Malstrom email response: The Sick Obsession of Culture in the Game Industry

[MaxwellGT2000]

Some interesting points, I've noticed I've never fell into any culture category though... games are my hobby not all I live and breath, who I am is what I live and breath, I love God, I play video games, I play music, I do martial arts, I bike, I train, and basically do what I want when I want and make friends from every social grouping, the only people I will not tolerate are the intolerant.

I'm an odd one I guess, I've always played video games because they were fun much like he talked about kids not needing a culture, my ideas haven't changed at all since back then I still love games all the same, I noticed the people around me change but that's about all.

The one thing I'm wondering is what does he mean by reviewers want games to be artistic, to me my definition is much different then most reviewers. The games that have deeper meaning that the "gaming culture" generally will not understand as most stories and scripts for video games are pretty bland and generic. The people that make artistic games to me either want to make an inventive idea for a game to make something no one has thought up before (which also doesn't sell well to gaming culture) or those that just enjoy doing their games like Itoi the creator of Earthbound, he being a philosophy writer in japan and does articles for big publications over there but he makes Earthbound cause he enjoys it and makes a very funny, deep, and artistic game each time.