Comments on: Adam West On Videogames

By: MajorManiac

MajorManiac — Sat, 29 May 2010 10:59:13 +0000

I’d like to imagine the same conversation was had about Movies back at the begining of the 20th centry, or even Rock ‘n Roll at the middle of the centry.

Perhaps we should have a standard way to define an art form as reaching ‘Maturity’. Perhaps like the term antique it should need to be at least 100 years old.

Music, Art, Theatre and Dancing have existed for thousands of years. To call a medium that has been around for just over 3 decades ‘Mature’ by comparison seems extremely niave. If we’re not comparing it to other mediums, what are we comparing it to? If we compare it to its-self then we can make any claim imaginable.

By: modern panther

modern panther — Sat, 29 May 2010 06:36:55 +0000

So independant games, movies exist to make money? That also isn’t true.

By: Bret

Bret — Fri, 28 May 2010 21:17:34 +0000

Venerable?

I mean, really. Is it so hard to imagine points between infancy and full maturity?

Games have been around for a while, and we’re really starting to see what they can do. I mean, look at Portal, or Braid, or Hello World. Games let us easily comprehend very complicated spatial and chronal reasoning tricks nearly impossible to properly convey in other mediums.

Or look at Deus Ex. Player involvement modifying narrative and allowing a good deal of creativity to boot.

On the other hand, compared to any other major medium, it’s still the punk kid.

By: postmanX3

postmanX3 — Fri, 28 May 2010 16:04:35 +0000

What the hell? A non-gamer that’s actually open-minded?! Is it opposite day or something?

By: i saw dasein

i saw dasein — Fri, 28 May 2010 14:54:22 +0000

welcome to capitalism nerds, eat it.

By: dethtoll

dethtoll — Fri, 28 May 2010 13:47:28 +0000

This was an awesome read.

As to the state of videogames, I think it’s been doing its growth all out of order. We had an awesome period in the late 90s to the early 00s where a lot of crazy-innovative-creative games came out- and not just on PC. Then that all trickled to a stop. I blame the Xbox1 and Halo being released- that put gaming on the road towards the brain-death it’s suffering from right now. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not blaming console gaming specifically, but it’s the Xbox1 that brought it to the frat boy that the industry has seemingly been trying to impress ever since.

By: Jimbo

Jimbo — Fri, 28 May 2010 13:15:48 +0000

Pretty cool that this Batman guy went on the make Call of Duty.

By: Dawngreeter

Dawngreeter — Fri, 28 May 2010 12:56:37 +0000

You, sir, deserve at least one cookie. I agree completely. In fact, I think the only political spectrum that makes sense is the one which represents polar opposites as people who take themselves seriously and people who do not.

By: Wulf

Wulf — Fri, 28 May 2010 12:41:34 +0000

I’m not surprised, really, at all. In fact, I would’ve been massively disappointed if the opposite were true. I grew up watching 60′s Batman, and absolutely loving that show, and I’d have bet my house that an actor like that could not be closed-minded.

Mind you, I’d be equally disappointed if I heard something negative about Tennant or Matt Smith, but they’re much the same. I think that the more eccentric and silly an actor is, the more markedly open-minded they’re likely to be. And consider: to act in something like 60′s Batman, you just can’t take yourself that seriously, can you?

It’s my opinion that a lot of closed-mindedness comes from people who take themselves far, far too seriously, and look upon everything in a rigid way. This might have something to do with brain plasticity, I don’t know, but rigid people see things as the way things were and the way they have to be, they hate change, and therefore any form of new idea seems completely radical.

I’ve always liked Adam West because he never struck me as that sort of person, so to see that he’s open-minded about gaming? Unsurprising!

By: Manfromtheweb

Manfromtheweb — Fri, 28 May 2010 12:16:45 +0000

I believe that gaming is now in it’s teen years. Still forming it’s own identity and rebelling against it’s elders (or perceived to be rebelling).

By: RagingLion

RagingLion — Fri, 28 May 2010 12:13:05 +0000

Yep, that’s what I was thinking. Was bound to happen sometime I guess with Batman being such an iconic figure that continues to have all kinds of media produced about him.

By: Lilliput King

Lilliput King — Fri, 28 May 2010 11:44:02 +0000

Holy commenting-without-reading-the-linked-post, H8 Ball!