What would be 'the Beatles of vidya'?
What would be 'the Beatles of vidya'?
Robert Bennett
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Dylan Ward
Id maybe? At least 90s Id. Games so immediately influential that everyone and their mom copied and improved on them so that by the end of the decade most of their output seemed rather outdated. But there's still something about Doom 1/2 that wipes the floor with everything that came after. Purity maybe? Today's Id is more like Paul McCartney's solo career.
Julian Thompson
>Purity maybe?
Your brain implant settings.
Caleb Rogers
Are you a Replican or a Replican't?
Oliver Evans
The fact that so many books still name the Beatles as "the greatest or most significant or most influential" rock band ever only tells you how far rock music still is from becoming a serious art. Jazz critics have long recognized that the greatest jazz musicians of all times are Duke Ellington and John Coltrane, who were not the most famous or richest or best sellers of their times, let alone of all times. Classical critics rank the highly controversial Beethoven over classical musicians who were highly popular in courts around Europe. Rock critics are still blinded by commercial success. The Beatles sold more than anyone else (not true, by the way), therefore they must have been the greatest. Jazz critics grow up listening to a lot of jazz music of the past, classical critics grow up listening to a lot of classical music of the past. Rock critics are often totally ignorant of the rock music of the past, they barely know the best sellers. No wonder they will think that the Beatles did anything worthy of being saved.
Joseph Reed
overrated trash that nu-hipsters claim to like so they can try to fit in?
yep that's doom
Nathaniel James
Overrated, then?
Andrew Stewart
>overrated
>hipsters like it
wait an minute
Zachary Green
I actually vote this. Both Johns are like Lennon/McCartney and the studio was fucked the moment they broke up. Tom Hall could be Harrison.
Hudson Russell
what..about this is confusing you?
Matthew Nguyen
If anything hipsters hates it because of this . Beatles was looked down on Yea Forums for years.
Brandon Carter
Final Fantasy 7
>so overrated, that now it's actually underrated
Matthew Perez
That's cool and all, but what's the Velvet Underground of vidya? Commercially a fucking failure but innovative, sets a bar for music an art form, and highly influential, to the point that everyone who plays their game went on to make their own games?
David Ross
Looking Glass Studios? Ultima Underworld, System Shock and Thief is a pretty damn good record of incredible games that were commercial failures.
The real question is what's the Captain Beefheart of vidya?
Ian Rogers
>Looking Glass Studios
That's a good answer. Very, in fact
>The real question is what's the Captain Beefheart of vidya?
I guess Drakengard? It's hard to swallow but once it clicks, you never seen anything quite like it
Brandon Diaz
Plus that quote about everyone who bought the Velvet Underground's albums all went out to start bands is kinda bollocks. Lots of artists were influenced but most people who bought the Velvet Underground and Nico ended up becoming music critics and general wankers instead. Which would make Looking Glass the obvious choice because their games are the reason why Kieron Gillen became a game reviewer, made Rock Paper Shotgun and introduced critical 'is this art' wankery into video game critique.
Daniel Foster
>that quote about everyone who bought the Velvet Underground's albums all went out to start bands is kinda bollocks
That quote mostly attributed to Brian Eno and he said it in a joking manner, which then requoted by everyone else including Lou Reed himself. But it's fucking Brian Eno, that's your proof that some people did made their own bands because of it.
Ethan Price
Angel Morgan
based
Julian Reyes
FFXV
Charles Rogers
OoT