Comments on: Objectively Speaking http://tleaves.com/2009/12/21/objectively-speaking/ Creativity x Technology Sat, 17 Mar 2012 05:09:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Chris http://tleaves.com/2009/12/21/objectively-speaking/comment-page-1/#comment-6359 Chris Wed, 06 Jan 2010 12:42:49 +0000 http://tleaves.com/?p=2366#comment-6359 If we want objective videogame reviews, I suggest we just wire people up to fMRI machines and measure the activation of the nucleus accumbens - it would correlate perfectly with percentage review scores. Let me save you the experiment: the best game in the world is "heroin". :p Best wishes! If we want objective videogame reviews, I suggest we just wire people up to fMRI machines and measure the activation of the nucleus accumbens – it would correlate perfectly with percentage review scores. Let me save you the experiment: the best game in the world is “heroin”. :p

Best wishes!

]]> By: Andrew Plotkin http://tleaves.com/2009/12/21/objectively-speaking/comment-page-1/#comment-6300 Andrew Plotkin Mon, 28 Dec 2009 01:46:27 +0000 http://tleaves.com/?p=2366#comment-6300 "Consistently creative and off the wall banter that happens to be about some video game", eh, my ass. YOU SUK no, let me rephrase. What Yahtzee is doing is video game *criticism* -- that is, he describes games in relation to the field of gaming as a whole. When a game does exactly what every other clone of its genre does, he starts by saying that. When a game fails to learn from the design sins of its predecessors, he points at that and calls bullshit. He talks about audience expectations and the baggage that players carry into games. Then he makes consistently creative and funny videos to encapsulate these points, because he's really creative and funny. Bastard. “Consistently creative and off the wall banter that happens to be about some video game”, eh, my ass. YOU SUK no, let me rephrase.

What Yahtzee is doing is video game *criticism* — that is, he describes games in relation to the field of gaming as a whole. When a game does exactly what every other clone of its genre does, he starts by saying that. When a game fails to learn from the design sins of its predecessors, he points at that and calls bullshit. He talks about audience expectations and the baggage that players carry into games.

Then he makes consistently creative and funny videos to encapsulate these points, because he’s really creative and funny.

Bastard.

]]> By: Jason http://tleaves.com/2009/12/21/objectively-speaking/comment-page-1/#comment-6289 Jason Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:44:33 +0000 http://tleaves.com/?p=2366#comment-6289 In my (limited) experience, video game people don't hate Yahtzee, they feel about him they same way they feel about every other reviewer. That is, he's insightful and articulate when he likes their game, and naive and "missing the point" when he doesn't. In my (limited) experience, video game people don’t hate Yahtzee, they feel about him they same way they feel about every other reviewer. That is, he’s insightful and articulate when he likes their game, and naive and “missing the point” when he doesn’t.

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