BitterOldPunk
@BitterOldPunk ?active 3 weeks, 2 days ago-
BitterOldPunk thanked nobody‘s blog post, They even let you shoot the ads (NYTimes) 1 month, 1 week ago · Permalink
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BitterOldPunk commented on the post 0x10c: Mojang’s Minecraft Followup 1 month, 2 weeks ago · Permalink
Wait wait wait.
Notch is making a Freelancer/Escape Velocity/EVE Online kind of game?
OMG OMG OMG.
Although I’m turned off by the prospect of “lots of engineering” and “program your own computer!” I’d really rather just fuck around and find lucrative trade routes, thanks.
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BitterOldPunk wrote a new Gamefilter post: I Used To Be An Adventurer, Then I Took An Arrow To The Knee 5 months, 1 week ago · Permalink
Skyrim and the Problem of Audience It’s huge. It’s unending. It’s the blockbuster, millions-selling, open-world RPG, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. And sometimes it’s just downright absurd.
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BitterOldPunk commented on the post who killed videogames? (a ghost story) 7 months, 3 weeks ago · Permalink
First thought — “Insert Credit”! THAT’S the name of that old gaming site that recently got revived that I haven’t been able to remember! Cool! Bookmarked! Second thought — Ruh roh. It’s by Tim Rogers. Sometimes that guy really pisses me off even when I agree with him. ESPECIALLY when I agree with him. Third [...]
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BitterOldPunk wrote a new Gamefilter post: The Metaphysics of Morrowind 8 months, 3 weeks ago · Permalink
Kate (of the excellent but infrequently updated gaming blog Falling Awkwardly) examines the metaphysics of The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind as revealed in the copious in-game literature scattered throughout the land of Vvardenfell, and finds parallels between the game’s denizens and the game’s players: “Breaking the rules is just another way of playing the game. Sometimes the best way. Just ask Vivec, the Thief of The World, the ultimate cheat.”
“Metaphysics are an age-old human concern, to poke and prod at them is in our nature. The Elder Scrolls creates characters who are pushing the limits of their fictional world and struggling to come to terms with its rules, with varying degrees of success. In The Elder Scrolls, true agency is not something afforded to just anyone. It must be sought after, fought for, stolen. Whatever it takes.” -
BitterOldPunk is now a Deus Ex player 8 months, 3 weeks ago · Permalink
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BitterOldPunk commented on the post I Forgot To Remember To Forget 9 months ago · Permalink
it could do with some copy editing
I agree. But then I took another look at his blog.
The guy that wrote that is 15 years old.
Truly I have wasted my life.
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BitterOldPunk wrote a new Gamefilter post: I Forgot To Remember To Forget 9 months, 1 week ago · Permalink
The Story of Boone Nathan Hardisty played Fallout: New Vegas. One of the courier’s companions left a lasting impression on him: “From a simple little scripted story about a broken soldier, a dialogue choice mechanic and that age-old ‘shoot people’ mechanic I have made myself a story of heartbreak, redemption and peace.”
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BitterOldPunk commented on the post Witness some previews 9 months, 2 weeks ago · Permalink
I may be alone in this, but I absolutely HATED Braid. I didn’t enjoy playing it at all. It screamed “Lookit me, I’m so smart and different!” with every twist of gameplay. I know, I know, it’s a staggering world of transcendant game design genius and I should bow down before Jonathan Blow’s majesty and [...]
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BitterOldPunk thanked stavrosthewonderchicken‘s blog post, From Aberrance to Aesthetics 9 months, 2 weeks ago · Permalink
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Gratitude, Dude 9 months, 2 weeks ago · Permalink -
BitterOldPunk commented on the post The Younger Scrolls 9 months, 2 weeks ago · Permalink
As someone who loves both The Elder Scrolls games and Minecraft I’d just like to say
DONT FIGHT MOMMY AND DADDY DONT FIGHT IT MAKES ME SAD
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BitterOldPunk wrote a new Gamefilter post: Chain World — Religion or Holy War? 10 months, 1 week ago · Permalink
Chain World — Religion or Holy War? Jason Rohrer’s “Chain World” was the overwhelming audience favorite at the 2011 Game Design Challenge. This year’s challenge was Bigger Than Jesus: games as religion. Rohrer’s winning creation is a mod of Minecraft that exists on a single USB drive and is to be played by one person at a time who then passes it on to the next player without speaking of the game. The idea is to explore how human actions in a game world accrete into something very like a mythology. At the game’s debut, Rohrer handed over the USB, more or less at random, to Jia Ji. He would be Chain World Player Two. And that’s where the trouble began.
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BitterOldPunk commented on the post The Death Fetish 10 months, 1 week ago · Permalink
I’m not sure I buy this. First the author states that he isn’t bothered by graphic violence and in fact loves Mortal Kombat. Then in the very next paragraph, “it’s the peculiar fetishizing of gruesome acts of violence that gets under my skin”. Well, d00d, which is it? If MK ain’t exactly that, I’ll eat [...]
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BitterOldPunk wrote a new Gamefilter post: Todd Howard and Notch Interview Each Other 11 months, 1 week ago · Permalink
Todd Howard and Notch interview one another! You like Minecraft! You like The Elder Scrolls! Then you’ll like this!
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BitterOldPunk posted in the discussion Hurry Up And Finish in the game group L.A. Noire: 11 months, 1 week ago · Permalink
That slipped right by me. Good point.
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BitterOldPunk posted in the discussion Hurry Up And Finish in the game group L.A. Noire: 11 months, 1 week ago · Permalink
Actually, I forgot I posted this. Heh. Oops. Now that’s it’s waaaaay too late, I’d like to discuss the ending. As far as gameplay went, I found it frustrating. After methodically plodding through investigation after investigation, suddenly the game has me running and gunning in the sewers, even offering me a flamethrower ! Argh. But narratively? Wow. Sleazy [...]
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BitterOldPunk wrote a new Gamefilter post: Gender, Myth and Capitalism: An Academic View of Portal 2 11 months, 3 weeks ago · Permalink
Gender, Myth and Capitalism: An Academic View of Portal 2 A cautionary tale, slathered in semiotic bullshit.
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A Little Help From My Friends 11 months, 4 weeks ago · Permalink - Load More





