rolling thread of stuff worth reading on videogames

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stuff worth hearing about videogames?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uKl3xeBVY4

http://pastebin.com/W7fiktcb

haha i new you would be the one who posted that

http://www.auntiepixelante.com/?p=1228

Some mainstream games for you ilg people who pay more than $15 for games.

http://kotaku.com/5829606/ive-played-deus-ex-she-hasnt-now-were-playing-it-together

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/columns/extra-punctuation/9087-Extra-Punctuation-Why-No-Couples-in-Games

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/killscreen/17-everybodys-doing-it-how-playing-legend-of-zelda-ocarina-of-time-as-a-30-year-old-reveals-its-magical-adolescence-of/

pretty rmde @ the repeated sex bit tho

pitchfork does games now?

bissell now in new yorker o_O

oh god

Shadow of the Colossus is the Wilco of video games tbf

lol

Bioshock would fit the bill better.

Bioshock is the Kid A of video games.

in short -- do not want

more than a little wankery, but it had its moments i thought.

http://killscreendaily.com/

^ they're just irregularly poaching a writer from killscreen btw--i dig killscreen

http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/09/04/dont-quit-how-to-save-adventures-225/

yet another article about what's up with adventure games these days, but this one is actually good

ha, clever.
http://killscreendaily.com/articles/reviews/infinity-blade

"I insert the game card, gently, into the slot of my Aqua Blue system. As I walk over to a red chaise lounge the system slips out of my fumbling hands, falling onto the carpet. I flashback to my first kiss, in my parent’s garage—It gets betterthe more you do it, she told me—and with that in mind, I begin my quest."
aaaaaand i stopped reading there

gonna have to live through a lot more shitty games writing before the field matures... sigh

that said, maybe there's some kind of history to this sort of pap that i'm not getting, like cherished jazz reviews or some shit, i don't know

i think the history of this particular pap is early p4k writing

^

they even use the fonts pfork used to use

not reading, but this is awesome:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WPZbwDHz-0

A+ would watch again

The pastebin bit has somegood points

That was awesome, ZS

http://www.joystickdivision.com/2011/09/videogames_are_awesome_because.php

(I am not Gus Mastrapa)

http://killscreendaily.com/articles/everybodys-doing-it

the conclusion more belongs in a games o_O thread though, if there is one

haha we talked about that terrible piece in the p4k thread

there was much o_Oing

well why in the hell were you talking about videogames or indeed anything in a pitchfork thread

i think about 60% of that piece is pretty smart, anyway! it's just the rest of it is very much smdh or o_o or other territory better expressed by internet shorthand than by actual words

also talked abt it upthread

yeah i really cant see anything of value in that piece

i got sucked into the p4k thread bcuz they/we were talking about n+1

omg that last graf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HO1OV5B_JDw

http://twitter.com/#!/leighalexander/status/113783739447902208

The pastebin bit has somegood points

― Blind Diode Jefferson (kingfish), Friday, September 9, 2011 1:14 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark

yeah, i consider it the final word on DNF

i'm seriously so fucking sick of every 'serious' (seriously gay lol) games writer who has Important Things To Say About Zelda/Mario. i have more respect for paid IGN shills than these dipshits revisiting the same shiggy suckfest over and over

i dont think there's ever been a games journalist who had anything of value to say about games. 99% of the time actual devs are the only people worth listening to (most of them are morons too obv, but thats still where you find the real shit) - JE Sawyer's formspring is worth a thousand leigh alexanders

hmmmmm

yeah yeah

dont give me the LAmp treatment pal!!!

lol

well i think, i suppose fairly self-interestedly although the amount of paid writing i do about videogames atp is essentially zero blah blah blah anyway, that the sort of big picture, look-at-the-culture, how are games experienced writing that non-developers like to produce has a fair bit of value, and that while the sort of near-adult 'what do i get from gaming' think pieces tend towards the solipsistic and the tedious there needs to be space for those type of questions

i would rather read a quartertothree game journal these days than another think piece about 'video games + art' or 'is [blank] the next braid'

i see what you're saying & it comes down to what you find interesting - im predisposed to a fascination with nuts and bolts discussions of How Things Work more than i am in, i dunno, narratives about how things make you feel - but to me the questions that accompany discussion about game programming & design are so vast and interesting that i dont even see the point in tepid distractions like wondering what Modern Warfare 2 says about our culture. to me its like the difference between jaws and kornheiser - one guy wants to educate you on the game, the other doesnt care about the game and just wants to talk about his made-up storylines. the latter approach has value in that some people enjoy it, but it means nothing to me

didnt know you did any games writin m8 :0