Editorial: Zelda has been getting worse since the NES

[mike_intellivision]

theprof00 said:

mike_intellivision said:
Me thinks the author is trying to be too serious and too egocentric.

He did some academic-type writing on video games eight years ago, so this is not the case of a college student complaining. Rather it appears to be someone who wants to be a professional writer complaining. Ironically, this appears to be written to appeal to jaded college gamers as serious scholarly writers don't use the word "sucks."

Mike from Morgantown

Maybe he's being stylistic? Perhaps that "sucks" was an aside in which his childhood speaks its mind, however immaturely.

I think you need to address the points rather than his writing. Unless you have no problem with what he wrote, just how he wrote it.

I thought others had addressed the content rather well. I probably should have noted this -- although my opening note about him being too serious and too egocentric was intended to convey that point.

Instead, I thought I would examine his motivation and his history. Too often in newsgroup discussions on the Internet I have found items cited second/third/fourth hand without looking back at the source material. Too often rumors get picked up as fact by multiple outlets and repeated until they are accepted as truth, even though they have never been verified. So I wanted to look back at the original work and then looked at his other works.

Nothing else he writes about video games appears (from a cursory examination) to be written in this same style with this same intent. (Please note that appear implies appears to me). And he had not written and posted anything in over six months about video games. Which makes me wonder if this was done in a different -- and perhaps the too predictable I know more than the designers what gamers want -- style to generate hits.  If that is the case, he has succeeded in his quest -- perhaps better than in his quest playing Zelda.

 

Mike from Morgantown