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    A discussion on Roguelikes.

    My lights were out. Darkness filled the air. The only light eminated from the slight glow of a mostly black CRT monitor. My vision saw nothing. A +3 clairvoyance ring in my inventory still didn't help. I moved one step. Out of the corner of my screen I see a 'C'. Oh shit, I thought, as it...
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    Poll: Are videogames art?

    Attitudes like those displayed here are part of the reason videogames are not widely accepted. Film originally went through a similar thing - "movies aren't some kind of social panacea", the naysayers would squawk. "They're JUST entertainment!" Then, of course, as we know, Citizen Kane came...
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    Has Pokemon jumped the shark?

    Please, calm yourself before you make yourself look even more foolish. There is nothing wrong with you enjoying a child's game, so long as you abandon your delusions that it is anything more than just that.
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    Poll: Fallout 3 or New Vegas

    This is a "no contest" decision: Fallout 3 is leaps and bounds ahead. Rich plot combines with cohesive, logical worldbuilding to create something greater than New Vegas could ever be. Indeed, Fallout 3 easily wipes aside the first two games - which are clunky, messy and inaccessible games today...
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    Poll: Are videogames art?

    As you proceed to say yourself, enjoyment and meaning is subjective, although Cage comes as close as one may get to being objectively good as all his games set out to do, they accomplish superbly, seamlessly weaving story, emotion, sound and gameplay together into one glorious whole. Perhaps...
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    Poll: Are videogames art?

    Thanks for all the serious replies. As for those who think me a troll, you exemplify the kind of conservative "no-progress" attitudes criticized so commonly by David Cage and others, and it is perhaps your unwillingness to accept games as an artform that has trapped us in our current quagmire of...
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    Poll: Are videogames art?

    Think about it. Think about a world. Think about a world where video games don't exist. Can you do it? It's the New Media. The media for intellectuals. The media that takes you to your extremes -- with a quick hand and a cool mind you dominate the masses, overcome your deficiencies, slay the...