If you need validation from the people who Alex is pandering to here, you still have a few things to understand about video games. Games are that first and foremost, regardless of the effort of devs and journalists to make them “serious” and “deep”. ”Women” (it’s not only women, btw) aren’t wrong in seeing games as toys for boys. For most of them, my time would be better spent playing games. I’m pretty sure it was exactly that for me, back then: “See? See? Vidya gamez are srs business, folks! I’m normal, I swear! I’m not a lonely nerd who’d rather spend hours in front of my TV than go out and meet people! I’m into something totally serious here!” Meanwhile, dubious “academics” were writing totally delirious books and articles about games and cinema, games and literature, games and society. It reeks of a need for validation from people who were shunned in their youth for liking video games. I don’t know what pushes the desperate attempts to “elevate” games to something more than they actually are. It’s usually not those that try too hard to be ”mature”, though. Sure, some of them can be deeper than others. This was the age of MGS2, when gaming had come out of the closet and gained immense popularity thanks to the PS1, and the PS2 was doubling down on “mature” games, making Sega and Nintendo’s approach to gaming suddenly seem kiddy and obsolete in the span of a single gen.Ģ0 years later, I fully embrace the idea of video games being, if not toys, just simple pastimes. Click to expand.When I was much younger, there was this effort from certain outlets to try and elevate video games to a more ”respectable” medium.
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