Last week I wrote an article called "Indie games don't have to act like indie games." To my surprise, the article became quite a source of controversy for something posted on a Sunday afternoon. Although David Jaffe liked it, my peers in the gaming press were not so readily pleased.
Patrick Klepek from G4 said I shouldn't expect to ever be taken seriously after a long argument we had on Twitter. G4's Sterling McGarvey said that he'd take any artsty-fartsy indie game over "creatively bankrupt bullsh*t." The whole fiasco even prompted GameSetWatch to publish an analysis of the argument. If all this nonsense taught me one thing, it's this -- we need an expert.
Luckily, The Videogame Show What I've Done knows such an expert. His name is Virgilio Armarndio, who you may remember from a previous episode. Unlike me, he is an expert on all things artistic and was happy to set the record straight on a number of things. He also debuted a brand new indie game, Peaches, which we are exclusively showing for the first time.
Get out your most pompous scarf and pour a glass of wine. Above all, enjoy today's episode!
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12:00 PM on 02.13.2010
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I've always liked The Videogame Show What I've Done, despite some that missed me by a bit (I didn't really like the Sonic 4 episode for reasons I'm not even sure of), but I've never really found them to be really laugh out loud experiences.
Things have now changed.
That was beautiful.
This is better than Passage.
Excuse me for a moment.
*Cries*
Now then, someone make me a .gif of that, STAT!
Virgilio isn't just an expert on art, he IS art.
Isn't art all about making to think and feel anyway?
It really makes you ponder relationships at their most primitive state. Are we men or are we peaches? Mmmmm. Yesssss.... Very deep and poetic. This... THIS is video games.
You are everything and nothing, sir. Brava, brava!!
I would like to see Virgillio Armandio make a guest appearance on The Journalism Show. Artistic Journalism with Armandio and Beedog
I also LOVE the Kingdom Hearts references!
That's not drag.
It is, however, bollock-emptyingly glorious.
Bright red lipstick is enough to pass as drag in Arkansas.
I then take issue with your other statement.
I am not enough to pass as "fat" in Arkansas. :-)
Considering the medium, can you find an example of something being interesting without being fun? anyone? In order to be an interesting game, doesn't it pretty much have to be fun in some regard?
Also, just because art is subjective, doesn't mean that there is no room for it to be criticized... Its why some people become successful artists and some don't...
And his new groove.
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/27170/Opinion_In_Defense_Of_That_Recent_AntiIndie_Column.php#comment42952
"But things being the way they are, we know very well that a negative review of mainstream game might lead to bankruptcy of a company while a negative review of an indie game might lead to a starving child. So it's understandable that indie games get a gentler treatment."
Because the child of someone working at a game company will never go hungry if that company goes bankrupt. A shitty game is a shitty game. If you use your kid as collateral to make your indie masterpiece then you're the idiot.