[internisus]

Just tell me whether or not it's worth reading.

[adol]

The gist of the article is that everybody tastes are getting more and more refined, digital distribution/alternative avenues makes it easier for everyone to play the latest 'indie darling', things are going to get only more interesting from here on out in that people who play video games will know more of what to expect from games and critics will be more useful.

So you can read it if you want but that just about covers it!

[kzkb1]

This is a pretty great time to be playing videogames, yeah. Or as an interesting man once said, "videogames will be the art of the truly egalitarian age." (ignore all semantic debates on art and focus on the larger picture, guys!!)

[Sushi K]

It dovetails with ABDN's review of Cave Story alright.
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[parkbench]

Can I read that review or will it spoil it for someone who hasn't played it?
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[Tokyo Rude]

[parkbench]

I mean will it spoil Cave Story for me like the Dragon Quest V review did? I don't think Cave Story has some mindblowing plot twists, but if there's some 'moment' or 'area' of the game that's all about the suspense and reveal then I don't want to ruin that, eh?
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[BotageL]

Sir, if you're admitting to having not played Cave Story at this point, we're going to have to revoke your Selectbutton.net membership.

I mean, the game will run on damn near everything, and it's been out for years. What's your excuse?
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[parkbench]

Real life?

I also haven't played Silent Hill 2, Rez, Killer 7, or God Hand (to be correct I have played all these games but not for any significant amount of time).

It's certainly about time. I'll be on vacation soon.

ps: this abdn review is good, but i wish he'd done the 'japanese corporate sociology' bit after the 'pixel's favorite games' bit. i actually like the gimmick of analysing his possible favorite games as a way to analyse the game itself, it just should've come first. the 4th wall metacommentary ("we're really going to talk about cave story now!") isn't nearly as endearing as you might think. come on tim, hook and lead, hook and lead!

ps #2: also tim it's fine referring to other reviews but sometimes you copy sentences rote from a past article and it just seems lazy you know even if you slightly paraphrase it. it's easy to fall in love with sentences but there's got to be a better way to do it than to just repeat the same joke twice. save it for one article instead of normalising it and cheapening it across several (ie towel on head section).
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[glossolalia]

[parkbench]

That was going to be my next question. Joypad or no joypad? I guess the answer is the former.

Don't worry, this is the same way I finally got around to playing Within a Deep Forest/Knytt/Knytt Stories.
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[CubaLibre]

Yeah, I tried the game and didn't have much fun with it. Then six months later I plugged in my PS3 pad and suddenly Cave Story was one of the greatest games I'd ever played.
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Let's Play, starring me.

[shnozlak]

[Pijaibros]

PSP is the proper way to play this
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[Cossix]

[Brooks]

It certainly doesn't suck, that way. Has been filling my commute hours respectably, the past week and a bit.

The game itself lacks... something to make me go completely apeshit elated for it (suspecting this is down to the cosmetics), but it does what it does with utter competence.

[Sushi K]

As an addition to the elitist game reviews; he makes the point that a small time game has a better chance to make an impact then a small time game because of availability to reviewers.

Another point is people are willing to spend $10 and two hours on a possibly bad move but not $50 and 30 hours on a bad game, but now people aren't afraid of making small games and selling them for a few dollars.
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[CubaLibre]

[Koji]

I haven't played Cave Story yet either, and honestly I'm not dying to play it. I will play it eventually, though, but it sounds more like an incredibly polished (and nostalgia-fueled) game rather than a very innovative one, so it never caught my attention that much.
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[xmrblondex]

[Harveyjames]

I play it with the keyboard just fine; in fact, since I'm left-handed, I can bash the fire button quicker on the keyboard than I can on the control pad!

Parkbench, Cave Story is actually quite well plotted! There is a lot to spoil!
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[BIGJ420COOLDUDE]

i think the dark knight is a bad example for the article mb???

[BIGJ420COOLDUDE]

im playing god hand right now and it fuckin owns. i used to hate the cutscenes but now i have a better sense of humor and am getting more awkward-delivery jokes

[Max Cola]

[bloody heartland]

Urgh, this is cuntishly written.

[Max Cola]

Not sure what you mean by that...
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[Lurky]

[bloody heartland]

[bloody heartland]

Ah. it's Kieron Gillen. That explains everything!

[Shapermc]

Are you saying there's something wrong with liking Dark Knight? It's honestly rare that a huge blockbuster actually gets things that right. I agree that it may be a (drunkenly picked) poor analogy, because with the way that film is now (read: it's had a long and well documented history well beyond that of games, and far more socially embedded) I think it is important to point out when a blockbuster actually does something worth looking at. Especially since many of the people who read critics (especially film critics) and they see a blockbuster on the end of the year list they sometimes think "perhaps that wasn't just a douche-y movie made by Hollywood, maybe I'll give it a watch". I know that's happen to me many times because I avoid many blockbusters. Thank god I saw speed racer against my better judgment, it turned out fantastic.

We're just comparing such completely different levels of criticism that the analogy doesn't work.
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[Dracko]

[parkbench]

[BIGJ420COOLDUDE]

[BIGJ420COOLDUDE]

i mean actually smb3 comes to mind as equivalent to batman

[bloody heartland]

[CubaLibre]

Saints Row is a dishonest game. So is Tekken 6, and Viva Pinata, and Final Fantasy 10.
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[Kipple]

I agree with most of Gillen's ideas, and I guess I like the article... but I really don't think it's a very good piece of writing. Even though I like it, I probably wouldn't forward or recommend it to anyone. This is a great example of why, despite his constant efforts to be known as such, Kieron Gillen will never be the Pauline Kael or even the Roger Ebert of videogame writing.

I mean, he admits that he's drinking while writing it. And it certainly reads like it.

Yes, his examples are bad. The Dark Knight is a horrible example choice for the purposes of his argument; so is GTA4.

But on the other hand, yeah, everyone would be better off if games without multi-million-dollar budgets got critical attention, too. The game critics of today are, more than anything else, technology fetishists... and that really is too bad.
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[Dracko]

kieron "ellis' bitch" gillen likes anime and britpop and so should YOU!
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[Dracko]

guys is this worth reading?

DENNIS FUCKIN' DYACK'S MANY CONCERNS
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