Comments on: Going Beyond New Releases: Appreciating Culture as Tradition, Part 2 http://www.christandpopculture.com/featured/going-beyond-new-releases-appreciating-culture-as-tradition-part-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=going-beyond-new-releases-appreciating-culture-as-tradition-part-2 Where The Christian Faith Meets The Common Knowledge of Our Age Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:18:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: The Dane http://www.christandpopculture.com/featured/going-beyond-new-releases-appreciating-culture-as-tradition-part-2/#comment-44049 The Dane Sat, 13 Jun 2009 19:44:27 +0000 http://www.christandpopculture.com/?p=3825#comment-44049 That was a sentence! That was a sentence!

]]> By: Alan Noble http://www.christandpopculture.com/featured/going-beyond-new-releases-appreciating-culture-as-tradition-part-2/#comment-44046 Alan Noble Sat, 13 Jun 2009 18:47:58 +0000 http://www.christandpopculture.com/?p=3825#comment-44046 @Dane, While I'm on vacation, I am restricting myself to one sentence comments in order to spend more time relaxing, and this was the one sentence. @Dane, While I’m on vacation, I am restricting myself to one sentence comments in order to spend more time relaxing, and this was the one sentence.

]]> By: The Dane http://www.christandpopculture.com/featured/going-beyond-new-releases-appreciating-culture-as-tradition-part-2/#comment-43892 The Dane Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:07:54 +0000 http://www.christandpopculture.com/?p=3825#comment-43892 RE #1: This really doesn't work so well. With the exception of a handful of games, relic games really don't have anything on the more recent vintage. When I got my PS2 four years ago, I got Midway Classics in addition to games like <i>Dark Cloud 2</i>, <i>God of War</i>, and <i>GTA:SA</i>. I was excited because these were the arcade games that I grew up with. <i>SpyHunter</i>, <i>Defender</i>, <i>Gauntlet</i>, <i>Joust</i>, <i>Paperboy</i>, <i>Rampage</i>, <i>Marble Madness</i>, <i>Robotron 2084</i>, <i>Smash TV</i>, etc. And you know what? The games just aren't that fun. Especially when you aren't risking a quarter. They're repetitive and uninspired. They don't reward time spent. There are of course exceptions. <i>Zelda</i> and <i>Metroid</i> and <i>Super Mario Bros.</i> on NES. <i>Zork</i> and its descendants on PC. Plus all the LucasArts adventure games like <i>Monkey Island</i> (currently being remade) and the still sublime <i>Grim Fandango</i>. You start getting better games once the Genesis/SNES generation hits (I can still play and adore <i>Herzog Zwei</i>). But even with the lauded game series troubles crop up. I recently purchased the <i>Fallout</i> collection (since I enjoyed the world I explored in the Bethesda version) and, well, I was so underwhelmed by the obnoxious control scheme that I put it down 'til a time when I'm really bored with games I already have. (Which may be a while. Talking about <i>Morrowind</i> inspired me and as soon as I put down <i>WoW</i>, I'll probably return for a third go through the land of Vvardenfall—despite the crappy graphics.) In any case, my point is: sometimes we privilege the New because it deserves to be privileged. If I pick up a random game from today, I'm flat out more likely to enjoy it more than a random game from 1987. I mean, I loved <i>Ice Climber</i> at the time, but it doesn't exactly hold up and its glories were all relative to what came before it. This is kind of what I was getting at with comics and film. The newer produce in these media <i>should</i> be privileged over that from their gestational eras. <abbr><em>The Danes last blog post..<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nowheresville/~3/YmyiWLQvxLo/2009_04_01_old1.php" rel="nofollow">20090417.teaParty</a></abbr></em> RE #1: This really doesn’t work so well. With the exception of a handful of games, relic games really don’t have anything on the more recent vintage. When I got my PS2 four years ago, I got Midway Classics in addition to games like Dark Cloud 2, God of War, and GTA:SA. I was excited because these were the arcade games that I grew up with.

SpyHunter, Defender, Gauntlet, Joust, Paperboy, Rampage, Marble Madness, Robotron 2084, Smash TV, etc.

And you know what? The games just aren’t that fun. Especially when you aren’t risking a quarter. They’re repetitive and uninspired. They don’t reward time spent.

There are of course exceptions. Zelda and Metroid and Super Mario Bros. on NES. Zork and its descendants on PC. Plus all the LucasArts adventure games like Monkey Island (currently being remade) and the still sublime Grim Fandango. You start getting better games once the Genesis/SNES generation hits (I can still play and adore Herzog Zwei). But even with the lauded game series troubles crop up. I recently purchased the Fallout collection (since I enjoyed the world I explored in the Bethesda version) and, well, I was so underwhelmed by the obnoxious control scheme that I put it down ’til a time when I’m really bored with games I already have.

(Which may be a while. Talking about Morrowind inspired me and as soon as I put down WoW, I’ll probably return for a third go through the land of Vvardenfall—despite the crappy graphics.)

In any case, my point is: sometimes we privilege the New because it deserves to be privileged. If I pick up a random game from today, I’m flat out more likely to enjoy it more than a random game from 1987. I mean, I loved Ice Climber at the time, but it doesn’t exactly hold up and its glories were all relative to what came before it.

This is kind of what I was getting at with comics and film. The newer produce in these media should be privileged over that from their gestational eras.

The Danes last blog post..20090417.teaParty

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