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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
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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


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