Gaming Criticism Quotes

I don't like games. You're robbing the precious time of children to be children. They need to be in touch with the real world more.

You don't own a 3DS? What's wrong with you?

Send anyone claiming that their RPG activity is an art form my way, and I'll gladly stick a pin in their head and deflate it just to have the satisfaction of the popping sound that makes. One might play a game artfully, but that makes neither the game nor its play art.

There are people who are very dismissive of games and gamers.

Games I do find interesting for what they say about us, about what we wish for, about the programming. But let it stop there: don't listen to this rubbish about them actually being good for you, helping with hand-eye co-ordination or whatever. They're games. They prepare you for nothing.

Gaming is our cultural bogeyman - we blame it for everything from child obesity to violence to short attention spans. But any explanation that fits every situation ultimately explains nothing.

I wonder sometimes why the U.S. reviewers are more negative towards turn-based battle systems.

Ay, rail at gaming - 'tis a rich topic, and affords noble declamation. Go, preach against it in the city - you'll find a congregation in every tavern.

'Grand Theft Auto', in its deification of antisocial behavior, is where I heap the most of my scorn.