I was at Gamestop the other day, and the clerks were like "you pre-order Battlefield 3 yet, dawg?" and I was like "OH NO! No way. No-no-no!
NO.
It is such a sad waste, the way so many game developers today are squandering the endless potential of videogames as a medium in favor of containing to produce these overly expensive, over-hyped titles that deliver evoke no thought and feelings in the player other than "'uys shooting guys over and over an over again is good'.
You can do anything with a videogame! The only limit is your own imagination! You can create an experience that fuses motion, visuals, and sound together as one like Child of Eden, or a game that cleverly parodies and pays tribute to gamers and gaming like No More Heroes, or use videogames as a metaphor for each stage of a persons like like the Bit.Trip SAGA, or create a beautiful world of interesting and original personalities like Street Fighter, Metal Gear, Zelda, Skyrim, and so many others.
There are so many examples of the amazing things that games are capable of, with so much left to be explored, and all these guys could come up with is... another game about shooting at and being shot by strangers?
DEPRESSING! I WILL NOT SUPPORT IT!"
Then they were like "Want to put $5 down on Modern Warfare 3, dawg?"
After that, I took my copy of Aliens Infestation and went home. It's pretty good!
[PS- I have nothing against people who call other people "dawg". I actually think its really cute!]
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Preorder something like Sakura Wars, Bit.Trip Collection or the Last Story.
Do you want to put $5 down on MW3? NO. You'll have 30 copies in the back. Even if you sell out, the Gamestop right next DOOR will have 30 copies as well!
The only game I've preordered this year is Once Upon A Monster. Because it FUCKING deserves it.
Also typos Holmesy my boy?
Agreed.
*and people wonder why Sheppy primarily just board games now...*
I've NEVER heard a gamer shit on a store clerk like that about how all everyone ever plays Settlers of Catan...
For reals, though, I agree. Too many guns goin' around. Needs more swords.
It’s kind of sad that the reason people are preordering Battlefield and why it has so many fanboys willing to argue against MW is literally because EA told them “This game is great and you want it”, I wish they’d put that marketing behind something like Mirrors Edge or a game that “deserves” mainstream attention like Mass Effect.
Of course, I'll only be playing it if I can pry myself away from Dark Souls and Spacechem.
And where did I ever judge a group of gamers? Or when did I shit on a store clerk? Typo, or overreaction?
My bet is overreaction!
I LOVE THAT CLERK!
Oh Holmes, keep on keeping on. You're fighting the good fight, even if you are destined to lose in the end. Publishers will continue churning out Modern Battlewarfare games until they stop making insane profits, and that doesn't seem likely to happen any time soon. Still, one can hope!
And besides, I play video games to get away from people. Pure escapism and all that. It's basically my sensory deprivation tank, where I can shut off my brain and become Batman or Commander Shepard for a while, without having to deal with others. So yeah, the multiplayer thing defeats my purpose anyway.
Also, I didn't know we had legitimate spoiler tags in the C-blogs. Whoo!
This is a lie, of course. They never see more hours for either. Hours are doled out by corporate on a whim. Usually not much hours save for the holidays.
I have a real job, so I tell people about the other games, don't bother with the pre-orders of Battlefield and such and enjoy my discount while selling Okami or dark souls and such.
I'm more about getting people what they want than peddling Game Informer and pushing Uncharted down your throat.
Well, if they gave me hours, anyway.
How I imagined the clerk's voice in my head.
Random Gamestop story, when Bioshock came out, I didn't bother reserving it because, its Bioshock right? They will have copies I assumed. I went to pick it up on release day, and the clerk told me they were sold out. He then proceeded to tell me that I should have reserved it. I then drove to the Wal-Mart across the street and found tons of copies. Jack asses.
looking down on gamers who play games you feel are not good.
Go play your games, baldy and we'll play ours.
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Well...having grown up in Connecticut, I can actually see that being a thing still.
I recant.
Really, just because people like FPS'es like BF3, you get on a high horse denouncing those games
while crying" why you no buy gaems i like?? Industry is teh doomed"
It just smacks of elitist bullshit.
Aren't there provisions in the Geneva Conventions against this sort of thing?
Protocol I Articles 51 and 54 clearly outlaw indiscriminate attacks upon civilian populations and Jonathan Holmes.
pigeonhole mentality gamers love doing. Like calling IOS games anything but games
and those who play it non-gamers. They are games and they are gamers. Just like
there's nothing wrong with FPS games selling in stores. Stop making gaming some exclusive
clubhouse.
If being disagreeable and somewhat annoyed by the tone of this blog.
Or just by the fact that I am simply disagreeing with Holmes constitute trolling, then
you just inteprete it as such. I may have came off angry and insulting but that's because
i feel this blog is insulting to me personally.
I totally respect that games such as Battlefield 3 are anathema to you, Holmes. It all appears so derivative and trite. However, I'm going to give Battlefield 3 the benefit of the doubt that it may be an atmospheric and gripping, if not totally original, experience.
I like your stand "DEPRESSING! I WILL NOT SUPPORT IT!"
If only these mouthbreathers would give other games a chance but they won't. They'll be happy wasting gaming potential and shooting each other online and being the morons that they are.
The jist of your article was basically slamming an entire genre of games you don't enjoy because it's wasted potential in video games. That these vacuous experiences evoke no thought or expansion of a persons feelings. That these games are overhyped and over advertised and frankly, shouldn't exist. Which, if that's ALL the video game industry is, you have a point...
But it's not. These "popcorn" experiences for people exist because they sell. Like Transformers, it's this crap that finances the other games like Syndicate and the return of NFL Blitz. So if you TRULY enjoy these other games, the arthouse of video gaming, essentially, you'll sit down, shut up, and let Ubi make their Assassins Creed cash because, while I agree Child of Eden is a great game and an experience, you and I are one of the 3 people who actually bought the game.
Just keep this in mind. Without Twisted Metal, SOCOM, and God of War, there would be no Shadow of the Collosus. So if Transformers 3 is what is needed so that Hugo can be made, let the people have their giant robot fights. We reap the benefits of that hot cash injection.
But Holmes is right. We have been bombarded with these mindless, derivative games that it has overtaken more worthier and better games. It galls me to see every month a COD game still selling when games like Child of Eden just wither and die.
This is what's wrong with gaming now. Gamers have become so dumbed down that they reach for games with lots of explosions but no meaningful content. This should be a wake up call. These so-called gamers should be called out for allowing the dumbing down of the gaming world. FPS'ses should stop before it ruins gaming as a whole.. I applaud Holmes for telling it like it is.
That said, if a new Katamari with half the old levels and half new levels comes out, I'm totally buying that.
"Yo dawg, did you pre-order your copy of Beyond Good and Evil 2 ey".
On that day, everything will be alright! :-D
@ kidplus- I think you missed the irony too. I failed to make the irony good. Sorry for the irony fail!
@ Tekmagik- Stop playing the victim, dawg! It's a bad look for you.
I've pre-ordered Zelda, and Mario 3D Land - they're two of my favorite series. I'm loving the new Katamari on my iPhone.
They are not mutually exclusive.
VIDJYA GAMES!