Awesome! I have a greater influence on people than I thought!
I like indie games
Hey man, there's nothing wrong with liking a decent doujin game every now and then. I was merely poking fun at the whole "our boring, simplistic games are a neu form of videogame art, so take that Ebert!" mentality that many artfags seem to have. The truth is (and it should be obvious by now), Babycastles cannot be called an arcade. To do so is nonsensical (I know, I'm guilty as charged).
Arcade: an amusement center that has coin-operated games.
That means that Babycastles is nothing more than a gathering of artfags to showcase their latest homemade parodies of genuine games.
There's an "indie" STG that it's impossible to die in (I forgot it's name), and you hardly ever have to move.
That is the kind of stripped down shit that is praised to no end for stupid reasons, such as "hidden meanings" and other such hallucinations and retardations, while they (the artfags) ignore the true works of art in the genre like they never happened. For if that crap was to be compared side-by-side with Mushihimesama Ultra, for example, the artfags would appear in the public's eye as silly as their game (assuming the general public was smart enough to recognize the difference in quality. Just don't hold your breath on that, eh?)
Just for the record, I used to be a brainwashed artfag, myself. I really enjoyed No More Heroes back in the day (I was attracted to the "violence" and "hidden meanings", not the core mechanics, and I couldn't care less about the game's lack of depth-- moreover, liking a game for "hidden meanings" is to be understood as utterly nihilistic and anti-gaming.
), when I had no idea that Ninja Gaiden ever existed. But when I got my hands on it, I never went back to NMH, or its sequel. This is how taste evolves-- I replaced a simple, ugly as sin game with something more exciting, aesthetically pleasing, and raw. If I never read that Insomnia review of the game (which offended me deeply at first), I would have never had the urge to seek out a
real 3D Hack and Slasher. NMH belongs at the very bottom of the spectrum.
"Too kawaii to live, too sugoi to die. Trapped in a moe~ existence"
