The Bottom Feeder

Thoughts on indie game development. Humor. General crabbiness and bad feelings.

Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Whining About Grand Theft Auto V, Part 2: Gunplay and Power Fantasy.

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Grand Theft Auto V DLC just announced. This is the second part of my big, scattershot critique of Grand Theft Auto V . (Part 1 is here ....
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Monday, January 13, 2014

Yes, It's a Game. They're ALL Games. STOP ARGUING.

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Yes, in fact, I do have Know Your Meme bookmarked. Why do you ask? I've been taking a long break playing through the dozens of unpla...
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Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Whining About Grand Theft Auto V, Part 1. Cars Are Awesome, and Girls Are Icky.

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Sigh. OK. Let's do this thing. "[GTA V] is the endpoint of the American dream." - Dan Houser , Rockstar Head Writer and...
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Friday, December 20, 2013

Games As Art, the Toughest Standard, and Not Having To Worry About Ebert Anymore.

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Art in video games is a boring topic, but it's my blog, so I indulge occasionally. For the rest of you, here's a funny YouTube vid...
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Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Katawa Shoujo, Sex Stuff in Games, and Choosing What You Are Allowed To See

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What I expected: Weirdo smut. What I got: A little box full of therapy. This is one of those blog posts it's really hard to hit the...
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Thursday, December 5, 2013

More Arguing About Women In Video Games. But This Time the Women Can Beat You Up.

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Frankly, I want my avatar to look more like this ... The argument about how women should be portrayed in video games rages inexplicably...
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Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Tomb Raider, Torture Porn, and Looking For an Audience That Exists

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Someone thinks this will arouse you. So let's talk, months late, about the recent Square Enix Tomb Raider reboot, which I played...
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Jeff Vogel
Indie development's self-declared Crazy Old Uncle In the Attic. Founded Spiderweb Software in 1994. Since then, has written many games, including the Exile, Geneforge, Avadon, and Avernum series and Nethergate: Resurrection. Has also done much writing, including the Grumpy Gamer series for Computer Games Magazine, the View From the Bottom series for IGN, and the book The Poo Bomb: True Tales of Parental Terror.
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