StarDestroyer.Net BBS

What many games try to do by giving a seamless, realistic world is the opposite of what art tries to do by hammering home a level of abstraction. Perhaps we play different games. Most games in my collection are rather unrealistic. But even if I agreed that far I would certainly disagree that this s...

Yes, but it's a question that requires a definition of art before it becomes meaningful, only difference being that you're just assuming that it's only natural that "aesthetic experience" is an understood quantifying aspect of art. It's only through certain definitions that we even consid...

I've played a little bit of Rez HD. It vaguely reminded me of Space Giraffe, except a much much better game. That being said, I don't think that games necessarily have to emphasize these features in order for us to approach them as art. I don't think that your Van Gogh print analogy is very good so...

DPDarkPrimus wrote:Rez is interactive art, no two ways about it.

I'll check it out!

There's actually several better known definitions of types of gamers. There's the four categories of Achievers, Explorers, Socializers, and Killers, and expanded ones that try to create parallels with different theories of personality in psychology. All of them fail for the same reason Covenant out...

Maybe I didn't make myself clear. Obviously an individual can play different games for different reasons, we all do. What I am really trying to point out is that today, we can get things out of video games that weren't even conceivable in the pacman era. Game developers increasingly incorporate elem...

I remember reading an interesting article on video game theory about a year ago. The thesis was basically that there were two ways of playing video games. The first and most obvious is what the writer called "competitive gaming." It basically involves gaming for sport, trying to complete o...

Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Kicking Aainst the Pricks John Coltrane - A Love Supreme Miles Davis - Bitches Brew Gang of Four - Return the Gift Radiohead - OK Computer Sonic Youth - Sister Swans - Children of God This list is dope. A lot of people would dis...

[quote="Stravo"]The collapse happens because of your decisions or because of your inability to stop it. Doesn't this make you directly responsible for all that misery? [quote] Thats fallacious. You could say "The collapse happens because of your decisions or because you failed to stop...

Should we not draw a distinction between the ethics we believe in and our actual conduct? For example, almost everyone agrees that it is unethical to lie. And yet, almost everyone still lies on occasion (some more than others). Does this mean we don't think it's unethical to lie, or that we are gui...

Dio over Ozzy?

Donald Fagen was about a million times better than the first singer of Steely Dan.

Miles Davis - In A Silent Way This album is so good it has inspired people to use its title as a name on message boards. Steely Dan - Katy Lied A lot of people roll their eyes at jazz fusion but I think this record is simply brilliant. Pavement - Crooked Rain Crooked Rain Classic California pop via ...

what a good game! what act do you guys like the most?