2:52: The Sand Table’s Irrelevance of Game Design
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PH4Utjypxlg&list=PLxP2lws1RkuUwMm1XFHEMrN_Rin7O_eiZ&index=3
Anything said by anyone working at Naughty Dog is carefully composed enough that it is ultimately meaningless, so one cannot draw any real conclusions from such statements: an artist's primary and only motivation in their public discourse is to promote their own commercial work, after all…
But when I can confuse the writer of The Last of Us and Uncharted, while noting their differences in technique, it does raise certain questions...about my literacy, and Naughty Dog's authenticity.
16:28:
Or simply that they did not like the ending because that made dude a dick, and they never woulda done that themselves because they’ve lived a very sheltered life.
17:07: A Disingenuous Vision of Games Journalism
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2015/11/a-price-of-games-journalism/
Watergate…I mean, that’s just like leaking the script to a game in production, right?
Running over Devolver Digital in my Journalist Bus without checking e-mail and article dates, because I’m a videogame journalist. Just don’t sue me for slander, please. I’m a journalist! I have rights!
Critical of its own fictional bullshit in a story that then did not yet exist…in the public domain—wait, I’d inadvertently leaked the Hotline Miami 2 script? Fuck me, no wonder it was banned in Australia.
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I have an acrimonious relationship with the English language, journalists, the English and Americans. Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, oi! oi! oi!
42:38: Post-Script
I dabble in sensational journalistic incompetence.
45:36:
I share my delusions of grandeur, inspired by The Sand Table.