I feel like I’m reasonably good at picking at a game on the gameplay level, as per what works and does not and why and surface videogame essayist stuff like ludonarrative dissonance (or the rare examples of ludonarrative harmony).

I may offer you my finest insight into video games such as “Lara Croft has some sort of father complex going on” and “Shadow of Chernobyl is unintentionally about life in the collapse of the soviet union” which even by my own admission feels shallow and trite. You watch someone like Jacob Geller or Noah Caldwell-Gervais and they have fascinating things to say even on games you wouldn’t expect it, like NCG on Quake.

How do I become that knowledgeable? Interesting? Analytical? about video games?

  • Sneakytrickyyy [any, undecided]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Game always looked boring as fuck to me since day 0, woow a 3rd person zombie shooter on the PS3?? Never been done before!

    Doesn’t help that it’s also a weirdo Israeli fanfiction

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/video-games/news/the-last-of-us-part-2-ellie-evolution/

    The formulation for Ellie’s turn toward darkness can be traced back to the year 2000. Then in his early 20s, Druckmann witnessed news footage of a crowd lynching two Israeli soldiers in the West Bank. “And then they cheered afterward,” Druckmann, who grew up in Israel, recalls. “It was the cheering that was really chilling to me. … In my mind, I thought, ‘Oh, man, if I could just push a button and kill all these people that committed this horrible act, I would make them feel the same pain that they inflicted on these people.’" The feeling faded, though. Eventually, he looked back and felt “gross and guilty” for his intense feelings. With “The Last of Us Part II,” he wanted to explore that emotional tumult on a didactic level.

    cringe

    • SmithrunHills [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Legendary interview. I’m not surprised that such outright, blatant genocidal fervor was never an issue for so many. “Progressive” Zionism is such a fucking menace