tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3402915042780490574.post8986963565577638465..comments2024-03-28T00:13:01.688-07:00Comments on Critical Damage: Notes on Gone HomeBrendan Keoghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01772283679871140397noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3402915042780490574.post-31536846808955909822020-03-29T22:51:59.844-07:002020-03-29T22:51:59.844-07:00Great article with excellent idea!Thank you for su...Great article with excellent idea!Thank you for such a valuable article. I really appreciate for this great information. Find out today's <a href="https://www.idolbirthdays.com/" title="Celebrity birthdays" rel="nofollow">Celebrity birthdays</a> and discover who shares your birthday. We make it simple and entertaining to learn about celebrities.<br />Susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08035164273592355585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3402915042780490574.post-8774267525749459092020-01-27T03:12:15.131-08:002020-01-27T03:12:15.131-08:00Love Calculator is wonderful machine. If you want ...Love Calculator is wonderful machine. If you want to check your Love percentage click the link given below: <a href="https://lovecalculator.life" rel="nofollow">Love Crush Calculator</a>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3402915042780490574.post-16328057115015807362018-10-07T03:36:58.296-07:002018-10-07T03:36:58.296-07:00Read Light Class 10 | SEE NotesRead <a href="http://nebstudent.com/light-physics/" rel="nofollow">Light Class 10 | SEE Notes</a>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3402915042780490574.post-47851140701567156642014-01-05T09:57:43.433-08:002014-01-05T09:57:43.433-08:00I didn't play this expecting a ghost story, bu...I didn't play this expecting a ghost story, but for the sake of getting thrown into a Bourgeois environment and being confronted with the feelings of supposed "normal" people, especially towards the other "weirdos". Therefore I'm kinda disappointed when there's not only a supposed to be taboo-breaking same-sex coming-of-age of the little sister - in the end the game plays out in parallels to the short-lived but well-remembered television series "My So-Called Life" - but also a (family) ghost story.<br />Yet at first and foremost, this game is about normality and the supposed pleasures of traditional family values. And in that regard, this is probably the most voyeuristic video game ever made. "Gone Home" would be really embarrassing, if they didn't place obscure letters in the most absurd places trying to reenact a certain atmosphere of the Mid-Nineties. And these stereotypical feelings about what a "video game" would be, or how "immature" they regularly were, are also such "tropes" full of pride and prejudice - "Gone Home" may not be a "young" video game, but it certainly is a new one on very old American subject matters.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3402915042780490574.post-86886030156115996952014-01-01T14:41:26.829-08:002014-01-01T14:41:26.829-08:00Brendan,
I just played through Gone Home with my...Brendan,<br /><br /><br />I just played through Gone Home with my wife by my side last night and put "pen to paper" and put some thoughts down at <br />http://oldrustygamer.blogspot.com/2013/12/gone-home.html<br /><br />She found your blog after reading mine as a good segue for her emotions as mine is fine to be read by those that haven't played the game, but yours is good for opening discussion about the experiences we just shared.<br /><br />Cyclops or not, we enjoyed our playthrough, and had so many dark thoughts and concerns for the interested parties.<br /><br />I am going to doing a playthrough and discussion on Twitch.TV tomorrow night, curious to see if we'll have anyone who hasn't played it tune in :BGrant Ellishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03303636092209753860noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3402915042780490574.post-8727214826248170592013-08-19T16:52:13.122-07:002013-08-19T16:52:13.122-07:00jama,
While I disagree that the scares were '...jama,<br /><br />While I disagree that the scares were 'cheap' (largely for the reasons above about subverting the horror trope), you do have a point that Gone Home stands out for being decent. This game could've existed at any time in the last twenty years, as people have said on Twitter. But it <i>didn't!</i>. It's remarkable because someone actually, finally made it. Saying it isn't remarkabe because it could've been made before is like walking into an art gallery and scoffing at a piece of modern art saying, "What's so special about that? Anyone could've done it!"<br /><br />I guess, too, I am far more interested in judging games by the games that already exist, not the games that 'could' potentially exist. If everybody else is blind, then a cyclops is truly a remarkable creature.Brendan Keoghhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01772283679871140397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3402915042780490574.post-47223211379725912322013-08-19T13:09:55.982-07:002013-08-19T13:09:55.982-07:00Seriously, it wasn't all that good and the sca...Seriously, it wasn't all that good and the scares were really cheap.<br /><br />Gone Home is actually the cyclops that rules over the blind. In this era of horrible writing in games, it stands out just for being decent.jamanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3402915042780490574.post-86720121688397070422013-08-17T00:30:45.499-07:002013-08-17T00:30:45.499-07:00Weirdly enough, I've been feeling a lot of sim...Weirdly enough, I've been feeling a lot of similar things watching Star Trek: The Next Generation for the first time recently. It's such an artifact of a particular time in the late 80s/early 90s, and the way people, particularly Americans, thought about the world then. All of its approaches to race, gender, sexuality, politics, etc. are sort of weirdly out-of-joint with my sense of prevailing beliefs today. It's not old enough to feel archaic, but it's old enough to notice the difference.<br /><br />And it's interesting that you mention Metal Gear Solid, because I've written before about how <a href="http://macrotransactions.wordpress.com/2012/04/11/the-mysterious-mystery-of-metal-gear-solid/" rel="nofollow">those games seem perpetually rooted in a particular worldview</a> that surely made a whole lot of sense at the time, and if you played those games on release, but feels weirdly out of touch now.Adrian Foresthttp://macrotransactions.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com