Esa Mäkijärvi
KonsoliFIN Alumni
Loistava artikkeli täältä -> http://www.nintendorks.com/editorials.php?ContentID=1650
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Lets pretend, for just a moment, that youve just bought a new videogame. It doesnt matter what game it is, or what console its for though the fanboy in me says that it damn well better be a Nintendo game just pretend that youve bought a game. Youre taking it home in your car, and if youre me, you try to read the instruction manual at every red light and nearly cause several accidents.
Take the game home and put it in your console of choice. Now, heres where things get a little tricky. I want you to consider, for just another moment, that youre not a videogame-playing internet user. I want you to pretend that you dont call yourself a quote-unquote videogame journalist and that you dont reload IGN six times a day all the while cursing their nazi insider section!!! Youre just a guy who has laid down some money for a new game. And, this may come as a shock to some of you hardcore gamers, but youre going to play it.
Youll pick up the controller and start the game. Youll watch the intro and not ANALYZE it for any traces of shimmering as nobody has any fucking idea what that really is. And you wont run to the computer afterwards to post your first impressions of the intro to your hardcore gaming buddies on an ezboard somewhere. No, youre going to play the game.
Maybe try pressing start. Try not counting how many seconds it takes the game to load, and definitely put the god damned stopwatch away. Instead, you can try looking forward to the gaming experience youre about to have unless, of course, youve already seen a screenshot or movie of every conceivable level, in which case youre just a god damned lost cause.
Play the game. I dont care how much you know about Linux, you cant count all the polygons on the screen, no matter how hard you try. And try to remember, whether the game moves at 30 frames-per-second or 60 frames-per-second, youre still an idiot for caring so much. Play the game. Play it. Experience it.
Remember that they are games. It seems that people are forgetting that way too much recently. It doesnt matter who made it, or who sold it, or that the water in level four looks REALLY FAKE, all that matters is that you enjoy it. Pretend you DONT prejudge every game months before it comes out. Pretend you dont call yourself a hardcore gamer as thats really just another term for someone who doesnt play games. Somewhere along the line, the internet community got too caught up in analyzing every game, trying to be a videogame journalist - which is a term that just does not compute -, that theyve completely lost sight of what it should be all about fun.
Ive seen a lot of people say that gaming was better when they were younger. Bullshit nostalgia for an era long gone past.2D was better! theyll shout while longing for the days when controllers had square edges. But maybe we can consider for just a minute that its not the games that have changed that much its you. When we were younger, we didnt have a clue how fast our games were running, or what a polygon was, or any damn idea about GFLOPS or MHz or unified memory. We played games for fun; we ran home every god damned day to save that princess, race that unicycle and whip those bitch vampires. I really dont think enough people are doing that anymore.
So lets pretend. Pretend we dont have any of this extraneous bullshit nicknamed the Internet, and just plug in that game and play. Play the game. Have an adventure, beat a rival team, solve a puzzle, defeat an enemy, win the race, save the world, destroy evil, get a kiss and a cake, and for gods sake, try to get a good score doing it.
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- Esa
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Lets pretend, for just a moment, that youve just bought a new videogame. It doesnt matter what game it is, or what console its for though the fanboy in me says that it damn well better be a Nintendo game just pretend that youve bought a game. Youre taking it home in your car, and if youre me, you try to read the instruction manual at every red light and nearly cause several accidents.
Take the game home and put it in your console of choice. Now, heres where things get a little tricky. I want you to consider, for just another moment, that youre not a videogame-playing internet user. I want you to pretend that you dont call yourself a quote-unquote videogame journalist and that you dont reload IGN six times a day all the while cursing their nazi insider section!!! Youre just a guy who has laid down some money for a new game. And, this may come as a shock to some of you hardcore gamers, but youre going to play it.
Youll pick up the controller and start the game. Youll watch the intro and not ANALYZE it for any traces of shimmering as nobody has any fucking idea what that really is. And you wont run to the computer afterwards to post your first impressions of the intro to your hardcore gaming buddies on an ezboard somewhere. No, youre going to play the game.
Maybe try pressing start. Try not counting how many seconds it takes the game to load, and definitely put the god damned stopwatch away. Instead, you can try looking forward to the gaming experience youre about to have unless, of course, youve already seen a screenshot or movie of every conceivable level, in which case youre just a god damned lost cause.
Play the game. I dont care how much you know about Linux, you cant count all the polygons on the screen, no matter how hard you try. And try to remember, whether the game moves at 30 frames-per-second or 60 frames-per-second, youre still an idiot for caring so much. Play the game. Play it. Experience it.
Remember that they are games. It seems that people are forgetting that way too much recently. It doesnt matter who made it, or who sold it, or that the water in level four looks REALLY FAKE, all that matters is that you enjoy it. Pretend you DONT prejudge every game months before it comes out. Pretend you dont call yourself a hardcore gamer as thats really just another term for someone who doesnt play games. Somewhere along the line, the internet community got too caught up in analyzing every game, trying to be a videogame journalist - which is a term that just does not compute -, that theyve completely lost sight of what it should be all about fun.
Ive seen a lot of people say that gaming was better when they were younger. Bullshit nostalgia for an era long gone past.2D was better! theyll shout while longing for the days when controllers had square edges. But maybe we can consider for just a minute that its not the games that have changed that much its you. When we were younger, we didnt have a clue how fast our games were running, or what a polygon was, or any damn idea about GFLOPS or MHz or unified memory. We played games for fun; we ran home every god damned day to save that princess, race that unicycle and whip those bitch vampires. I really dont think enough people are doing that anymore.
So lets pretend. Pretend we dont have any of this extraneous bullshit nicknamed the Internet, and just plug in that game and play. Play the game. Have an adventure, beat a rival team, solve a puzzle, defeat an enemy, win the race, save the world, destroy evil, get a kiss and a cake, and for gods sake, try to get a good score doing it.
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- Esa