What Video Games Would Roger Ebert Play?

Chicago-based Film Critic Roger Ebert set the gaming world ablaze with debate when he declared that Video Games could not be considered art on his Suntimes blog:

Having once made the statement above, I have declined all opportunities to enlarge upon it or defend it. That seemed to be a fool’s errand, especially given the volume of messages I receive urging me to play this game or that and recant the error of my ways. Nevertheless, I remain convinced that in principle, video games cannot be art. Perhaps it is foolish of me to say “never,” because never, as Rick Wakeman informs us, is a long, long time. Let me just say that no video gamer now living will survive long enough to experience the medium as an art form.

I disagree.

Rather than get into a long bit by bit nuance breakdown of why his arguement doesn’t work against video games, I have decided to give Roger Ebert a video series dedicated to giving Roger some suggestions for Video Games he can play that could be suited to his tastes. Even thou he says he’ll never be interested in video games, I have the right amount of balls to at least get him to see them in a different light.

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“Hello Lil’Kim, This Is Magic City Calling!”

I know there’s some new music in the wings somewhere that justifies all of this. Don’t get me wrong at all — Lil’Kim is still sexy as hell (not as much as her Hardcoredays thou), I just wish there was some actual music being made of a listenable quality.

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You Won’t Be Single Forever, Jia

I’ve done a post mentioning Jia before. I don’t know why I deleted it. I suppose I am crazy.

She runs a celebrity gossip blog called MissJia.com and also runs a personal blog of her own entitled She’s So Fly. Most of her writing has an honesty to it, some of which I don’t agree with. The older I get however I am careful with how I come at people and what they say.

This is hopefully an example of that.

A blog entry on her personal blog entitled “Top 5 Reasons I’ll Be Single Forever” spoke to me for some reason. I’ve asked this question of myself alot and never really bothered to explore the answer to such a question. I figure that I won’t be single forever and that if I just have a bit of faith in myself, things will work out.

It’s not set in stone that faith and hope are the way to a better life, but it’s better than a six-pack of Corona and a hangover.

Okay, let’s list the reasons:

5. I can’t cook.

Meh. Most people can’t cook these days with all the stresses of the economy and people work one or two jobs just to survive. I would be surprised if sales of microwave dinners didn’t go up because of the lack of time to make anything. I’m sure you can find a man who believes in a simple quick bite to eat.

4. I’m probably more of a commitment-phobe than you.

This is a tricky one. I think people do need to take their time in knowing someone. I think setting a time and place where a decision has to be made is putting too much pressure on either person to figure out whether this is the right person or not. There is a flip side to this coin however.

I can understand people needing to know right away an answer as to whether this can be a relationship or not sooner than later. Especially if the person is attractive as all out, so many come in and out of the life of a person’s dating pool that you are technically fighting for that number one spot. Some people don’t believe in waiting for the spark, some want to feel it light up right away like a stove.

It is true that when you get into something fast, the end of the relationship also comes fast.

3. I’m probably the girl your mother warned you about.

I don’t think there’s anything wrong with a bad girl. Like anything however, there is a limit to how bad you can be before you turn someone off. Balance isn’t easy to achieve if you are a constant wild child.

2. I hate talking on the phone.

Me personally, there’s nothing that can replace the sound of someone else on the other line of a telephone. Of course if you are the kind of person that gets annoyed easily by the mundane, which most conversation is, you probably aren’t much of a phone person. To me, text messaging is too new day for me. I don’t have the budget to spend on sending and receiving text messages.

Text messaging in my opinion is like the shy nerd who doesn’t wanna hit on the model chick, which I have experience with; you take yourself out of the running without giving yourself a chance. In my book if I can only talk to you through text messaging, you must not really wanna talk to me.

1. I just don’t think I have “me” together yet.

I think you do. I also think once you eliminate everything that bothers you, being in a relationship won’t annoy you as much. That’s just me anyway.

And with that, I will shut up.

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Video Games Roger Ebert Can Play

Roger Ebert has decided to rethink his position about video games not being art:

 

If you assume I received a lot of cretinous comments from gamers, you would be wrong. I probably killed no more than a dozen. What you see now posted are almost all of the comments sent in. They are mostly intelligent, well-written, and right about one thing in particular:

I should not have written that entry without being more familiar with the actual experience of video games.

As with movies, every video game presents a difference experience depending on the person’s individual needs. For someone like Ebert, a game like Resident Evil would probably not the intellectual challenge that would suit a man of his stature. Below is a list of games that I think Ebert should play and give a review of:

The Adventures Of Lolo

You basically play a little round ball named Lolo who has to rescue his girl Lala from an evil wizard who has her trapped in a castle filled with rooms draped in booby traps. Some of the rooms are easy, and some are hard. You pretty much do the same thing in every room you enter, but the trick with this game is to be paitent and test your brain.

Super Mario Brothers

You can’t go wrong with the Mario Brothers. Think of Adventures Of Lolo except without the puzzles when it comes to the plot. Rather than save a fuzz ball girl, you save a princess and from a giant turtle named Koopa. There’s alot of smashing of baddies and jumping through pipes to different levels to reach the end, but it’s enjoyable for what it lacks in comprehensive plot.

Actually, if you don’t care for the original after you play it, you may enjoy the sequels.

Super Mario Brothers 2

The sequels to the Mario franchise are vastly different from the original. This one especially uses a completely different soundtrack and a completely different plot (which involves dreams and a new evil bad guy to fight called Wart). Rather than stomp the bad guys here, you merely throw them, making this game the least violent of the three original NES Mario games (future titles beginning in the 90′s ended up going to other Nintendo consoles).

Super Mario Brothers 3

This out of the three Mario titles is the best of them all. The music has a breezy jazz feel to it and the variety of bad guys you encounter are far more creative. The stomping of the bad guys is back, but incorporated from the second sequel, you can pick the bad guys and kick them around to knock out other bad guys. You also manage to get a variety of different powers through out the game such as the power of flight (Raccon Mario) and the ability to swim (Frog Mario, which is available in the underwater levels of the game). You fight Koopa again in this game and you save a princess once again, but the levels don’t look the same.

I will come up with another list of games that you could perhaps get into, but I would want to know your opinion on these before I bother with another list.

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I Need To Write A Story

I’ve been sitting on my hands when it comes to this.

I know I have the power to write a story of my own. The battles I’ve been having have mostly to do with whether my story makes sense. I have a scatterbrained way of thinking unforunately.

Time will tell what comes of this.

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