The best description of the art in video games

Great video, spidershinobi !

One argument that I absolutely loathe (and the video comments on it) is that "you only get stuck in a game, not in a movie or book" bullshit. Why? Because people who say this never read an actually hard book, like something written by, let's say, Jorge Luis Borges or James Joyce. If you skip a particularly hard page that you are not understanding, you won't understand anything else after it - so no, in true works of literary art, you can't "skip" a hard page or a chapter, and some sections of these books might be so hard that most readers will have to read them twice or more (so, these readers will be "stuck" in a hard section before continuing reading). I know that I got stuck in a lot of Borges' short stories. The same goes for a movie: if you are not getting what is going on in a scene of, let's say, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, or Amnesia, "skipping" a section won't do you any good. "Hey, but I can just keep reading/watching!" - yeah, and by the end of the movie/book, you might have seen every image/phrase, but sure as hell you won't have understood any of it. You will have to watch/read it again to understand, in the same way that, in a game, you may have to repeat a particularly hard section until you understand how it works.

The argument "only games are hard!" is bullshit. Every art has works made to be hard to the public. Challenge is more evident in video games because of the interactivity, but I argue that difficulty is present in every art form. I even think it is much harder to read through a good translation of The Divine Comedy than beating Dark Souls, two works that I find remarkably similar in their difficulty.

So screw those stupid video game reviewers that complain about hard games.

Sorry, man. Gonna call bullshit. Not all art has to be deep.

That's my nightmare fuel.

You know, Cervantes brought up an interesting point, because most of the time I don't stop to think about difficulty levels in books or music... They're certainly a thing too, but yeah, videogames do contain that side effect of rendering someone unable to see what's ahead. I still think this is a particularity of videogames, because a game such as Killer Is Dead contains that very high difficulty in ascertaining its actual plot; and that doesn't affect the difficulty in terms of gameplay at all.

But I actually disagree with you. I wish every game had difficulty levels for everyone, because if Catherine consisted only in its hard mode, I would never have finished a single playthrough in it, so I can picture those people who started Shin Megami Tensei Nocturne but dropped because they couldn't progress, aaaaaannnd I can understand if they complain about it... Likewise, Kirby games are next to unenjoyable to me because they don't contain difficulty levels that challenge us, so I don't bother with those.
Of course that it was each of their developers' choices to make those games the way they did, but I always wanted to enjoy Kirby.

Btw, I like that this kind of subject is being talked about nowadays. This is an older video focusing on multiplayer games, and I remember enjoying the analysis the author makes here:

I guess there are always Youtube videos for people who are just interested in watching the story. Youtube videos are the Cliff Notes of video games.

Oh no. You mean I liked a movie by that guy Balder is obsessed with?