Panoptic could be a really great short series..
... But of course they don't really give a shit so it's boring as hell. How much extra effort could it take to include the VR players perspective? I know it's not trivial and I don't have the answers as to how to properly implement it but to completely disregard the possibility seems really lazy to me.
The other thing that really frustrated me was how Dan seemingly just fucking forgot they were putting on a show? This game has a really cool concept and I think Dan and Arin could play off each other really well, and mostly they did I guess, but it could be a lot better. A really easy fix would be to, I don't know, get rid of all the fucking camping. There's only so long that I can watch Dan sit in a corner and pretend that Arin Definitely Got Him With That One. And of course Danny is completely oblivious to the fact that he's bulldozing the NPCs constantly and how that might alert Arin to his presence. The other thing on my list of overly critical nitpicks is how Arin was obviously pretending to be tricked by Dan over and over again, and that everyone in the comments section seems to be fooled by it like a bunch of toddlers. Come on people, you're better than that. I would usually never actually make a thread on here but man for some reason this shit got on my nerves. They just don't care. Maybe I'm being too hard on them though. I don't usually make rant posts on reddit so if this is hard to follow fuck u
Posted Jul 31, 2018, 12:15 AM UTC
Yeah they needed a VR pip or alternating view, but damn there was something about the whole video that had me on the edge of my seat. Even with Dan sitting still there was the thought of “there’s no other dudes walking by, he’s fucked”. He made the best of Arin being a cocky ass by baiting him into shooting the npcs.
yeah despite my neurotic rant i do think this has potential to be a great little series.