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Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action Subject: Re: The Rise and Fall of Unreal Tournament - YouTube video by GVMERS Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2024 11:10:02 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 43 Message-ID: <vcpmhp$2a2p7$1@dont-email.me> References: <6tucncZZ04Ly43L7nZ2dnZfqn_EAAAAA@earthlink.com> <9gavej5k2mlmu70n60jgnc99cmdt9km8pk@4ax.com> <lni0fjh8kliuv7evfpff2cmfckeff0sb1c@4ax.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2024 20:10:02 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="dd424dd1c7965ff111e715da88bbcf9c"; logging-data="2427687"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19c8S2VzD7PwP+9jy9R9ncW" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:NEbLtYyW2nsucdcyzPpjO4pFT9w= In-Reply-To: <lni0fjh8kliuv7evfpff2cmfckeff0sb1c@4ax.com> Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 3041 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: >> >>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5U7phg0rPKE >> >> 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. >> >> The voiceover guy, while slick, nearly put me into a coma by 10 minutes. >> >> 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. >> >> 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 -- I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky dirty old man.