Learning Game Design with Arcade Berg

My first – Reading the comments

I'm so incredibly happy that the Terminator Salvation Game has been announced, so I can finally talk about what I'm doing. Well, at least what game it is.

I've been psyched about the recently released trailer as well, so people would finally get to see it! Of course, since this is my first game within the professional industry it's extra special. First announcement, first trailer (see earlier post) and let's not forget, the first time for me to read about what other people think of the game!

Today (or yesterday, depending on if you base it on the time or sleep/wake-cycle) I've read all the comments for the trailer on Gametrailers.com, all 39 pages (now it's 43 pages). It was an amazing feeling. People are speculating, complementing, trashing, hyping, complaining, praising the game at the same time!

I find it awesome that the trailer has had over 100'000 views and over 1000 people has voted, rating it at an average 8.4.

I really took notice of how "everyone is an expert" on Gametrailers and how everyone has to be better than the previous one. People are sure the game is running on Engine X, while some are saying it's running on Engine Y. Meanwhile, someone else is sure it's using the Engine Z. They can't all be right, can they? Is anyone of them right? They say the game looks like Gears of War, Fallout 3, Uncharted, Resistance and pretty much every other game you can think of.

Based on a few seconds of gameplay the users there seems to know everything there is to know about the game. Simply amazing.

About 1/8 comments seem to be written by someone not just out to flame, trash or be a "keyboard tough guy".

My favorite comment though is from "MasterDarknessx", in response to the following from "alfredofroylan":

Hooray another futuristic shooter. Well at least this one has a nice character the T-800

MasterDarknessx response was:

it 2018 dumb fuck there is no t-800 yet, that was a t-600

It's nice with Terminator-fans out there. If he's right or not, I won't say.

For me this is all very cool. I haven't been in "the biz" long enough not to be juiced up by these things. I can't wait for more press-stuff, previews, reviews, sales and being able to say: "I helped make that."