mrh… I haven’t watched any EC since what we learned about James… Maybe just this once.
Some interesting ruminations on what Genre is by examining how “Adventure Game” is being defined. This video is a follow up to a video from four years ago, which isn’t strictly necessary to watch beforehand, but if you like, watch it first.
Thanks for those videos. It’s fun to see someone looking at definitions and end up with almost exactly the same diagrams as I did with my latest video essay.
Crash Thompson talks about a favorite punching bag for music fans–Pitchfork Media. He compiles the most snobbish, incoherent articles from a few of the site’s rather notorious writers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9UW-O5crR0
I nearly bust a gut on the Kid A review.
“That guy wouldn’t know flavor if you smacked him with the colonel’s 11 herbs and spices”.
I’m dead, that line killed me.
Magdalen Rose talks about Viy, a Soviet horror film that’s actually more comical than it has any right to be. We also learn about the major eras of Soviet politics and how a work can be affected by its era.
About a year ago Super Eyepatch Wolf (who does excellent analyses overall, but primarily focuses on anime) released a video on the rise and fall of The Simpsons. Today he followed it up with another video chronicling how The Simpsons has evolved on the internet into a bizarre expression of the loneliness and futility that both the characters in the show and its audience feel, which mirrors the fate that the show itself befell as a continuous commercial exploitation.
Oddity Archive talks about Scanimate, the predecessor to CGI. This was made back in the 1960s.
This is a really good deep dive into the first Pirates of the Caribbean film.
yo, scanline is back son.
Game Maker’s Toolkit has started a new series called Design Icons, where he goes over the history of video games that were real trendsetters and still influence game design mechanics today.
Yep very excited for this series by him.
Razbuten tells the story of his wife, who rarely ever played video games in her life, expressed interest in playing Shovel Knight. This got the wheels turning in his head and he decided to try an experiment where she would play the opening segments of nine radically different games, without interference and with practically no literacy of common video game mechanics. These were the results.
I’m sure a number of us watch this Ahoy! channel, and I don’t always, but even so, the graphic design/presentation and soundtrack on this one is par excellence.