Critical Miss: Doubleplusungood
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I hadn't heard about the game; so, I went and read a review of it on IGN just to familiarize myself with it a bit. At first, I thought "what a piece of crap!". But, then, I started thinking on it some more. On a superficial level, the game deals with some fictitious political conspiracy that sounds all too ridiculous. Not to mention, the idea of creating a colorful, happy world with all smiles and candy probably would cause the typical "hardcore" crowd to scoff and scorn.
It was at that point that I then thought maybe that's just it, what the game is really getting at. Maybe the game is expressing how many of us in gaming(and geeks and nerds, in general, perhaps) have lost our sense of wonder for the fantastic. We constantly demand games that adhere to a very strict logic and rigid prescription of reality. We've gone away from being able to playfully indulge in the wild and outlandish. Maybe the game is trying to say that we have ourselves created a bleak, gray, lifeless world of rigid rules and authoritarian restrictions by our own expectations and demands, and we have forgotten what it's like to engage, appreciate, and enjoy true fantasy. We just don't really enjoy life anymore. It's not a battle against an iron-fisted regime imposed on us by the world outside from which we try to escape; instead, it's a battle against the tyrannical hegemony of inner ideas that we created ourselves and seek to impose outside that has created this lifeless view. The only way to be free is to take a chance on the absurd; ride your board and make some colors.
Or maybe, I'm just reading more into this than there really is.
It was at that point that I then thought maybe that's just it, what the game is really getting at. Maybe the game is expressing how many of us in gaming(and geeks and nerds, in general, perhaps) have lost our sense of wonder for the fantastic. We constantly demand games that adhere to a very strict logic and rigid prescription of reality. We've gone away from being able to playfully indulge in the wild and outlandish. Maybe the game is trying to say that we have ourselves created a bleak, gray, lifeless world of rigid rules and authoritarian restrictions by our own expectations and demands, and we have forgotten what it's like to engage, appreciate, and enjoy true fantasy. We just don't really enjoy life anymore. It's not a battle against an iron-fisted regime imposed on us by the world outside from which we try to escape; instead, it's a battle against the tyrannical hegemony of inner ideas that we created ourselves and seek to impose outside that has created this lifeless view. The only way to be free is to take a chance on the absurd; ride your board and make some colors.
Or maybe, I'm just reading more into this than there really is.
Sir, that is one of my new favourite images.Gindil said:
And I'm SO glad that most people got the references in the cartoon. Must re-read Brave New World and 1984 soon.
(The most scary point: 1984 is 26 years ago...)
Normally, we call that a mirror. It truly is the most horrifying device ever created, and all it does is reflect exactly the truth(the internet has especially become what is depicted by Huxley).Gindil said:
EDIT: If I understand, the thing that should scare you most about Huxley's ideal is that it is not something that is imposed on us by some evil, power-mad conspiracy. It's the result of blind, uninformed, uncritical, and unprincipled choices that we make along the way.
Latinidiot said:
Funnily enough, I saw 1984 as a parody of totalitarianism and Brave New World as a vision of things to come.
Being forced to give up expression and thought is much better than chosing to by your own will.
I dunno, I find myself wanting to buy one of these baconators. Glad I'm not jewish.foxyexplosion said:
Yeah, Jet Grind Radio. But it wasn't about fighting propaganda with propaganda.manythings said:
Anyways, this was the most win usage 1984 references ever.
No no no, he's thinking of Jet Grind Radio, and yes, it was basically the same thing.Grey Carter said:
George Orwell wrote of dystopia societies and political topics. He wrote 1984 and Animal Farm. Very good reads. What the comic is saying it that Shaun White's Skateboarding is butchering the idea and commercializing it, making George Orwell turn in his grave... Multiple timesVanQQisH said:
