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Originally Posted by FanIn80
...or is it instead, that you can't create a thread on this board about something without the first 3 posts being sarcastic drivebys?
Anyway. It's not that big of a deal. It's not like I expect this comic thing to change the universe... I just thought it was kind of interesting, as I hadn't really heard of anything like that before. And it's not like there aren't people in the world who read comic books and play video games. To act like this is all some kind of ######ed paradoxical concept is really just asinine at best.
I don't care if someone doesn't like something else, just don't be fake about it. It doesn't take a degree in rocket surgery to connect comic books and video games together.
(And no, this doesn't make me a fanboy. It just makes me a guy trying to have a conversation.)
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Even if the first few posts were made with some humour/sarcasm, they were not directed at you until you bring up the point that videogames and comics naturally go together or start defending the idea so vehemently. You have to stop taking things personally. It seems the majority of people in this thread really just do find this idea just absurd, a real WTF moment as it almost reads like a joke about how to further celebrate videogame self-absorbed culture. It may just be indicative of the attitudes of this particular community.
You keep saying you're just a guy trying to have a conversation about cool stuff but the moment people don't agree that something is cool (usually an Apple related product or news item), you take it as a personal affront. That's not an objective conversation. People have different tastes and opinions. On a general forum like CP, many people simply will not agree with your tastes or sensibilities and find your idea of "what's cool" to be baffling and vice versa.
You are arguing that videogames and comics go together but you are conflating pop-culture medium and content. Comics are art, literature, narrative. They are stories that are new to you, a novel experience when first picked up to be read and enjoyed like a new book. A videogame comic in this context is nothing but a computer-generated gallery of screenshots of you playing a game that you have already completed. A celebration in pictures of your adventures sitting on the couch. It's like owning a DVD of a movie and then buying a book of pictures of the movie you just watched with speech bubbles tacked onto it when you could just watch the DVD over again. It's pointless for most games and quite possibly mind numbingly repetitious unless the application has control of the game engine in real time and can render alternate camera angles aside from the default player view and remove the HUD/GUI. If that app was really that powerful, then it could be on to something but I don't see that happening or developers allowing access in that manner.
This is just my opinion but I'm someone who never watches a movie twice unless it is a really good movie and the same goes for most games and comics as well. I rarely watch/read/play anything twice and have absolutely no desire to revisit things because there is so much more stuff out there to consume and too little time. There may be a market for this sort of thing for people that like watching videogame replays of themselves. We'll call it iMLazy or iNarcissim. Who knows.
