Every month, the Destructoid Monthly Musing topic gives community members the ability to have their work posted on the Dtoid front page.
Our own Josh Tolentino came up with this month's theme. Thank him if you like it, blame it if you don't. I'm just going to copy and paste exactly what he suggested in an email, since he explains it better than I could:
"How about "Noble Failures", where people talk about games they hate but can totally respect? Stuff they're glad exist but simply can't bear to play. It's an easy way to bring up EVE, MMOs, JRPGs, turn-based combat, Heavy Rain, Deadly Premonition, artgames, etc. Almost anything, really.
It's more challenging than saying a game is a failure just because "it's not my thing" or "it isn't fun" since the writer has to justify their respect and think about what's positive about [x] title/genre/concept. They can bring up specific characters in a game. If the writers wanna get meta, they can even challenge why anything deserves to be respected if it fails, etc."
So, yes. That. Hit the jump for further instructions.
Make a cblog, title it "E for Effort: blah blah blah," and make sure to pick the "monthly theme" category. If your article is particularly well-written or sparks interesting discussion, we'll frontpage it.
I mean, that's pretty much it. Sir Tolentino did a pretty good job explaining the theme pre-jump, so that's all I've got for you.
Contest:
1:00 PM on 04.06.2010 | 
Kudos to anyone who tackles Halo, MW2, or sports games well.
I might do Dragon Age: Origins since I'm known to have such a lust for Bioware games but had a notorious hatred of that game.
Or anything hyped that's more of the same. Maybe Halo.
Problem I'll have is not throwing in tonnes of bias.
Do it.
I was wrong.
It's a cool musing, but I can't think of a single thing to write for that.
I might be able do think of something, but maybe May will be the month.
Ooh good one. I'll be looking out for that one.
In fact, fuck it, I probably will. Because, clearly, someone has to write about awful games no one ever played.
Actually, I might do one on indie games, since this topic describes my reaction to them exactly.
Damned if I can come up with something better, though.
Damned if I can come up with something better, though.
Probably something involving Chulip.
I got a lot of games that have done a lot of things that I thought could be much better, but thanked them for trying anyways.
im an avid defender of shit games around my friends
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