New Yorker article on gaming... with Nicholson Baker

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morenoingrato said:

alfredofroylan said:

morenoingrato said:

I know they're HD games but I still hate they way they bashed them.

I don't think it's bashing the games. It's interesting to know the opinion of people that aren't in the media.

"The game seemed both desolate and repetitive, with incomprehensible Biblical and race-war undermeanings"

"The best time I had with Uncharted 2 was while eating a sub-marine sandwich and watching the making of videos that came with the game disk"

"Here’s what it’s about. It’s about killing and it’s about dying. Also it’s about collecting firearms."

"The game has moments of real loveliness. But mostly, it’s death, death, death—and fistfights, and the accumulation of wealth by acts of thuggery."

"it uses the Greek stories to trick you, or your parents, into tolerating a level of participatory gore that would be otherwise impossible in a mass-market entertainment". "GOW3 is a confused confection, and the brilliant, smiley, jokey designers who made it should hang their claws in shame for so misdirecting their obvious talents."

The guy is a clear videogame hater, and those games are critically aclaimed

Point out to me where he is wrong in any of his observations.  Mostly he is just pointing out how the vast majority of games are aimed squarely at a single demographic.