.
And then on my engineer on TR, I have no such trouble, I mow down enemies easily. And then the MCG for the heavy? Wow, I cannot even begin to explain the amazing factor it has that puts the NC Jackhammer and VS Lasher to shame.
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Originally posted by NeokiNaomi
granted i have spent some time perfecting my weapon build for my nc ha. also i haven't played other empires so my opinion isn't really balanced.
I do think NC got the short end of stick with their infantry weapons, excpet for their infiltrators starting off with a bolt action. Their Reavers are pretty darn agile as well, though supposedly that's a bug and TR were suppose to have the fastest ESF's.
Otherwise from the few weapon charts i've seen TR and VS weapons are better in almost every way, the tiny damage bonus NC gets really doesn't give them any kind of edge when the other two factions can put out more bullets at a much better accuracy than they can.
Also NC theme music...
This I totally agree with also, WHY did they change the awesome old Industrial theme to a new 80's buckrock sound :(.
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Str8Dumpin is NC, he posted some videos of his reaver kill streaks during double xp weekend.
There's plenty of good players playing NC.. They might need to tweak the recoil a little bit, but not too much, because you do have sick dmg per shot.
Cert into a grip, and counter the recoil with your mouse.
Or... Reroll TR.
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I find NC the best faction to play and get the most kills with them.. i really dont get peoples issues..
then again people complain that the flying is really hard in PS2 lol..
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When you cert stuff and what have you I don't think it makes much difference
Main reasons I play vs is I played them in the first one and I like the vanu audio when you take bases and stuff. But there's downside to playing vanu too namely getting crushed by tank noobs.
Originally posted by Caldrin
So you mainly play a pilot. I am not discussing aircraft easy kill rocket pod spam jockeys. We're talking combat arms weapons mostly. It doesn't take that much skill to fly around spamming rockets.
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Originally posted by ShakyMo
Yep, the boltdriver is awesome.
However, the cycler is one of the best weapons in the game as it was in Planetside and easy to kill with in short/mid range combat and the magrider is arguably the best tank for the type of combat PS2 usually generates.
The big problem is people only seem to spot the most commonly used differences and this is one reason why NC are the underpopulated faction on most servers. Simply put, more players use the stronger VS/TR weapons than they do the NC ones.
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Pat Metheny on Kenny G and other Jazz greats
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well, I agree...
I'm a little surprised to hear him single the guy out. But I guess if you have that much love and respect for your art it would be really annoying to have to listen to the praises of KG by others.
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...and here's a reaction, in song & verse:
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Kenny G is not a jazz great; the best you can say about him is that he is in the jazz section. But that's Metheny all right; several years ago he made a similar high profile denunciation of Kenny over a recording he made overdubbing himself onto a Louis Armstrong track, which to anyone who cares about jazz is like painting yourself into the Mona Lisa.
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Kenny G and his music can be a very touchy subject in the jazz community. I don't care for his music, but I don't hate the guy. However, the guy is not a jazz musician. The only reason he is categorized as a jazz musician is because he plays a saxophone. If he was playing the same music that he's playing now, except playing it on a guitar I don't think that anybody would be categorizing him as a jazz musician. His music isn't jazz it's instrumental pop. A lot of jazz musicians can't stand him because his music has come to represent what jazz is in a lot of people's eyes, and his music isn't even jazz - it was just marketed as jazz.
A lot of people get turned off at the mention of jazz because they immediately think of that "boring Kenny G crap", as someone put it to me not too long ago when I mentioned I played jazz. They don't know who Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, Lester Young, or Charles Mingus are. I think that's where the conflict comes in. If his music was never categorized as jazz then there wouldn't be this conflict. Jazz is such a wide spectrum from Louis Armstrong to Count Basie to Charlie Parker to Miles Davis to Django Reinhardt to John Coltrane to Ornette Coleman to Tito Puente, and on and on. But what do the vast majority of the public think of when they hear the word jazz? That 'smooth jazz' that hey hear on the radio.
A lot of people are very passionate about their music, and they do get defensive when just anyone thinks they can go and call themselves a musician of that genre. So when you have some other kind of music put under your genre strictly for commercial purposes, you're probably going to get a bit irritated.
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I listen to a lot of Kenny G. , Mindi Abair, Pat Metheny et.al. In my opinion they are n't Jazz greats but very popular and good Smooth Jazz Artists. I am not big on Jazz but have my few favorites, and Smooth Jazz is a different ball game. To me it is a popular style of music played with instruments associated with jazz. I will be seeing Mindi on April 10th with possibly a meet and greet. If I get the chance I will ask her her opinion of the question.
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Re: Pat Metheny on Kenny G and other Jazz greats
Wow, Pat really didn't hold back there!
Todd, Kenny isn't purely instrumental pop; there's elements of jazz there in that he starts with a theme tune and then improvises before returning to the theme, e.g. Song Bird. If he's only in it for the money then he sure spent a lot of time practising to do it. He's a Grover Washington fan and I have no doubt that he's passionate about what he does.
What is not jazzlike is the lack of interaction between players; the rhythm section lays down the pavement and he solos over the top. He's a crossover artist with elements of both jazz and pop. The music is entirely safe in many adult circles. Inviting the boss and spouse or that important client over for dinner? Put on the Kenny G. A safer bet than some years ago when I had some elderly relatives over and my random collection of songs included Prince's You Sexy Motherf*. When it came on it precipitated a mad dash to change the disc. No mad dashes needed if you have Kenny G :)
Thing is, we musos live in a musical bubble and our tastes are often far removed from that of the average person, many of whom would describe Kenny's music as "beautiful" or "relaxing". We often look for edges because smooth is old hat to us, but less experienced listeners are only looking for the superficialities ... "oh, that's lovely". Kenny's music is like like one of those standard landscape paintings - absolutely standard and safe as milk.
Pat's wrong. There's plenty of music more stupid that that of Kenny G. Try the Top 40 any way of any week.
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Re: Metheny, Kenny G, and other Jazz greats
He's all over it.
I love the start of this interview: http://www.jazzoasis.com/methenyonkennyg.htm
He critiques Kenny G on a technical level, then goes on to talk about the afore-mentioned youtube clip. His biggest issue with Kenny is his overdubbing of Louis Armstrong's tune.
Polly, sure there's worse music out there, but there's certain lines you shouldn't cross to make a buck (and I'm sure you'll agree there was nothing 'artistic' behind Kenny G's Wonderful World, it was purely financially motivated).
Wishing I was Stanton Moore...
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I never heard his Satchmo overdub but that simply sounds like fun to me. I don't think a lack of reverence for an artist necessarily implies disrespect, just as imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. No doubt KG was aware of its commercial value, but a cut of royalties go to Stachmo's estate (or has copyright run out?) so who loses? I imagine it would spark curiosity about the original version in a new generation of listeners.
I don't own any Kenny G music but I really have no issue with him; I prefer his work to lots of other music. I really don't understand all the degree of animosity. Sure, the music is daggy but he ain't the first, won't be the last and definitely not the worst :)
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Re: Pat Metheny on Kenny G and other Jazz greats
This argument has gone on since as long as I can remember.
I listen to Kenny, Pat, Monk, Benny, and hundreds of others.
Shouldn't there be a full spectrum of Jazz? Something for everyone!
We all have choice as far as what we listen to.
I don't see the reason for the bashing of Smooth Jazz artist by the "purest".
Its kind of like Catholics bashing Protestants.
A Porsche owner bashing a MG owner.
Sometimes it's nice to sit down to Sanborn and just relax.
Personally, I don't care what other people listen to.
I don't care what name marketing people give to a style of music!
I kind of like old drums:)
Re: Pat Metheny on Kenny G and other Jazz greats
Only if life was so simple to people who take jazz music very seriously.
There's time to be politically correct and then there's a time to call the musical {if you can call it that that} BS when you see it IMO... Metheny nailed it #3 for me with my 2 cents on this matter.
That horrid KG sax solo over Armstrong added NOTHING but took away everything from the original content and musical intent...... enough said.
I have VERY strong opinions about this type of commercial gain but incredibly mediocre and shallow offerings in the name of "music" and ultimately $$$$ without any due {musical} respect for the true greats which came before and what on a much deeper level they brought to the table on the subject of jazz music.
That's my firm opinion and will remain unchanged on the matter. No wonder nobody has a clue what jazz is anymore... thank to the likes of KG who blure the waters over what the "real deal " jazz wise is to the average listener.
Re: Pat Metheny on Kenny G and other Jazz greats
What the public wants is often NOT what we musicians want to play. There's a tension between musicians with specialist tastes and the public. How many musicians play one style to make a living and then have side projects that allow them to express themselves? Lucky Kenny - he happens to enjoy music that's highly popular! His hobby is his work.
Most times, whenever we want to stretch out or move outside the box, we are punished - through lack of gigs, lack of sales or criticism. Stan, you know what it's like; if you play too intensely there'll be someone telling you that's you're not playing *proper* bop. As with much of life, there's always someone trying to squeeze you into a constricting box.
So you get someone like Pat Metheny who sees Kenny G horning in [sic] on his smooth jazz crossover niche in the market, simplifying it and lowering the bar musically. You'd expect Pat to be frustrated because it pressures him to dumb down his offerings to regain the share that Kenny is taking from him.
The problem is the crossover aspect of his audience, who don't notice the dumbing down and simply enjoy the increased focus and visceral appeal. The other problem is that women make up half the population and most of us have musical taste that ranges from the the insipid to the banal - lol
BTW, since chasing down that Song Bird link of Kenny's I've had the damn thing stuck in my head all day. Guess that partly explains his popularity :)
PS. None of this is "politically correct". It's just how things are. Nothing in life is ideal, including the music scene.
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I think what got Pat's goat was the fact that Kenny could 'imitate' ( read fake ) the art form of jazz, and put it out there for the millions who, like Polly says, would'nt know any better, and have it pass off as jazz. And this too off the shoulders of jazz icon and to rub salt on the wound, be commercially successful doing that.
As far as comparisons between the two go, a quick glimpse at their creds are quite revealing;
Metheny - Has won 17 grammys. Taught Berklee at the age of 20. Has recorded with Jim Hall, Dave Holland, Roy Haynes, Toninho Horta, Gary Burton, Chick Corea, Jaco Pastorius, Charlie Haden, John Scofield, Jack DeJohnette, Herbie Hancock, Bill Stewart, Ornette Coleman, Brad Mehldau, Joni Mitchell.
Kenny G- Has won 1 grammy. Recorded with Andrea Bocelli, Whitney Houston, Peabo Bryson, Toni Braxton, DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince, Steve Miller (which marked the only time he appeared on a rock and roll album), Dudley Moore, Michael Bolton, and Celine Dion.
Here's the Wiki on the crux of the issue:-
Kenny G's 1999 single, "What A Wonderful World" was criticized by the jazz community regarding the overdubbing of Louis Armstrong's classic recording. A common criticism was that a revered recording by an artist such as Armstrong known especially for improvisation should not be altered and especially not by a musician such as Kenny G whose contributions to jazz were already in question. Jazz guitarist Pat Metheny responded to this recording by saying, "With this single move, Kenny G became one of the few people on earth I can say that I really can't use at all — as a man, for his incredible arrogance to even consider such a thing, and as a musician, for presuming to share the stage with the single most important figure in our music.
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Let's hear it for Kenny!
Also from Wikipedia: Kenny G has stated that all the proceeds from "What A Wonderful World" go to his Kenny G Miracles Foundation which "funnel(s) the money to charities to purchase musical instruments and to supplement funding for the arts in schools."
Kenny is a bit of an outsider in the jazz scene and does his own thing. He probably just thought, "Hey, that would be fun!".
It looks to me to be one of those common faux pas where one has no idea how important something is to others until they blow up. I've done a million of 'em myself. Like the time I was at a dinner party and, being an instant coffee girl, just filled up the filter coffee jug to when people asked for more. I'm still being given heaps about that one 5 years later - lol
But I'll tell you what, I won't be doing that again and I doubt Kenny will do another Sachmo cover either. Never mind, lots more gaucheness where that came from.
How uncool is Kenny? Also from Wikipedia: He is also one of the original investors in the Starbucks coffee house chain. Hmm, maybe he is evil? :)
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PS. A Kenny G joke ... Kenny walks into an elevator and says, "Hey! This place is really happening!"
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Re: Pat Metheny on Kenny G and other Jazz greats
I fully understand the passionate defence of something that one believes has been desecrated, yet, it's the degree of venom that surprises me. The automatic assumption seems to be that the cover artist intended insult to the original and surely the only reason for such artistic folly must be financial gain. The flip side of the coin may be that the cover artist really believes they've done a good job, maybe even paid homage in some small way. I think it's highly presumptious of anyone to second guess another's motives when the accused doesn't have a reply on record.
Is it just possible that Louis Armstrong would have been pleased that someone of note, no matter how poorly in his peers opinions, covered his work with a resultant wave of popularity? I have noticed that followers of close to non secular music forms tend to be significantly more precious when it comes to perceived musical "infringement". That's understanderble, as such musicians also tend to be more passionate and single minded than others who have a wider genre appreciation. Jazz & death metal are unusual bed partners in this respect.
The Kenny G thing happens all the time, but it doesn't mean we have to unleash a hornets nest attack on each occasion. I find it perplexing that the jazz community feels someone of Lois Armstrong's stature actually needs defending. Surely his work speaks for itself. I'm left wondering if the same reaction manifests itself in the rock world. Take this iconic rock track as a recent example;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfUYuIVbFg0 Journey's "Don't stop believing". Not only a superb piece of writing, but vocals by arguably one of the greatest rock singers ever (very much so IMO).
Then along comes some very talented but obviously super commercially steered snotty nosed kids with this dream drippy version; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4-8_Z1E2hw
To a rock fan such as me, this ammounts to near heresy. To have the nerve to even think they could top such a vocal performance as Perry's is beyond belief. I note my prejudice and move on.
But hang on just one minute. Is the original artist that bothered? I think not. Has the new release attracted huge attention towards the original? Hell, yes. And let's not forget publishing protocol here. Journey, or the owners of their material had to approve the use of that material including a satisfactory review of the finished product. The owners of Louis Armstrong's material would also have given permission on the same basis. Surely, if some believe the Kenny G cover was purely motivated by commercial gain, it's the owners of Louis Armstrong's material who should be on the receiving end.
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When any artist bashes another artist...I tend to have a lower opinion of the guy doing the bashing. He might be a great musician, but great musicians can still have poor social skills. Art and expression are highly individual, and (ideally) shouldn't be subject to anothers moralities. Live and let others live. If you think it's tasteless, you have a right to your opinion, but to publicly bash an artist for a song....I think is equal to picking a fight. For no valid reason. It's childish. Personal expression shouldn't be forced to fit within a certain mold or we are all in trouble. OK so he tried something that failed in somes eyes. It's only art, it's not like it's an opressive and unfair law or anything. If you don't like it, change the channel, and stop complaining about anothers vision. Get over yourself and do something positive, flesh out your own vision instead of cutting someone else's down. Kenny G has a right to be bland and tasteless. (Not my opinion, I don't have one on Kenny,I'm just echoing the opinion of the percieved status quo) He's not hurting anyone. It's just soundwaves. Mind your own business. I don't care how much Pat has done, he has no right to say what Kenny should and shouldn't do, just like no one has the right to tell Pat what to play. Grow up.
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Some here seem to have missed the whole point on a more serious level so I give up since I don't play the game of turning the filter and edit button off and calling into the mix the "everything goes" card as a lame reason for allowing in mediocre offerings in the name of "music" to be acceptable. The word "respect" for the intent of the original musical offering by Mr Armstrong certainly also plays into this from mine and obviously Pat Metheny's take on the horrid KG "interpretation" in question under fire.
And no its not a case of snobery folks why I state this its knowing what's is clearly "musical" BS and simply a money making marketing ploy and what has any true depth and meaning from a musical perspective in contrast. As you grow and learn as a musician and a listener alike the filter and edit button gets better "tuned" the deeper you listen and gain knowledge and wisdom on the art of all things that we call music.
KG is like the fast food watered equivalent to music for those wanting a easy quick fix on the ears without any real substance that taste okay for the first 5 minutes but leaves a real bad tastes in your mouth about 20 minutes later......
Arguing the "everything goes" card STILL doesn't make it right folks. Opinion unchanged on this matter as you may have already guessed.....
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Kenny G overdubbing Satchmo is the most disturbing news I have heard recently. Is nothing holy anymore to those seeking to profit? I will go beyond agreeing with what Metheny said about him. I think he should be physically beaten and whipped. I'm still waiting for the clown circus at the R & R Hall of fame to induct that nitwit.
Pollyanna that is hilarious the story of Sexy MF getting into your mix. My wife loves that song, too and karaokes to alot of Prince's songs. She used to drive from the Omaha Indian reservation in Nebraska all the way to Minneapolis to see him perform in the early days. She would ditch me for him in a heartbeat.
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My dad liked Kenny G but I never had any use for him except for Christmas presents. Then it was Andrea Bocelli and then Chris Botti. They parade these folks about the middle class. I think it's Celtic Thunder now. Is there anything more lame then a bunch of mediocre singers, singing worn out tunes? And that 'Josh Groban' tune is Danny Boy with new lyrics; but he sells millions.
I did try to turn my dad onto to Blue Note, Louie, Brubeck or Coltrane; but he just didn't like it. He always liked muzak too and would blast that stuff Sunday mornings. We called in dentist office music because you always heard it in dentists' offices; and of course dentists had the highest suicide rate at that time. Perhaps it was the music.
The bottom line is Kenny G is not jazz. It is soft, instrumental pop. So it you're out there making jazz and trying to do something interesting and innovative with the music as Metheny has been for almost forty years, and you have this guy, any guy or girl, being called a great jazz musician and commercializing on the work that the greats have done, it is your duty to say "hey, you know this is BS. Listen to some real jazz." People love that Armstrong rendition, which was featured in Good Morning Viet Nam and became a a big hit again. It is lame to commercialize it in this context.
I actually like the rendition of the Journey tune. It pales in comparison to Steve. Everything is down an octave.lol It's hard to ruin a great song. I just learned that groove this weekend. It's a nice one.
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Look how many posts blow off metal as nothing but "Loud guitars with some guy screaming "hail satan"" without realizing there are 101 variations of metal, some of which have the complexity and sensitivity of other forms of music.
Or how many people blow off all country as the bland twangy pop music on the radio, without looking at someone like Johnny Cash is also considered country.
Most of my generation was brought up that classical is boring back ground music to put on at nap time when in pre-school, yet the 1812 Overture would never qualify as nap time music.
Or the kids who think The Who are just that band that does the CSI theme songs.
Miles Davis only has two Grammy's from his pre 1980 material.
And yet people who don't even write their own music, or one case, didn't even perform on their own albums, get Grammy's on a regular basis.
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Wow the amount of venom I'm seeing is disturbing.
Beaten, whipped?
Call me what you may, but championing hate is worse than what Kenny G did every day of the week.
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Retirement...August 21, 2015
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If in this example it sucks, it sucks plain and simple and if its sappy cheesy commercial intent diminishes the beauty of the original version with its meandering sugar coated sax crap then it sucks plain and simple for me and my ears and musical experience.
Straight shooter calling it as I SEE IT.......other's are entilted to THEIR opinion...... that's clearly mine on the subject with no lack of conviction on my part in the matter.
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I don't know. I think Louis Armstrong singing "Hello Dolly" was pretty rotten, and I fail to see how it has any artistic merit whatsoever, although
I'm sure that Armstrong made a lot of money from it. And I'm pretty sure that Kenny G got permission from the Armstrong estate to use the recording of "Wonderful World."
Now don't get me wrong, I can't stand Kenny G or any of that user-friendly white-wine-and-cheese smooth jazz vanilla pudding music. But it seems to me that the people who are keeping alive the controversy about Kenny G dubbing his sax onto a Louis Armstrong track, and not even a good one at that, are the same people who are the most outraged about it. Nobody else even remembers it. It's something best forgotten about, isn't it?
Anyway, Kenny G isn't taking any work away from, say, Greg Osby, so who cares what he does?
Call me J
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Just to steer slightly away from Abe's OP for a moment (please forgive me), but related IMO, am I the only one who thinks jazz has an accessibility issue? Also applies to metal and other "special interest" music genres. I'm hearing things like "Kenny G is only classified as a jazz muso because he plays a sax" and X isn't a real jazz muso but Y is. I genuinely, I mean genuinely have nothing against Jazz as a music form but on one hand I'm told that jazz is a broad church and on the other, I see rigid boundries set in stone. I admit to being utterly ignorant on the subject and somewhat confused. What is jazz? What is "real" jazz? I'd love it if someone could answer that for me in terms my under utilized brain can comprehend. I assume someone can enlighten me, otherwise how can anyone state that the material of a certain artist isn't real jazz.
I also hear jazz musos stating that jazz is reducing in popularity. Does the forum think that just might be due to vociferous defence of the pure form coupled with identity confusion? Please don't send plagues of locust to my house or unleash the wrath of the almighty 28" ride cymbal. I'm really not jazz bashing here, nor wishing to start WW3, I'm genuinely interested in members thoughts & explanations.
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If you go down the accessibility line then you have to blame guys like Monk, Parker, Miles, Cotrane or Bill Evans. Jazz was popular in the, 1920s, reaching its peak in the late 1930s and 40s. In the fifties you still had popular jazz artists but it was mostly the singers, Louis Jordan, Ella, Sinatra, even Louie Armstrong who maintained popularity. In 1959 you had Take Five, which was a big hit but rock and roll took the mainstream by storm with surf rock, the British invasion, youth culture and the counter culture. That became the popular, accessible music of the time. But much great jazz was still being created.
Are you really going to chastise Wayne Shorter, Metheny and Chick Corea for not having a top ten hit or diminish something because of its lack of popularity? Like wise I wouldn't diminish Herbie Hancock because he has. When you go down the line of diminish music because of its accessibility, you define everything with value through its commercialism. As wonderfully ideological it is to believe that the free market takes care of everything, it doesn't.
Ken Marino Drum Teacher "It's not worth keeping score. You win some. You lose some, you let it go"
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Yes, anybody who is worshipped by my ex-wife should be beaten and whipped.
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Louis Armstrong was the Kenny G of his time for a good 20 years of his career. His jazz peers were less then in pressed w/ his selling out.
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I often listen to smooth jazz when Im at work. Its background music that doesn't distract me. It simply sets a mood that allows me to think about what I am doing and not the music.
It has simple flowing melodies and back beats. There is a moderate amount of syncopation. There are seldom lyrics to mess up the mood.
It flows along like a river in its own way. It blocks out the noise of the shop and the stupid distractions like the PA system and conversations that I don't want to hear.
Smooth Jazz is like driving an MGB. It has No power, No great performance, Not much handling and Braking, It's a forgiving sports car that I can drive slowly with the top down while I smoke my pipe and relax.
Real jazz is like driving a Porsche. You have to power it into the turns as if you were Storming Poland during a Blitzkrieg! You cant wait to depress the accelerator and let the turbo spool up while you power shift into second gear.
You know that if you make one mistake you will wind up spinning around and hitting a guard rail! On the edge at all times!
I kind of like old drums:)
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I know very little about jazz as a genre. All I know is what I feel.
I am listening right now to the song in question, "What a wonderful world".
FWIW, here's my impressions of this song as a person who is very unknowing about jazz.
This is the first time I heard it.
First off it's not jazz in my book, it's a melodic ballad. Forgive my ignorance if this actually considered a jazz song.
If I could critique Kennys playing, I'd say it was elementary. He just stuck basically to the melody with a few flourishes. In the beginning he didn't step on the vocals, but at the end he stepped all over the vocalist, just doubling the melody basically, which I thought was ameteur sounding in that particular instance, like he could improve upon the vocal....His "solo", was just the embellished melody, no artistic contribution whatsoever. It's kind of laughable really. But as a musician, it's not something I'd personally get upset over. Now if Kenny G erased the original masters and replaced them with his version then that's something different altogether.
I couldn't stand Pat Boones rape and pillaging of Little Richard's "Tutti Frutti" either, but I don't want to hurt him. I just laugh at him, because he's such a dork. Kinda like I'm laughing at Kenny G right now. What he did to that great song is a joke. But I still defend his right to do it. If it sucks, the "artists" just dig their own graves anyway. If the people like it, then they're probably a musically unenlightened audience anyway and probably won't ever get good music. Water seeks it's own level. I'm not trying to change any minds here, I'm just stating my opinion, and I don't think any less of anyone for disagreeing with me.
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A lot of folks are not real happy that the state is going to cut down all those trees on I-26.
It's going to be ugly. It's going to be generic. And it's going to make it a lot harder for the deer to hide before they jump out in front of our cars.
But there's one other thing for sure here — it's not Jim Rozier's fault.
The Lowcountry representative on the state Department of Transportation Commission tried to stop the I-26 tree massacre. But, alas, he was not successful.
"I hate it. I fought the good fight," says Rozier, the Highway Commissioner and former Berkeley County supervisor.
Before Thursday's meeting, Rozier was pretty sure he didn't have the votes to stop the DOT's plan to cut down all the trees in the median between Summerville and Interstate 95.
And after state bureaucrats finished their presentation, he was pretty sure he could not have gotten a second to his emotion. The state guys had done their homework.
The carrot and the stick
The state plans to replace our trees with some ugly cables, the likes of which they've been stringing up along highways for the past decade.
In that 10 years, 23,000 cars have hit the cables — which works out to about 4.5 cars per mile of cable on South Carolina highways.
You know what this means, besides the fact that we have some really rotten drivers in this state?
"No question, the cables save lives," Rozier says.
Even had Rozier successfully argued against safety, the DOT is now dangling a carrot that will no doubt silence many of its critics: It has to take out the trees to widen I-26 to three lanes in each direction.
Between the lives saved and the additional highway lanes, Rozier knew there was no way to stop this train.
And in the end, he couldn't. So say goodbye to the trees.
The boredom zone?
This is not going to be a popular decision.
Rozier got 130 calls on the DOT's plan himself. Only three of those people liked the idea — and one of those was a guy who wanted the contract to cut down all the trees.
There's a reason people had such a gut reaction to this idea. Fact is, that's a pretty stretch of highway. And it won't be anymore. It's going to look like any other patch of interstate in any state.
And that stinks.
Rozier says he can't do anything, except explain it to folks and hope they understand.
Of course, he can tell them that stretch of I-26 isn't called the death zone for nothing. In a recent four-year span, there were nearly 2,000 crashes in that 30 miles. In those accidents, more than 700 people were injured, and 44 died. Half those crashes involved running off the road and, presumably, into those trees.
Funny thing is, the DOT says most of those wrecks aren't the result of drunk driving or even texting behind the wheel. Most of the accidents, it seems, are the result of people falling asleep or just not concentrating while driving.
Maybe that had something to do with the nice scenery.
Well, we won't have that problem anymore.
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Tuesday, 07/01/1997
Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Set 1: Ghost[1], Horn, Ya Mar[1], LxLLimb By Limb -> Ain't Love Funny, Saw It Again[1], Dirt, Reba, Dogs Stole Things
Set 2: Jam[2] -> TimberTimber (Jerry) > GinBathtub Gin -> Cities > Jam[1], Loving Cup > SlaveSlave to the Traffic Light
Encore: CircusWhen the Circus Comes
[1] "Worm" banter.
[2] The second set began with a Fish piano solo that evolved into a jam, as the rest of the band eventually joined the stage and Fish moved to his drum kit.
· The Little Drummer Boy and The Simpsons Theme teases in Bathtub Gin
· When the Saints Go Marching In and Santa Claus is Coming to Town teases in Jam
· Frankenstein tease in Loving Cup
Noteworthy Jams: Ghost (highly recommended), Ya Mar, Limb By Limb, Reba, Jam, Timber (Jerry), Bathtub Gin, Cities (highly recommended), Jam (highly recommended)
Average Song Gap: 7.94
Performers: Trey Anastasio, Page McConnell, Jon Fishman, Mike Gordon
Notes: Ghost began the first of two nights of the infamous "Worm" banter, with Fish saying "I think you know where you are" and Trey responding with "You're on the back of the worm!" The "Worm" was also mentioned in Ya Mar, Saw It Again, and the jam out of Cities, which also included When the Saints Go Marching In and Santa Claus is Coming to Town teases by Trey. Dirt was introduced as "Green Grass High Tides Forever." The second set began with a Fish piano solo that evolved into a jam, as the rest of the band eventually joined the stage and Fish moved to his drum kit. Bathtub Gin contained a Little Drummer Boy tease from Trey and a Simpsons Theme tease from Mike. Loving Cup contained a Frankenstein tease from Mike. This show was officially released as part of the Amsterdam box set.
Song Distribution:
2 The Story of the Ghost
2 Lawn Boy
1 Farmhouse
1 Rift
1 The White Tape
Songs by Debut Year:
This show was part of the "1997 Summer European Tour."
Timber roams all over, covering that awesome, dark, space that Timber so often explores, and the ensuing Gin has got to be one of the darkest, scary-psychedelic Gins of all time. Creepy as hell Little Drummer Boy tease (influenced by Hendrix's LDB tease from 12/31/69, a show Trey said he listened to all the time in 1997?) in there -- I'd love to know what really happened on the proverbial 31st of June when Trey got trapped in time... speaking of creepy, that segue from the dust of Gin into Cities is painstakingly beautiful. Talk about a sneak attack! This is a slow Cities -- contrast this one to the last one they played on 6/20 and you have two different tunes altogether. This one pretty much ends before giving way to a far out there psychedelic story highly affected by the worms, with some more creepy teases: Santa Claus is Coming to Town and When the Saints Go Marching In. Is there another Phish show like this, where they randomly drift off to faraway lands, almost like they have no control over what they're doing and songs as we know them are escaping them altogether?! This is fucking amazing. The post-Cities jam IS a ride on the back of a worm cast into an improvised piece of music. Close your eyes and enjoy the ride. After what sounds like the beginning of Taste, that idea is trashed and Loving Cup brings us back to earth, and a slow-building, majestic Slave brings us to a close. As @waxbanks points out, Circus works *so well* here. The Circus definitely was in town this weekend in Amsterdam, and for the benefit of Mr. Mike, they melted some fucking faces onto the floor. This show is 5 stars, straight up. Oh, and there's a remastered AUD floating around out there that is top grade dank. Find that, turn it up, and tune out. Did I mention they played another show on 7/2 as well?
Night One kicks off in audacious fashion with Ghost, then still a new song (only its seventh airing, although they were playing it with a frequency that would make Fuego blush), and it moves from funk into a churning, dark jam (with the infamous Worm yelling) and back to melodic upbeat hose - lots of it, too, like it's 2004 or something - before clanging to a fine finish. But don't skip the rest of the set - Ya Mar is fun, LxL soars before cooling down and segueing masterfully into Ain't Love Funny, and the Reba really does find a nice peak to make us forget the composed section bobbles. Lots of shows would kill for a second set that matches this first one.
Set 2 starts with a "solo" from Fish on the organ that morphs into a deliberate and typically dark Timber, then gives way to a monster Gin, and I use the term "monster" in the scary sense rather than the massive sense. Things move along at the usual Gin speed before Trey flips on his "1980s hair metal" effect and the band moves into a darker and funkier and very Europe '97 space before segueing wonderfully into Cities. And this Cities is one for the record books and the night's highlight, as they first run through a molasses-slow version of the tune, then kick into a pulsing, downright *weird* jam that rolls forward with an unhurried menace before Trey moves things into a more upbeat zone (it's here that you get the teases mentioned above) and the band charges to the finish line with another dose of funk. Loving Cup and a ghostly, ethereal Slave make a fine finish to the set, and Circus is the cherry on top.
Final thoughts: the better of the two shows; really one of their finest shows, and one as out of step with Phish's usual methodology as Fukuoka or 7/27/14 or even any of the Gamehendge shows are. Strongest possible recommendation - hell, this and the next night all by themselves are arguments for why you need to listen to AUDs.
First of all, the Paradiso is an old church that has been converted into a performance space, replete with stained glass windows and an ornate double balcony, all in the confines of a building that holds no more than a thousand people. It was a very intimate place indeed, and the energy of the crowd was intense and intent.
The opener, "Ghost", got things off to an easy, "Wolfman's"-type groove. The jam out of this tune developed significantly, and altogether "Ghost" clocked in just over twenty minutes. At one point, Trey and Fish were singing their favorite brand-new lyric over a jammed groove, "I think you know where you are"...you're on the back of a worm!" It was an auspicious start to the show, even shutting up some of the cynics around me that were sick of seeing the new tunes over and over.
"Horn" was next and then "Ya Mar" followed, with a particularly cool drum segment featuring delicate work by Fishman and a hushed audience. "Limb By Limb" was next, which also proved to be an excellent new song. The vocals are all divergent while at the same time convergent, and the lyrics are actually quite cool. Mike has a really cool background vocal that totally stands out in a killer way. The jam out of this tune was damn impressive; I was finding myself lost in rhythms that are not typical to your standard Phish jam.
After a brief respite in bass space, with Mike doing washes of sound while Page tweaked his Moogs, they segued into the vaguely Celtic lullaby cadence of "Funny As It Seems". Frankly, this song is a disappointment. The J.J. Cale lyrics have just too much of a straight-ahead cheese "lovey-dovey" feel to them, especially coming from a funkster like Mike. Still, it provided some rest for the next selection, "Saw it Again". This tune kicks, with two separate sections. In the first, there are killer "wah" effects from Trey and a totally punchy arrangement of the background vocals. The second section features a slower, harder groove with everyone singing with gospel's conviction, "I saw it again!" An absolutely killer rock and roll song! Trey was yelling about being on the back of the worm again during this one also.
"Dirt" followed, a Beatles sounding-ballad that was maybe placed a little closer to the also-slow "Funny as it Seems" than I would've preferred. "Dirt" has a nice instrumental ending with Trey following the lyric melody. Of all the songs that seem appropriate for the mention of worms, "Dirt" didn't get one.
Next, they broke into the old bag of tricks and pulled out a magical "Reba". Trey was just soaring as Chris Kuroda began involving the stained glass for the first time, lighting up the glass from behind with pulses of light. Full of nuance and melodic expression, this was a truly heavenly "Reba". Which brings me to a digression: is Trey God?
"Dogs Stole Things" closed out the exhaustive eighty-nine-minute set. This is a standard rocker that doesn't seem like it has much room to go anywhere; the groove didn't even seem that cool, kind of stale. Maybe Trey isn't God.
The music of Set II was so good, it surpasses my ability to be objective. Being in Amsterdam brings with it certain advantages, and those advantages tend to manifest themselves most intensely during a set break. So take my review with a grain of salt, or whatever else is handy.
To begin the second set, Fishman stepped out alone on stage, walked over to Page's electric piano, and started playing a little repetitive ditty. At first I thought that it was actually John Medeski (MMW were playing a week later at a Dutch jazz festival) because Fishman looks like him now, with his crewcut. This is the first time that I've heard Fishman play keyboards in a way that is listenable. Improvement is a good thing.
The rest of the guys then came out, and Trey began the opening to "Timber Ho" while Fishman made his way back to his set. "Timber Ho" was just ridiculous, with Trey busting out otherworldly noises and fat chunks, along with killer support from the Chairman of the Boards.
I was floored that my favorite cover tune of theirs ("Timber") would be followed by one of my favorite originals, "Bathtub Gin"! In forty-five shows, I have only seen "Bathtub" three times, so I'm still totally batty when they start into it. This version is truly a top five of all-time - type affair - full-on "synthoslinky" bass from Mike at one point that will blow your mind when you hear the tape. The syncopated beats that Mike found late in this jam is just further evidence that the man is grounded in his own, uniquely satisfying groove.
The "Bathtub" jam then led into a superslow sex-groove jam version of "Cities", slowed down considerably. In fact, the "Bathtub" jam was just kind of going along, slowing down, and then Trey just kept hammering this one chord slower and slower (it was the "Cities" chord, but with the effects it sounded totally different) and then eventually he just spoke into the mic, "Think of London!" and the roof just about came down.
Aside from playing it at such a slow beat, they were leaving a lot of space around the music (not spacey, but sparse) of the composed part and the initial part of the jam followed this effect. It had sort of a slow blues feel, again, with nice space around the music. The blues feel then sort of absorbed the psychedelic vibe in the room and began mutating into a jam that reminded me of the liquid blues feel that they had in the thirty-five-minute "Free" from 11/22/95 Landover, MD.
Eight minutes into "Cities" the jam loses the more straightforward feeling of the blues jam and sinks down into another wash of sounds, similar to the Mike and Page volume-swell jam from the legendary Providence 12/29/94 "Bowie". There were massive blocks of sound swelling out and in, sometimes with simulated Doppler effect. At one point, when the jam was getting that "weeble-wobble" feel, Trey yelled out, to everyone's bewilderment (once again), "I think you know where you are"...you're on the back of the worm!"
So, twenty minutes after "Cities" began, we're still rolling with this whacked jam happening and no clear direction in sight. It was sweet! "Cities" wound up clocking in at twenty-three minutes, but it's hard to tell if the last fifteen minutes might have been something distinct. The "back of the worm jam" perhaps? Raging versions of "Loving Cup" and "Slave" closed out the set. Not a weak link in Set II! I could have sworn they were putting more emphasis on "Oh, what a beautiful buzz." Ahh, Amsterdam"...
"When the Circus Comes" seemed like an appropriately laid-back encore for such an exhausting evening. Sent home for a night of rest, we were psyched that we still had one more to go.


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Originally posted by Zorgo
Well I completely disagree with you. Why shouldn't bad games be criticized? What is the point of even having a forum then? You would not have what he calls a tear down issue if the developers had a clue what makes a game enjoyable to keep playing. We have developers spending inordinate amount of time on voice overs, cut scenes, etc, basically fluff that adds nothing to gameplay. They spend no time on the game systems which keeps people playing. Then you have the nerve to say we have a tear down mentality because we have increased expectations. Ludicrous!
Give us the old SWG pre NGE, it was a buggy mess, but it had 10 times the playability and character than these current games. At least that game had some moderately developed systems. Even old UO had better systems than the current crop.
So I think this so called Tear Down Mentality is a product of the market, not the individual.
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Originally posted by Ramonski7
I pointed out that playing is a childish activity liable to breed childish behaviour and I stand by that point. The fact childish behaviour exists in forums unrelated to gaming is in no way detremental to the point made. I never made any claim that wealth, power or intelligence alone are somehow enough to protect one from such failings and see that as you projecting your own issues into an unrelated conversation.
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Originally posted by Crazy_Stick
I am sorry but I am getting too old and too tired to keep on hitting the same nail: to play games and react on them on the adjecent forums is a "behaviour" of any age, any generation: it is inhirent to human nature. Any claim otherwise is proof of discriminatory biased "superstition".
And while or because I am a firm believer of any reaction based on reason and or substantiated ideas I believe and are convinced that childish and or mature reasoning will distantiate itself by its lack or by its abundance, and not by age only or anything else for that matter
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Joined: 3/18/11
What is "real"? How do you define "real"?
I see it basically as mob mentality. Or democracy. Take your pick. They're both pretty much the same.
Really, it's a mix of all those things you mentioned, but it pretty much just boils down to democracy, which equals mob mentality.
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Joined: 9/09/05
Originally posted by apocoluster
I let the irony hang. Nicely done. Would read again.
Anyway, great article. While it is full of obvious points, I believe that someone had to put them all together for some exposure. Do I believe it will make a difference? No. I lost my optimism back in my late 20's. But I still applaud the article.
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Joined: 10/08/11
I rarely have ever posted on a forum such as this one but it is a good topic.
I'm a 49 year old mom that has been PC gaming since original Doom circa 1993/94. I'm most likely not your target audience, but I assure you , people like myself are progression raiders, PvP'rs and coined the term "Hardcore gamer" when most of you were pooping your diapers.
I can tell you, if I want to enjoy ANY game in the least, I do not visit forums such as this one. It feels to me to be full of the most miserable gamers all rounded up from every other Dev forum.
These forums remind me of a cesspool and no one gets out without a little "dirt" on them.
Just for once, try to play a game with a "clean slate" frame of mind. I'm not sure its possible for any of you to understand that concept due ot the jaded discontent that abounds now a days within the industry. It's quite sad that all of you experience this, almost thrive on the drama forums seem to create.
Hope you can figure it out soon! Peace!
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Joined: 10/11/11
Problem with mmos is the lack of socialization and community. When you group and it is dead silence, people will get bored and come troll/socialize on web forums instead...
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Joined: 7/09/04
Originally posted by Ozmodan
I agree with this. The magnitude of the backlash generally seems to be proportionate to the scale of the hype. Game PR's and their 'journalist' friends thrive on building a groundswell of interest long before a game is released. It's a strategy designed to persuade naive and expectant consumers to part with their cash on release day. Is it really surprising that disappointment turns to anger when players feel that they've been wilfully deceived? It's karma, if you like - a repayment in kind to match the cynicism of the industry and its cronies.
The article talks about dissatisfaction and consumer expectations. The onus is surely on the developers and publishers to be careful about what they promise and to be careful to deliver on those promises. Caveat emptor, for sure, but Caveat venditor too. The faithful here are an unforgiving and unforgetting audience.
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Joined: 6/12/11
Originally posted by therain93
This. 100 effin percent. If anyone ever made it past 200 level psychology, they would have run by this little dandy. Definitely left out, but overall a good article. I see a great deal of negativity in some of these responses. Just blaming it on recent bad titles is not the answer. This mentality has been rampaging on gaming forums long before the wave of bad games came.
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Joined: 3/30/10
I don't Forum PVP. If you feel I've attacked you, it was probably by accident.
The pattern I see is player burnout related to brain chemistry.
The way I see it, gaming displaces reality (aka immersion) and in-game reward triggers a pleasure / satisfaction response. It's a rush from endogenous neurotransmitters. Something that can be paralleled with substance abuse.
The problem I see is that receptors downregulate based on exposure and lessen the amount of neurotransmitter signalling. Also, with continued gameplay the virtual environment gradually becomes less intense, reducing perceived immersion in the players and thereby lowering the pleasure response.
Bottom line, after a while, it takes more and more to satisfy , and it becomes the developers fault for failing to provide the desired experience.
There's no satisfaction for MMO junkies who can't get a good fix. Of course they get hostile.
Then again, maybe it's just that the games are bad.
I give up.
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I don't Forum PVP. If you feel I've attacked you, it was probably by accident.
Originally posted by crack_fox
Add in fan generated hype and I agree. The level of excitement driven up rivals hysteria. That's bound to be a factor in releases that fail to meet expectations.
I give up.
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Joined: 6/11/12
I have been around since the Awesome XT and vic20 and games to me are still "Games" and Well I love GW2 and Rift and I once loved WOW and Swtor and basically I don't care if you or anyone else agrees or disagrees! I put this down to my age (maturity). I call this the "I'm too old and crotchety to give a damn" mentality. I will never tear down WOW because I had way to much fun playing it (except to get a rise out of one of my annoying mates) and I will never tear down EVE online because I have never played it.
I think people invest so much time and effort into thier games that it all becomes way to personal but I do think that with so many options the "Tear Down" mentality will slowly dissipate and be left to a few "unstable" gamers. The choices we have and are going to have will have so many people playing multiple mmos that preaching and "Tearing Down" will seem pointless and a little hypocritical.
This may be the words of an "Old Fart" (46 but to most gamers that's really really old!!) but what I am trying to say is invest in a game because you like/enjoy playing it, because really, everything else is incidental.
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Joined: 11/01/11
stop making trash games and marketing them as gold, as we ll stop tearing down ur "stuff".
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Joined: 2/27/12
The Teardown Mentality is far from restricted to gamers. Long, long ago when I moderated lists and taught people who wanted to do the same we talked at length about this peculiar and imo interesting part of human behaviour. I lean towards a combination of
and never forget
Add a big group like eg. here to the above and you have an explosive mixture that can blowup at any (real or perceived) provocation.
I had quite a few laughs when people tried to tell me that their particular group was not going to be this way, either because they were too old for such nonsense or because a group was subject bound (eg. technical information only) and would therefore never descend into such destructive behaviour.
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Joined: 1/04/05
Originally posted by TsaboHavoc
What is trash to you is another person's gold. PERIOD.
Don't like the games, vote with your wallet. Complaining just makes gamers sound like spoiled children that have to have everything their way.
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Joined: 6/06/03
Very good article. The section on "Crab Mentality" really made me smile. We have something very similar in the Bahamas. The old people have a saying for those who like to tear others down: "You just like black crab!"
In the Bahamas we have two types of crabs we like to eat. One is a very large white crab, and the other is a smaller black crab. If you put black crabs in one bucket and white crabs in another bucket, walk away for a while and then come back, the bucket with black crabs will still be full. The bucket with white crabs...completely empty.
The black crabs will always reach up and pull down any of the others that try to escape, whereas the white crabs will pile on top of each other, creating a ramp of sorts for the others to climp up, and the second-to-last will actually reach down and pull the last one up and over the edge with it. It's pretty amazing to watch, and always made me feel a bit guilty for eating them...
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Joined: 12/29/05
As pointed out with 'sayings' from some other posters this 'mentality' is not something new. I suspect its been around as long as homo sapiens have been able to communicate complicated ideas. The increasing incidences of this is due only to the fact (in my opinion) there are just so many people who now can connect to the Internet and with such large numbers even the 'rare' cases of behaviour will be seen more often. After all 1 in a 1000 means if there are 500k people going to a site you now have 500 people who share the same mind set. They will post and because their view no longer seems out of place they will be encouraged to post more often.
I suppose what this means is that there is now going to be a lot more noise on any website (regardless of what its about). It is the price we will have to pay for so many being connected in real time and it will take work to be able to properly sort out the unhelpful posts from the helpful. Its going to come down to survival for game developers since if they group all negative posts as being just noise they risk losing a large amount of their potential consumers. Indeed there does appear to be a tendency among some developers to do just that and they have already lost all the goodwill they have built up over the past years.


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