Unknown From M.E. 8 Bit Remix - Sonic Adventure

it's amazing how much sa2 managed to royally fuck up all of the character themes. there is not a single sa2 rendition of a character theme that is better than the original. everything about sonic adventure 2 besides the main theme is a massive downgrade from sonic adventure 1 and i don't understand why sa2 is the one that people hail as the peak of the sonic series. that's actually a lie, everyone knows why: it's the one that [homosexual slur] nintendo youtubers who only played sa2b reviewed to high heaven in the peak of gaming content on youtube a little over a decade ago. seeing as i've talked about both how mediocre i think sonic adventure 2 is and how much i hate modern game reviews on the internet i should talk about something else. has there been any neat gaming news lately? i heard that the sgf presentation happened yesterday but i just don't fucking care about that. i like geoff "kojima's bitch" "dorito pope" keighly as much as the next guy but i just cannot be asked to watch bullshit trailers for bullshit games that i know i will never ever play. japan has been making uninspired slop for almost ten years, americans have been making american video games for homosexuals and minorities, and the market has been dominated by chinese slop and pc online multiplayer games. i genuinely do not know how people can watch a video game presentation anymore and unironically freak out like a little boy about the new entry in the whatever franchise. the closest i got to being legitimately excited for a new game launch was when the mgs3 remake was revealed, but even in the case, i have been cautiously optimistic. i am not trusting of gaming companies to make good shit anymore. i want to believe that they have the capability to make good games because i know that not every employee is a soulless husk but i dunno, man. people like to point to money making and saying shit like "it's all just a cashgrab" but like, that's all that video games have ever been. fucking look at arcades, look at the sales methods that have been used since the inception of the industry. gaming has always been the ultimate cashgrab but the difference between then and now is that the people making the games cared about making good games and sometimes straight up art. this is why i like kojima so much despite how much i like to poke fun at him. all of the other big names in gaming like him are either barely involved in anything anymore (see: the famous people at nintendo) or are just straight up not at all involved (see: hironobu sakaguchi) because they left. kojima is still doing his fucking thing and he always has some kind of insane vision that he wants to realize. he may be a bit up his own ass but, in fairness, that is the exact kind of attitude that gives someone insane levels of confidence allowing him to pull off the shit that he has done. i don't like the debate of whether or not games are "art" because i think it is a bit more nuanced than that. "art" is something which makes you emote, feel, think, appreciate, or whatever else. visual arts, music, personal interpretation; all of these things (and way more) go in to video games. it's not about whether or not video games are "art," it's about whether or not the people contributing to the project are honest artists or creatives in any way. you could consider video games to be the culmination of all forms of art, but i think a more adequate term to use would be something like the "unification" of art forms; independant things come together to create something potentially greater than the sum of their own parts. video games have this extreme potental but it is scarce seen fulfilled. if you still want to look at it from the two sides of whether or not games are art in a blanket statement i guess, by this logic, video games are indeed not art. i dunno, though. i feel like saying that discounts the value in the medium and comes off as pretty shitty. i'm not some grand authority on the status of video games as art but neither is anyone else. i think looking for a definitive answer to the question is a retarded waste of time. even if video games "aren't art" that doesn't mean that they can't - through the proper usage of the mediums which find themselves used in games - make you feel in all the same ways that an independant piece of art would. have a wonderful day, gentlemen. god bless. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flRh_9h2iXg