Name your favorite video game essay or review. HARD MODE:

>>385248164
Why would I read a video game essay when I could just play a fucking video game.

>>385248164
I don't fully endorse all of his work, but I have to admit that icy hit the nail on the head several times over with Arcade Culture.

>>385248651
Afraid of learning something?

>>385248858
Tell me one thing i can learn from some shitter who wants to write about a game instead of playing it.

>>385248164
>Name your favorite video game essay or review.
Spotted the pleb.

>>385249451
>>385249631
Essays aren't just those things your English teacher would make you write in high school. Essays put into words what you had somewhere in the back of your mind and make conscious things you both knew and also never knew about things you care about.
Let's take >>385248781's article: It thoroughly answers the question, "Why is it that arcade games are on average so good?" It also sheds light on the atmosphere of arcades and how they got the way they are. If you're American, which you probably are given you're posting on 4chan and dislike reading, it's an important article because arcade culture is mostly a Japanese phenomena; being American (and underage) you likely were not privy to it.

Try a couple paragraphs:
http://insomnia.ac/commentary/arcade_culture/

>>385250706
>I need people to tell me how to feel about videogames
Lol, how plebeian.

>>385250706
Why would I give a shit about the japanese homeless playing arcade games to warrant learning about them.
not everyone's a dumb weeaboo like you.

>>385248164
My own thesis.

I don't need videogame essays or reviews to know what I like and what makes a good game.

OP will forever be a pleb

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>>385251006
I guarantee it's better than your average /v/ post, which you apparently tolerate enough to regularly browse this website for.

>>385251065
Go link it then.

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>>385248164
>video game essay

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>>385251550
>I guarantee it's better than your average /v/ post
Wow you mean like, an essay would be like, written better than a reply on an imageboard? Set a near unreachable goal with that one, man.
That being said it doesn't change the fact that very few would be interested in "Japanese arcade culture" let alone video game essays in general.

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>>385251694
>I don't need videogame essays or reviews to know what I like and what makes a good game.
I read this as "I don't want my beliefs questioned for my taste is absolute and forever unchanging. I refuse to take into consideration other perspectives, arguments, and ideas, for those might lead me toward a deeper understanding of my favorite vidya. But I will read the retarded anonymous drivel of /v/!"

>>385252476
Yes that was a joke, good job. What are your favorite games? I could probably find something for you.

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I AM a pleb, though. I'm a normie. It's just that I've been here since 2007 and can't fucking leave.

>>385252864
Yep my taste is better than yours, and you didn't even need an essay to glean that information. You're welcome.

Reviews are cancer and paid.

>essay
>review

OP is the only fucking Pleb here.

>>385248164
i have never read a full vg essay or review
bet i've played more games than you aswell
fuck off pleb, you are only slightly better than e-celeb shitposters

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>>385248164
i platinumed every souls game

even ds2 though it was hot shit

>>385248164
>Name your favorite video game essay or review
https://objectivevgaesthetics.wordpress.com/2016/05/15/the-phantoms-pain-turning-venom-snake-into-the-boss-a-metal-gear-solid-v-narrative-analysis-introduction/

I'm not one to follow reviews often enough to remember any outstanding examples, but I do enjoy reading hardcoregaming101's articles from time to time. They're pretty indepth and fair to the game which is nice.

>>385252864
>that was a joke
With a funny bone that bad I wouldn't be surprised if you bust out laughing every time the wind blows.
I'm not interested in anyone's writings about my favorite game. I enjoyed the game and I don't need to read other peoples opinions on why I should or should not have enjoyed it.

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I BEAT ARMSTRONG ON REVENGEANCE DIFFICULTY WITHOUT TAKING DAMAGE
THATS ALL I CAN THINK OF FUCK

>>385248164
http://www.rose-tainted.net/ico/essays/petereliot_annotation.html
fuck, its down
did somebody save it? wayback machine gives me nothing

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>>385253541
You know there's more out there than just IGN and Polygon, right?

>>385253697
>I meticulously follow achievement guides to increase my gamerscore
>Even for games I despise, even when I stop having fun
That sounds sorta plebby to me.

>>385248164
ITT we learn OP is 1 of the few remaining hipsters out there and a true nu-male at heart who for some reason thinks faggots like Joseph Anderson and other's 5 hour long videos are not the true sign of a legit autist

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>>385254018
>wayback machine gives me nothing
Are you sure about that?
http://web.archive.org/web/20170114070157/http://www.rose-tainted.net/ico/essays/petereliot_annotation.html

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-12-13-why-xbox-failed-in-japan

There was an article I read which detailed why Nintendo dominated the handheld space with the Game Boy line (long story short, raw power means fuck all in the face of shit battery life and poor portability) but I can't find it again for the life of me. Still, the Xbox one is a fine read in and of itself.

>>385254673
thanks anon. i pasted the link but it failed to find anything. it seems i just borked it.
i'll just save it while i have the chance

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This is one of my favorite articles. It's about social games like the ones you'd find on Facebook like Farmville. It talks mostly about the business behind them and a little bit of the psychology and it's pretty funny.
https://insertcredit.com/2011/09/22/who-killed-videogames-a-ghost-story/

Zero Punctuation's review of 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand

>>385252476
>That being said it doesn't change the fact that very few would be interested in "Japanese arcade culture" let alone video game essays in general.

So what? Everyone already knows that people who play games are mostly uneducated, obnoxious retards.

You can be one of the few who want to elevate their own ideas and access new heights (and even shove those ideas down the throats of others, because how else will things ever improve?), or roll around in the mud with the other dipshits who refuse to test other peoples ideas against their own.

http://www.oldmanmurray.com/features/77.html

I can 1cc Ikaruga.

>>385248164
I beat MGS3 on European Extreme, Game Over If Discovered, with no kills, and CQC only except for bosses.

I make and play text based games.

>>385248164
Ross's Game Dungeon on Wolfenstein 2009.
HARD MODE ENABLED:
Aпoкpифы Циpюликa, Game.EXE пpo Painkiller и Battle out of hell.

>>385248164
Only meaningful analysis channel that doesn't just regurgitate surface level shit everyone knows is Core-A.

>>385257318
>Циpюлик

хaхa, плeбc!

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>>385248164
Kirby's Nightmare in Dreamland

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>>385257547
Taк и знaл, чтo пo втopoмy пyнктy вoпpocoв нe вoзникнeт.

>>385257018
How do I git good? I'm on the track to no death on the firsts level and an A rank, but those jets at the beginning of the second level just mess me up. They feel so random.

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>>385253163
Are you me?

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>>385248164
I beat this guy

With Terra

>>385253697
>>385253969
>>385257018
>>385257107
>>385259267
What makes you guys think beating something hard makes you not pleb? Winning a big League of Legends tournament is hard but it's a pretty pleb game.

I beat super meat boy

I played all three routes of pathologic.

I don't throw my controllers

I enjoy video games

>>385250706
>linking icycalm
>thinking icycalm has anything of value to say, ever
that's how you spot icycalm

>>385259870
Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

>>385259935
"Broken clock" is a bit too generous for him

>>385248164
The Paleblood hunt or Driving of the Map

>>385248164
Trick question, by answering this question you're proving you're a pleb.

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>>385248164
This is actually a really great read desu.

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2008/04/10/butchering-pathologic-part-1-the-body/