I'm old enough to remember when the sci-fi notion of a disembodied computer voice waking you up in the morning, knowing enough about you to strike up a conversation, and accompanying you through your daily routine sounded wonderful.
Now it gives me chills. That old wonderful dream is actually possible now if I turned off all my malware blockers and let :lord-bezos-amused: fully into my home.
video games achieving wide cultural acceptance as entertainment and art form for everyone
This is me too. Also with superhero stuff. I think 10 year old me would have exploded from excitement had I known there's 4 marvel movies per year.
Yeah, I loved the idea of comic movies but then the movies reminded me of all the bullshit I filtered out back in the day. It's hard to tease the real good story out of the propaganda so I guess I just had rosy glasses. Like people wanting the 50's but don't know about the fascism and polio.
if G!merGate had any silver lining at all, it was making it glaringly clear and obvious how irredeemable capital-G G!mer culture was, all along. They wanted games to be seen as art, but also didn't want it to say anything except :awooga: and :stalin-gun-1: :lmayo: :us-foreign-policy:
It's so weird, it's like art fans that hate the very idea of art.
They claim to be all about "free speech", but want games to be inoffensive, flavorless mush. Even Hades, a game about fucking GREEK MYTH was denounced as garbage because Zagreus could enter a same-sex relationship. Hell, they consider it to be too PC (and therefore dangerously subversive) for Thor to be fat and red-haired instead of a carbon copy of Marvel thor in the new God of War game.
Has it ever occurred to them, that they are NOT the target audience for a lot of games? Gaming is diverse and unique. You may not like every game and that's okay, there's bound to be one that hits just right. Fuck Gamergate for trying to gentrify it into being some Haye's code friendly, soccer mom approved, Walmartified version of my hobby. Meanwhile. claiming that they have a Monopoly on gaming culture (and in a way, they're kinda right now).
Ancient Greek stuff without LGBTQIA+ characteristics is downright offensive to me. It's such a grossly ignorant (or malicious and deliberate) distortion of the literature and mythos as it was written.
Nope. Not once ever.
There's a bunch of sequels that I'd be happy to play and just don't I don't think it's by virtue of being lefty, I think it's by virtue of becoming a boomer. Though I had a moment while I was fiddling with my friend's switch. I thought he had bought the new Mario kart courses, but then I learned the game had updated to show you the courses even if you don't have them and then ask you to buy them. I thought it was incredibly unsightly and a poor design choice for a Nintendo product.
I feel like replaying Ocarina of Time is like rereading an old book and that you could get the same sensation of consuming artwork from it. Especially for me who likes watching speedruns and video essays about different bits of beta content and design stories. I think of three expansion packs I like and they're all blizzard games (TFT, TBC, and WotLK). I can't imagine a child being able to look back so fondly on a game that was incomplete and asking them to spend money. As an adult consumer, I get that they have a team of interns that work very hard on the courses and they're a luxury to be purchased. Fine. Whatever. But to sell to children like that seems like it loses some of that magic that I associate with Nintendo instead of maximizing it.