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| Too much inbred creativity by Lurker 13243 09/16/2013, 4:02am PDT | ||||
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| I remember two older posts (which I'll find after) that really apply to this. This also might degenerate into a series of sweeping generalizations, so sorry in advance.
First one was talking about how the Walking Dead comics are a bunch of preachy bullshit, because nerds generally don't have enough life experience to bring any insight to a topic that has mostly been discussed by nerds. Most people who create video games love video games. Well sure, but how many of those people were in the marines? Are schizophrenic? How many of them decided to make games just because their library of cartridges fills entire bookshelves and not because they decided it was the best medium to express themselves? That New Yorker article summed it up pretty well in the first reference to vacant eyed kids. I was a vacant eyed kid! I didn't even really start to analyze WHY game designers did things until I started getting my non-gamer friends to play all my GOG shit. They talk a little TOO much about their feelings and new age games journalism shit, but you still need a little bit of that if you want actual ideas. We're not going to have anything close to Fallout 1 or 2 or the Genesis or SNES Shadowruns because those were all made by people with heavy tabletop experience. Fallout 3 and New Vegas were fun, but were still just "Oblivion with guns" as everyone said. Next is the Robocop thread that's going on, which was mainly answered by this Cracked article Movies are no longer based on books and ideas, they're based on movies. There's no speculation, no kids going home and describing to their friends, "HE HAD LIKE THIS GUN THAT SHOT OUT MORE GUNS AND THEN THE BULLETS WERE ALL HOMING BULLETS," and no insight since most of these screenwriters and directors, as with game makers and comic book writers, are nerds who associate consumption with understanding. For every Lexi Alexander creating amazingly beautiful violence like Hooligans or Punisher: Warzone, you have 10 more asshole NYU graduates and Chinese/Korean directors pumping out their incompetent versions of American 80's excess. Back to games, just look at the guns in Bioshock Infinite. Sure, the tommy gun in Bioshock 1 was all sorts of dinky, but you could pimp it out neon green like the dudes from Batman Forever! You didn't have a carbine or a sniper rifle, you had a fucking crossbow that shot electric trap bolts. Call of Duty happened, though, so instead of the CEREBRAL BORE from Turok, or the nuke gun from Turok, or anything from Ratchet and Clank, we have useless pistol, machine gun, shotgun, and rifle. Ironsights for headshots. Rocket launcher will maybe have laser guidance. Possibly grav gun. Shit, even Resident Evil 4 (the one they've been trying to reproduce forever) had a mine launcher and a badass antique pistol. Saints Row IV has a bit of both, plus all the super powers and shit, but that's actually making people angry! Now they WANT to start with their shitty pistols and MAYBE work their way up to an infinite rocket launcher after 100+ hours. People don't like the superpowers because, "I can clear a whole bunch of guys by becoming a nuclear bomb." Think about that. People DON'T WANT TO become a nuclear bomb. (This whole paragraph was ranty and written in between student visits, sorry). |
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