This "artsy fartsy" games are getting out of hand...

[Punished One Eye Jack]

I mean come on...am I really reading reviews like "I was close to tears from this emotional rollercoaster",etc etc etc???!!

I'm sorry fanboys of these artsy, STORYLESS (YES, I REPEAT) games that get praised for being emotional when they have about as much emotion has a number 2 pencil.
What happened, aka the reason behind this "game", is certainly a horrible thing...but making a game out of it? Or an interactive "art" piece that actually tells nothing in the scheme of things...is just stupid and a trending gimmick for gaming hipsters to enjoy.

Please stop with these releases. We already have too many as it is.

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Metaphor and symbolism are things often used by artists because they feel it communicates emotions better than clear-cut words.

In psychology, colors, sounds, music, and shapes can evoke emotions from people or they can make relations based on a bit of information about the context, so it is actually possible someone cried while playing this.

[Punished One Eye Jack]

Originally posted by Kaze:

Metaphor and symbolism are things often used by artists because they feel it communicates emotions better than clear-cut words.

In psychology, colors, sounds, music, and shapes can evoke emotions from people or they can make relations based on a bit of information about the context, so it is actually possible someone cried while playing this.

Tell me what the absence of anything, explains tragedy?
I know plenty about art, truuuuuuuuuust me on that one.
Of course, art can be anything...from a water bottle to the Mona Lisa, it's all about PERSPECTIVE.

But this, declears itself AS art, which makes it pretentious off the bat and NEEDS to tell you what it is about in order to make a connection.

Real art does not require a "description" in order to make that "PERSPECTIVE" connection.

Show this game to someone without giving them ANY hint or knowledge to what it's about and see if they can guess what it means...I gurantee you anything in this world, they won't even become remotely close.

And that's what this boils down to my friend.

[Wilmotron]

http://i.imgur.com/SLHwM7q.jpg

[Turn Kids LGBT]

I'm going to keep buying these walking simulators to spite you

[Sora🍁]

Originally posted by DoNG Wilmotron:

http://i.imgur.com/SLHwM7q.jpg

I concur.

[BadBreath]

Unfortunately now anyone can make a game. Download Unity and buy some assets, compile, make some trailers and screenshots, upload to Greenlight, classify it as "interactive story adventure" or "Early Alpha" and watch it sell.

[Melcator]

First off I'm not saying these games are good or bad.

There are plenty of people who hate Real Time Strategy games, saying "There is no strategy involved, all you do is spam units as fast as you can, this is dumb". Because these people do not like RTS and do not appreciate them, should we stop making RTS games and make people who do like them suffer when nobody is forcing Turn Based Strategy fans to play them?

This is an art game. If you look at a painting, does 40 hours of awesome gripping story jump out at you? Certainly not. With art you have to study it, find your own interpretation and appreciate it.

If you are the kind of person who goes to art galleries and studies art for hours, and blows a thousand bucks on a painting that other people see as just a dot or a line, or the kind that studies poetry for hours, then you might be able to appreciate games like these.

If (like me) you are the kind of person who buys a wicked dragon poster because it looks ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, or reads great novels for epic stories, you will probably be quite bored and not want to play it. If you are this kind of person, nobody is forcing you to buy these games.

If you have to buy every cheap game on Steam to try and save money, you are a moron and are not saving money at all. Seriously, read into the game before you buy, make an informed decision, don't hate on the dev and the people who like the game just because you don't. Seriously, there's web reviews for every game out there if you look for them, there's discussion boards on Steam talking about almost any game on Steam, there's videos, screenshots, a description, etc., etc. There is no excuse for making an uninformed purchase. Period.

It is my personal belief, however, that these "games" should be classified as software (which has been on Steam for a while now...), being closer to art than your traditional games and lacking 75% of the qualities that make up what defines a VIDEO game (which is oddly different than the defenition for "game" which seems to cover these things).

I am not a fan of most of these art games, I bought this game on indiegamestand.com because half my money went to charity, and because I want to support the dev for supporting a good cause. I have not played the game and I am not commenting on the game itself.

[Punished Jeremy]

Originally posted by Talcon:

I'm going to keep buying these walking simulators to spite you :B1:

then everyone that hates on these types of games are going to keep calling you a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ idiot

[Qwazzy]

Originally posted by ndelta6xxx:

Originally posted by Talcon:

I'm going to keep buying these walking simulators to spite you :B1:

then everyone that hates on these types of games are going to keep calling you a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ idiot

And why should he care what blithering idiots think of him?

[Punished Jeremy]

RAGE INCOMING
RAGE INCOMING
RAGE INCOMING
i supposed i have to give this game credit for being less than 5 dollars otherwise i would be rioting but seriously
you idiots are the kind of people that think journey and dear ester are good
they are short, storyless almost directionless games that try to evoke emotion through graphics and music
does that make them great games
no
does that give you the right to like them
sure
but dont go off and say that this is an great game and a rollar coaster ride of salty tears when you dont give into a count all the down sides because "game of the year canidate" journey has plenty of problems no one took into account because they where too busy crying there eyes out and giving it a 10 out of 10
what about story what about graphical issues, gameplay, replayablitily, fun factor and length
sure you can play this and start becoming a girly sissy crybaby but if you have the audacity to say that this game or any other "art" game is even close to good your a niave idiot
i mean child of eden was a example of a game that didnt work because everyone hated the kinect
BUT OH THE MUSIC AND THE GRAPHICS 8.5- IGN, 8.5 Gamespot, frickin 9 out of 10 on metro gamecentral
and yet you look at almost every other youtuber review of the game and they tear it to pieces
its a crappy, disfunctionally short game that makes you replay stages over and over to progress which when you dont take into account the replaying its about 1 to two hours long
are you kidding me
i give up on society i really do
you art snobs go watch some m night shamalon movies and stop ruining the gaming industry

[Punished Jeremy]

Originally posted by Qwazzy:

Originally posted by ndelta6xxx:

then everyone that hates on these types of games are going to keep calling you a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ idiot

And why should he care what blithering idiots think of him?

lol whos the idiot
the idiot
or the idiot that fights it

[Punished Jeremy]

oh and thanks for chris1980 for pointing this out but this is profiting from a tragity, is it not

[Punished One Eye Jack]

Good god. The amount of retardation and lack of understanding about my reply, is bewildering.

If you can't or couldn't understand what I said eariler, please...do yourself a favor and run at top speed directly into traffic as fast as you can and into the biggest car going the fastest speed.

[Punished Jeremy]

Originally posted by SKYN3T:

Good god. The amount of retardation and lack of understanding about my reply, is bewildering.

If you can't or couldn't understand what I said eariler, please...do yourself a favor and run at top speed directly into traffic as fast as you can and into the biggest car going the fastest speed.

i feel not enough people run into traffic its always either your stupid and arent paying attention or you jump off a bridge into a semi

[Tater]

Why do people get so worked up about games like this? If it is not for you, then don't buy it. Don't take things so personal find something else that will entertain youi.