Does this make things easier for us to prove the worth of games as an art and entertainment medium? And with the casual gamers flocking to the motion control systems does it even matter anymore?
Nph, i used to love you, now I'm not so sure. For every step forward their is someone more than willing to long jump backwards. Fuck. Meh, at least by the time games are completely banned, I'll own enough to just replay them with impunity. Hell, I'll probably even pull out the PS2 again.
NPH makin it tough on us...
On
2011-01-04
5
comments
5 comments:
Don't blame NPH for public opinion on the violence of video games. It was a game-centric awards show on a network whose main audience is gamers. Just like feature films, some games are art, and others are explosive crap. Take a guess which sells more (games or films - same answer).
IMHO the games industry is going through exactly what the film industry did in the 70's with shows like Midnight Cowboy, or the early 90's when NC-17 made its' appearance for the first time. They're simply pushing the boundaries of what is accepted by current standards.
You should count your lucky mushrooms that we don't live in Australia, where they can't, by law, sell M-rated video games. I mean, really, how many really good non-M-rated games are there? Like 6?
touche to Australia comments. Bah humbug to the rest. How you market your products are what non-gamers see gaming as. And the more of this they see the worse their opinion gets. That makes me fear the worst. People were railing against games before we were doing legitimately stupid things in their name... Still I repeat that motion controls and casual games are doing their part to lessen that. Yay motion controls and bejeweled??
I know it's not fashionable, but there ARE lots of decent not M-rated games.
Super Mario Galaxy
...
..
.
...
..
Super Mario Galaxy 2
.. .
.
..
Oh fuck off
No, no - you're onto something there.
Angry Birds is stellar
Bejeweled
Splosion Man
Limbo
And onto "real" games:
Most of the Lego games
Rock Band
Little Big Planet
and so on
But I must admit that my preference is in killing digital enemies in as entertaining and gruesome ways as possible!
ok, if splosion man and limbo aren't M rated, they should be. The scientists explode into various forms of meat and limbo has your little boy getting decapitated and impaled on spider legs to give some basic (if commonly recurring) examples.
Post a Comment