Game Journalists Go Head to Head in 'The Metagame' 23
The Metagame event, held this past GDC in San Francisco, garnered a good deal of buzz ... even if not that many people had a chance to see it. The folks behind GameLab set up another session of the inventive game-knowledge gameshow, and pitted two pairs of journalists against each other to see who could better argue their (randomly determined) cases. The results are not only hilarious, but viewable on the MTV website.
YAWN (Score:4, Funny)
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Waste of Time (Score:5, Funny)
I didn't think either side made a compelling argument for the entire competition. I want my 20 minutes back.
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I would have utterly obliterated the arguments against Half-Life versus Halo, which is as far as I watched - the first segment anyhow. And honestly could have made a good case in the other direct
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His hair was ginger though.
Still a Waste of Time (Score:5, Informative)
Question: "Which game better integrates theme and gameplay: Adventure, or Street Fighter 2?"
Team one: "Adventure gives you...adventure. You have this, like, adventure. You get to have an adventure."
Team two: "Street fighter gives you fighting, in the street! You're fighting, in a street! And there is two of you!"
Both teams repeat themselves over and over until time runs out.
Why didn't I just give up and stop watching? Because I am an idiot.
Re:Still a Waste of Time (Score:4, Insightful)
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The arguments made by either side are completely laughable at how bad they are, and they judgement system is
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This was really bad... (Score:1, Interesting)
And I have to agree that this was really really boring. Not necessarily bad topics of debate, but awful, awful arguments.
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Wow...just wow (Score:1)
Needed a better scoring mechanism (Score:4, Interesting)
I think the concept has some potential, as people generally love getting into these sorts of arguments anyhow. It feels a bit too much like a 'beta' release at the moment, though.
Clips Removed (Score:2)
all your feedback (Score:2, Informative)
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Should it be something that offers the industry a little cachet of trendiness? Perhaps something a little more sophisticated? Maybe a good sense of humor, with an undercurrent of sincerity? I think there's room for all of these - but that th
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Crap. (Score:2)
If this is the best anyone can come up with for debating games there's little hope gaming will ever be taken as seriously as novels or films.
This Was Better at GDC (Score:2)
So... The Metagame is cool, MTV sucks.