Post by leunas on Nov 16, 2006 19:33:23 GMT -5
Television? That's just something we use to play games, so it's obvious where we pitch our tent. And people who write about TV, well, they like watching it. Or they should! Regardless, welcome Guardian TV critic Charlie Brooker to our camp. He confesses:
After all, speaking in my guise as a so-called TV critic, I can confi dently state that games are markedly better than television... Furthermore, as a medium, TV encourages you to switch off your brain and slowly coagulate on the sofa. Video games force you to stay alert... You control them. They start and stop when you like. There's no continuity announcer jabbering over the credits. Your intelligence is rarely insulted, but regularly challenged.
Word. Brooker goes on to say any Mario platformer has more "innovation" and "sheer joy" than what most TV series achieve in their entire life-span. And claims that Half-Life 2 is ten times more exciting than the best episode of 24, which he loves. Perhaps, it's about time Charlie Brooker stopped covering TV and started writing more about games, no?
www.kotaku.com/gaming/journalism/tv-critic-likes-games-better-than-tv-215119.php