Guys, we need to keep this site serious.

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#1  Edited By MC_Izawa

I'm tired of all this fun and games.  Games are a serious media!  We need to be advancing this art form through intellectual discussion and subjective reviews of games.  Talking about unimportant things like song packs and multiplayer updates is a waste of breath and brain power.  Leave that kind of stuff to the ignorant masses who enjoy being taken advantage of by the big corporations.  I never see any discussions of the merits of independent games.  We need to support these developers so they can take the art form to the next level.  So, lets have the first official intellectual games discussion.  No Madden, no Halo, no Grand Theft Auto; nothing that the idiots would enjoy.

Okay, I'll start: there sure were lots of metaphors in Braid!

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#2  Edited By clubsandwich

this is sewious bussiness :D

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#3  Edited By Coltonio7

I find this ironic thread ironic.

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#4  Edited By get2sammyb

Haha. I quite like the "deeper" games. flower is still my game of the year.

Alas - do you know who I hate? EDGE magazine and Eurogamer. Worst video game journalists ever. Since when did video game reviews have to be candidates for the Nobel Prize?

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#5  Edited By Stang

Tried to hard TC. So close, yet so far.

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#6  Edited By Jayge_

Did you learn to shave yet?

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#7  Edited By End_Boss
@MC_Izawa: Dude, so I was just playing Halo 3, and I got a no-scope on some nub. How's that for advancing the art form? Of no-scopes?
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#8  Edited By damswedon

the moral of braid was if you stand in front of a window jerking off you will be attacked by a crazy princess.
did the ending of Super Mario Galaxy mean Mario is in Hell?

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#9  Edited By vendetta

When was this site ever serious in the first place?

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#10  Edited By MC_Izawa

1. Keep the story vague and ambiguous.
2. Let the intellectuals interpret the story in the most convoluted and complicated way, so they can impress their colleagues.
3. Take credit for everything.

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#11  Edited By OmegaPirate
@MC_Izawa said:
" 1. Keep the story vague and ambiguous. 2. Let the intellectuals interpret the story in the most convoluted and complicated way, so they can impress their colleagues. 3. Take credit for everything. "
4. be attracted to your sister
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#12  Edited By citizenkane

Indeed, because Halo and Grand Theft Auto have given nothing to the advancement of video games as an art form.

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#13  Edited By sparky_buzzsaw

I tried to be serious once.  My upper intestine has never been the same.

And would it kill people to chat about Chutes and Ladders?

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#14  Edited By Ineedaname
@clubsandwich said:
" this is sewious bussiness :D "
My avatar says what needs to be said.
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#15  Edited By Video_Game_King

Can I still discuss Fire Emblem? Wait, why am I asking you? (In booming voice): I AM KING!!!

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#16  Edited By cc23574



YOU CANZNOT RESIST!
YOU CANZNOT RESIST!
                                                                                                                                               
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#17  Edited By Dustpan
@CitizenKane said:
" Indeed, because Halo and Grand Theft Auto have given nothing to the advancement of video games as an art form. "
Grand Theft Auto IV
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#18  Edited By Linkyshinks
@Coltonio7 said:
" I find this ironic thread ironic. "

I do also, given MC Iwaza's lame threads to the contrary from days of old.





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#19  Edited By crunchUK
So i was playin halos the other day... wait i wrote an entire short story about a flag capture on halo. Go to hell
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#20  Edited By Inf225

 

@JustTheDoctor said:
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@CitizenKane said:
" Indeed, because Halo and Grand Theft Auto have given nothing to the advancement of video games as an art form. "
Grand Theft Auto IV"


 

Yea... only an idiot would think that GTAIV didnt have anything intellectual in it...
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#21  Edited By Drebin_893
@Jayge said:
" Did you learn to shave yet? "
Wha-BAM! There it is.
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#22  Edited By Cyst

Seriously guys, no more screwin around...



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#23  Edited By Pie

WHAT YOU JIBBERJABBIN BOY!!!! ILL FUCK ABOUT WHATEVER I WANT TO SHIZZLE ABOUT!!!!!!!! NOW EXCUSE ME WHILST I GO PLAYZ SOME HALOZ AND GO BLAT BLAT BLAT BLAT BLAT BLAT BLAT BLAT BLAT BLAT BLAT BLAT BLAT BLAT BLAT BLATBLAT BLAT BLAT BLAT BLAT BLAT BLAT BLATBLAT BLAT BLAT BLAT BLAT BLAT BLAT BLATBLAT BLAT BLAT BLAT BLAT BLAT BLAT BLATBLAT BLAT BLAT BLAT BLAT BLAT BLAT BLATBLAT BLAT BLAT BLAT BLAT BLAT BLAT BLATBLAT BLAT BLAT BLAT BLAT BLAT BLAT BLATBLAT BLAT BLAT BLAT BLAT BLAT BLAT BLATBLAT BLAT BLAT BLAT BLAT BLAT BLAT BLATBLAT BLAT BLAT BLAT BLAT BLAT BLAT BLATBLAT BLAT BLAT BLAT BLAT BLAT BLAT BLATBLAT BLAT BLAT BLAT BLAT BLAT BLAT BLATBLAT BLAT BLAT BLAT BLAT BLAT BLAT BLAT WITH DA BIGASS PIMPCANE AND DA MP40 MOTHER FUCKER!!!!!!! BUNCH OF NOOBS IN THIS THREAD LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLLOLOLOL BRAPZOID11111111 MC IS SUCH A LAMEZOID LOLZCAT!

 Now where's RHCPfan24........

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#24  Edited By Crabcraft

GAMES: SERIOUS BUSINESS!

  


Seriously though, games will inevitably be widely accepted as an art form, it just takes time and some people would even argue that GTA4 did do some thing to advance games as a medium, in the emotional decision making especially towards the end of the game, anyone who's finished it will know what I'm talking about it. It may not be much but at least it's something. Games are still in a position where they are stealing most of their techniques from their closest art form, film. Also I don't think it really matters that most of the attention on games is directed towards the Halos and GTAs, I mean just because mindless blockbusters are the most discussed films dosent take away the significance of film as an artform. And just look at The Last Guardian to see how far games have come in the last few years. You just can't force that kind of thing. And thats all I have to say about that.

 He's right though, there are alot of metaphors in Braid.
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#25  Edited By Hitchenson

Videogames. Serious business, don't you know?

Also, you're either or trolling, or you know nothing about games if you genuinely think that GTA and Halo are 'idiot games'.
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#26  Edited By RichardLOlson
Has someones nuts droped finally.
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#27  Edited By Pie

I hear game developers make more money than movie makers.

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#28  Edited By ShadowKiller

Did you just say only idiots can enjoy Halo and GTA? I don't respect your opinion kind sir.

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#29  Edited By Claude

The only metaphor I got from Braid is that I suck as a gamer.

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Yes, Metal Gear Solid 4 was a tale about Kojima's development experience involving that game and nothing else!

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#32  Edited By AhmadMetallic

quit fucking with the guy he wants his precious thread to be intellectual and shit .. 


Umm.. yeah im not interested. i just enjoy games with all my body cells emotionally and spiritually and fun-ly and story-ly and mindly and shit like that and then i like to discuss em with fellow gamers and tell each other what we liked and didnt like and express our crush on certain games like h0m0z (not being homophobic just.... 'h0m0z' rofl) and have a gaming orgy.
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#33  Edited By FiestaUnicorn
@OmegaPirate said:
"
@MC_Izawa said:
" 1. Keep the story vague and ambiguous. 2. Let the intellectuals interpret the story in the most convoluted and complicated way, so they can impress their colleagues. 3. Take credit for everything. "
4. be attracted to your sister
"

I can't be attracted to his sister.  One she looks nothing like his mother and two, she isn't a very good cook.