Comments on: World Of Goo Gets Real

By: Chainmaillekid

Chainmaillekid — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:17:49 +0000

There were SO many things wrong with the contest. The rules about music were unclear.
It says you can’t edit, but ‘Edit’ was never defined. Can I cut a song to fit the video? Can I use Two songs?… approximatly 90% of the entries could have broken this rule unknowingly.

The other big problem was the objective.
Is the goal to make a Goo structure, or are we supposed to make a WOG themed video?
There were MANY exelent WOG themed videos, but prizes and mention seemed to go to the most interesting Towers/structures shown in the video.

“world of hue” was my favorite video, I felt it communicated the feel of WOG almost perfectly, but the only goo structure in the video was rather unimpressive ( and it wasn’t supposed to be either )

Ratings on the video’s should have been disabled untill after the winners were announced.
Every video entered, exept a select few, was Bombarded with Bad scores from other applicants.
My own video recieved 3 ratings of 1 before it recieved its first fair rating.

And lastly, The video’s should have been showcased more after the end of the contest.
Many of the submissions were last second, many excelent entrees didn’t recieve more than 50 views before the whole contest just shut down, and melted away.

Also, the TV they were giving away as a prize is probably one of the worst TV’s for gaming…
I was disapointed in that. The TV is VERY important for playing games.
GT should have comprimised the size for the quality, as any of there users would have done.

By: chainmaillekid

chainmaillekid — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:43:09 +0000

The problem wasn’t the powerlines.

it was the wind :U

But Im not upset.
It wouldn’t have been WOG if everything had gone smoothly.

By: dayeight

dayeight — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:16:27 +0000

We had to disqualify a lot of entries for the contest for using commercial music.

By: Kanakotka

Kanakotka — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:08:11 +0000

Addendum; Excuse the horrid grammar, accidentally tapped it before editing away the mistakes. I do not remember fully what won the ”life imitating goo”, but it featured a construct of paper mache and toilet paper rolls, which in comparison to some other productions was just about average.

The winner of goo imitating life, however, i do remember quite vividly, it was this piece; http://www.gametrailers.com/user-movie/goo-imitating-life-the-goo/313957

By: Kanakotka

Kanakotka — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:03:39 +0000

John, basically, the entire contest results turned into a rather large uproar about the results, to this day i’m not sure who judged them, but let’s just say it seemed fishy at best. Soon after the competition (within days, no less) the contest site and several forum posts on gametrailers.com were removed to and quell the uproaring of people stating their differing opinions about the entire contest.

I only heard of the entire uproar later on, as i’m not a very active member of gametrailers (which can be undestood if you even briefly read the comments over there), but by then, just about everything regarding the competition had already been removed and swiped away from the site.

By: Stupoider

Stupoider — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:21:45 +0000

I was thinking the -exact- same thing when I saw the goo floating away. :)

By: Shnyker

Shnyker — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:29:31 +0000

Buddy, its been ten months and nothing has changed, thank God. Also, those figures are amazing, printing off some of the cards right now.

By: terry

terry — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:20:17 +0000

I think a boy might be aboard! Someone inform CNN!

By: terry

terry — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:18:35 +0000

No six year old boys were harmed in the making of this goo.

By: TheFool

TheFool — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:14:40 +0000

er, woops, that was supposed to be a reply to coded one

By: TheFool

TheFool — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:13:53 +0000

what do you mean 10 months? we’ve been trying to reform health care since TEDDY ROOSEVELT. in 1912. 97 years and a month or so and we still haven’t passed even this mild health reform through both houses. I wish we could have gotten it done in 10 months

By: Pace

Pace — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:11:29 +0000

So is this trip another visit to Valve? Anything we should get excited about? (if so do remind them about this whole episode 3 thing, in case they’ve forgotten.)