{"id":1698,"date":"2013-10-18T17:21:58","date_gmt":"2013-10-18T17:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=1698"},"modified":"2013-10-18T17:21:58","modified_gmt":"2013-10-18T17:21:58","slug":"kick-in-the-butt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2013\/10\/kick-in-the-butt\/","title":{"rendered":"Kick in the butt"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Look at all our highly-rated games, look at this embarrassment of riches.  It gives the unmistakable impression that videogames today are basically great.  Even though they\u2019re not.  They\u2019re really not.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Wow. On videogame reviews<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I obviously concur with this. But it goes way deeper than game critic. A recent article with Chris Crawford<\/a>, a dude who\u2019s been making videogames since 1973 says that he doesn\u2019t need to play games these days to know if a game is good or interesting or none of that. Immediately someone commented that he was stupid and that he should go away<\/a>. Thirteen industry people agreed.<\/p>\n

To me, if one of the oldest computer game designer known is saying that he doesn\u2019t play games anymore because they\u2019re all the same, I just nod. I don\u2019t need to play Bioshock Infinite to get a sense that this FPS makes no sense. A couple of videos and reviews from different people \u2013that is, no professional review-  demonstrate it. I avoid graphic porn because it makes us tech dudes way too soft on what games actually are. So a dude with 40 years of experience designing games yeah, I get that he doesn\u2019t need to play the last GTA. That\u2019s like, duh. But no, people get nasty and immediately dis him.<\/p>\n

The lack of humility and respect around and in the game industry is something, man. You\u2019ve got to be a fan for something, hardcore. Expert. I was glad the article brought in Little Big Planet and how it\u2019s been overrated because it\u2019s cute. It was the poster child for \u201ca new era\u201d. Heavy Rain, same. But every time I would criticize those games because they\u2019re not so great, people would jump and think I have a problem or that I\u2019m just a hater because \u201cyou use Windows\u201d. <\/p>\n

Look at how polarized people are around deities that brands have become. We\u2019re speaking of Sony \u201ccommunity\u201d. Xbox \u201ccommunity\u201d. People buying a Wii U \u201cby loyalty for Nintendo\u201d. Console \u201cwars\u201d. Exclusive games mean you don\u2019t have it, I DO TAKE THIS. There is no adult behavior. It\u2019s embarrassing.<\/p>\n

Games can\u2019t mature if society as a whole just keeps getting more childish (remember iOS people going crazy because Instagram was coming to Android? What in the actual fuck).<\/p>\n

So we need to step up. We need to stop being so complacent about our medium, hard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Look at all our highly-rated games, look at this embarrassment of riches.  It gives the unmistakable impression that videogames today are basically great.  Even though they\u2019re not.  They\u2019re really not. Wow. On videogame reviews. I obviously concur with this. But it goes way deeper than game critic. A recent article with Chris Crawford, a dude […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1699,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698\/revisions\/1699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}