Comments | seiberwing: I has a sleepy.

seiberwing

I has a sleepy.

Apr 23, 2011 20:13

Note: This was actually written a week ago, but I forget to post it until now. I still haven't gotten around to Facade, though I've seen a few LPs--my only shift in opinion is that is does seem to demonstrate how scripted and formalized casual conversation can be, but only through how easy it is to break the flow with trolly comments.Before the ( Read more... )

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corvus_veritas April 24 2011, 02:26:25 UTC

Yeaaah, I've never heard of this game before but I have to agree with you after seeing some videos of it. :X That first trolling video you linked made me LOL, though.

(Also. Just to let you know that it's coming along! ....very, very slowly at the moment...)

seiberwing April 24 2011, 02:39:27 UTC

I see you and the drill still aren't getting on very well.

corvus_veritas April 24 2011, 03:09:55 UTC

Oh hoh... That would be an understatement. :X;;;; /HATES THAT DRILL FOREVER AND EVER

Oh yeah! I was gonna add a background to it eventually, but I...have no idea what that should be. XD;; Like if they should be in some random part of Rapture, or their 'house' or what. Sooo, where do you see them hanging out?

seiberwing April 24 2011, 03:21:55 UTC

You could put them in front of a window overlooking the waterweed and fish, or somewhere in their house with the big crate loungechair.

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seiberwing April 24 2011, 21:38:03 UTC

Like I said. The most stimulation in this game comes from trolling it.

momemordrid April 30 2011, 23:34:46 UTC

How can something be "satisfying" if it isn't "fun"? I think video games are just one of many things the designers don't understand. :/

seiberwing May 1 2011, 04:07:03 UTC

The only reasonable explanation I found was that things like tragic plays can be satisfying and good without being 'fun', but in all honesty I think it's still a cop-out.

momemordrid May 1 2011, 04:37:11 UTC

Oo, that makes sense. I guess they thought they were creating some great tragedy for the ages, instead of a vignette of two hateful people snipping at each other.

It would have made more sense to just go further into the artsy field and claim the game was meant to be a metaphor for the hopelessness of the human condition or the suffering of mankind or something. And then call it an "interactive medium" instead of a game.

seiberwing May 1 2011, 04:56:08 UTC

As I said, they called it an 'anti-videogame' and said it was based on the play "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolfe", which apparently also has to do with a bickering couples or something.

Of course, a play also has to give some sort of depth and entertainment to it in order to be decent. I can't say that I enjoyed District 9 in the sense that I left the living room with any lingering respect for my own species, but I had connections to the characters and immersion in the special effects. These two dorks? A sitcom is more immersive.