After an extremely long haitus i now have finally returned but you won't be seeing the same crap from me. I'll be tackling the issues i have avoided for a while now but after being stuck in the middle of the enthusiast press i simply have to get out of my system and that's where this ridiculously long title comes in.
"movie reviewers don't have to deal with the issues we have to."
I hear this all the freaking time and im tired of it.
Movies are NOT games.
Stop comparing them.
Now to backup my claim and prove myself right.
1. The reasons you buy/watch a game and movie are different.
2. The pricing points are usually much different.
3. The audiences for both are generally different.
4. Movies are mainstream media.
I can understand really, i know what it's like to write for something and want to cling onto a sister medium for comparison but it doesn't work, it's like plugging your us playstation 2 into a europe outlet and expecting it to work only there's no magical convertor for the mediums.
I tire of people in the movie industry talkin about games too, they need to shut their mouth because they have just as much right to review games as he does rocketships.
Ebert reviews movies.... not games...... his statements shoule go no further than "i saw someone play (insert random game here) and i think it sucks."
While there are a few intersections now and then between movies and games for the most part you just can't compare them or the industries.
As an ex member of the gaming enthusiast press, the next time you want to latch onto the movie industry to make a point or make a comparison, think before you do.
It's hard to make your own space, to establish an operational front, to find a place in media but by latching onto another medium you cheapen your own medium.
I'm off to remove the boards off people's houses in preparation for the hurricane AND learn photoshop!
I agree wholeheartedly, it's probably because gaming as a serious storytelling mediums is still a new relativity new concept that it gets this kind of treatment. It certainly is detrimental to it though. You don't see books compared to movies because, despite they're similarities, they are two very different mediums and to think of one just in terms of the other is to do a great disservice to it.
While I do agree with you it seems that more and more games are trying to be like movies and not just MGS4. The methods a lot of games use to convey stories is very similar to movies especially in cut scenes where nearly everyone describes at least the good ones as "cinematic." It's only when developers stop making their games to have movie like qualities that we can truly say that games are nothing like movies.
it's the normal human instinct, if you are in danger of falling off a ledge you have to reach out and grab something, and for video game press it's usually the movie industry, and thanks, it's good to be back. this ain't live journal so let me just say i cheated death yet again.
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I concur.
Also, you need a goatee.
Glad to have you back! ^_^
I agree wholeheartedly, it's probably because gaming as a serious storytelling mediums is still a new relativity new concept that it gets this kind of treatment. It certainly is detrimental to it though. You don't see books compared to movies because, despite they're similarities, they are two very different mediums and to think of one just in terms of the other is to do a great disservice to it.
woot...you're back :)
Good to see you back dude, I hope everything is working out for ya.
Wooooooooo!
While I do agree with you it seems that more and more games are trying to be like movies and not just MGS4. The methods a lot of games use to convey stories is very similar to movies especially in cut scenes where nearly everyone describes at least the good ones as "cinematic." It's only when developers stop making their games to have movie like qualities that we can truly say that games are nothing like movies.
Also good to see you again round these parts :-D
it's the normal human instinct, if you are in danger of falling off a ledge you have to reach out and grab something, and for video game press it's usually the movie industry, and thanks, it's good to be back. this ain't live journal so let me just say i cheated death yet again.
Yay!