Child of Eden

[Korly]

I hate to sound like Razor, but what the fuck is up with all of these pussies saying this game makes them cry?

[Yoshi]

Because they're the same people who grew up riding bikes while wearing a helmet and using hand sanitizer.

[Chux]

I haven't played it yet so I have no idea, but there were several threads on gfaqs about crying (I know, gamefaqs, ugh), a reviewer on Kotaku, and then here is a direct quote from Joystiq.

It is also one of the most remarkable video games I've ever played. Not only does it represent the most complete realization of what the Kinect has to offer, it possesses the (perhaps childish) distinction of being, for lack of a better term, a "crying game." It will almost certainly conjure tears from its hardest players -- not because it is particularly sad or melancholic, but because it is stirring.

What the flying fuck.

[YellerDog]

Joystiq is srs journalisms.

[Chux]

Joystiq is srs journalisms.

I get that, which is why I don't like using kotaku or gfaqs as a source either, but these are experiences from people playing the game, and every one of them is crying like a bitch with a skinned knee.

[Tain]

BUT GAMES ARE SERIOUS GRANDMA

stop making fun of my games

[Mzo]

There's a stage that uses the Kinect to make you choke a puppy to continue.

[Diff-chan]

Like Tain said, you need to realize where these people come from.

Their job is talking about videogames. At cocktail parties they get scoffed at, their parents don't respect what they do, they are poorly paid, they aren't even starving artists or bartenders writing scripts or whatever. They aren't even making games. They are just filing reports about videogames in order to make scumbags like Nick Denton a few more advertising bucks.

They are trying to validate their hobby/job. That's where the whole games as art thing comes from. If ICO is serious art then their job is serious and worthwhile. If ICO is just a game then they are overgrown manchild dipshits.

[Frogacuda]

Could you be a bigger charicature of an arrogant, judgemental, self-important douchebag? Game journalism is a retardedly competitive field because it's an extremely desirable job to a lot of people and I've never met anyone that did it who wasn't proud of what they do.

You're a grown man sitting on a message board posting about video games for free. That doesn't make you a manchild? But entertain people by writing about games for pay and you're a loser? Get fucked.

Game journalism is entertainment, it doesn't need to be justified by the artistic qualities of its subject matter. If a guy makes a documentary about food, does food have to be art for his life to have meaning? Who could possibly think that way? Writing justifies itself if it's good, and it's useless if it's bad, regardless of what it's about.

[YellerDog]

That's a lot of stored-up cocktail party anger.