Pot Calling The Kettle, And / Or, Oh Brother,Where Art Thou?
Pot Calling The Kettle, And / Or, Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?
Kharn, paraphrasing GWJ pod cast:
... Also also, this reminds me of a vital point that keeps cropping up, the kind of defeatism vs idealism, pragmatics vs dreamers, they mention several time in the entire thing (which is quite good, actually, though not as insightful as it could have been), that this kind of intense fandom isn't "worth it", that (as an agnostic, he says for some reason), he's grown beyond it, or at least is not in a phase in his life where he can attribute any value to it. ...
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... that (as an agnostic, he says for some reason), he's grown beyond it, ...
Now rewind to this phrase in the GWJ conference call ...
... that's not a fan, that borders on being a psychopath ...
An - agnostic - reading the text of a fundamentalist might well use some extreme label to hang a first, or even third or fourth impression.
At this point, I wish i had a better handle on the concept of FO fan-dom and fundamentalism. Consider that a fundamentalist is coming from a position of loss.
The quest to re-attain that lost state of grace points somewhere to the past for reference and reflection. Somewhere in the past is a road map, a path finder to a better present and future. The 'lost scrolls of Black Isle' the FO bible, the source of debate for a lot of FO canon, are aptly - labeled - to fit this fundamentalist persona.
Our individual experience of the FO games differs.
Our collective experience of the FO games agrees that these ''happy accidents'' represent quality in role playing games.
An agnostic may see obsessive nostalgia in any one assigning a ''state of grace'' to any RPG's designed in the '90's. I will venture any site like GWJ that talk's the talk of -- quality -- in gaming journalism, as was represented in the pod cast's comment page, would further their cause by recognizing the fan sites that are measuring the game industry's hype against the know standards of the past.
No, the next GREAT role playing game won't LOOK like a game from the '90's, AND the fans that have established what they like may have a better grasp on what is good or great than ''the lost sheep'' fleeing the boredom of gaming to another ''lost weekend'' under the influence of the Hype Industry's ''The Big Shiny ".
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From that one comment page,
I would say that in the bigger picture,
the realm that goes beyond the talk of true console MMO's, 6 buttons, 10 buttons ... controllers versus keyboards ...
that in the larger case for quality games,
GWJ may be on the side of the fan sites, NMA, DAC, RPGCodex.
Just within peripheral vision, well up wind.
I haven't read any of their comment pages before, so the over all drift of their commentary is still .. undiscovered.
Interesting how they lament the dying print media, the old gamers' mag's that are now glossy ad pimps.
Recall of a lost past ..... at GWJ?
Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?
A memory of that elusive aesthetic, philosopher's stone emoted as ''quality''?
Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?
GWJ seems to perch on some higher moral plane with out the apparent need of constant kleenex (nose wipe) as for example:
the holier "" uber alles''" opinions at RPGWatch.
RPGW: It's the pretense with no standard but one upsmanship that evokes the giant hanky. Codex refugees?
Well, appears to be less snot at GWJ.
Makes the higher tone audible.
Or pun the less, if I refrain at the nasal metaphor, allows the tone to be possibly palatable ...
GWJ has a different focus, and it's the DESIRE to call forth past codes of journalistic integrity that could be a term of endearment to any CONSCIOUS OR UNCONSCIOUS fundamentalist.
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