Defending ERAS: Some fun light reading on STEAM

[modernknight1]

Thought our audience might enjoy the following thread. I just can’t make this stuff up. People never cease to surprise me.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/223330/discussions/1/1489992080520783921/

MK

[ians]

Eras is far superior in every way.Ive recently played the other titles with their low number of types of ships,and thats with their DLC..I played the French character and the only good thing was that I skipped the tutorial in fact ive got a new Name for it (Tiresome Excruciatingly Horrible Ordinary)

[Stéphane]

It was really fun to read, sounds like someone going to war without ammo .. without rifle … and without an army … no cogent argument at all
He is wrong and can’t admit … He should learn about cognitive dissonance

[Jeffrey]

I honestly didn’t even want to engage, but it’s gone too far for me…and I’m a pretty easygoing guy. Takes quite a lot to set me off. This is similar treatment I remember at PA!, where self-professed ‘experts’ continually spout out nonsense, without any firsthand knowledge or experience, but more often based on a preconceived bias, that they attempt to bolster in their narrative, with their own made-up fantasy.

He continually posts about his disdain, disgust and “unplayable,” simultaneously reminding everyone about 40 years experience and “expertise.” Of course, when queried further, all he can admit is that it’s really a “dislike.” I would not argue a dislike; we all have different tastes. But as it stands, the vehement “unplayable” assertion, seems clearly meant to dissuade others from even attempting ERAS, while omitting concrete reasons, rather than his preference, appears to be deliberate and purposeful.

Granted, he later tries to qualify, “Oh, I meant just for me and my preference…” but that is weak, disingenuous, and does not match the initial statements where it was a general disgust toward ERAS unplayability, no mention of that important caveat that, “Oh, the boat rocked too much and mouse-clicks…” Having seen several of these now, I can’t believe that is by accident, or misspeak; the aim looks to squelch ERAS interest among the various forums.

I’m weary of that stupid game. Pieter used to do the same thing, and he has admittedly never played it at all. I also tend to doubt, based on his own actual words in that thread, that whathisface spent more than 60 seconds. Because the bells, the bells, the bells, I can’t sail!

STFU snowflake.

[modernknight1]

Careful “youse mugs”, don’t want your posts to be considered “hate speech” do ya! LOL

You know when a couple of folks mentioned to me that they thought he was on the take over a month ago I thought they could be right – however, given the last week of posts on that thread, I no longer believe that could be true. If it were – he would have shut up a while ago instead of continuing to dig himself in deeper and deeper. I’ve known people like that in the past – they lose all credibility, yet still try to recover by inserting even more FEET in mouth.

I suspect that at this point the good TEHO Devs are just hoping he will please just shut up and not say anything more.

Anyway, in tribute and dedication – I provide the following:

MK

The Bells –

by Edgar Allan Poe

I

Hear the sledges with the bells-
Silver bells!
What a world of merriment their melody foretells!
How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,
In the icy air of night!
While the stars that oversprinkle
All the heavens, seem to twinkle
With a crystalline delight;
Keeping time, time, time,
In a sort of Runic rhyme,
To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells
From the bells, bells, bells, bells,
Bells, bells, bells-
From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.

II

Hear the mellow wedding bells,
Golden bells!
What a world of happiness their harmony foretells!
Through the balmy air of night
How they ring out their delight!
From the molten-golden notes,
And an in tune,
What a liquid ditty floats
To the turtle-dove that listens, while she gloats
On the moon!
Oh, from out the sounding cells,
What a gush of euphony voluminously wells!
How it swells!
How it dwells
On the Future! how it tells
Of the rapture that impels
To the swinging and the ringing
Of the bells, bells, bells,
Of the bells, bells, bells,bells,
Bells, bells, bells-
To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells!

III

Hear the loud alarum bells-
Brazen bells!
What a tale of terror, now, their turbulency tells!
In the startled ear of night
How they scream out their affright!
Too much horrified to speak,
They can only shriek, shriek,
Out of tune,
In a clamorous appealing to the mercy of the fire,
In a mad expostulation with the deaf and frantic fire,
Leaping higher, higher, higher,
With a desperate desire,
And a resolute endeavor,
Now- now to sit or never,
By the side of the pale-faced moon.
Oh, the bells, bells, bells!
What a tale their terror tells
Of Despair!
How they clang, and clash, and roar!
What a horror they outpour
On the bosom of the palpitating air!
Yet the ear it fully knows,
By the twanging,
And the clanging,
How the danger ebbs and flows:
Yet the ear distinctly tells,
In the jangling,
And the wrangling,
How the danger sinks and swells,
By the sinking or the swelling in the anger of the bells-
Of the bells-
Of the bells, bells, bells,bells,
Bells, bells, bells-
In the clamor and the clangor of the bells!

IV

Hear the tolling of the bells-
Iron Bells!
What a world of solemn thought their monody compels!
In the silence of the night,
How we shiver with affright
At the melancholy menace of their tone!
For every sound that floats
From the rust within their throats
Is a groan.
And the people- ah, the people-
They that dwell up in the steeple,
All Alone
And who, tolling, tolling, tolling,
In that muffled monotone,
Feel a glory in so rolling
On the human heart a stone-
They are neither man nor woman-
They are neither brute nor human-
They are Ghouls:
And their king it is who tolls;
And he rolls, rolls, rolls,
Rolls
A paean from the bells!
And his merry bosom swells
With the paean of the bells!
And he dances, and he yells;
Keeping time, time, time,
In a sort of Runic rhyme,
To the paean of the bells-
Of the bells:
Keeping time, time, time,
In a sort of Runic rhyme,
To the throbbing of the bells-
Of the bells, bells, bells-
To the sobbing of the bells;
Keeping time, time, time,
As he knells, knells, knells,
In a happy Runic rhyme,
To the rolling of the bells-
Of the bells, bells, bells:
To the tolling of the bells,
Of the bells, bells, bells, bells-
Bells, bells, bells-
To the moaning and the groaning of the bells.

Edgar Allan Poe

[Schiavonna]

Do you reckon Edgar Alan Poe was inspired by The Hunchback of Notra Dame, and the plight of Quasimodo?

The “bells, bells, bells…” bit specifically?

Semi-seriously, I originally read this thread back in January. The name LHookins instantly rang a bell, but I couldn’t think exactly what then, so I just carried on and read the steam link. Got caught up on the “who’s being saying what” stuff and wanted to give a medal to this man:

Same game, same buggy engine copy paste overpriced **** AND cut content to sell later as DLC. Probably you’ll be able to select startings stats IF YOU PAY FOR IT. I’m so sick of this DLC ****. I’m getting to a point where I’m considering pirating everything because this is absurd.

^ By that man a pint! Beyond that, FINALLY WORKED OUT WHO LHOOKINS WAS. I think it’s Red Five! From Star Wars – New Hope. MAYBE LHOOKINS IS WHOOTKINS (William Hootkins – the actor that played Red 5!) little brother! Wouldn’t that be twist? I’m going to roll with it…so indulge me!
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^ Reckon the dropped ‘t’ was just a sign-up typo. Check it on IMDB when you get a chance 🙂

God I hope the kids get it together and launch an industry-wide backlash to DLC soon. It’ so overdue…

With regards to TEHO: polishing a turd from 2007 and regurgitating it more recently with a bit more graphically bling but the same spaghetti code….Good grief! Same thing going on elsewhere in gamey world. Ask the submarine sim dudes. They all play an engine from 2003, because it still pisses on the more recent Ubisoftporn bugfest. NHL hockey guys and gals prefer a 2002 and 2004 build of the game: future efforts got too “designed by a committee”, with all the deeper gameplay elements – that attracted a long-term player base – stripped of love care and filled with for bling!

I’m feed up of this trend in the gaming industry and it’s rife in entertainment culture in general. Design a story, film or game by graph-chart. Where you are then spoonfed a (max) pg-13 rated effort, conforming to current consumer trends, attitudes, hip-politics, socialogical graphs and pie charts that “by default” are designed to appeal the lowest common denominator, devoid of any real insight or substance in case it offends the “targetted demographic” dependant on their race, religion, creed, culture, sexual persuasion or voting tendancie. And… doesn’t your backside get uncomfortable after 90 minutes into the movie? So there’s a reason to cut a 3-hour epic to 95 mins. Imagine Scorcese filming the Godfather today. It wouldn’t be a trilogy but 9 films! Was Michael Bay on the design team for TEHO? Just asking…? Maybe Eli Roth? Or Uwe Boll?

The corporate dudes don’t care beyond deadlines and getting their investment back plus profit. Far Cry. Assassin’s Creed. Same game. Don’t tell me they’re not: that is being deliberately obtuse.

Get it right up you LHookins you fat, slobbering probable-sibling of a dead X-wing pilot! You are the lowest kind of denominator. Game developer shills, 911 shills, Last Jedi “Give it a good review or a certain mega corporation pulls out all future advertising in this publication and we’ll go bust” compliant journalist shills. All you utterly, transparent, truly faustian shills of whatever crap product or ideology you’re currently ‘marketing’: Message for you:

Go. To. Hell.

Hey Akella – if I start saying nice things about your recent AoP 3 adventure, can you send me free copy? Oh it’s great you guys – Really! Don’t know what your problem is – it’s just fab – having the time of my life playing this french bloke. Still haven’t seen a ship yet (65 hours later) but I’m told it’s coming… and it’s going to be great <SMILEY!>. Haven’t experienced it yet in game but can’t wait till I get my…my… bathtub with sail – ? Oh hang on, ships are coming in future DLC. Bathtub will have to do for now. And what a fantasticlly rendered bathtub it is! Look at the 4k texturing on that faucet. But …(continues with “taking the shilling”) its great game really <smiley>. And there’s great loot (and underbreath – microtransactions)…

Oh shit! My bathtub just lost it’s top-mast! Doh! The game’s crashed! It’s blue-screened! Shit! Oh wait! I’m getting an error message!! Stablise rear deflectors, watch for enemy fighters! Stay on target! Gold 5 to Red leader! It came from behind….ARRRRGGGHHHH!!!

“Did you enjoy your TEHO playthorugh, Schiavonna?”

“Negative, negative. It just impacted on the surface!”

Better call it a day before the impending “Cease and desist” order from Disney/Ubisoft/Akella Whoever makes the hairs on my nape stand up 🙂

[DarkSlimus]

You’re true, we live in a world where appearance are more important than work. People prefer a nice empty shell than the pearl in an old oyster in the deep of the lagoon.Cause to have the pearl you must invest some effort and people dislike effort.

For me TEHO is this nice empty shell, the same game with improved textures, but perhaps I’m wrong I don’t know, I bought it and play just 4 hours (thanks steam to spy on our gameplay time to sell us a lot of empty shell in the same way of the empty shell we have bought). But happy that I bought this remake, cause it would have motivate me to reinstall old AOP2, try to play with the Ackmod, but always the same bugged engine with CTD each hours … So searched for other pirate games, found the project sinked project of the PA! team, do more search and found the new GOF, my first mod played on COAS, back to the roots I’m here now. So I didn’t throw my money, cause without this empty shell I perhaps don’t have the desire to find the pearl in the deeper lagoon.

Good games are always the work of passionate people never the work of the big industries. like M&B who is a pearl too and I always play it. To be honest a modded version cause mod made by fan are always greater than the original game, but for this one the original game was a good base.

It remember me my first computer, Amiga 500, where I always played cracked games cause they was more optimized, improved, not just a stupid piracy copy, a real redone work … and the fall of a good machine cause I never know people whobuy games on Amiga. Some would say the fault of the piracy, others like me would say the fault of the gaming industry who sold empty shell from the start. And when it’s not an empty shell you must bought the base game and a wagon of DLC and you pay more than 300€ !

If I can give you an advise MK1 don’t waste your time with this kind of troll. You are in the right way, the game you have done with your team is the more playable version of the AOP series and the future you promise us would make surely this game the most deeper in historical gameplay, not only compared with other piracy games but compared with all other games based on historical period. You have good ideas, a passion to match with the historical background and if one day you’re game would be modded it’s surely to make it more fantasy, not to ameliorate the base game like you do it with COAS

To end with this comment, it reflect my own opinion, my own taste, but I like the way you done it, I like your frankness about your choice for the game and the life in general. So stay the course you skip this ship in the right way

Regards

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