Seriously, I'm telling you guys, its the same person, look!!!




Okay it's not really, but imagine if it was... Anywho, let's have a battle.
Mr. destructoid versus Deadmau5.

Fight!!!

No, this isn't NPR or PBS, but I say we still need support from the community, all the love from you guys will help get us up in the rating, hopefully getting as much viewers as HAWP. Although I love HAWP we need the destructoid faithful to get on and watch us. Also look through the cracks and you'll find secrets to an upcoming spiderman movie, it'll feature villains like, Venom and Carnage! Yes we here at Dtoid are making big strides in Hollywood... even though some of us are still in Miami.

Gosh, I'm still have this fantastical idea that I can reach lots of ppl by posting here. Maybe some Cblogs are read regularly, but my poor attempt to promote P.A.D. just makes me depressed... where will it lead? Maybe I'm just frustrated because Anthony left and the world will end in 2 more years and only one of those will I legally be able to drink... Although I still don't have the money to buy a good bottle of whiskey...

Anywho, is it me, or is Dtoid trying to hard to be mainstream? What do I mean exactly? Well this whole videos section is so odd to me. I never use it and I barely watch any of them... waiting for the podcast to come back so I can hear the sweet voice of Jim Sterling again... Wow this just became a rant hasn't it? No not yet. Well anyway, I don't want to leak any news on my front other than I'm working on websites now. None of which are up or anywhere close to being finished, but it'll be great. Times are a changin'!

http://destructoid.com/elephant/rebirth-index-author.phtml?a=50874

http://www.youtube.com/user/NeranjanVenom

The endless study...

Should I speak of Assassin's Creed 2? Maybe I'll be destroyed for loving the sci-fi part of that game series, but now I don't need to worry, Mass Effect 2 is here and it makes up for anyhting else that came before. It truly is the second coming for the gaming world; the first was Pokemon... heh, jokes... Now to also mention the iPad with Mass Effect I would think is relevant since I predict that EA will get some other developer to make an iphone/ipod touch/iPad version that ties into the Mass Effect mythology.

Now I'm not the uber fan of Mass Effect, I bought the original around the end of '08 start of '09, I really don't remember. I bought it for like $15 used, finally bought the two DLC things and yeah, been having fun with it, gave it a chance, although I was sure it would be a good game since I heard great things about it and I noticed the problems in the combat, but now I've gotten used to it after quite a few hours of experimentation.. yeah it was a slow process for my brain.

Since Mass Effect 2 came out all I've heard is of it's greatness and I'm sure it's all true, but this is the first time I'm righting about a game I haven't played so it's hard to truly say what is great about it without first hand experience. Maybe I should just delete this blog post and think of something else to write, I have no idea, maybe I'll talk about Dishwasher: Dead Samurai when I finish playing (just bought it off XBLA... finally...).

Sure, we have computer art in wikipedia's list of visual arts, but that refers to a wide range of things that can be made with a computer and what kind of art it is seen as. Interactive media is also something that's a bit vague in terms of certain principles and priorities in terms of something like a web site, or general user interfaces, communication networks (not so much, but it's included somewhat as like pop-culture references to like facebook in art), and games.

Specifically I want to discuss games simply because this is destructoid and we gamers are a more important bunch. Anywho, this a topic that is certain brought up a lot in destructoid: questions when we'll reach a golden when games are perceived to be art in their presentation. Also the fear that this type of entertainment will become like what comics are perceived to be by society that has never taken an open mind to go deep within the subculture to see there are truly certain graphic novels that could and sometimes are considered art.

Although some may want games to stay the way they are and never become anything more than they are, I personally and getting tired of them. Every year I buy less games and play the ones I have less and less (I don't like to trade in games, I keep them and replay a lot, too many in my collection...). I'm tired just tired of this generation of trends with almost every consumer product that is released. We're becoming like our parents or grandparents were in the 60s with all those crazy trends that are now somewhat mainstream (I confess, I'm a hippie by heart, but incidentally a pretty boy, its what happens in Miami, the sunlight makes you lazy, but you're forced to look good out of spite). *sigh* I ramble too much.

I've seen so much of it at CES '10 with gadgetry and I definitely expect more of it following later today, the 27th aka, god declared apple.inc and steve jobs as the second coming, finally. Gosh I've been waiting to confirm this for a long while, now I know it's true. Heh, jokes... So for games, the simple argument is with games like the guitar hero trend (I hate that game...) and the large amount of horrid games for the wii and multiplayer in games that don't need it, *sigh*. Story of my life I suppose. I just really want to ask this gamer community, do we really need all this? Is it really that important to you? I'd rather have more of xenosaga or shadow of the colossus and uhh... oh oh, echochrome!!! Yes; simple, but beautiful. Maybe a bit too simple, so much so that it gets a little tiresome.

Those three games are perfect examples of art in games, or games that are visual art. If you don't agree please comment, and if you have any games to include, please do. Anywho, I just hope that maybe there will be more of a demand for fun and visually inspiring games that can truly seen as art in a gallery being demonstrated on a nice widescreen display on the wall right next to a famous painting... maybe I'm overstepping this, maybe I'm foolish, but I truly believe that if there was a demand for and there were people new to this type of interactive media, they could appreciate it like I do with certain games.

Whatever the future may hold for games as art, I just hope that activision blizzard dies and guitar hero dies with it, bring fcukin' call of duty as well... (I'll instantly dislike anywho who makes the claim that mw2 is a work of art)

So I made this post like the night just before Destructoid when faulty, I was like the only person still awake I suppose, no other posts for ours on the Cblogs... Either way, I just feel responsible yet spiteful. I wrote this long post about the games announced at the VGAs (which "I didn't watch, I saw the trailers at none other than gametrailers, a godsend of websites) that I found very interesting, or quite amusing, in my opinion, my favorite post so far, I try to keep a basis for what I write, sometimes drifting off a bit to only give more detail into a certain subject that relates to underlying topic. I also like to at least, somewhat schedule what I may write in advance of a few hours than write in one go, like right now and then just let my inspiration and creativity drive my efforts in writing something that no one will read, but I tried and I liked the end result. Saddens me and frustrates me when things happen and a site croaks for a moment, but when it's revived I wish that everything would be restored, but oh well, my post got deleted. Everything else went back to normal, two podtoids went up for compensation and I listened and let my anger pass. Anger at technology, not at Destructoid. I still love this site even though I'm new to it and I only know about it because of HAWP. Story of my life.... seriously, this should be tagged as a rant, but I put this as About Destructoid, since of course most of the rant is about the site...

READ SCOTT PILGRIM!!! UBISOFT is making a game out of it, woooyeah!!! :D

This is what come down, the evolution of the internet has invaded the interactive game space so intrusively that it's gone beyond the emulation of older game systems and loading illegally downloaded ROMs, which I have no say on since I don't have an interest in playing them, although I don't mind the people who do like and play them. The interwebs have gone so far from simply gaming related news and reviews sites like destructoid or gamespot. Then I could go on to speak of the greatness of gametrailers and it's outlet for high quality video in all topics of gaming media. Then it came down to online gaming which started long ago, something that was for PC users that played in the online rpg realm and multiplayer first person shooters, too many examples to comment on, some of which are still around that are still quite popular and have active communities.

Then there were new ventures from certain companies that started what is now a common trend, this is what we see as online console gaming, downloaded update patches, and expansion packs. Things that were already commonplace in PC gaming, but seemed impossible for consoles. So then Sega decided to go crazy and do there most loved console of all time, yet so under appreciated, the Sega Dreamcast. Sure I never used it on dial-up to play any online games, since at that time I was only like 9 or 10 and i didn't know it had those features so I didn't use them, but that doesn't mean that the didn't dreamcast have it. It also was great since it was released so close to my birthday, but that an unimportant point...

So the ideas that were lost with the dreamcast came over to the xbox through Peter Moore, dabate that all you like, but that's all I'm going to say about him. The ideas from Sega came into the conception of the xbox with, xbox live, certain Sega exclusives, and expandable memory with the first home console that I can remember other that had a hard drive, I think the dreamcast used and zip drive or they were going to eventually. I don't remember... When I booted up my xbox I was like, "Hey, I can save my game without a memory card, and if I wanted a backup I could get an xbox memory card (which I never did) that looked just like the VMU from the dreamcast and was used similarly by sliding it into the controller. Also you could download new levels for every Splinter Cell game and just about any game, way before that whole DLC phenomenon that has just recent become the norm for new release titles to extend the life and replay value of games.

Now with games like Halo, Call of Duty, and even Unreal, we have bridged the gap on online fps games that seemed only possible on PCs. Then we are seeing games like Final Fantasy 11 (which was the online game the PS2 can claim that it ever got into the mainstream somewhat) and Phantasy Star Universe that has a large online community and possibly others that I don't care to mention since these games bore me on both the consoles and the PC. There also RTS games like that have come into the console fray, but I can't even really name any, but even those are gaining pace. With all that, we are starting to see cross platforms network services that let you download all the content you would usually buy in the stores on a disc, some of which are still growing and struggling to gain more users, with the case of the PSP Go, its download-only philosophy isn't working so well.

Soon we will see consoles or just simply a multimedia device like the PSP Go that deviates from what usually expect from a console and will probably the only resource for our gaming needs, and eventually we'll have certain companies and services that become so big they will become our only outlet in that market, which may break the industry into many tasty bloody parts or create an ecosystem of many devices that could allow us to play the games we buy on many different platforms that probably won't be on what we consider to be a console today. The end of the console generation in general and the start of an open ended series of devices that play all the games that we enjoy, connect to online multiplayer networks that are maybe even platform independent and soon the difference between portable games, to home consoles, to the PC platform will become so syncretic that there won't be any other version for each platform that you have to buy again.

There may not be any platform in general, whatever you have will just be another device that plays any game, like audio, video, and image players. Wether it's a computer, a console, a phone, or portable media player, it won't matter. Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo, whoever, won't be making something to compete in terms of hardware since many more companies will be making hardware to play these games that probably will do a better job that for example, Microsoft and their red death ring... These companies will be left to there game studios developing quality titles and making working online networks for their multiplayer functions to creating downloadable content to add to their games coming to a point in which they will never print another plastic game box or burning ever again. Everything will be on so many of these online digital distribution services like Steam, Xbox Live, PSN, Wiiware, and so many more to come that will definitely continue to change how we get and play our games and eventually force the top competitors to stop creating more consoles and migrate to other devices that will support the function of playing any game whatsoever. It will truly be the last console generation, and in turn create the evolution of new multimedia devices that can do anything, including PCs. They will stay forever, just because of there flexibility...



P.S, I had to edit FF11 because originally I said 13. Hehe 13 was running wild in my mind that I didn't remember that 11 was the MMO. Thanks ryderbackside for the notice, it totally slipped my mind.