Re: The Rise and Fall of Unreal Tournament - YouTube video by GVMERS

On Sun, 22 Sep 2024 00:29:37 -0500, Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com>
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On Sun, 22 Sep 2024 02:18:23 +0000, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action, Ant
wrote:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5U7phg0rPKE

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OMG. As a copywriter, I just want to smack whoever wrote that script.
They were clearly confused about their intended audience and appeared to
be writing a college admissions essay rather than a documentary. Gotta
show off that SAT vocabulary prep.
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The voiceover guy, while slick, nearly put me into a coma by 10 minutes.
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I seriously wonder if the whole thing was AI generated, tbh. Both the
script and the voice. It did not feel like humans produced it.
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Thanks for sharing, but did you have the same experience?

I wasn't quite as negative, but I have to admit this was one of Gvmers
poorer videos. It was exceptionally shallow; little more than a
chronological listing of the games' releases. It smacked a lot of,
"Hey, Unreal was cool; remember this games?" sort of reporting.

But I'm not entirely sure I can fault Gvmers for not bringing in more
detail when even Epic doesn't seem to understand what went wrong. In
fact, the thing I took away most from the video was a reminder of the
part they didn't even say: for undisclosed reasons, Epic pulled the
original Unreal games from all storefronts, so there's no legitimate
way to purchase new copies of the classic games anymore.