Game Connect 09: What I Hate About Video Games

...easy to criticize and to condemn and I'm sure this was meant to be entertaining if not insightful (although Jason's opening contribution was both qualified and hit on a number of very salient points). Panel contributions were generally interesting. However, Yahtzee, tho a genius at prepared reviews really does not translate well into live delivery. It just doesn't carry or actually mean anything - clever or funny.

Thanks for the video + great to hear from the panelists.

It seems that they're all talking directly or indirectly about game design as the thing in games that they 'hate'. Jason speaks about all the external conditions that lead to bad game design from publishers and developers and how being overly "conservative" is starting to wear thin. Yahtzee jokes about Natal and refers to the reductive and poorly considered game design for Wii motion controls, and finally the Game On hosts bring up game specific issues which are kind of hangovers from using archaic gating and bad meshing of game + art design. What do others think?

-- Chuan