This is not an art game, you are right, this is just all pretense. And I am wondering what this is. I truly hope someone ends up reviewing this thing so I can actually see what it is about.

The problem here lies that it is trying to convey something without conveying it and requiring external explanation. true art games, and true art in general doesn't need anything, it's own metaphors stand up on its's own merits and will be clever in and by itself to provide the emotions it wants you to feel. 

This is nothing like truly inspiring games like Journey or Braid. Which are truly art in their respect. The problem is, they try to hard to not be subtle. And true art is subtle and feels meaningful.

It sounded decent at first, until I read the entire description... dafuq?

This is not an art game, you are right, this is just all pretense. And I am wondering what this is. I truly hope someone ends up reviewing this thing so I can actually see what it is about.

 

The problem here lies that it is trying to convey something without conveying it and requiring external explanation. true art games, and true art in general doesn't need anything, it's own metaphors stand up on its's own merits and will be clever in and by itself to provide the emotions it wants you to feel. 

 

This is nothing like truly inspiring games like Journey or Braid. Which are truly art in their respect. The problem is, they try to hard to not be subtle. And true art is subtle and feels meaningful.

I'm interested in seeing reviews as well. Genuinely curious what people will say about it. I fear there will be people praising it so they look "sophisticated" and so they can call those who decry the game "boorish".

I watched the trailers, viewed the screenshots, heck, even found and looked at the tumblerwhatever out of curiosity, and I can say without a doubt that it's trying to be to video games what those "artists" who do such things as shove spaghetti-os in their vagina* are to performance art.

I mean, I just can't see anything that looks "genuine" in it. It looks as if it just is grasping at straws to look subversive/edgy/avant garde/inserttermhere and failing at everything. I strongly believe in video games as art, but this is not the way to do it. This is to video games as art what hipsters wearing berets in a Starbucks are to Mozart.

*No, I'm not being needlessly vulgar. That actually has been done.

Edit: Heh. My posts look a lot different when I'm half-asleep, don't they?

Being hipster is so mainstream these days.

Reading the discription, I wonder if it's trying to take itself seriously, or if the game is a parody or otherwise deliberately being overly pretentious.

Gotta say, at least it's making people churn out comedic gold.

Guy from SPUD: "I think I'm gonna make a game where a hero will just do nothing, standing near the toilet seat, look at his poo and wondering about the meaning of life. If I add some cool post-processing effects to it then I'd be able to say that it's a piece of Art and... boom, ready to sell on steam."

I'm not a fan of judging a book by it's cover but that game looks like the worst idea in the long sad history of bad ideas.  I mean, really, what?

“Hipster” is a term co-opted for use as a meaningless pejorative in order to vaguely call someone else’s authenticity into question and, by extension, claim authenticity for yourself. It serves no conversational function and imparts no information, save for indicating the opinions and preferences of the speaker. Meanwhile, a market myth has sprung up around the term, as well as a cultural bogeyman consisting of elusive white 20-somethings who wear certain clothes (but no one will agree on what), listen to certain music (no one can agree on this either), and act a certain way (you’ve probably sensed the pattern on your own). You can’t define
what “that kind of behavior or fashion or lifestyle” actually is, nor will you ever be able to. That’s because you don’t use “hipster” to describe an actual group of people, but to describe a fictional stereotype that is an outlet for literally anything that annoys you. The twist, of course, is that if it weren’t for your own insecurities, nothing that a “hipster” could do or wear would ever affect you emotionally. But you are insecure about your own authenticity - “Do I wear what I wear because I want to? Do I listen to my music because I truly like it? I’m certainly not like those filthy hipsters!” - so you project those feelings. Suffice it to say, no one self-identifies as a hipster; the term is always applied to an Other, to separate the authentic Us from the inauthentic, “ironic” Them.

tl;dr: if you believe hipsters exist, you are a plebeian.

I particularly like this review. The Verge - "Finally, a video game as artistic and hard to understand as French films."

sounds kinda sarcastic to me, but hey, maybe dem verge folks did enjoy it XP.

If it were really hipsters who developed this game, it wouldn't be on Steam. That's way too mainstream.

It would probably be on Metaboli because no one else uses it.

If it were really hipsters who developed this game, it wouldn't be on Steam. That's way too mainstream.

 

It would probably be on Metaboli because no one else uses it.

Wait, is that... Comic sans?