The Jimquisition: Big dumb shooters are better than 'art games'

In a spirited response to past and present colleagues who have written off mindless fun as ... mindless fun ... Jim Sterling goes to bat for dumb shooters like Bulletstorm and Gears of War, arguing that they do more for art than you might thing.

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[WestPictures]

CoD 4 was great! Then Activision remade it 4 times

[mkocja5a]

i agree, fun is the most important aspect of games, but artistic games are more fun then shooters.

[hill506]

I agree with everything you said, but in truth, I didn't really like Bulletstorm (although I am a shooter fan).

[locsaretheshit]

@sparton1199 How do you fail to spell warfare correctly?

[sparton1199]

yeah cod 4 was great its to bad they made... wait

cod 4 modern warefare

modern warefare 2

modern warefare 3..... wait thats 3 games =/

how do you remake 1 games 4 times and end up with only 3 games?

[SuperAwesomeMovies]

I wanna see this guy do some Dr. Who cosplay.

[conceitarturo]

Geez you just didnt listen to Burch at all, he did say that there needed to be more space for artgames, where right now in the industry the only way to have an art game is to make it indy, that's like every movie out there being an action movie unless it's indy..that's a bullshit state for an art medium to be in.

[GamerAddict7796]

GTA IV was fun AND had a message

[tologna]

I love how when he says "artistic," it sounds like he's saying "autistic." It's just so... appropriate.

[tmacandcheese1]

Oh my god I thought I was alone on this topic. Thank you Jimquisition for sharing my opinions <(^.^<)

[MrAlqa3da]

doom 2 is still the best game evar

[ZemplinTemplar]

@ZemplinTemplar Sorry, I meant "That's the one reason why I like...".