Errant Signal - Mirror's Edge

It looks like Christmas came early from YouTube this year, and my account's arbitrary Content ID smack has been lifted. In celebration, here's a video I posted a few weeks ago to my blip.tv account. It's about Mirror's Edge, creative risks, and a fat gaptoothed guy with a bad haircut talking about video games. Unless, of course, a cold, soulless algorithm running on a dusty server in a dark room recognizes "Still Alive" and, with no proper understanding of the nature of fair use or the complex legal and corporate mechanizations that wrought it into being, promptly designates this video as infringement. What's that? No, I'm not bitter at all.

And, because apparently IP trolls, are apparently claiming his music as their own and he suggests attribution to help alleviate that, I do use a snippet of "Long Road Ahead" from Kevin McLeod in this video. His website ( www.incompetech.com ) has some great royalty free songs and I've been a fan of his music and approach to his art for a long time now.

There, now I won't have to talk about IP laws until SOPA/PIPA passes and I can go apeshit for a whole separate set of reasons. Sheesh.

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• Mirror's Edge
• Errant Signal
• EA
• EA Games
• video games
• videogames
• Electronic Arts

[ZapperGhandi]

@teemu99 by "underground" Campster didn't mean subway stations and caves.

He ment the story depictured in the opening scenes of the game, never to be revisited again. "Underground" here being short for underground movement, a resistance movement consisting of people not satisfied or willing to accept the prevalent surveillance (read: big brother) society.

You could still have a focus on the "underground" while retaing the bright colours and open atmosphere.

[teemu99]

I disagree with wanting to see the dirtier underground of the Mirror's Edge world. We have enough brown dirty sewers already -- the bright colorful clean "upper city" was much more interesting.

[Asianwaste]

The Lord of the Rings games were surprisingly decent. So was Darkspore.

Mirror's Edge was actually a big letdown.

[myhunter15]

wait... this guy is hating on the Jame Bond games and the LOTR games? Return of the King, The two Towers, Agent under Fire, and Nightfire were incredible

[MooChooAdoo]

This guy talks a lot of sense.

[MrSatternJr]

@sixfoureightthree havent played bf2 have you? bf2 is a real battlefield game with tactics. bf3 is as mindless as cod if not worse. bf2/1942/2142 FTW

[martinthew]

@sixfoureightthree Battlefield is better than CoD, but it's starting to enter into CoD's shooty, pretty, woo-bang-bang territory. It's definitely being marketed by EA to take a chunk of Activision's pie, and as good as Battlefield 3 may be, you can tell EA had their hands all over the single-player to duplicate the CoD experience.

The game's not mindless, but it's just as innovative as CoD, which is to say not at all.

[BrynTheSkits]

I was waiting for Westwood to show up in the fallen companies thing.

It didn't show, I am disappoint.

[begood257]

Bullfrog - maker of Dungeon Keeper 2.

[BaronVonGarius]

@Vinc3ntPh4m *looks down, can't see anything because of tits* XD

[aapjeaaron]

spore is quite the reason I hate EA.