Getting Older

Mephisto Mori/ August 4, 2013/ Video Games/ 0 comments

A Screen from E3 2013 Reveal

A Screen from E3 2013 Reveal

It’s no mystery.  I’m not in high school.  I don’t say the words “yolo” or “swag.”  I’m getting older.  I run a video game blog site and tried to start a nerd national holiday.  I would say I’m pretty in touch with my inner child.  Still moments come along on occasion to remind me that I’m of an older generation of nerd.

The old nerds I looked up to in my formative years, those 1st Ed DnD players and people that spoke Klingon, had moments when talking to me that showed our gap.  Most of the time video game discussions show my turbo nerd status or elitism.  They don’t often make me feel like I’ve lost touch with younger gamers.

Today a Facebook ad smashed through my LED monitor, wrecked my living room, and informed me there is a generation gap I should be aware of.

A teaser for the upcoming Mad Max game (scheduled for a 2014 release on all current and next gen systems) described its premise.  It promised a  post-apocalypse setting (duh) and called itself an open-world shooter.  Rage, Borderlands, and a multitude of other titles have been paying homage/ripping off Mad Max for a while now (whether the former or the latter depends on if you liked them).

I agree, Avalanche Studios, my PC/Console should go Mad in 2014.  Game might suck but I support the decision.

Then the ad described who Mad Max was. Who the fuck needs to be told about the Goddamn Road Warrior.

Here’s my revision to your ad:

“You play as Mad Max and kill 1980s punk rock assholes with a death boomerang and variety of sweet shotguns while driving a sweet ride.  Remember the movies? It’ll be that awesome.”

Please replace your two paragraphs describing who Mad Max is to children.  I wasn’t born with the first movie came out but I watched them after-the-fact like any good Sci-Fi nerd that misses something awesome would.  (Ahem, Star Wars).

Furthermore the following paragraph justifying why Max deserves his own game when Borderlands and RAGE exist is insulting.  The Road Warrior doesn’t need to justify himself to people that play Call of Duty and say shit like Yolo.

I have some advice (hopes actually since it’s so late in development) for Mad Max the video game.  Watch all 3 movies, listen to Ministry, and make a fucking game.  Take the good from the games that cloned your setting but find your own identity.  Don’t take yourself too seriously.  Have fun but avoid the parody of a parody trap.  Above all remember death boomerangs.

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