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bumping with shitty gifs

>>173347605
Bumping a shitty and insanely overrated series with shitty gifs ?
Seems appropriate.

Haven't watched Wire. What's it like?

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>>173347879
Recommend a better American TV show with long degrees of character arcs that interconnect with one another based upon the surrounding merits of society.

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GTA4 and the two episodes. A bunch on interconnected stories that each show a different side to LC.

>>173348261
>BoGT
>good story

It was silly/funny, not anything worth while.

GTA4's story was okay though.

>>173348078
It's the equivalent to a five star meal you sit down in a restaurant and eat.

>>173348078
Watch this:
http://youtu.be/2-f-5JXZmg4

If it seems interesting while you're watching it, close the tab and watch the show. You'll spoil a lot for yourself the more you watch.

>>173348632
Meh, doubt that. A 5 star meal should bring something good for the brain too. I don't see a yankee cop series going that deep.

>>173348195
Just because I can't name a better show about gay faggot horses that cater to autistic, worthless manchildren, doesn't mean that one show is actually good.

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>>173349090
>hasn't watched The Wire

>>173348971
Reminds me of Oz a bit. Might be good.

>>173349225
Yes indeed, fanboy.

>>173349324
Yep, a lot of people involved with Oz were involved with The Wire. Just don't confuse The Wire with being a generic American cop show.

I actually watched Oz as a nicotine patch equivalent for once I finished The Wire.

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>>173349525

>>173347425 (OP)
there isn't one

>>173349090
Except that guy was talking about the wire.

>>173347425 (OP)
GTA IV has the same feel to it and a decent story too. It also references the show in some parts iirc.

Nothing in video games has a story or set of characters anywhere near as good as The Wire.

>>173349654
>>173349225
Annoying people like you are the second main reason why I'm not going to give this show another chance.

>>173349090
Did you just compare The Wire to MLP?

>>173349853
you sure showed him

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>>173349853
Good, The Wire would have been wasted on you if you have to give it a second fucking chance.

No go complain about how it's an overrated show and how you couldn't even finish watching it you pathetic fuck.

>>173349838
What's the closest thing though?

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>>173349790
>GTA4
>having a good atmosphere
>having even a decent story

Just fuck off back to Plebistan.

>>173350415
nothing comes close

>>173349790
>Wire references
Where and when?

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>>173350572
Are you being sarcastic right now?

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>>173350153
All these fanboy tears...

>>173350572
Wasn't there those shitty GTAs in England -games where the atmosphere is pretty realistic?

What's so good about this show? Is this another breaking bad?
(Pretentious shit that EVERYBODY needs to like)

none, because video games are about shooting shit and the wire was about socio-economic and political character-based analysis of the city of baltimore

the wire wasn't meant to be "fun", it was to be experienced

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>there are people here who haven't watched the entirety of The Wire and Oz

Sometimes I just don't even know

>>173350687
yes

Gonna watch The Wire some time this year. Gotta finish The Sopranos first.

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>>173350738
Are you being serious right now?

How could you have made me upset in the slightest? I honestly don't give a shit if you watch or don't watch the show.

>>173350992
you got me, friend.

I was sincerely asking though.

>>173350687
no

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>>173350998
Good man.

Anyway, let's talk about video games with good stories now.

>>173350774
The Getaway? That was pretty good.

>>173350619
Radio, I believe. Also the whole Playboy X - Dwayne arc. Two street leaders, one guy being more of a businessman trying to make it into the real estate game while the other guy is/was in prison and is more of a soldier type reminded me of Avon and Stringer. Also the whole thing where in the end they want to kill one another

>>173350942
There /v/ goes again, not understanding the meanings of words they use.

Breaking Bad isn't pretentious, it's popular and mainstream.

What's so good about this show? It has amazing writing, acting, and tries to show both fucked up sides of cops/thugs. It has branching storylines, subtle character connections, and each season focus' on a different aspect of the community.

>>173350984
Oz fell off in the last couple of seasons. First few were glorious though.

>>173350942
How old are you, honestly?

>>173350942
>Breaking Bad
>pretentious shit
Apply yourself.

>>173351357
That's kind of reaching for a "Wire reference". And neither Avon or Stringer were soldiers.

>>173350942

Do you even know what pretentious even means?

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None.
Most games don't have the time and money to create a storyline as long-reaching as the Wire.

Maybe the Ogre games.

there is nothing like the wire.
I think it will take up to 10-15 years till videogames will step their shit up and will try to compete for a more "mature/demanding" audience.

still waiting for the tarkovsky of videogames

>>173351472
I'll admit the ending wasn't my favorite but I liked every season. It's incredible to see how some people started out (tobias) compared to how they leave (usually via shanks, dicks, drugs, or some combination of that)

>>173351886

Xenogears came and went nigga.

Nothing. TV shows last years, decades even. You are comparing this to games that last 10-80 hours? Really?

GTA could do it if they abandoned being fun entirely

so in other words GTAIV was the closest

>>173351927
I'll never forgive them for what they did to Augustus Hill.

Oh, and Said.

>>173352194
Yeah, I almost cried bitch tears about Augustus

>>173352027
Are you serious though?

>>173352158
>>173350971
>The Wire
>not fun

Watching The Wire is a fucking blast on TOP of being engaging and socially relevant. That's what's so great about it.

>>173352347

>tarkovsky of videogames

Yes

>>173352027
xenogears isnt even NGE tier

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>>173352095
What does that say about the medium then as a form of entertainment that not a single game ever released can have its narrative compared to a single television show's?

>>173352356
i'm saying GTA still has to have ridiculous and "videogamey" shit in it to make it fun and the Wire is just gripping and realistic

>>173352601
you might want to get some perspective about how long tv has been around compared to video games

>>173352601
Nothing, because the mediums are different.

>>173352537

>Tarkovsky's films are characterised by metaphysical themes, extremely long takes, and memorable images of exceptional beauty. Recurring motifs are dreams, memory, childhood, running water accompanied by fire, rain indoors, reflections, levitation, and characters re-appearing in the foreground of long panning movements of the camera.

>Tarkovsky developed a theory of cinema that he called "sculpting in time". By this he meant that the unique characteristic of cinema as a medium was to take our experience of time and alter it. Unedited movie footage transcribes time in real time. By using long takes and few cuts in his films, he aimed to give the viewers a sense of time passing, time lost, and the relationship of one moment in time to another.
Up to, and including, his film The Mirror, Tarkovsky focused his cinematic works on exploring this theory. After The Mirror, he announced that he would focus his work on exploring the dramatic unities proposed by Aristotle: a concentrated action, happening in one place, within the span of a single day.

Xenogears got all that shit covered.

>>173352601
You're pretty retarded.

The point I was making is that developing a story and character arch over 20 fucking years is much more viable than in a 40 hour long VIDEO GAME. Save thing with movies. You have a 2-3 hour long time frame to work in as opposed to a fuckign decade or two.

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>>173352738
>>173352754
I don't think that's fair.

Just look at GTA4's script size. It's clear that many developers have the budget and the means to make such engrossing plot to a game.

Plus, looking at the majority of RPG games, it shouldn't be difficult to tell a complex narrative with the play time involved in such games.

>>173353026
it's so hard to maintain quality for any extended period of time though

look at the Simpsons, or hell, Wire season 5

>>173352929
can somebody aprove of this?

>>173353026
>developing a story and character arch over 20 fucking years
David Simon did this?

>>173353316
I don't get what was wrong with Season 5?

It wrapped everything up fucking perfectly.

>>173352601
Television and film both went through decades of gimmicks, forgettable fare with little to almost no truly works of true merit before they were taken seriously as mediums for expression.

>>173353423
Sorry, quality posts and post that make any form of rational sense get ignored on /v/. The silence should prove you're correct.

Personally I haven't played the game so I can't say if you're correct or not.

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>>173353316

Six Feet Under keeps the quality of writing at 10/10 throughout all its seasons.

>>173353574
Err, ignore that first "truly".

>>173353553
But season 5 was the second best one.

4 > 5 > 1 > 3 > 2

>>173353553
i agree that it gets too much criticism but it's clearly the weakest season, the cracks were beginning to show

>>173353925
>2
>not easily top 2

Well, I'll go ahead and disagree but I respect your opinion.

>>173353925
don't ever go to /tv/ with that ranking

>>173347425 (OP)
no games because games writers cant write good thats why they write games and not tv or movies or books lol

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>>173353574
And so what are video game developers' excuses for not looking at television's and film's works of merit and trying to attain their level of narrative?

TV specifically since you can flesh out a 12 hour game with about the same plot length as a good TV show season.

>>173353925
>putting second season last

It's okay, go watch the series again. I'll forgive you if you've only watched through it once.

>>173353727
Indeed it fucking does. I thought /v/ might be too macho to talk about Six Feet Under though.

>implying you didn't cry bitch tears during the entire last episode

You aren't human if you didn't cry for that finale.

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>>173354190
He's right tho

>>173353574
Stop making excuses for video games.

The majority of their target audience is for children. That's why they'll never reach the same level as TV or film.

>>173354226
because the target audience is different. Look at all those triggerhappy action blockbuster ADAS idiots (even on /v/) who think devil may cry has good writing

>>173354226
It has something to do with the quick explosion of popularity of video games. Before becoming full-fledged industries that worked on a global scale, TV and especially film was kept mostly low budget. It's also much easier for some random person to pick up a camera and create a personal statement than it is to create a video game, even a basic indie piece. These days, games are consistently high-budget and MUST have mass-appeal to make back its investment, or it's low-budget indie stuff that isn't as respected or treasured by the gaming press as indie film is by the film press. There's no incentive on either end to explore.

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>>173355072
Ha, so we're fucked.

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>>173354495

I started sobbing a few episodes before that, but the final episode just killed me. I couldn't handle it anymore and was in pieces, especially during the future flash part where it shows the deaths of it main cast

Good fucking show. Only show that really made me cry like that. Death is scary.