Irrational Exuberance: Replaying SWAT 4
A couple of weekends ago Alec and I got together with some journalist chums and dragged computers and a folding table into our friend's lounge. It was the JournoLAN: a tea-and-biscuits PC hookup in an editor's comfortable home. In there we mucked about installing patches and discussed the error messages being displayed by a desyncing [...]
A couple of weekends ago Alec and I got together with some journalist chums and dragged computers and a folding table into our friend's lounge. It was the JournoLAN: a tea-and-biscuits PC hookup in an editor's comfortable home. In there we mucked about installing patches and discussed the error messages being displayed by a desyncing instance of Supreme Commander. We also played SWAT4. It was incredible.
I'd previously enjoyed SWAT4 when I played it at review, but the attention paid to the multiplayer section was reduced to a couple of distracted lunchtimes in a noisy magazine office. To my disappointment, we never really got to grips with it. This time, however, we were determined to get stuck in, and the co-op takedowns were absolutely riveting.
They are of a very similar mindset, so much so that I've occassionally wondered if we've had a secret PCG writer on the boards. I don't think we do - I think it's just that both parties are, for the most part, mature and experienced gamers who don't subscribe to the 'OMG WTF' internet attitude.
Haha, I would if I had the TS time. It's not as fun in silence when you can't hear people yelling "Which bastard just beanbagged me as I was breaching?".
Dog Pants wrote:They are of a very similar mindset, so much so that I've occassionally wondered if we've had a secret PCG writer on the boards. I don't think we do - I think it's just that both parties are, for the most part, mature and experienced gamers who don't subscribe to the 'OMG WTF' internet attitude.
Our SWAT talk isn't exactly current, so it's rather unlikely there's an active member, some of our member's PCG forum posts may have led them to take a glance here in the past, but the most likely scenario is as you describe: that their demographic is similar to ours, though perhaps with a wider audience that typically eschews online communities and the memes/cliques therein.
Been many years since I glanced at their mag, and it might be time for a revisit, given it seems they have grown up as I have.
Just in case I'm missing something here, is there a link between RPS and PCG?
As for Swat, on Friday I'll be somewhere on the A/M1 for most of the evening, so will have to wait until sometime next week to taser someone in the back.
Lateralus wrote:Just in case I'm missing something here, is there a link between RPS and PCG?
Most of the RPS staff are ex Future employee's who worked at PCG, Keiron, Jim etc...
Most of them do work at other mags now but also do freelance stuff for PCG.
Irrational Exuberance: Replaying SWAT 4
