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Great new video by @Matthewmatosis, one of the points he makes really resonates with me. It's becoming rapidly impossible, or at least infeasible for people to play all of the "classics" or even eventually the classics within a single series. 1/n
I've been fighting with my backlog with various degrees of success since I was a teenager and I've literally been playing games for more than a decade before some of the people reading this were born. As Matthew points out, movie critics have it easy.
You could play and beat Final Fantasy 7, arguably 1997's most important game, or you could spend that time watching every single Oscar winner from that year as well as likely half of the nominations of note.
I mean shit I was queue-ing for an EX dungeon in FF14, a game I've played for 216 days, 13 hours and 16 minutes. That's nearly 5200 hours. I could have played and beaten over 250 average length games in that length of time. And don't even get me started on fighting games or MOBA
I'm not really in games criticism or anything, but it does give me pause for example, when I'm playing something and I say something like "wow, this feels like Silent Bomber" Most of you don't know what Silent Bomber is, it's a semi obscure action game by Konami for the PS1.
Some of you played a bunch of PS1 games back in the day and never saw it. Hell some of you might have even played it on a demo disc and forgot it existed until I mentioned it just now. Maybe some people who hear that go and look up Silent Bomber (which is awesome). But most won't
If that's the case how much value does my comparison to Silent Bomber even have? How much value does decades of obscure video game knowledge have? I mean obviously almost none, but I mean in the context of talking about games, not objectively. Let's be real people.
I dunno, feels weird. It's not the end of the world, but it's interesting to consider.
Also Silent Bomber fucking rules.
Also Silent Bomber fucking rules.
