JIFF Divingboard has left a new comment on your post "Oh Glorious Pixels!":
OK, because of the description of the game being (partially) based on Atlas Shrugged, I looked at the trailer for BioShock. This was so STRANGE. I wish you could listen to the reviewer w/o watching the scenes. He really does set this experience up as being fairly high-minded and, truly, thought-provoking (literature-esque). But THEN you see the images. While this guy is talking about Dostoevsky and Rand, you're seeing the game -- a guy's arm holding a wrench, beating a zombie with it. Then, as he's talking about how "most programmers don't bother with character build-ups, well, this game does" you see the main guy in a robot suit shooting a drill through a guy's chest.
I'm glad people (you, Brad) like games like this. There's something fun to it. But when the muckety-mucks making these things try to PRETEND like they're out to win Pulitzers, but are really making shoot-em-ups... well, it seems like quite the farce.
Again, I'm not against these games. Just the pretense that sometimes surrounds 'em.
Posted by JIFF Divingboard to Throwaways at 8/17/2007 8:02 PM
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