Life Force is amazing, Yoshi is correct for once.
Life Force is amazing, Yoshi is correct for once.
I don't care which one is visually better or worse, the simple fact of the matter is that Galuda is the better game. I will play through Galuda again quite a few times in the coming years, Gradius V I may play again once.Quote:
Originally Posted by Frogacuda
But that's what this is about and that's what's being voted on. In theory anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shin Johnpv
If they wanted to get serious about taking games as art seriously they would never let people vote on anything to do with it. The whole concept behind this is insulting to me, but I'm sure it's getting some people interested in visiting the goddamn museum.
I didn't take it as that's what this is about. Otherwise they wouldn't break the categories down by genre. If it was just about the visuals the games would be broken down by visual style. The concept behind this is games as art, meaning the whole package is a creative creation. That goes beyond just the visuals. Going beyond just the visuals Galuda shits all over Gradius V, and personally I think Galuda shits all over it visually too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Frogacuda
Sure I guess you could be super superficial and take it solely as a visual thing, but so many aspects of this speak AGAINST that. You would have to be simple minded to take it that way. It's blatantly talking about the deeper, games themselves as an artistic medium and that incorporates everything from visuals to gameplay to the overall experience.
It says it's about "striking visual effects, the creative use of new technologies, and the most influential artists and designers". The exhibit will consist largely of still pictures.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shin Johnpv
Where possible, the credit in the winners announcement is given to the pixel artists rather than the programmers and directors (although in some cases these are the same). They clearly see "the art of video games" in a very pedestrian sense of the word.
And they totally shouldn't have. We already talked about this earlier in the thread.Quote:
Otherwise they wouldn't break the categories down by genre.
I don't really understand the logic behind the games they selected as available to play. Pac-man and Super Mario Bros., hey, great, those are fine for Joe Exhibitgoer to jump in for a minute. Monkey Island, Myst, and WoW? Jesus no.
I'm going to this on Saturday, Kojima is speaking and the passes sold out in a pre-sell (who does that) before you could get them. Wsup standby line. Anybody else going?
So I went here today. It was ok, I wouldn't travel for it though. I took a picture of every part of the exhibit here. It starts off with some concept art, then a room of playable examples, and ends with a breakdown of each console grouped into a generation.
The playable section:
The console breakdown:
The "Live" Video Game, complete with Nightwing cosplay and my snark.
It was pretty good all in all. Brettmatic and I were talking about Chasing Ghosts on the way up on the metro and sure as shit we ran into Walter Day and Billy Mitchell on the way out, both of whom were class acts btw.
IDBTN re: Mr. Mitchell.