Article: I Hate Everyday Shooter (Inverted Castle)
"I've spent a lot of time hating Everyday Shooter.
It started as an offshoot of my hatred for the Independent Games Festival; in 2006, knowing very little about the IGF competition and "indie gaming" in general, I submitted Season Stacker, a Gameboy Advance game that I'd poured lots of blood, sweat, tears, and my own money into, and which I felt was a solid - albeit not very original - puzzle game. When the finalists were announced, I discovered that my precious little game was not on the list, and was further mortified to discover that it had been beaten out by games generally falling into two categories: games with budgets large enough that it seemed a sin to call them "indie" (like Darwinia) and games that nobody outside of academia had ever heard of or even seen a single screenshot of (like Braid). I denounced the whole IGF competition as a confederacy of dunces, and ran off to cry into a pillow."
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I was actually really excited for Everyday Shooter, and was totally bummed when I heard it was only for PS3. When I got the Steam announcement last week or so about it coming out, I practically jumped for joy. Sure, it's not perfect (why no analog shooting?), but it's a helluva lot of fun.
Posted by: Chetyre | May 20, 2008 2:28 AM
WHAT A TWIST!
Posted by: Doop | May 20, 2008 2:36 AM
this article has a twist ending.
i'm not going to spoil it.
Posted by: auntie | May 20, 2008 2:37 AM
Isn't this article mostly just inane ranting?
Posted by: Zaphos | May 20, 2008 4:11 AM
Yea so unlike the article poster dude I didn't like it but I also say that and mean it. I don't say 'I DO LIEK IT 4 REALz' after I'm done expressing my opinion should someone ask for it.
Posted by: Anonymous | May 20, 2008 10:39 AM
It turns out the real monster is Man.
Posted by: Movius | May 20, 2008 6:59 PM
Regardless of this article's final opinion, it was still really whiny. Wahhhh, my game didn't make it to IGF. Wahh, everyone is prententious!
Posted by: Zmann | May 20, 2008 11:37 PM
Love the article, I really need to get Everyday Shooter one of these days.
Along with Bullet Candy...and Audiosurf...and Noitu Love...
Posted by: sniping_dreamer | May 21, 2008 3:34 AM
Spoiler: Everyday Shooter is made out of chocolate.
Posted by: Anonymous | May 21, 2008 3:11 PM
You guys are freaking idiots. Of course the article started out whiny, that was the point. He was being self-deprecating, poo-pooing his earlier judgmental and narrow-minded views.
Posted by: Calanctus | May 22, 2008 11:35 PM