drboot on 11 February 2009
| Bobbuffalo said: Lol! is so funny to read all the people here that hates this article because THEY ARE EXACTLY THE KIND OF PEOPLE HE IS DESCRIBING. But more fun is that they claim that "they didn't read it all" and yet they hate it. DUH! Videogames are not art. GET REAL! They are entertainment. Many of the reasons he says about journalists are the same reasons why I stopped reading videogame magazines. He is right about the definition of culture that those journalists had. Is stupid, twisted and eliitist. It seems to them that neither MS or sony make mistakes but Nintendo is always wrong when in reality IS THE EXACT OPPOSITE. The same can be said of E!Television. Damn! I hate that channel! It has probably one of the worst entertainmente journalism I have ever seen! Videogame magazines are in the same path. I love videogames and I want to see became a better and healthy industry. That's why I love Nintendo. Is the only one to have the balls to do that. And that's why I do like to read Malstrom. He is the only one that makes sense in this videogame-world mad house. Cry all what you want hardkorez. He is right and you know it. There's nothing you can do about that. |
That might be your opinion, but trying to present it as some universal fact doesn't earn you any points. Maybe you do not look for art or culture in your games but some consumers (such as me) and some developers such as Jonathan Blow do. The fact that we have both developers and consumers pushing hard to elevate games to an accepted artistic level means that there is a market and demand there, and thus truth in it.
