I feel if the Trumpadon's people can cherry pick the worst of games, the rebuttal SHOULD cherry pick the best and most artistic parts of the SAME games.

To be fair, they aren't making a statement against *video games*, only the ones with violent content.

You'll pry their Candy Crush from their cold, dead hands.

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I'm glad they went this route.

There's a certain attitude that says that only cute, indie games about children with big heads lost in a scary world can be art (shamelessly stole that from Zero Punctuation), but big-budget action games are disposable nonsense.

And there certainly ARE plenty of good, clever, indie games and insanely dumb, tone-deaf, "press f to pay respects" AAA games.

But you can have violence be a part of your story and still be a good story. Hell, your story can be about violence and what it does to you. Spec Ops: The Line is a great example of this.

It's disingenuous to say that video games are nothing but sadistic murder simulators, but it would be equally disingenuous to pretend they're all sweetness and light.

The first God of War is as brutal and sadistic as they come and it's a great game. "Hatred" sets out to be the most brutal and sadistic game ever but it's terrible.

I just posted this, made as a rebuttal to his video.

https://videosift.com/video/Response-to-Trumps-Video-Game-Montage-GameOn

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He's the trump of video games.

his anger directed toward non-video-game-nerd related things seems disingenuous ...

At the high end, video games are really in the process of transforming into interactive movies. And curiously, vice versa in some situations. Like all of the Oats Studios stuff is 'almost' video games. All of their ADAM series is made using Unity, which is a common, powerful video game engine/development studio. Exciting times.

Though I still recommend staying away, if you can manage

That's some hardcore stuff right there.

Freaking wow. I've always considered video game storylines pfft a waste of time, but this I could get into (if I were to ever play video games again, which of course I won't).

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I don't know how I missed that. Been too BUSY too. Thanks. Yeah that is a classic video game.