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Rush Limbo
Sep 5, 2005

its with a full house
Games don't have to be fun, and some of the best games I've played have been the opposite of fun. Pathologic is the classic example. There's absolutely no way you can present that game that even seems remotely fun, but it doesn't need to be.

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Rush Limbo
Sep 5, 2005

its with a full house
Gamers are indeed terrible. They rallied against Ebert with his "video games are not art" spiel, as they totes are art guys this old dude doesn't know what the the gently caress he's saying

Then when it's widely accepted that video games are indeed art, applying the most basic concepts of criticism and discussion to them that is applied to EVERY OTHER ART FORM is suddenly not necessary because They're Just Games

So which is it?

Rush Limbo
Sep 5, 2005

its with a full house
Errant Signal was linked earlier but he happens to do very insightful, well-reasoned criticism and theories about video games

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_tdztHiyiE

I mean, once again it's very, very basic criticism but as a medium that's about all it can handle at the moment, if the fans are anything to go by.

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