Wednesday, November 2, 2011

How Much Can I Love Indie Games and Not Be Called a Hipster?

Is it ironic that I spent so little time editing this image or am I just lazy? Shit.
You know me guys. I'm a rabid gamer. PC and console primarily though I've had my tenure at the tabletop playing Dungeons & Dragons, Magic: The Gathering, and others. So I'm reading through all kinds of articles on Kotaku, Gamespot, IGN, etc. today about the Bethesda-Notch debacle and I notice something: most of the argument in the comment sections, especially on Kotaku, seem to be focused on the issue of mainstream games vs. indie games. As in Skyrim vs. Minecraft.

I really love indie games because they're often significantly more inspired that mainstream games. Give me Braid over Black Ops any day. That's just the kind of guy I am.

If you didn't know me at all (perhaps you don't, I generally just assume my friends read this) and all you knew about me is that I loved playing Bastion and blogging about how Beyond Good & Evil is a work of pure genius, wouldn't you assume I was a hipster? What about the fact that I just listed three indie/cult games that all start with the letter B?

Maybe I am a "gaming hipster." But then again, hating hipsters is the new hipster. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to play some more Barkley, Shut up and Jam! because it's so bad.

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