Nintendo’s Pre-E3 video! Because apparently pre-E3 is a thing now!
I am home!
Also, my parents got me these for m’b-day along with a future DVD shelf to put them on. A good, big, sturdy one instead of the IKEA I have.
My mom just picked these out because she knew I’m the kind of 23-year old male who would like them. And I do.
(Kind of waiting for the bluray transition to happen, but I’m happy with everything regardless!)
Anonymous asked: i could kick your ass at some super mario brothers :3
Yeahhhhhhhhhhhh you probably could! Fun fact: The first Mario game I truly finished was Galaxy, in 2007. My childhood was spent playing Earthworm Jim SORRY
No, uh, I wrote that in answer to “How can people read this and say it’s good?”
Kotaku is…a tabloid, basically. It’s the gaming equivalent of a tabloid. They’ll cover news (with massive subjectification, often while warping an interviewee’s words to create controversy), but the majority of the time they’re posting dumb shit like “15-Year-Old Girl makes a rad Kirby scarf!” And they pass it off like it’s important. That being said, I may love Kirby, and I may think that scarf rad, but it isn’t the BREAKING NEWS they make it out to be. You could visit the site and not be surprised to see the top headline say: BREAKING NEWS - LINDSAY LOHAN PLAYS EARTHBOUND. Who cares?
It fulfills the niche audience video games still have. When you see a video game reference in a TV show, it’s still kitschy. It’s “the video game episode.” We want that attention, we crave it, because the majority of those around us still aren’t playing games. Millions of people know the opening notes of the Super Mario Bros. theme, but billions don’t. That’s how lazy, or even actively aggressive, journalists get by. ”I, too, have played Half-Life! That means we have to be together!”
Just imagine if that carried over into other mediums. ”Hey, you’ve also seen Star Wars? HOLY SHIT THAT’S AWESOME, let’s be best friends!” And then this guy ends up molesting little children and drunk driving off a bridge. But it’s cool, he also saw Star Wars! No one thinks that way, because who the hell hasn’t seen Star Wars, you know? Everyone watches and loves movies. It’s not special, so relationships have to be built on different foundations. Gaming press knows, whether consciously or not, to exploit that niche.
ANYWAY ASIDE FROM ALL THAT
I have the first three NES Mario games on Virtual Console and haven’t beaten a one =(((((((((((
(I also have Super Mario Bros. 2 on a cart, I believe. Lots of stuff to play!)
because we both played super mario bros. huh do you remember super mario bros. do you huh =3
Well, one of the sub-writers. Maybe don’t read this if you haven’t finished the first game? But still, when you do finish it all, this is a fascinating read.
While not trying to destroy myself, I’ve been thinking a lot about Destructoid’s bullshit and why they’re still popular. I’m not requesting the immediate destruction of a website or a person, but an improvement. And for the morbidly obese and highly insecure manchildren who refuse to improve no matter what…maybe don’t pay them for the poor jobs they do? I don’t know, that’s how I’ve always viewed it. If you can’t do your job well, be demoted to a manager at Subway, I guess.
I think video games have a “shine” to them, still. Think about it. Why is Ctrl+Alt+Del still popular when the creator is an openly racist pedophile, producing content that can be so easily deconstructed? Why does GameStop still get away with opening new games, maybe even playing them, and then still selling them to you as new? Why do IGN and G4 fire their journalists and hire models to stand in front of a green screen and read “Tha Newz!” to the viewer? How is any of that okay?
It’s the “shine”. I wonder if movies had it, or television, or music recordings. Maybe theater did, and dudes went nuts over Shakespeare coverage in the 16th century. When was the last time someone ran up to you and said “Dude! There’s a sick new website about television shows!” It doesn’t happen. Because television took off in the earlier half of the 20th century, and whatever “shine” there was about a screen with moving pictures in your own home is long gone.
Video games are still a fairly young medium, primarily aimed at young boys. The market has grown significantly, what with women and older audiences getting in, but the majority of parents still aren’t interested. That doesn’t stem out of hatred for video games, but indifference. Some of my family members will never get into video games, just because it’s past their influential time. That’s okay. What I’m saying is that video games, with all their FarmVilles and Call of Dutys, are still a niche. That niche-ness. That…nichity. That niche is what makes aaaaaaaalllllllll that sexist, repugnant, infantile faux-comedy, faux-business, faux-journalism okay.
Thirteen years ago, I bought my first video game magazine. It was a GamePro with Donkey Kong 64 on the cover. I kept buying GamePro. What I didn’t realize at the time was that GamePro was fucking terrible. As a young child, my interest didn’t lie with “honest opinions” and “interesting journalism”, but looking at advertisements to see which cool new products would be releasing soon. My actions were understandable for someone only ten years old. But as we progress into adulthood, we should be asking tougher questions, becoming better critics. ”Am I putting blinders on myself? Is this content actually good, or is it good because I’ve been saying so since age ten?” A friend of mine chose Ctrl+Alt+Del over Penny Arcade as a young teenager. I relate that story to him now and he can’t believe he said it. I assure him he did.
Tycho’s Friday post (and comic) made a wonderfully-articulated point about how one bad thing, one fairly low-brow and gruesome philosophy, cannot shape the entirety of the market. On one hand, we have RapeLay, and on the other, we have Portal, but neither cancels the other out. I get incensed and upset when I hear about people visiting some of these sites, being okay with their content, absorbing it (or ignoring it), but they don’t cancel the good out. Destructoid doesn’t cancel out Giant Bomb. It’s just the morally reprehensible choice. (In other news, I certainly found the motherload.)
Still, whenever I run across such immature blabberings, I feel that old pang. I am reminded of being a ten-year-old with a GamePro. I imagine that the primary audience for these sites are ten-year-old boys who don’t know any better. That doesn’t define the industry, but serves as a harsh reminder of where it’s at. What disturbs me far more are the fully grown women, with working brainstems and all, who still click these horrid links and are placated by the abuse ten-year-old boys like little ol’ me would have unleashed on her.
