With my purchase of a PS3, I’ve been looking around for good games to check out, and lucky for me, Shamus just posted a video he made about the most innovative game of 2008. To do so, he backs up a bit and covers a bit of video gaming history, explaining why current generation consoles like the PS3 and Xbox 360 appeal mostly to people who grew up gaming. As usual, Shamus’ points are well reasoned and argued, and I generally agree with his points. Check it out:
It turns out that this was slashdotted today, and the comment thread for that post is worth reading too (also, the comments on Shamus’ original post are pretty good).
I’ve watched the video a couple of times now, and I really like it. Regardless of whether you agree with Shamus or not, it’s not the type of video you see very often. Recent video game documentaries like The King of Kong and Chasing Ghosts: Beyond the Arcade are great, but they tend to focus on the human aspects of video games… Shamus’ video delves into actual mechanics of gameplay and examines why video games are fun or not fun. In the comments he says he has ideas for ten more videos… and I can’t wait to watch them. Maybe he’ll even get director status on YouTube so he doesn’t have to limit his videos to ten minutes…