{"id":84,"date":"2005-04-29T20:47:15","date_gmt":"2005-04-29T23:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=8"},"modified":"2005-04-30T00:03:38","modified_gmt":"2005-04-30T03:03:38","slug":"starship-troopers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=84","title":{"rendered":"Starship troopers"},"content":{"rendered":"

I<\/span><\/p>\n

read Dvorak’s pessimistic editorial<\/a> about the state of game development. While I agree with his basic conclusion that ‘it’s the same game over and over’, I’d like to add that the same is true for movies<\/em>. Back in the days, there used to be a BASIC programming book that showcased the RND function by generating random Hollywood movie titles. There’s probably a dozen of those on the web<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The only criticism I have on game makers (and publishers) is that most of storylines of their games plain suck<\/em>. There are some exceptions: think of the games that are published by LucasArts for example.\n<\/p>\n

But going back to Dvorak’s text, where he compares the quality of games with the movie ‘Starship Troopers’<\/a>:\n<\/p>\n

 “If you want to see exactly how inane this is, go out and rent the brain-dead Paul Verhoeven film, Starship Troopers. The movie stank so bad that nothing came of it after its release. It’s essentially a video game turned into a movie\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u009dall the elements are there, including an idiotic “boss” that is just some huge flabby bug\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u009dand it shows you just how lame these games actually are.”\n<\/p>\n

Actually, ‘Starship Troopers’ is a brilliant satire on the military and society. Most shots intentionally were shot in ‘Triumph of the Will’-style showcasing the uselessness of war with dead-pan comedy. Not to mention the constant drill of ‘commercials’ and ‘news flashes’. Watching the war in Iraq unfold, a couple of years ago now, I frequently thought about this particular movie. It took that many years to learn to appreciate Verhoeven’s approach in ‘Starship Troopers’.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I read Dvorak’s pessimistic editorial about the state of game development. While I agree with his basic conclusion that ‘it’s the same game over and over’, I’d like to add that the same is true for movies. Back in the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}