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I suppose I’ll speak briefly about E3. It’s the yearly video game expo and it promotes all the exciting new things being done within the video game industry.
Oh how I wish that were so. Sure, there are some cool new little gameplay things - vertical cover and movement in one game, “go everywhere” niftiness in the new Prince of Persia, really fancy looking fanciness, etc - but there isn’t a lot of storyline or artistic innovation to be seen this year. Again we have sequels upon sequels but even the new games aren’t stepping very far away from the now-standard grungy near-future, aliens guns and robots stuff or dark bloody fantasy. It’s the “I boil with generic rage” issue - all of the protagonists are looking to be cookie-cutter caricatures. If gaming is supposed to be becoming a real artistic medium then the characters need to change and evolve.
As an added bonus, I ran across a Craigslist posting offering a “vintage” 1996 laptop for sale. That’s some ballsy marketing.
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Clearly you didn’t see trailer then.
On a more serious note, I pretty much agree. Which is why I can’t stand most games trying to have a “story” this day, and why I love slightly messy games like Insecticide. Though I like Gears of War’s story and especially its dialogs for what they are.
On yet another note, I really want an old laptop with a 486 processor and like 8 megs of RAM. CD drive optional.
Comment by George K — July 17, 2008 @ 2:46 pm
Wow, I managed to totally mess up that comment. Go me!
The trailer I meant can be found here: http://www.gametrailers.com/player/36746.html
Comment by George K — July 17, 2008 @ 2:47 pm
That made me happy because it’s funny
I want to see a new Deus Ex 3 trailer.
Comment by Tom — July 18, 2008 @ 1:37 am
I found it was an excellent satire of all those CGI trailers that make people cry “BEST THING EVER” when they don’t show one second of gameplay. God of War 3 comes to mind.
I’d like a Deus Ex 3 trailer too, mind. I was one of the deviants who liked #2.
Comment by George K — July 18, 2008 @ 5:26 am