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Just as Planned.
At the end, I was all liek
That actually seemed to reinforce one of Ebert's original points about controls getting in the way of art. By the end, I was more annoyed at the shitty keyboard controls than caring about the "story". However the game declared me a man so now I have that going for me.
Also, the little pipe looking things made me hum the Super Mario tune as I was trucking through which kind of diminished the pathos.
Also, the little pipe looking things made me hum the Super Mario tune as I was trucking through which kind of diminished the pathos.
Belkira wrote:
Wow. Regular ol' Joph fan club in here.
Just as Planned.
Do you have anything in WASD?
I gave up about two minutes in, the controls were far far far too floaty for me.
Too short. And I don't know if it was supposed to do it, but the colors started going all crazy on me near the end.
Can't sleep, clown will eat me.
Well, that was *********
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The World Is Not A Cold Dead Place.
The World Is Not A Cold Dead Place.
Alan Watts wrote:
I am omnipotent insofar as I am the Universe, but I am not an omnipotent in the role of Alan Watts, only cunning
Eske wrote:
I've always read Driftwood as the straight man in varus' double act. It helps if you read all of his posts in the voice of Droopy Dog.
TirithRR the Eccentric wrote:
Too short. And I don't know if it was supposed to do it, but the colors started going all crazy on me near the end.
I died once and got sent all the way back to the beginning. Since the game kind of sucked to begin with, I stopped playing at that point. It looks like some kid played way too much Bioshock and tried to make a crappy platformer with a trite message worked into it.
It seems that the level changes a bit as you obey/disobey as well. First time I played I disobeyed a lot, once I reached the end it was just a long corridor.
Second time I played I obeyed as much as I could (I died near the end when it said "Do NOT fail"). The end was a hill with a little coin thing on top of it which gave me "A Man Chooses, A Slave Obeys" badge.
Second time I played I obeyed as much as I could (I died near the end when it said "Do NOT fail"). The end was a hill with a little coin thing on top of it which gave me "A Man Chooses, A Slave Obeys" badge.
Can't sleep, clown will eat me.
It's like a 3 minute version of bioshock without the cool story
or the ability to burn things withmagicks science.
or the ability to burn things with
Was it an element of surrealism that makes it automatically art or sardonic text that makes something automatically art? I forget which.
Allegory wrote:
Was it an element of surrealism that makes it automatically art or sardonic text that makes something automatically art? I forget which.
Lubriderm the Hand wrote:
Allegory wrote:
Was it an element of surrealism that makes it automatically art or sardonic text that makes something automatically art? I forget which.
No, you are a girl.
Can't sleep, clown will eat me.
TirithRR the Eccentric wrote:
Lubriderm the Hand wrote:
Allegory wrote:
Was it an element of surrealism that makes it automatically art or sardonic text that makes something automatically art? I forget which.
No, you are a girl.
Lubriderm the Hand wrote:
Read the comments on the site. People think the game is a deep metaphor about life.
So a combination of the two?
Allegory wrote:
Lubriderm the Hand wrote:
Read the comments on the site. People think the game is a deep metaphor about life.
So a combination of the two?
3) Neither
4) 'Trying Too Hard' art is bad art.
That it engenders this conversation is that which classifies it as such.
Just as Planned.
It asks me if I am a woman and then tells me I am boy... I think I might need to talk to my husband. Maybe we are both confused.
wasn't for the crap controls might be something, otherwise meh.
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eiran wrote:
It asks me if I am a woman and then tells me I am boy... I think I might need to talk to my husband. Maybe we are both confused.
Yeah, same. Also I lost interest pretty quickly.
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
I found a bug that involves trying to duck through a space like in Mario. Except only jump and left worked, and it sent me to the top of the screen and backwards through half the map.
And I seem to have completely missed the point of this game.
And I seem to have completely missed the point of this game.
You have to burn the rope.
Galkaman wrote:
Kuwoobie will die crushed under the burden of his mediocrity.
Kuwoobie wrote:
You have to burn the rope.
Lol I remember that game; the song at the end was good, not "Still Alive" good but up there.
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Hrm... first time I saw this, I quit due to crappy controls. Then I got bored and played anyway.
Boring game. Boring 'message'. Boring ending.
And what's 'art' about it?
I'll be the first person to proclaim that I know about as much about art as I do about astrophysics, but I saw very little amounting to 'art' there. Where was it? What was the art?
I'll tell you where videogames can be art: When everything within it is a work of art. When the controls, the gameplay, the story and everything in it turns out to form a singular experience of sight, sound or otherwise appreciated in a more cerebral manner. This wasn't art. This was artsy, and artsy is just someone trying to hard and failing miserably at being 'deep'.
Boring game. Boring 'message'. Boring ending.
And what's 'art' about it?
I'll be the first person to proclaim that I know about as much about art as I do about astrophysics, but I saw very little amounting to 'art' there. Where was it? What was the art?
I'll tell you where videogames can be art: When everything within it is a work of art. When the controls, the gameplay, the story and everything in it turns out to form a singular experience of sight, sound or otherwise appreciated in a more cerebral manner. This wasn't art. This was artsy, and artsy is just someone trying to hard and failing miserably at being 'deep'.
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