I can’t believe we’re still having this goddamn discussion.
I can’t believe I actually feel that it’s necessary for me to write this dumb article. I can’t believe that people are still arguing over what constitutes an “Ebert of Gaming” or a “Citizen Kane of Gaming” or a “Step Up 2 Fast 2 Furious XIII: Starring Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson And An Egregiously Sexualized Purple Smurf of Gaming”. I can’t believe people continue to name-drop these fairytales in hushed, reverent tones like they’re some kind of long-awaited Messiah. I can’t believe that Deus Ex creator Warren Spector is now one of those people.
Fuck this. Let’s set the record straight on gaming’s insipid inferiority complex once and for all.
"Three days filled with specialist lectures delivered by almost 200 speakers, three thematic summits, and over 2600 guests from almost every corner of the world - the capital of Małopolska became the capital of the games industry for a few days.
Organized by the Krakow Technology Park, the Digital Dragons Conference once again showed that Poland is attracting more and more attention from the world's biggest industry tycoons for a reason." - Digital Dragons.
Atari has acquired Intellivision. The company announced today that it had acquired its long-time rival, ending one of the original console rivalries, dating back to the 1970s.
Wow.... two of my earliest gaming platforms. All they need is Coleco to round things out.
This is like Nintendo buying SEGA.
Good piece of history here.
edit: I wanted to read it but the cookies pop up is stopping me.
This was just before my time. I do remember my mom's friend having one all dusty in her apartment back in the day.
[R.I.P.} Ms. Irene
People forget that console wars are part of the history of this industry. The console wars were started by competitive companies all the way back then and continued through Sega vs Nintendo, Jaguar/3DO/NeonGeo, and PlayStation vs Nintendo and Xbox.
These companies are across oceans and competing for the same business. These companies created the console wars, not crazy fanboys.
I had both. Snafu on Intellivision was addicting as hell. Also had Colecovision which had Time Pilot. Combat was probably my favorite Atari game and both Atari and Intellivision had similar games like Pitfall and Jungle Hunt. It’s been so long I don’t really remember which game I liked bettter out of those but I did play my Intellivision a bit more than Atari though I’m not sure why besides Snafu. That was 40+ years ago damn I’m old lol
Many players find it easier to express themselves while playing games. Yet, over half of the surveyed gamers still play to relieve stress.
I wonder what place made this study, and it's Fandom, no wonder half of the people said that, I find it hilarious that Fandom of all places did manage to pull more than 50% for the argument of playing games for self expression
I actually just play to relax/have fun, get immersed in another world for a while and enjoy the story/characters, who the hell plays to "express themselves"? I can understand how that applies to say Minecraft, where you're actually making things, but I don't think you can apply this to most games.
low quality, and bad editing, When copying text from the source article make sure you read over the text and edit it if necessary. A good example is when a site writes "We" or "I" , as this should then be replaced with the site's or person's name, or you can quote the source.
video games and films are two different forms of entertainment, like music is different to visual art as a forms of art
Games > Movies. There isn't a single thing that movies can do, that games can't also do. We can even do full body motion capture and capture exact facial emotions from Hollywood actors (Look at "Beyond: Two Souls" trailers, LA Noir, and Heavy Rain--Some of the best acting ever). Stories with deep emotional plots and amazing characters even without realistic plots too:(Persona 4, Mass Effect, Uncharted 2, Deus Ex, Tomb Raider remake, etc) which touch on topics such as race, gender, love, jealousy, religion, blasphemy, stigma's, rape, politics, drug addiction, terrorism, nationalism vs patriotism (killzone's sub-plot for example), etc.
Anyone still having doubts over the validity of games as an artform, is literally deaf, dumb and especially blind (or has a bias AGAINST interactive entertainment).
Keep in mind that Ebert (R.I.P.) was given a free ps3 with a copy of Journey. And he refused to play it. So how is his opinion even valid when he clearly had a disdain for a medium he refuses to try?
Debate over.
I think it's widely accepted in my generation that video games are a form of art, or that video games do have artistic value that can't be found in other art forms.
We have to remember it's a really young medium, and that it's evolving so quickly that people who don't have a major interest in video games probably can't follow what's happening. ( My father is a good example of that, seeing how baffled he was that video games could now look as pretty as the Avatar movie, and that such level of visual quality was the norm for many AAA titles, like Final Fantasy, etc.)
But that said, it also has to do with someone's environment. I have the pleasure to live in Montreal, and with two major studios here (Eidos and Ubisoft Montréal), video games are part of the cultural landscape as much as Cinema or Circus or Music.
Games haven't touched any of the great movies. And they wont for a long time.
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Stalker
Citizen Kane
Chinatown
There Will Be Blood
Yeah good luck.