Rev Rant: Fun isn't enough

I know the title doesn't match what's in the actual video, but try to get past that.

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[TheNamelessCharacter]

I was sent here via recommendation from Extra Credits.

[Undkor]

ARE YOU FUCKING LISTENING, JIM STERLING?!?!

[diarrheajuggalo]

all of his complaints apply to 95% of all media produced today

[Chuck2k11]

Rafinha Bastos!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[nayte23]

@cuttinggale63 I'm not saying that it has to be mindless and shooty, it doesn't, it just has to be a little bit more complex than walking to the right, actually ive pretty much described mario.... never mind =P

[cuttinggale63]

@nayte23 you're talking about passage by jason roher. it is not pretentious, because it claims to be a game about life, and it is. no more, no less. furthermore, while i was playing it, it engaged me. I enjoyed the five minutes i spent playing the game. I had fun exploring an interactive metaphor of the human life. and besides, when has trying to add something besides mindless shooty mayhem been completely detrimental to anything? terminator 2 was intelligent, and it was a blast.

[nayte23]

@cuttinggale63 it doesnt mean that games can't be thought provoking but that shouldn't be a focus. the whole artsy hard hitting stuff may have a place in gaming, but if the game they're featured in aren't any fun then it's sort of pointless as a game, games are for fun.

like that indie game where you walk to the left and your character gets older, i think it's called passing. that isnt fun at all, it's not engaging, its pretentious

[jasanmarco3]

Talk more about that brain-eating-pee game!

[Swissveti]

You should try "The Stanley Parable" (Half Life 2 Mod).

[thedoctorjohnsmith1]

@5:28 What about manga? It ideally same medium and methods but to a wider array than American comic books.

Video games are interactive entertainment with challenges and objectives. From there you can do anything to it, add a story to it, make it educational, make it question your moral judgement, or even no story at all.

95% of games are mindless entertainment, which could be also said for movies, like you said; a hundred bazillion thousand awful movies a dozen to two dozen good movies.