Form Follows Function
No, not a movie, not a B-movie, not even a made for TV movie,
a 3 minute intro to a Kickstarter funded video game that may, or may not, encourage leaving the safe comfort zone of passive stimulus response, as in playing the game.
Where are the Michael Bay 'X-plosions? Where is the 3-D depth of field, the looming tits and protruding dicks -----> coming AT YOU!?!
Sorry, just an intro that most will right click / space bar through after the first saved game.
As an intro, the underwhelmed responses are as valid as any choral variation on the OMFG!!1! sheet music.
As a part of the whole, why the buzz as if the perceived 'quality' is a game maker / breaker?
It may be for mere convenience when individuals state
no art direction, but allow my silly idea, if absolutely
NO ART DIRECTION was 'it' intended to be art?
So why the talk of art? Another stick to beat a metaphorical rhythm? Have we run out of traditional back handed memes and technicolor invectives?
OK. Talking about artistic vision and tagging value judgements as aesthetics can be useful in analyzing a multi-media presentation for interactive video gaming,
even when as vague as
no art direction that smells of sophomore pontification on what is art.
I pinged a Aesthetic-Titian and was told I had
NO aesthetic. End of discussion
How can one justify an opinion by merely invalidating a different point of view?
Only on TV talking head politic-os / jour-no's shows , AND THE INTERNET, there be no worthily contrary opinions.
Only the drum beat of
no art direction,
no art direction.
Is there formal philosophical criteria for quantifying 'quality' of video games, beyond 'units shipped' and !AWESOME! ?
Recall the award stuck on FO-3 for 'writing' and justify serious philosophical mud slinging for commercial video productions in this mass media consumptive age.
Perhaps raising our pinkies and emoting 'aesthetics" could be a useful glass to pour in our opinions about video games.
But after all the hand waving in arcane individualist semaphore , holy Platonic shadow puppets, wake me up for the DaDa-ists!
Maybe 'less is more' and we can herp-derp out of any academic self immolation / conflagration via simple syllables like OK and meh!
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