Archive for August, 2007

Do we really need to keep on about this bullshit?

Posted in Art, God must love idiots; he makes so many, Video Games on Aug 7th, 2007

So, Roger Ebert is back on his high and mighty horse about how games aren’t art.
Ahem:

Yes, I am aware of the hypocrisy.
That’s really all I should HAVE to say, but since I have a self-imposed word limit, let’s move onward a bit.
Now, “art” can simply be defined as “the products of human creativity”. That’s it. […]

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Either you’re stupid or you think we are.

Posted in God must love idiots; he makes so many, Video Games on Aug 1st, 2007

Consider this: historically speaking, if a video game/franchise has the capability to “matter” beyond its period of release, it will generally fall into one of five distinct categories:
1.) It will be hailed as a historically significant achievement purely based on how good/pervasive it was (Half-Life, Pokemon, Tetris),
2.) It will be recognized as something that was […]

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