Quote: (10-03-2014 03:56 PM)kbell Wrote:
Is Last of Us still worth playing? Naughty Dog has a very impressive artists, and usually well made games. Or is the SJW so annoying its worth just avoiding? I really enjoyed Uncharted 1 and 2. Haven't played 3 yet.
If any current Hollywood Blockbuster or TV show doesn't annoy you, then you probably won't notice it.
As 'art', I'd lump it into the 'laughable juvenilia' category, along with 'Gone Home', 'Kentucky Route Zero', 'Spec Ops: The Line' and 'Bioshock Infinite': all loads of pretentious, muddled hooey that, in a couple of cases, get by on the sheer verve of their world-building.
Modern gaming journalists are ashamed to be working in a field stigmatised as being immature, so will overpraise anything with pretensions to being 'art', and, in doing so, reveal their own lack of education and ignorance of what is good art.
Danielle Riendeau of Polygon claimed 'Gone Home' was a revolutionary new manner of storytelling. No, you uneducated, ignorant twit - it's an Epistolary Story - a form that's been around since 1485 - presented as a Nonlinear Narrative - a form much favoured by the Modernists, who were old enough a concept to have a movement named after
no longer being one, and mainly used in modern times to obscure the fact that the first 20 minutes of your television episode is deathly dull by starting
In Media Res.
I know this without a degree in literature or journalism. What use are they as critics and arbiters of taste?
I'd argue that the critically-respected games are at about the level of
slam poetry. Make of that what you will.