This cracked video hurts me so much
this senior editor needs a senior-senior editor for his terrible contradictory nature.
It's really confusing how people so ignorant get such a huge coverage. Everything the crack guy is spouting is nonsense and takes no time to research.
"One twitter user" you say? :v:
As soon as the cracked guy started trying to be "punk" i had to exit the video from all the cringe.
okay he mentions how ellie in TLOU is "invincible"
correct me if im wrong but don't you play as her in one section
Holy shit this guy has some serious problems he is projecting
"We don't actually care if games are art or not"
I played the whole Soulsborne series because of that and even when I've showed it to my friends, they acknowledged the amazing art direction and atmosphere. God, I cringed so many times during that video.
This is an example case of what is called the anti-gamer.
Also laughed at this just like broteam would.
Since when was fucking Madden about killing people?
Gamergate is really when Cracked.com went to shit. They made a bunch of articles slandering Gamergate for clicks, and they got tons of them. And clicks were always the most important thing to Cracked, every aspect of their site and articles had already been designed to facilitate as many clicks as possible. It didn't matter how wrong they were, clicks were all that mattered.
[QUOTE=Helix Snake;51565677]Gamergate is really when Cracked.com went to shit. They made a bunch of articles slandering Gamergate for clicks, and they got tons of them. And clicks were always the most important thing to Cracked, every aspect of their site and articles had already been designed to facilitate as many clicks as possible. It didn't matter how wrong they were, clicks were all that mattered.[/QUOTE]
Cracked just wanted to farm clicks so they can finally finish cookie clicker
Someone should make a 'Cracked Video Game Simulator', which is just a text-only interface where you type kill at random intervals to receive highly graphic and detailed descriptions of women dying.
[QUOTE=dustyjo;51565504]Since when was fucking Madden about killing people?[/QUOTE]
Because sports jocks are mean and aggressive :(
So wait, Gamers don't play games for the stories, and actually don't give a crap about the stories at all?
Damn, I wonder why I bought the complete Collection of Metal Gear, I thought it was because of the story, same thing with Senran Kagura, same thing with every Zelda game, same thing with Silent Hill. 90% of my games I bought because of the story....well that is what I thought, apparently I don't like stories.
Apparently the games I play must be violent too, considering nearly all video games are violent coming from this guy.
Man I must be a complete idiot who doesn't understand Violence, because last time I checked, Rhythm Heaven Fever wasn't about violence, but I guess it is.
Same thing with Animal Crossing.
Also people don't find games relaxing and it DOESN'T help you calm down?
I wonder why I fall asleep while playing some games then, maybe the games are just boring..which is odd cause I like playing Animal Crossing to relax, and relieving my stress in puzzle games.
And games aren't art?
Hmmm, I wonder why I own a better computer, I thought I was upgrading it to get the best visuals but apparently not.
Heck, I wonder why I took this images off of the internet [url]http://imgur.com/a/yjfCI[/url] and saved them, and sometimes stare at them.
I even do the same thing while PLAYING games.
Man I am a complete idiot, I've been playing Video Games wrong, thanks Cracked.
This video is both educational and a work of art.
Educational because it showcases why Cracked is a complete piece of worthless clickbait shit.
Work of art because god damn that was some really fucking well done roasting.
The hell is this
this is literally just the past 30 years of anti video game bullshit, claiming they cause anger, violence, that gamers are all a bunch of pigs, that games aren't art, that the stories are dumb and don't matter, all put together and delivered to me masquerading as though it's being presented by ~one of us~
This is like if a old man put on a rasta hat, told me he smokes all the weed, and then starts giving me drug PSA bullshit while pausing now and then to reaffirm me that no he's totally a real smoker of pot but admit it we're all just idiots and drugs are bad am I right
The original video is shitty, but the guy making the analysis has some shitty viewpoints too.
(Gonna refer to the hipster as hipster and the angry guy as narrator to separate the two...)
1. The hipster isn't necessary wrong about video games mostly being violent. The narrator addresses this fact and agrees that games have violence usually, but at the same time seems to get pissed by the fact that the hipster said video games are violent. Games often being violent is mostly due to the conflict-reward system games use. For example, shoot enough enemies-complete level in a survival horde mode of a game or for a non-violent example look at Tetris with complete line-points+ continue game. Violence is a common means of conflict because it is a simple solution. It plays on a simple human fight or flight survival instinct. While movies and books can play on internal and social struggles somewhat easily it is hard to do so in a programmed game without pretty well made AI.
Even with movies and books, although being for the most part a linear and rather rigid (books don't need to react back to what you read), one will see a lot of violence. Hipster was fucking stupid about this and the narrator pointed out the fact that films contain violence, but really just left it at that.
2. I think hipster was trying to say that most people don't treat video games as art, but rather entertainment, not that they aren't art. The comparison to smoking a cigarette is pretty accurate imo for a lot of people. Most kids don't go home and play CoD to observe the aesthetic, emotional, and intellectual quality of it, but rather do so to have fun and unwind. In that way, playing a game isn't too different from smoking a cig, except you won't fuck up your lungs and develop an addiction as easily. (btw smoking a cigarette can be also viewed as "art" and is art imo, but that's a different fucking story.)
Narrator also seems to be getting overly angry about some fake gamer hipster. I don't get what hipster or narrators overall arguments even are.
tl;dr Video games are violent, mostly due to the easiness of making a violent game, but they are still art. Just because they are art though, doesn't mean we always treat them as such when interacting with them.
[QUOTE=rndgenerator;51562770]It's really confusing how people so ignorant get such a huge coverage. Everything the crack guy is spouting is nonsense and takes no time to research.[/QUOTE]
It is actually not if you listened to the end of the video.
They get so much coverage because they do target another audience.
Also lots of clickbait.
[QUOTE=matt000024;51566891]1. The hipster isn't necessary wrong about video games mostly being violent. The narrator addresses this fact and agrees that games have violence usually, but at the same time seems to get pissed by the fact that the hipster said video games are violent. Games often being violent is mostly due to the conflict-reward system games use. For example, shoot enough enemies-complete level in a survival horde mode of a game or for a non-violent example look at Tetris with complete line-points+ continue game. Violence is a common means of conflict because it is a simple solution. It plays on a simple human fight or flight survival instinct. While movies and books can play on internal and social struggles somewhat easily it is hard to do so in a programmed game without pretty well made AI.
Even with movies and books, although being for the most part a linear and rather rigid (books don't need to react back to what you read), one will see a lot of violence. Hipster was fucking stupid about this and the narrator pointed out the fact that films contain violence, but really just left it at that.
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tl;dr Video games are violent, mostly due to the easiness of making a violent game, but they are still art. Just because they are art though, doesn't mean we always treat them as such when interacting with them.[/QUOTE]
Do we just gonna ignore all the educational, simulation, sports, racing, puzzle solving, building games?
Generalizing all games as violent sounds just wrong to me.
[QUOTE=Mitsuma;51566982]Do we just gonna ignore all the educational, simulation, sports, racing, puzzle solving, building games?
Generalizing all games as violent sounds just wrong to me.[/QUOTE]
The most popular games are violent, lets not kid ourselves here.
Not that I agree with the cracked video but video games are pretty violent.
[QUOTE=mchapra;51567018]The most popular games are violent, lets not kid ourselves here.
Not that I agree with the cracked video but video games are pretty violent.[/QUOTE]
That is still generalizing, there are a lot of popular games that aren't violent.
isn't one of the most popular games on steam football manager
like depending on how you define "violent" and "popular" I'm psure you could argue that nonviolent games are vastly more popular
To be honest spraying LeChuck with Grog and watching his rotten Zombie-Pirate face melt in agony in glorious VGA 640x480 scarred the 9 year old me for life the dude in the video is clearly right
[QUOTE=Xonax;51567032]That is still generalizing, there are a lot of popular games that aren't violent.[/QUOTE]
Perhaps but I don't take the violence in video games as a negative because I'd be a hypocrite if I did since Quake 3 is one of my favorite games of all time. I'm just pointing out that assertion isn't entirely wrong.
Though to say the main draw for video games is the violence is dumb, people play video games for lots of different reasons, I play them to unwind, some people I know like a good story driven game and mass effect wouldn't have been a huge blockbuster like it was if the main draw was the combat, the least polished part of that series(until 3).
Games like call of duty aren't popular because of the violence, it's because they're enjoyable to most people. So I don't really understand why the cracked video focused so much on video games' violent aspects and the commentator outright denied that a good chunk of popular games are not violent.
why is there a square shaped brightness adjustment over his shirt
did they want to make sure we could see his sick graphic?
[QUOTE=Rusty100;51567082]why is there a square shaped brightness adjustment over his shirt did
they want to make sure we could see his sick graphic?[/QUOTE]
I was trying to figure this out throughout the entire video, and all I could come up with is that that is part of the graphic.
[QUOTE=Killer monkey;51567117]I was trying to figure this out throughout the entire video, and all I could come up with is that that is part of the graphic.[/QUOTE]
it moves independently of his shirt so
they brightened up his graphic
?????
[QUOTE=Rusty100;51567082]why is there a square shaped brightness adjustment over his shirt
did they want to make sure we could see his sick graphic?[/QUOTE]
They have no idea how to light a green screen
This video has infuriated me and I want this man to lose his job.
If you don't pay attention to him he'll go away
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