Is skyrim just a game? : V

» Wed Sep 07, 2011 7:34 am

2001: A Space Odyssey was not just a movie. The Stand was not just a book. Watchmen was not just a comic. Star Trek was not just a tv show. Rancid was not just a punk band. Charlie Sheen was not just a celeb implosion.

These things were more than what was being sold. They were larger then thier definition.

They had umami.
They had a sagittarian range.
They had an aim at a higher artform than thier medium's restrains.

So I ask, will Skyrim be just a game?

OR:

Do you believe skyrim will holds it own as a viable piece of art thirty years from now, despite advancement in the industry (based on what we have seen). Like a kubrick film is never dated and is always.... i don't know... more?

» Wed Sep 07, 2011 12:00 pm

NO!!!!!!!!!!! IT WILL BE EPIC :foodndrink:

» Wed Sep 07, 2011 10:51 am

Sure, and Charlie Sheen really belongs with all those things regardless of context :rolleyes:

» Wed Sep 07, 2011 10:46 pm

Yes. All video games are JUST a game.

Those who take games into the realm of reality are belittled and mocked (cosplayers) They bring shame on themselves and their families for having too loose a grasp on reality.

» Wed Sep 07, 2011 9:51 pm

id say no
edit; to the person above me in that sense it will be just a game but the way i took it is that it wont be like any OTHER game, it will be unique, awesome, etc.

» Wed Sep 07, 2011 1:41 pm

The jury's been selected, but the trial hasn't even started :shrug:

Pretty hard to tell, eh? Were your citations thought to be great when they were released, or did they gather appreciation after time?

» Wed Sep 07, 2011 10:52 pm

Is a human just a mammal?

» Wed Sep 07, 2011 7:34 pm

It's a game just a game not a hidden message from Flopper the great Narwhale in the cosmo's, it's just a game.

» Wed Sep 07, 2011 10:25 pm

NO!!!!!!!!!!! IT WILL BE EPIC :foodndrink:

This.

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» Wed Sep 07, 2011 8:22 pm

I love your threads.

Although I didn't really like The Stand. It just kind of lost me.

» Wed Sep 07, 2011 2:45 pm

it will also double up as the ender of social lives

» Wed Sep 07, 2011 7:21 pm

yes.

» Wed Sep 07, 2011 1:10 pm

2001: A Space Odyssey was not just a movie. The Stand was not just a book. Watchmen was not just a comic. Star Trek was not just a tv show. Rancid was not just a punk band. Charlie Sheen was not just a celeb implosion.

Sure they were.

And....

So I ask, will Skyrim be just a game?

Yes.

:shrug:

» Wed Sep 07, 2011 9:13 pm

2001: A Space Odyssey was not just a movie. The Stand was not just a book. Watchmen was not just a comic. Star Trek was not just a tv show. Rancid was not just a punk band. Charlie Sheen was not just a celeb implosion.

Incorrect. Things are always what they are.

» Wed Sep 07, 2011 11:44 pm

No. It will also be my friend!

» Wed Sep 07, 2011 8:41 pm

TES isn't just a game. It''s so much more.

» Wed Sep 07, 2011 3:12 pm

Another one for OP "Tool is not JUST a band".

Anyway, I think TES as a whole is more than a game series, it has brought millions of fans together and created a community which is more than your average forum based community. We are a more understanding and considerate fanbase, we care not just about the game but the welfare of the company making it.

LONG LIVE THE ELDER SCROLLS!
LONG LIVE BETHESDA!
LONG LIVE GODD HOWARD!
LONG LIVE THIS AWESOME COMMUNITY!

» Wed Sep 07, 2011 12:05 pm

I think this is a line of thought that can easily hype people's expectations beyond the achievable. Even ignoring that point it's the sort of discussion that really works better when the game has not only been released, but has been shown to stand the test of time.

» Wed Sep 07, 2011 12:41 pm

Incorrect. Things are always what they are.

Says the human that is just a mammal.

» Wed Sep 07, 2011 12:57 pm

Says the human that is just a mammal.

I like this one... perhaps he is... more than a mammal.

» Wed Sep 07, 2011 3:07 pm

It's only epic to you if it is personally epic to you. For some it might be epic.. for others it'll be meh. .. In your list I only agree with 2001 as epic.. everything else I would say is meh.. to.. ha ha what? Everyone views things differently. I'm hoping I will think it's epic.. but the older I get the less epic things become. I blame time and my memory. Just think how much more fun and epic things could be if you could erase your memory of past events so what your doing now is all new and shiny.

» Wed Sep 07, 2011 11:57 pm

It's only epic to you if it is personally epic to you. For some it might be epic.. for others it'll be meh. .. In your list I only agree with 2001 as epic.. everything else I would say is meh.. to.. ha ha what? Everyone views things differently. I'm hoping I will think it's epic.. but the older I get the less epic things become. I blame time and my memory. Just think how much more fun and epic things could be if you could erase your memory of past events so what your doing now is all new and shiny.

Alexander the Great wasn't only great because he was great to himself.

And no, I do not have to make sense.

» Wed Sep 07, 2011 4:39 pm

I think this is a line of thought that can easily hype people's expectations beyond the achievable. Even ignoring that point it's the sort of discussion that really works better when the game has not only been released, but has been shown to stand the test of time.

Thank you, i think that was waht i was getting at in my late night stupor, will this thing stand up to thirty years of advancement in its indusrty the same way kubrick films do?

» Wed Sep 07, 2011 2:17 pm

Games are always better in your head than they could ever be in reality.

I can already see the complaints about how the game is shorter than previous titles, or how there's less content, or various other things that come with shinier graphics and more powerful physics. I'll just be enjoying it for what it is until I grow bored of it, because having high expectations for games nearly always results in disappointment.

I do think Skyrim will be good, I wouldn't be buying it if I didn't. Just what you can create in your mind and what a developer can create in their studios are worlds apart.

» Wed Sep 07, 2011 1:03 pm

Q: Is ~~chuck norris~~ Todd Howard just a man?
A: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umDr0mPuyQc