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    Ebert - Games Still Not As Good As Knitting

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    Image of TheHeartless TheHeartless
    12/13/08

    In reply to Ebert - Games Still Not As Good As Knitting
    I want Roger Ebert to keep his nose out of my medium. He is a man on the outside, looking in, and passing judgment on a medium with which he has no experience. I don't care if he has the worst or best things to say about games, because the fact of the matter is, he doesn't know what's up and what's down with them. I wouldn't ask a music critic to judge a painting, and I wouldn't expect a man who has spent his life critiquing visual storytelling to have any kind of understanding of a a form of art which does not even need to carry a story (read: puzzle games, arcade games, etc.). I just want him to go away. Enjoy his retirement. Go to Hawaii. Just quit judging my games.
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    12/12/08

    In reply to Ebert - Games Still Not As Good As Knitting
    To be honest, if I was told to play through all the games for the next 50 years... I'd shoot myself instead of knitting.


    Remember, he reviews movies. Good or bad, they tend to last about 100 minutes.
    A game, good or bad, takes at least 5 or 6 hours more, if not totalling to 100 hours. Imagine playing through the Army Men series in that time. From start to finish.


    Yeah, knitting sounds pretty good then.

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    Image of Bernard McGraw Bernard McGraw
    12/12/08

    In reply to Ebert - Games Still Not As Good As Knitting
    Look at his head!


    Look at it!

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    Image of dipsetboy17 dipsetboy17
    12/12/08

    In reply to Ebert - Games Still Not As Good As Knitting
    look at his chin lol classic
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    Image of FBH (seems to be banned for that). FBH (seems to be banned for that).
    12/12/08

    @dipsetboy17: Sometimes I think we need a Ban Tuesday around here as well.
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    Image of Captain K'nuckles Captain K'nuckles
    12/12/08

    In reply to Ebert - Games Still Not As Good As Knitting
    I'd prefer not to consider Ebert as an antagonist considering my profound respect for his work, but snide comments like this make it rather difficult.


    I have fundamental difficulties with the "art" argument in itself, but I'll leave the brunt of those for the next "games aren't art" newsflash. I will, however, suggest that games and films aren't entirely dissimilar fields at the moment - the former has aspirations of becoming the latter, and as such will continue to suffer from enjoyable, but intellectually vapid AAA releases. I suppose the real question is whether or not a piece is invariably art simply because of the medium itself or if it can be proclaimed as art only by its own merits.

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    Image of FBH (seems to be banned for that). FBH (seems to be banned for that).
    12/12/08

    In reply to Ebert - Games Still Not As Good As Knitting
    I'd feel like taking on a lot of these comments, but when the title is deceptively framed like that it's just a losing battle.
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    Image of DigitalHero DigitalHero
    12/12/08

    In reply to Ebert - Games Still Not As Good As Knitting
    Force Ebert to watch Shadow of the Colossus from beginning to end and he would be singing a different tune afterward.
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    Image of Supergrass Supergrass
    12/12/08

    In reply to Ebert - Games Still Not As Good As Knitting
    I think you could make the argument that movies are more "commerce" than games, therefore most movies aren't art either. After all, I don't think you see many games being cut simply to fit into an hour and 45-minute time frame. Plus, how many movies have had endings or other content altered simply to please audiences or studios.
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    Image of OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
    12/12/08

    In reply to Ebert - Games Still Not As Good As Knitting
    What an old man doesn't believe in new technology or media? I never would have thought.


    We will do it too, so dont get your panties in a bunch.

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    Image of Ghetto Cornetto Ghetto Cornetto
    12/12/08

    In reply to Ebert - Games Still Not As Good As Knitting
    This is why your co-workers make fat jokes about you by the water-cooler Ebert!!
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    Image of Veridis_Quo Veridis_Quo
    12/12/08

    In reply to Ebert - Games Still Not As Good As Knitting
    I don't like the guy, he's obviously a douchebag
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    Image of Ghetto Cornetto Ghetto Cornetto
    12/12/08

    @Veridis_Quo: I love this. So much.


    THE WATER COOLER EBERT, LISTEN FOR THE WHISPERS!!!

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    12/12/08

    In reply to Ebert - Games Still Not As Good As Knitting
    This just in!

    Old, out of touch man doesn't "get" video games!
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    Image of LllusionX Mailed the Fission LllusionX Mailed the Fission
    12/12/08

    @CRUNK: WOT!!?
    Someone set up us the bomb!!
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    Image of RageKage RageKage
    12/12/08

    In reply to Ebert - Games Still Not As Good As Knitting
    Ebert and (I feel like including him) Andy Rooney need to pull whatever ancient stick they used to draw cave paintings with out of their asses and get with the times.
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    Image of Kobun Kobun
    12/12/08

    @RageKage: Don't Rooney hate unless you ever wondered what it'd feel like to get a boot up your anus... which I believe happens to be his next report. :p I like Andy Rooney. You need that bit of levity after 56 minutes of Africa genocide, children raping, etc.
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    Image of Corduroy Turtle Corduroy Turtle
    12/12/08

    In reply to Ebert - Games Still Not As Good As Knitting
    I bet Ebert has a Wii.
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    Image of LllusionX Mailed the Fission LllusionX Mailed the Fission
    12/12/08

    @CHoZO: that does seem more likely to have a knitting game on it though...i bet he'd like video games then.
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    Image of Frologic Frologic
    12/12/08

    In reply to Ebert - Games Still Not As Good As Knitting
    Sigh. I wish he would stop going out of his way to try and sound like he's on a diet of Metamucil and mush.
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