I don't care if its right, but I hate seeing thatgamecompany. I hate their name, I hate their employees, and I hate watching them succeed. I recognize they are trying to advance video games as a whole, but I they are doing it in the wrong way and should they ever largely influence the rest of the industry, it will only be for worse.
The game I am referring to is a indie title available on PSN, and they were contractually obliged to make their third game on PSN anyway. So the money, could have just made a shitty game. But instead they made Journey, a game about running across the desert with visual effect and audio porn the whole time to keep you going. No dialogue, no story, limited game play, just a face value fuck fest. They did a good job, the game looks amazing.
Heres the problem. thatgamecompany, owners of the most contemporary indie hipster ironic pretentious company name around, are strong believers in games as art. So much so that it is their goal to prove it with every game they release. flOw, Flower, and now Journey seek to prove games as an artistic medium. HOWEVER, they seek to achieve this by the old standards of art (largely visual), rather than creating something new, not calling it art, but creating enough high quality material that is unique to video games and causes people to actually take notice.
If shit like thatgamecompany's theory on vidya infects the rest of the industry and not just the indie scene (which it already has, their idea is not unique) then games will lose any kind of individuality in media and become old and tired, until somebody revolutionizes them.
(other cases against shit industry: Skyrim, Dark Souls, Amnesia, Super Mario 3D Land, Katamari games, etc etc)
