The Citizen Kane of video games...

Ulukai on 7/10/2009 at 18:02

You walk up to a Vietnam/Iraq/WWII veteran, explain your Pong theory and I'll pay to watch them rip your fucking arms off :p

Thirith on 7/10/2009 at 18:16

Quote Posted by Ulukai

You walk up to a Vietnam/Iraq/WWII veteran, explain your Pong theory and I'll pay to watch them rip your fucking arms off :p

Chances are the WW2 veteran would have to let go of his Zimmer frame in order to rip his arms off...

Ulukai on 7/10/2009 at 18:19

Ok, amendment to terms.

The WWII vets are issued with a Sherman before the Pong reading.

scarykitties on 7/10/2009 at 18:20

Then how about breakout?

The launcher is the USA, the colored blocks are countries who disagree with us, and the ball is our bombs.

june gloom on 7/10/2009 at 18:33

OOH CLEVER

Did you think of that during your 11th-grade math class in between drawing anime on your binder?

Sulphur on 7/10/2009 at 18:40

Quote Posted by scarykitties

Then how about breakout?

The launcher is the USA, the colored blocks are countries who disagree with us, and the ball is our bombs.

No, foo - (http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=124297&highlight=custer) you mean (http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?p=1886761#post1886761) Custer's Revenge

If you want the Citizen Kane of gaming, you just need to stop at when we had black and white games.

To wit, Infocom. There's at least two Citizen Kanes right there: Trinity, and A Mind Forever Voyaging. Encapsulated whatever you could do right with interactive fiction as a medium and are bound to come across as moving and well-made now as back then.

Yeah, it was all text, but. And yeah, a'course I'm not saying this completely seriously. Maybe a little, though.

The problem lies with defining what makes a 'Citizen Kane', though. And how that applies to video games. What are all the objective criteria? Are there any?

scarykitties on 7/10/2009 at 18:57

Quote Posted by dethtoll

OOH CLEVER

Did you think of that during your 11th-grade math class in between drawing anime on your binder?

Whilst bored during my 241 American Literature course, actually.
Glad you think it's clever. I thought it was, too.

Though I'm not a huge fan of anime. Of course, since I don't know the medium, it would be ignorant of me to bash to whole thing in a blanket insult, wouldn't you agree?

I'd say that Citizen Kane is considered as great as it is due to either deep symbolism, or the illusion of deep symbolism (often one is interchangeable for the other). Hence my offering Silent Hill 2 as a potential for how deep its symbolism is.

When it comes to art, oftentimes the quieter work speaks loudest, hence the adoration of subtlety and symbolism.

SubJeff on 7/10/2009 at 19:49

Good God! That ign idiot had no idea. This is appalling. Is this serious? How are games ever going to be taken seriously (I still get funny looks when I say I'm a gamer) when people are fed this rubbish?

Metroid Prime 1 and 3 (haven't played 2) sure are good games and good fun but words cannot describe how wrong this is. I can't say what game should get the title but others mentioned itt are more deserving. Where to begin...

And I know plenty of WW2 vets who could take you on Thirith. How old do you think these guys are? I've met a few ex-commandos who would have been 20 in '45 who I'd rather not tangle with (met one dude who faced of a Tiger with a PIAT!).

Quote Posted by EvaUnit02

bitter shite

Nothing sadder than a bitter idiot sniping and trolling because he's bitter about being an idiot. Fuck off.

scarykitties on 7/10/2009 at 20:00

Quote Posted by Subjective Effect

And I know plenty of WW2 vets who could take you on Thirith. How old do you think these guys are? I've met a few ex-commandos who would have been 20 in '45 who I'd rather not tangle with (met one dude who faced of a Tiger with a PIAT!).

Or Buzz Aldrin, when confronted with a conspiracy theorist.

I had to double-check the video's post time, because I've more than once complained about something like this, only to hear, "OLO IT WUZ APRAL FULEZ!"

Not in this case, incidentally. So, yeah, he was serious. Clearly not much of a gamer himself, eh?

Mr.Duck on 7/10/2009 at 21:29

Metroid Prime is aces high, deserves to be in any good 'best videogames' list but it's not the Citizen Kane of videogames, not by a -long- shot...

Shame a doofus has to speak up and all of a sudden a lot of people that don't know jack about videogames go and take it as a fact....sheesh....we need a poll for this.