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

On 9/22/2024 10:01 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Sun, 22 Sep 2024 00:29:37 -0500, Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com>
wrote:
 

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.
 

The rarer and more difficult to acquire something is the more valuable it is!  So if it is impossible to acquire it must be infinitely valuable on the company's books!
:P
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