{"id":1437,"date":"2007-11-28T08:00:04","date_gmt":"2007-11-28T13:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1437"},"modified":"2007-12-04T19:44:36","modified_gmt":"2007-12-05T00:44:36","slug":"fan-commentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1437","title":{"rendered":"Fan Commentary"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently stumbled upon the work of Mark Gillespie<\/a>. He has a lengthy series of YouTube videos where he does… I’m not sure there is a proper term for it… fan commentary<\/em> for the Half-Life 2 series. His video reviews are a lot like my reviews, in that he’s talking in-depth about the experience of playing the game without trying to lead up to some sort of “thumbs up \/ thumbs down” conclusion or giving the game a number of stars rating. Where I tend to focus on technology and gameplay mechanics, he focuses more on the artistic and emotional aspects of the game, so his reviews will offer a nice counterpoint to the stuff I’ve written on the series<\/a>. <\/p>\n

I’ve created a playlist, so you can see the entire series in a single window instead of rummaging around YouTube trying to find them all:<\/p>\n

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He starts off by hitting on a lot of themes I talk about here, such as videogames as art<\/a>. He moves on to talking about the game and pointing out a lot of interesting ideas that I’d missed, or simply never given any thought. I found his work to be both insightful and entertaining. <\/p>\n

His commentary series:<\/p>\n

Half-Life 2: commentary, Part 1<\/a> (YouTube)
\nHalf-Life 2: Episode 1<\/a> (Google Video)
\nHalf-Life 2: Episode 2 commentary, Part 1<\/a> (YouTube)<\/p>\n

I should also point out that it was seeing this commentary last weekend that inspired me to make Push The Button<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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