As sorry as we are to hear Bushnell's displeasure with gaming's behavior since it sprang from his intellectual loins, we do have to say that we think he's generalizing just a bit and coming off a tad -- dare we say it? -- curmudgeonly? We know the guy plays plenty of 360 and loves his Wii, so why all the anger? Gaming has its share of crap, but there are also plenty of bright spots, even if they aren't the sort of game that packs 'em in to a Chuck E. Cheese.
[Via Gamasutra]
(Page 1) Reader Comments
I seriously can't stop laughing. I really need to stop reading this shit at work!
Reply
"Wow, he's sounding more like our real dad every day."
Holy shit that is too much. I'm seriously going to get fired for my obvious and blatant internet usage at a government job. Damn you McElroy!
Reply
...with those...disembodied limbs on the wall that would sporadically start clapping and banging symbols together when the animatronic band wasn't playing.
I never did get the the F-ck was up with that when I was a youngin'.
...Hell, I *still* don't..!
Change is inevitable. It's simply a matter of embracing that change for the better.
Back in my day it was the Showbiz Pizza Place!
That's what it was, and we LIKED it!
That creepy anamatronic bear would stare me down every time we went there.
That's when I stopped going. They took all the arcade games out, and put in crap games.
My dad was the regional account manager (or something) for Chuck-E-Cheese, so we went there ALL the time. Between spending several days a week there and Atari, it's how I dun gots mah start!
BUT YEAH! Rotten kids! Not knowin' that Chuck-E-Cheese was before Showbiz Pizza Place! What's the world comin' to these days?!
The anamatronic gorilla scared the shit out of me.
Reply
Is fall out boy crap? Is Britney Crap? Is Emo Crap?
If you said "no" to any one of those questions then GTFO!
On topic: I don't really understand why he's making attention grabs when he is completely irrelevant today.
i just listen to techno and classic rock and jazz
Damn right. They're MEGA CRAAAAAP!
Or Queens of the Stone Age?
gonk = FAIL.
But POPULAR music now is CRAP by any real standards. Technically, interpretively, artistically. Its crap.
Now THOSE are fightin' words!
gonk = FAIL.'
You're right, it was The Bends.
If thats so why do they double and triple platinum albums and songs?
Most popular bands today ARE NOT MUSICIANS. The best way I've heard of explaining it is that the modern band is a group of athletes. Sure, they can play ridiculously fast and in tune, and they have trained exceptionally well. *coughDragonforcecough* No one is seriously arguing that music today is "easy" to bust into. There's also a lot of excellent singer/poets out, that can make songs that are beautiful to read. But the love of music, the ability to understand the effect of music on the human psyche and manipulate it, as well as the knowledge of musical theory both these entail, is just sadly lacking in the modern generation of music. You might be able to write a bitchin' riff or a beautiful, poetic song. You might know, all the chords. But these alone don't make what you're doing musical art. The people that have these talents, who are striving after art and achieve it, are usually pushed aside for the flashier, prettier types. Many of them were pushed aside in the old days, true. But in the volatile early days of the music industry, a lot of the true musicians were able to break into the industry based on their own talent. It's not that way anymore. Sadly, "American Idol" is probably the best way for a talented person to enter the musical industry. I hate having to write that sentence, but it's the honest-to-God truth, unfortunately. (Aside note: I'm not promoting the indie scene. If I had to choose between either indie music or "mass market" music, I'd pick the later in nanoseconds. There are some good musicians in the indie scene, but there are a helluva lot of bad ones.)
Reply
Reply
Reply
- Typo police
Reply
IMO What he ment is Rockstar
"Rockstar games today are a race to the bottom. They are pure, unadulterated trash and I'm sad for that."
See now it all makes sense.
"Rockstar and EA games today are in a race to the bottom. They develop pure, unadulterated trash and I'm sad for that."
It also makes sense.
Nothing personal EA but is crap that you haven't released the Sims 3.
Reply
Reply
Reply
I love you.
BTW @ Jerk face
Your likes for fat men disturb me.