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You guys picked some ridiculous and bizarre cartoon match-ups for Master Chief. I’m not 100% certain what a Spartan could tackle, but from Dr.Manhattan of Watchmen to Kenny from South Park there are some pretty interesting opponents for
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March 12, 2010
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Bizarre, beautiful, and brave. The mixture of Japanese animation and Halo is a lot of things
Video games and Japanese anime share an odd kinship when it comes to their ostracized place amongst the mainstream. Neither have been fully accepted by popular culture, but both have a rabid and vibrant community that support them, both as artistic mediums and as industries. Halo Legends is the child of these two platforms and brings the American geek face-to-face with the Japanese Otaku in the fist video release for the Halo Franchise.
The names David and Ian Purchase may not sound familiar and you may not be familiar with their work, but these Torontonian brothers have given game enthusiasts a reason to stand up and take notice. Escape From City 17 is an in-development series of shorts directed and produced by the duo that takes the oppressive environments of Half-Life 2 and brings them to life in a stunning interpretation of the game. The first episode in the series was released back in February but a new cut of the short is making it’s rounds on the internet and has yet to lose it’s impact. Half-Life fans and dystopia lovers take note; it may only be a single 4-minute video, but this has the makings of a great series.
Gerard Butler is no Master Chief
Some years from this exact moment directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor will look back on their film Gamer and sob because in that future movies made about gamers for gamers will actually be made by gamers and the outsiders interpretation of video game culture that is their film will seem shockingly offensive. Filled with ridiculously cliché tidbits, an excess of shaky cam action and a plot line so ludicrous it will challenge even the minds that accept even the most far fetched fantasy and sci-fi worlds.
An in-depth comparison of the quality of sequels for movies and games.
It’s hard to replicate a good thing, so it’s not surprising that sequels are often considered worse than their originals. While this phenomena has been well known to movie-goers since the inception of the sequel, there seems to be a notion in the gaming community that the video game medium is immune to the degradation of quality second and third iterations often bring. GeneralGames.ca has done the incredibly dull task of crunching the numbers to find out the truth behind these notions.
A comparison of films and video games at their 30 year mark. Metropolis (1927), Mass Effect (2007)
Video games have had a bad rap for a while as being unrefined and primitive in terms of the sort of emotional experience they can provide their players. I can’t particularly fault these observations, a large majority of games still play to the more base urges of its prime demographic. However my issue lays with the recent comparisons to the video game recently passing its 30th anniversary and how far progressed as an evocative medium films were at the same age.
