By Kieron Gillen on January 15th, 2009 at 12:31 pm.
God, this probably says too much about my priorties. When one of the biggest and more credible sites get gutted in a dumb corporate buy-out, it gets mentioned in The Sunday Papers. When a virtually-unknown outside-of-UK internet videogame TV show calls it a day in their final episode though? Front page post. Like, obviously. I dunno. The slow machinations of advance capitalism leaving human tragedy behind it is just life. Consolevania were unique, and their passing just as unique as their coming. And my short eulogy continues herein…
I also like how I know THE TEAM would be rolling their eyes at the last two sentences. Which was part of their charm.
The last episode is one of the strangest, most human pieces of games writing/performance/programming I’ve ever seen. You can get it here, though we’re going to bring the server down if everyone tries to download it at 250Mb a pop. It’s a little bit nervous breakdown. Or more like post nervous breakdown. The long monlogue talking about their love of videogames and their fear that they’ve sacrificed their love of games to become nothing but snark-merchants sounds like the result of soul-searching. It sounds like a confession.
And while they didn’t say this, their fear could be neatly paraphrased as “We didn’t want to be Yahtzee”. The ritual disembowelment of an artistic failing for the baying crowd, with you as some kind of Gladatorial Lion tearing apart Christians whose only real sin was to believe in something… well, eventually, all that congealed and ageing flesh leaves a rotten taste in the mouth. And the longer Consolevania did it, the less well it sat.
Anger’s a young man’s game.
(Its older-uncle-emotion – which when observed in action can appear very similar – is bitterness. Anger is born by a failure of something to live up to your ideals. Bitterness is born of a realisation that your ideals will never be true again, and maybe never were.)
Anger fundamentally is puritanical. It only exists as a primary force when you lack a desire to understand or empathise. In such a state, it becomes easy to do this kind of stuff for jollies. It’s the reviewer who’ll lob a “I hope the developers get cancer” into a piece, knowing that readers will appreciate it. Eventually, you start to realise while there’s an audience for that, it’s not an audience you want to encourage. That kind of response to art is emotionally stunting. That kind of response to anything is emotionally stunting. It doesn’t go anywhere. And eventually, it turns you from an angry young man into a bitter old one.
(When I was about 21, I loved the Sneaker Pimp’s sneer of a lyric “Just because I understand, don’t think I care”. I still love it, but only in the same way as I love vile emotions expressed in songs, from Nick Cave to the Waitresses.)
Consolevania said fuck it. Their motivation was always about trying to express their love for games, not their disappointment. They never wanted to be reviewers or critics, but had found themselves accidentally in that position. They didn’t like it. They decided to stop.
You can always stop. Being forced to stop is sad. Choosing to stop is beautiful.
Consolevania were beautiful and while I’ll miss them, I wouldn’t want to change their mind.
They went out on this:
Which isn’t a bad way to go.
15/01/2009 at 12:43 Gap Gen says:
I think Consolevania (and by extension, Videogaiden) is one of the only videogame shows that I’ve seen that really works (I missed Gamesmaster, so I can’t comment on that). It never played at being hip and cool, and fully embraced the kind of awkwardness that nerds get when sat in front of a camera. It didn’t always work and occasionally fell in the shit, especially in VG’s last season (VG always worked better with a more professional air than CV’s anarchic style).
It passing was probably partly due to the financial troubles they had (one of the people who they did work for allegedly didn’t pay them), but I hope the sense of what they were doing lives on. Hell, perhaps Game Damage will learn something from what they tried to do.
15/01/2009 at 12:48 NullH says:
I for one will be sad to see them go. Conesolevania was always genuinely funny, and felt like the kind of show where you could have a pint with the guys making it and not be awed by their pretention.
I’ll remember fondly reviews of hentai games made while eating Fray Bentos pies, the death of John Wayne Gacy, poor sad Hitler and Ken Kutaragi’s voyeurism. Good times.
15/01/2009 at 12:50 Ado says:
Refreshing to see someone go out on something of a high.
Whilst I understand from my friends that are avid fans, that they had got progressively less of what they once were, I must admire anyone that decides to call it a day before it gets dragged out and pathetic. That’s the most annoying thing with TV (especially US Shows), they just go on and on until they become so damn blah…
I salute the corpse of those I knew little but heard tell of very much. At least they died with honor.
15/01/2009 at 12:51 itsallcrap says:
That’s genuinely depressing news.
I mean, really.
Name another decent games show. Zero Punctuation doesn’t count as it’s too short.
What are we going to do now?
I don’t think they were getting at all unpleasant. Their review style was brilliant. They told us what your mate tells you about a game, and I got so much more information from that than I ever do from traditional games reviews.
I always knew whether or not I wanted a game after CV reviewed it, whether I agreed with them or not.
How long until someone else as good as that starts producing a games show off their own back?
15/01/2009 at 12:57 Owen says:
They’ll be missed but I certainly wish them all the best.
For old times sake, I think I’ll watch the Oblivion review again with the shoe throwing :)
15/01/2009 at 12:59 Ian says:
I never really watched Consolevania but it’s nice to see they’ve gone out the way they have.
I’m probably not supportive enough of gaming-show-things, if I’m honest.
15/01/2009 at 13:00 crap guy says:
Nitpickery, but the lyric is actually “Don’t think ’cause I understand, I care.”
15/01/2009 at 13:00 LewieP says:
It is really a shame to see it come to an end.
I hoped that the BBC would have seen sense at some point, and given them a decent timeslot to do a decent video games show. They are often funny enough that even non-gamers I have forced to watch their stuff have enjoyed it.
Goodbye team, thanks for the memories.
Rehost in case it does get borked
http://www.amusingmonkey.co.uk/cv/ccc.avi
15/01/2009 at 13:03 phil says:
Equally Yahtzee’s dire attempt at stretching his material to 30mins shows how difficult it is.
Goodbye CV – you were funny, independent, deeply strange, informed and massively self indulgent, all good things.
15/01/2009 at 13:05 Akirasfriend says:
Don’t fret though. The CV forums are awash with emotion and threads rapidly filling with goodbyes and thankyous (mine included), yet any CV or VG fan should know that TEAM are cheeky basts who like to surprise us. So let’s not say goodbye, let’s just say… seeya later. :D
15/01/2009 at 13:08 LewieP says:
Yeah, I wouldn’t be surprised if they do come back, but my guess is there will be a change of format somehow.
But if they are one thing, it’s unpredictable.
15/01/2009 at 13:08 itsallcrap says:
BUG REPORT FOR THE RPS TYPES!
After editing a comment here (in Firefox at least) your altered message appears with ‘%20′ in the place of every space.
This is clearly only a client-side thing, as a page refresh fixes it, but it may well confuse people…
15/01/2009 at 13:14 qrter says:
Yeah, I’m not convinced it’s really over. Rab and Ryan can be a dramatic bunch – unless they come out and say “never again!” will I actually believe it.
15/01/2009 at 13:17 Muzman says:
Does anyone want to offer a few faves/best of lists?
I never really got into them (I get turned off by poorly performed crude jokes with dodgy sound and camera. I just do) What I have seen of their reviews seemed pretty smart and impassioned though. On the occasions I did try and check out their stuff I had trouble working out how to watch the show at all; bits and pieces all over the place etc. I’m sure it’s format breaking fun for the long term fans (or mabe it was videogaiden’s web site I couldn’t work out. Can’t remember)
Anyway, link a brother up if you can be arsed.
15/01/2009 at 13:19 LewieP says:
The problem with God Hand is that it’s just a game about punching people.
Probably my favorite review of a game ever.
15/01/2009 at 13:43 Helm says:
Well-written piece. I’m afraid I’ll have to admit that I could never watch Consolevania very much because the HEAVY ACCENTS destroyed the Greek-trying-to-understand-the-English. But of what I watched some I enjoyed and I can understand their choice.
15/01/2009 at 14:03 hydra9 says:
I loved what I saw of it. One of my favourite bits was their review of Oblivion.
Also, I’m reminded of VideoGaiden’s lovely review of Pathologic.
15/01/2009 at 14:05 Ben Abraham says:
Bravo.
15/01/2009 at 14:11 EvilG says:
Well lets just hope that the sad end of consolevania will at least allow allow our protaganists to grow emotionally *rolls eyes*
15/01/2009 at 14:16 Gap Gen says:
hydra9: “Overencumbered” was one of the best jokes in CV, I think.
15/01/2009 at 14:21 dracko says:
Just when we needed them most. :(
itsallcrap: Zero Punctuation doesn’t count because it’s misinformed shit, exactly the sort of thing Gillen is talking about. Just one look at its audience is enough.
15/01/2009 at 14:22 dbdkmezz says:
Yaaarg, I’d never even heard of them till today!
Just watched the Oblivion (shoes on the roof) review , wonderful :)
15/01/2009 at 14:22 Heliocentric says:
Hmm. They’ll be back, they love games too much. That said. All in all it seems to prove, that you don’t know what you’ve got til its gone.
15/01/2009 at 14:35 Schmung says:
Nuts. My work PC won’t play it and I don’t get anywhere near my home PC for a days :( I always liked consolevania, though I didn’t often agree with them it was always a pleasure to watch and was actually genuinely funny as opposed to the zany nonsense most games coverage seem to think passes for humour.
15/01/2009 at 14:52 Mr Wonderstuff says:
I loved the Oblivion review (amongst others)…”I cannae move, I’m encumbered!” says Rab laden down with shopping.
15/01/2009 at 14:54 hydra9 says:
Hadn’t seen the God Hand review before. Hilarious, but at the same time – really passionate and makes me wish I had a PS2.
15/01/2009 at 14:55 hydra9 says:
I don’t want to keep bashing Yahtzee but… his ‘Game Damage’ pilot *really* looks sad next to Consolevania.
15/01/2009 at 14:58 Kieron Gillen says:
God Hand is well worth having a PS2 for. It’s proper mental.
KG
15/01/2009 at 15:05 dhex says:
“Just one look at its audience is enough.”
i like zero punctuation.
i never watched consolevania that much but i do appreciate their accents in the artistic sense. not so much the communication of ideas bit but so long as you listen really, really hard it becomes somewhat comprehensible. their setups were always more interesting than the actual reviews, though.
15/01/2009 at 15:06 Andrew says:
Rab said recently that ‘we’ll always have Game Damage’ in reference to CV stopping. I told him to get to fuck. :(
CV ending is genuinely sad. These guys have almost always made me laugh and the passion… no, not passion, raw unbounded enthusiasm… for games was what drew me to their stuff in the first place.
I think videoGaiden S2 was their finest hour, with the mix of professional watchability as well as their own style, but I enjoyed almost everything they did. It was CV that hooked me first and I was even an apologist for (most) of vG S3, because it did find its feet after a while.
One of my abiding memories of them is during their ‘contact the readers’ phase, when Rab and Ryan called me twice on Skype and part insulted me, part discussed games. It was good times.
15/01/2009 at 15:11 LewieP says:
I actually met Rab and Ryan once.
Proof here.
15/01/2009 at 15:26 Andrew says:
For anyone who wants in on CV and videoGaiden but doesn’t know where to start, all the episodes (apart from the ‘normal’ vG S3 ones, which are at the BBC site) are available to download here:
http://mirror.pixelated-ape.org/
I’d recommend starting with CV 2.1 or vG 1.1, for ease-of-entrance factor. The CV episodes are all on their own sites, but the vG ones aren’t.
15/01/2009 at 15:59 wallace says:
Consolevania is dead, long live Consolevania!
It’s a sad thing to see it end, but it was a glorious finale. Maybe it’s time for some new noise.
15/01/2009 at 16:22 hydra9 says:
Thanks for that link, Andrew. A lot of downloading is going to be going on now.
15/01/2009 at 16:23 TooNu says:
Rab’s points are valid enough though, if they don’t feel comfortable slagging off other peoples work rather than just enjoying the games then stop doing it. You don’t continue eating shit if it leaves a bad taste in your mouth just out of perseverence. Good on them I say.
Still, it would be nice if this was a piss take but I don’t think it is.
15/01/2009 at 16:51 A Button says:
As stupid as it sound, I hope people learn something from this. 2007 and 2008 have been amazing years for games, but gamers have gotten so much worse.
15/01/2009 at 16:58 Anonymous says:
I was a big fan of Consolevania, but it’s probably for the best that they’re calling it quits. Sometime around the third season of Videogaiden, they really started losing their grip – there was just far too much wacky comedy skits which had nothing to do with gaming and was clearly amusing to the five people involved in it, but no one else. They never quite reached the quality of episodes from before that era, I hate to say.
15/01/2009 at 17:02 Gap Gen says:
Yes, I did like the different styles of Videogaiden as a more professional show and Consolevania as a cheap, deliberately tacky thing. The last season of Videogaiden, which used Consolevania-style tackiness with BBC-level resources fell pretty flat, I felt.
15/01/2009 at 17:46 Man Raised By Puffins says:
I dunno, I thought the last season of vG was alright. They picked the right length for it at least, I was always felt the 10 minute shows were a little too cramped and the 30 minute shows a wee bit too self indulgent. That it killed much of their passion for games at the same time is rather a shame though.
Anyway, cheers for the shows fellas. It was great fun while it lasted.
15/01/2009 at 17:55 Heliocentricity says:
Good meeting.
15/01/2009 at 18:09 mrrobsa says:
Sorry to see them go, thanks for all the laughs TEAM.
15/01/2009 at 18:25 Conquests.of. says:
Whatever hurts consoles makes me happy.
15/01/2009 at 18:27 eyemessiah says:
TEAM!
15/01/2009 at 18:45 Katsumoto (jvgp100) says:
Heh, I got God Hand recently. It truly is hilarious. I’ve ran out of plugs for my ps2 atm (!) so it’s on hold, but this has inspired me to stop being such a lazy bastard asap and get back to it.
15/01/2009 at 18:51 Oldats says:
I’ve been a long time fan of Consolevania & vG, and I loved season 3 of videoGaiden. Couldn’t get enough of the Gerry McLaughlin character/skits. Hats off to Rab, Ryan, and the complete Consolevania & vG crew for the years of entertainment and laughs.
I wish them success in any future endeavours.
NSJ, yeah?
15/01/2009 at 19:29 eyemessiah says:
“it’s not an audience you want to encourage.”
Yeah, all those guys that laughed at CV making fun of broken games are clearly deviants!
I’m not convinced that their love of games is more valuable than their entertaining satire. Warm sentiment becomes boring much more quickly than humorous cruelty imo.
I’d say it was quite untrue that anger/bitterness is a dead-end. Its plainly a great motivator and good entertainment. In terms of some of the games that CV have savaged over the years I’d say much of it was righteous anger at that.
And I don’t think there is much wrong with entertainment being mean for “jollies”. No one will ever be able to smoke enough drugs to approach every bad game with the same willingness to empathise and understand – and if there is no entertainment mileage in playing the thing then I think its a positive thing if some pleasure can be derived from its savaging.
15/01/2009 at 21:44 A Button says:
It’s more fun to burn down a forest than let it stand.
15/01/2009 at 21:56 dhex says:
eye: that’s not what the original post was referring to, i believe – it’s more the angry, stompy, I HATE YOU ALL BECAUSE YOU LIKE WHAT I DO NOT types. there’s something broken there, whether it be an inability to regulate emotions or a lack of empathy or what have you.
it’s one thing to wish bad things upon, say, politicians or serial killers – morally vacant types whose inexcusable inhumanity harms others.
game developers? not so much. not quite as consequential or important, which may be why it’s so important to so many in such a theatrically unsympathetic way.
15/01/2009 at 22:06 Mr Wonderstuff says:
I’d like to here what the writers here think. I completely understand when a hobby becomes a job can lose its appeal and the reason you got into it in the first place. How do RPS writers deal with this conundrum?
15/01/2009 at 22:36 MetalCircus says:
I think Kieron hit it on the head, and I think it IS beautiful how Consolevania decided to bow out. I know he’s popular, but I think Yahtzee sucks. Not because he’s a poor Charlie Brooker rip-off (he’s even used some of his jokes!) but he has to say something negative about everything regardless of wheather he enjoyed it or not. How people can live with such a pessimistic sense of cynicism about an art-form that is essentially here as a source of fun and still say you love video games is beyond me. So I think the consolevania guys really hit the nail on the head. There really is too much negativity about games, and I think Yahtzee definately plays to that “evil remarks for a baying crowd” thing.
Whereas Charlie Brooker likes to rip apart things that he doesn’t find good, he still has a good side and isn’t afraid to give a positive review of something he liked that not everyone nescasarily did. Yahtzee however is just a mean-spirited bastard who trashes everything, and I think he revels in it, too. You can’t win with this guy.
Anyway, i’ll definately miss Consolevania. They weren’t over pretentious but they loved their games too. Great blokes, and great show that they made for fuck-all. How many people can say they do that?
15/01/2009 at 22:44 Nick says:
“2007 and 2008 have been amazing years for games, but gamers have gotten so much worse.”
Yeah. Wait, What?
Damnit CV, I had only just got into it and it ended. It’s my fault somehow.
15/01/2009 at 22:46 Nick says:
“Whatever hurts consoles makes me happy.”
You don’t know anything at all about consolevania do you? Other than it had the word console in the title.
15/01/2009 at 23:16 Rich_P says:
Now I’ll have to go back and watch some of those episodes. DAMN YOU, RPS, DAMN YOU FOR EXPOSING ME TO VIDEOGAME “WEB VIDEOS” AND “PODCASTS”!
15/01/2009 at 23:53 Gassalasca says:
@MetalCircus Well…. I love video games. Also, I enjoy Yahtzee, Brooker, cynicism, love Universe and everything.
Frankly, I find it odd that some people find something incongruous about that.
16/01/2009 at 00:03 dracko says:
Yahtzee is the sort of unfunny asshole gamers deserve.
16/01/2009 at 00:26 MetalCircus says:
Yahtzee doesn’t come across as funny or cynical like Charlie does, though; instead to me he just seems like an unlikeable, unfunny, and mean spirited prick who seems to have gotten off the ground solely on his half-arsed Brooker rip-offs.
I’m not saying DOWN WITH CYNICISM! or DOWN WITH CRITICISM! (as I like both, in order to provide me with an even balance and all) but I just think that a lot of people have come to expect a sort of mini-miracle with the release of each game and people like Yahtzee have gotten away with this really insulting sense of hero worship among certain corners of the internet. I just don’t get it. At all.
one thing consolevania was, was unique, and when they did do a positive review, it genuinley came across as positive, and more of a celebration of our faveourite hobby WHICH IS GOOD! How often do you get that (apart from those dry, best game of xxxx year type affairs) The guys could have just gone “yeah, this this and this was good, go and buy it” but that wouldn’t have been the same. You could tell from their enthusiasm about their faveourite games that they loved video games, and that it was a pure pleasure to be involved in.
Anyway, what was I trying to say? Yeah, gamers are awefully fickle. Sometimes I just want to slap them upside the head and say “look, they’re just games, not miracles.”
16/01/2009 at 00:32 qrter says:
Well, I got what I asked for – a confirmation from Rab that it is indeed all over, on the Consolevania forums:
Now I’m sad.
16/01/2009 at 00:44 dracko says:
Gutted. :(
16/01/2009 at 01:29 Muzman says:
Yahtzee usually does point out when he sincerely likes some mechanic or whole game, whilst trashing all around it. It tends to stick out like a sore thumb amongst the rest. Plus his stuff makes me chuckle, so there’s that.
Really, skirting the problems of low budget production and making something fairly unique (if its elements are heavily inspired by other sources) is a good thing. The zeropuctuation format is perfect for that. You can see the limitations in Yahzee-ness in the Gamedamage pitch though, where living up to the one note job of snark dispenser starts to look desperate.
I find Penny Arcade fandom more inexplicable. Yahtzee comes up a with a couple of minutes of jokes a week. They can’t manage anything funny in six whole panels. I know it’s probably been all cocaine and hookers for them for some time now, but yeesh
16/01/2009 at 01:37 Robin says:
“You can always stop. Being forced to stop is sad. Choosing to stop is beautiful.”
Well, circumstances *did* force their hand a bit in one way or another, but that doesn’t alter the sentiment.
Consolevania was, in it’s own fat, bin-bag-clad way, as important as Your Sinclair and Mean Machines and Amiga Power were in their day. A bunch of gamers wanting to share their love for the hobby. To celebrate how ridiculous it is.
It seemed with Videogaiden series 3 that they’d taken that approach as far as it could go, so it’s not entirely surprising to see Consolevania wrap up too – but it’s still sad to see it go.
Thanks again, TEAM.
…
The Yahtzee/Brooker comparisons are apt. Presumably Yahtzee will soon be inexplicably bought by a giant corporation, mellow out and start poking fun at his old persona in a string of heavy-handed and only mildly amusing television projects.
16/01/2009 at 02:03 Noc says:
It’s probably worth mentioning that if you’re replying to a statement of “Trashing things instead of celebrating what’s good about them really isn’t something to be proud of” by . . . trashing things, you may be missing the point.
16/01/2009 at 02:24 dracko says:
It’s probably worth mentioning that that’s a pathetically idiotic position.
16/01/2009 at 02:40 Helm says:
Yahtzee really does mention the good he finds in the games he reviews.
16/01/2009 at 03:20 Noc says:
Dracko: Which, the “Trashing things isn’t something to be proud of” one, or the “you’re missing the point” one?
16/01/2009 at 07:35 Gassalasca says:
U just watched the CCC. I’d nevere watched the shoe before and it still touched me.
Now if you’ll excuse me while I go and download all the episodes and spend a wonderful weekend on my own.
16/01/2009 at 08:45 Mr.President says:
I find Yahtzee’s criticism of games well-founded for the most part. His complaints are exaggerated for comic effect, but it is by no means blind hatred. He mentions the good parts and is only really mean to those who deserve it, imo. I don’t remember him wishing someone got cancer, that’d be a shitty thing to say.
Thanks for the link, Andrew, I’ve always wanted to check those guys out, but never got around to it.
16/01/2009 at 09:36 Mr Wonderstuff says:
Just had a watch of Game Damage. God it’s awful. I like Zero Punctuation but Yahtzee really needs to downplay the crap acting.
16/01/2009 at 09:36 Pod says:
No one cares about 1UP. I’m glad it didn’t have a front page post. Consolevania, however: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
16/01/2009 at 09:53 El Zomba says:
I love Consolevania (as the eagle-eyed would note from my handle), and loved it for the reason Kieron stated above. The writing was on the wall for TEAM! when series 3 collapsed and I think everyone knew it, but it doesn’t stop me feeling sad knowing that it’s ended. It sounds like the worst sort of hyperbole, but I can’t help but think that the gaming community just lost something really special, and no amount of Yahtzee or 1Up or even Mega64 will replace it.
16/01/2009 at 12:51 Mentazm says:
As much as I love CV (I think I’ve been one of the top posters on their forums over the past 4 years) I fully reserve the right to be a moaning cunt of a gamer.
I also highly doubt this is the end, listen to the sponsors message after the credit roll. I’m pretty sure they’ll be back with a sketch show referncing gaming and geek culture.
16/01/2009 at 13:33 MetalCircus says:
They should come back in some form or another, i’d like that.
Maybe i’m biased against yahtzee. I can see why people like his stuff, but it’s just never sat well with me, as I could never quite get past the obvious likeness to Brooker in his writing/reviewing style. Meh. Maybe it’s just myself then.
(Mind you though, the gamedamage thing really was aweful)
16/01/2009 at 14:19 El Zomba says:
At least we’ve still got One Life Left.
16/01/2009 at 15:22 qrter says:
No, MetalCircus, you’re not alone, I’m not a fan of ZP/Yahtzee either.
He has a shtick that, in part, dictates how he talks about games. He also has that thing where he approaches a game from a genre he doesn’t know or like, finds it doesn’t approach gameplay in the way he is used to and then faults the game for doing that.
That said, I don’t see his work as real reviews anyway, just as (sometimes) funny internet things.
Fun fact: Rab had asked Yahtzee to do a regular segment on the third series of Videogaiden, he declined, saying he wouldn’t be good on TV. He was right!
16/01/2009 at 15:44 Bobsy says:
I always preferred CV for sketches over reviews actually.
16/01/2009 at 18:37 eyemessiah says:
ZP is a one trick pony, no doubt, but I have always found his reviews to be pretty fair & fairly amusing. IMO he’s right in terms of his basic premise: games & gaming mostly suck. I like being able to laugh about this.
@Dhex: Maybe I misunderstood, which is certainly something KG has accused me of in the past. It seemed to me from the article, and from watching CCC – that it kind of was about elevating enthusiasm over mean spirited satire, at least a bit. I was just worried that everyone, CV included, was getting a bit too excited and about to implode into some kind of hippy lovefest and start handing out pardons to Hellboy and Illbleed. Then where would we be?
Pop. Hahaha.
16/01/2009 at 19:15 Andrew says:
Why are you leaving out Overblood, eyemessiah?
16/01/2009 at 22:02 smorgasbord says:
CV/VG will be sorely missed. There was nothing else quite like it. They were gamers with an obvious passion for games. If they were losing sight of that, its only fitting it comes to an end.
Watching the monologue actually made me think and without trying to sound too ‘after school special’ we could probably learn something from it. Maybe some of us gamers have lost sight of why we love this wonderful hobby of ours. The past few years have seen some truly amazing games, yet we’ve also seen the rise of the angry internet man. Games were made to be loved, not hated.
So how about we all give each other a hug, think about why we love gaming and have our own internal montage of best moments. Sorry im kinda drunk and sentimental. oh ad thanks to Andrew for the links
16/01/2009 at 23:29 malkav11 says:
The thing about Penny Arcade is that hit or miss with the strip (and I agree that they miss pretty often), the posts are invariably informative, entertaining, and not infrequently point me to neat things I would not otherwise have encountered. I can’t say the same for Zero Punctuation, though it’s more consistently amusing.
17/01/2009 at 02:04 Akirasfriend says:
Just dropping by to let the uninformed gaming populous in on another class review. Sorry if it’s already been posted, but damn that’s a lot of comments; I may have missed it.
Batman? Shatman, more like!
17/01/2009 at 15:17 Muzman says:
I liked their take on Little Big Planet particularly for the sly way they point out the problem with user generated content (at least I think that’s what’s going on). While they love it and it’s great he’s all “And here’s a level I made! Oh wait ets craap. Oh here’s another! Oh, ets craap asweul”
17/01/2009 at 15:19 Muzman says:
Doh, it ate my link. (I really should just log in shouldn’t I) *sigh*
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=6AscdO6iJiA
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