This is what gaming is now. People hating on anything and everything they can. His name was in the title for this article. If he bothers you that much, you could have just as easily not clicked it.
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I asked my daughter one day a couple of years ago: "Who is that screechy girl you're blasting on the computer?!?" Then I walked over to look and I was like "Oh. Okayyyy" I guess he's grown a beard and passed through the other side of puberty now. Well there's at least that.
Anyhow, I'm still not sure why this character creator is so mind blowing for people. The ability to essentially grab parts of a characters face and body and mold them in any way you like has been in EVE Online for half a decade. It's not exactly new tech, it's just that finally someone else is doing it.
Slow news day? lol I thought only children like my 9 year old brother followed these youtube "celebs".
You're exactly right, Pewdiepie, Markiplier, and the hundred or so copycats they spawned, are most popular with the younger demographic (i.e. under 18). They are nothing more than living cartoons at this point. I have to admit, I watched Pewdiepie for a while before he struck it rich. He was much more mellow playing games (as in not a fucking overdramatic screech-machine) before he played Amnesia. It was his videos of the popular games "Slenderman" and "Amnesia" that really made his subscriber count skyrocket.
Slenderman originated on the Something Awful forums, as did the term "Let's Play" (starting with the user Slowbeef, who now has the yt channel Retsupurae). I've been a member of SA longer than mmorpg.com, over a decade, and read the Let's Play threads religiously. There was a lot of love put into those LP's, and being a fanboy of Retsupurae didn't sway my reactions when PDP and Markiplier suddenly were getting cashmoneydollars for videos...Youtube 'superstars' like those two are nothing more than a 70's Mcdonalds quarter-pounder thats been dropped on a sidewalk. They're the kind of thing only a pubescent boy in high school could get entertainment from, being naive just enough to think their screaming into a mic and 300 videos all titled "OMFG! SCARIEST. GAME. EVER. " is actual sincere fear and terror. They are nothing special, they just happened to hit the right note at the perfect time in Youtube and Let's Play history, and are reaping the rewards. The same thing happened with Twitch.tv, which is why you see every piece of shit trying to get a piece of that same pie as Pewdiepie, just in a different yet similar fashion.
》》》》TL;DR: It's pretty obvious this must've been a slow news day, however I can understand how a news article that marries Pewdiepie with a current-story game like Black Desert Online is probably beneficial for all parties involved. Don't be suprised however when the meat of the site's userbase considers this (bringing PDP into mmorpg discussions) a complete waste of time, wanting his gamer mindset to stay far away from a genre of gaming already trying to "grow up and mature" from it's hand-holding, WoW-ruled, casualized, mainstreamed, hand-holding "highschool years".
Squisheydew said earlier about how this is great advertisement for the genre plagued with shit masquerading as mmo's, games that are nothing more than pvp arenas (or exact opposite but with depth more shallow than a dog pissing in a pothole), hopefully that is the result. Knowing very well his target audience however...
I'm not hating on the guy. I don't have an opinion on him either way. I have heard that he got filthy rich from YouTube but I've also heard he does a lot of charity so at least he's giving something back to society, which is more than I can say about many of the other famous people who shouldn't be famous.
Slow news day? lol I thought only children like my 9 year old brother followed these youtube "celebs".
You're exactly right, Pewdiepie, Markiplier, and the hundred or so copycats they spawned, are most popular with the younger demographic (i.e. under 18). They are nothing more than living cartoons at this point. I have to admit, I watched Pewdiepie for a while before he struck it rich. He was much more mellow playing games (as in not a fucking overdramatic screech-machine) before he played Amnesia. It was his videos of the popular games "Slenderman" and "Amnesia" that really made his subscriber count skyrocket.
Slenderman originated on the Something Awful forums, as did the term "Let's Play" (starting with the user Slowbeef, who now has the yt channel Retsupurae). I've been a member of SA longer than mmorpg.com, over a decade, and read the Let's Play threads religiously. There was a lot of love put into those LP's, and being a fanboy of Retsupurae didn't sway my reactions when PDP and Markiplier suddenly were getting cashmoneydollars for videos...Youtube 'superstars' like those two are nothing more than a 70's Mcdonalds quarter-pounder thats been dropped on a sidewalk. They're the kind of thing only a pubescent boy in high school could get entertainment from, being naive just enough to think their screaming into a mic and 300 videos all titled "OMFG! SCARIEST. GAME. EVER. " is actual sincere fear and terror. They are nothing special, they just happened to hit the right note at the perfect time in Youtube and Let's Play history, and are reaping the rewards. The same thing happened with Twitch.tv, which is why you see every piece of shit trying to get a piece of that same pie as Pewdiepie, just in a different yet similar fashion.
》》》》TL;DR: It's pretty obvious this must've been a slow news day, however I can understand how a news article that marries Pewdiepie with a current-story game like Black Desert Online is probably beneficial for all parties involved. Don't be suprised however when the meat of the site's userbase considers this (bringing PDP into mmorpg discussions) a complete waste of time, wanting his gamer mindset to stay far away from a genre of gaming already trying to "grow up and mature" from it's hand-holding, WoW-ruled, casualized, mainstreamed, hand-holding "highschool years".
Squisheydew said earlier about how this is great advertisement for the genre plagued with shit masquerading as mmo's, games that are nothing more than pvp arenas (or exact opposite but with depth more shallow than a dog pissing in a pothole), hopefully that is the result. Knowing very well his target audience however...
I've got to say, that was some of the nerdiest shit I've ever read in my life. Please go outside.
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In War - Victory.
In Peace - Vigilance.
In Death - Sacrifice.
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Anyhow, I'm still not sure why this character creator is so mind blowing for people. The ability to essentially grab parts of a characters face and body and mold them in any way you like has been in EVE Online for half a decade. It's not exactly new tech, it's just that finally someone else is doing it.
You're exactly right, Pewdiepie, Markiplier, and the hundred or so copycats they spawned, are most popular with the younger demographic (i.e. under 18). They are nothing more than living cartoons at this point. I have to admit, I watched Pewdiepie for a while before he struck it rich. He was much more mellow playing games (as in not a fucking overdramatic screech-machine) before he played Amnesia. It was his videos of the popular games "Slenderman" and "Amnesia" that really made his subscriber count skyrocket.
Slenderman originated on the Something Awful forums, as did the term "Let's Play" (starting with the user Slowbeef, who now has the yt channel Retsupurae). I've been a member of SA longer than mmorpg.com, over a decade, and read the Let's Play threads religiously. There was a lot of love put into those LP's, and being a fanboy of Retsupurae didn't sway my reactions when PDP and Markiplier suddenly were getting cashmoneydollars for videos...Youtube 'superstars' like those two are nothing more than a 70's Mcdonalds quarter-pounder thats been dropped on a sidewalk. They're the kind of thing only a pubescent boy in high school could get entertainment from, being naive just enough to think their screaming into a mic and 300 videos all titled "OMFG! SCARIEST. GAME. EVER. " is actual sincere fear and terror. They are nothing special, they just happened to hit the right note at the perfect time in Youtube and Let's Play history, and are reaping the rewards. The same thing happened with Twitch.tv, which is why you see every piece of shit trying to get a piece of that same pie as Pewdiepie, just in a different yet similar fashion.
》》》》TL;DR: It's pretty obvious this must've been a slow news day, however I can understand how a news article that marries Pewdiepie with a current-story game like Black Desert Online is probably beneficial for all parties involved. Don't be suprised however when the meat of the site's userbase considers this (bringing PDP into mmorpg discussions) a complete waste of time, wanting his gamer mindset to stay far away from a genre of gaming already trying to "grow up and mature" from it's hand-holding, WoW-ruled, casualized, mainstreamed, hand-holding "highschool years".
Squisheydew said earlier about how this is great advertisement for the genre plagued with shit masquerading as mmo's, games that are nothing more than pvp arenas (or exact opposite but with depth more shallow than a dog pissing in a pothole), hopefully that is the result. Knowing very well his target audience however...
I've got to say, that was some of the nerdiest shit I've ever read in my life. Please go outside.