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For the First Time, a Video Game Trailer Is Eligible To Be Nominated For an Academy Award (eurogamer.net)
For the first time in 90-year Oscar history, a video game is eligible for an Academy Award, specifically the recently-released game Everything. From a report: The 11-minute trailer for philosophical pontificating simulator Everything is eligible for an Academy Award -- a first for a video game promotion, boasted game developer David OReilly. The marketing material in question is included under the Academy's category "[best] animated short film," which it became eligible for after winning the Jury Prize for animation at the VIS Vienna Shorts film festival. Everything's lengthy trailer focuses on the correlation between the universe's smallest, biggest, and most remote entities, all while being narrated by the late British philosopher Alan Watts.
The video has not been nominated for an Oscar.
However, it *is* eligible to be nominated, which is a first for a video game trailer.
Simple English is hard.
Why are the animals somersaulting all the time? And look like freak goths? Unless the jury is seriously on some mind altering drug I sincerely hope they are running last... Yikes!
The video game is eligible to be nominated for an academy award - much like an Adam Sandler movie can be nominated for Best Picture but won't (yes, I know, one was). The narrator died 44 years ago. I would say this would have precluded him from playing the game, but based on the animation, perhaps he saw it in Beta...
Oh, whew! For a second I feard it was something with a giant green Orc raging around about honor.
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Calling Watts a philosopher is questionable at best. He read and wrote spiritualism, mysticism, and how profound an experience it was to get high.
Nothing he wrote was on any serious philosophy topic nor was what he did write meaningful to religious studies. He was largely popular for being eccentric, pro-psychedelics, and one of the first educated British men to write about eastern mysticism.
Rather clever though for ensuring his daughters own most of his copyrights. They will likely stand for over 150 years if the law does not extend copyright futher. In the running for the longest held in history.
the narrator reminds me of Oliver Postgate.
Nullius in verba
The video has not been nominated for an Oscar. However, it *is* eligible to be nominated, which is a first for a video game trailer.
So it joins a very short and distinguished list such a the classic film Home for Purim and it's lead actor Victor Allen Miller who said "It's such an honor to be almost nominated".
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for it to be pitted against a slightly greater evil
Don't give me a bullshit trailer, show me the fucking game play! As it is I wait for some other schmuck to buy (or be given) the game and makes a "Let's Play" video of it so I can see the actual game play.
Buying a game based on a trailer is no different than buying a book based on it's cover.
However, it *is* eligible to be nominated, which is a first for a video game trailer.
Which is *exactly* what the headline says, you stupid fucking retard.
If ever you need to say whole lot about not much of anything, this is a prime example of how to do it.
That was some serious artistic work in a game. The game alone could've made a pretty awesome essentially 'silent' film.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
That's OK, as someone who has seen Everything, it's also misleading to pretend it's a video game.
It isn't.
There is no objective, there is no game play. There is no overall simulation. It is a walking simulator where you can jump between "things" that you're walking around as. The things have no animations, they all just kind of roll around, and can include "everything" (hence the title), no matter how little sense it makes. Things from flies to flowers to just polyhedrons. All rolling around in a "proceedurally generated landscape" because "random" counts as a "process" these days.
I remember when the Academy charter was written 90 years ago and I bridled at the time that they explicitly excluded video game trailers. Artistic snobbery.
How about: Tumble-bears
It's unfortunate that some people who rarely see video game trailers may now think this is one of the best video game trailers (and perhaps even games) out there.
Overly wordy, slow, pretentious bullshit.
A video game trailer will feature the best parts of the game while the rest of the game will suck. Developers should spend more time focus on improving the game instead of trying to get an Academy award.
The headline was changed. I assume that was in response to the "fucking retard's" informative comment.
He's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse.
From what I could tell, it's a fancy graphics version of Spore where you can play at any stage.
A few noteworthy bits from the dialogue to be disturbed by: 1. Humans grow with a view of "me" in the world but should grow out of that into a new view. Leading into 2. Humans have no more significance than anything else, including atoms, cells, etc...
I'm probably a bit overly sensitive, but this self depreciation has been played pretty hard by social engineers over the last couple decades.
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
It was not. Headline has been changed.
From:
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To:
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Cunt.
So the only requirement for a game trailer to be in the running for an academy award is that he was tripping on acid when he came up with the idea for his game. I'm going to put that trailer firmly in the "WTF did I just watch" pile.
Not sure I approve of the clickbait title, but from my limited gaming experiences the overall game seems to be fairly original. Gotta give them some points for trying something new.
The creatures have no walk cycles; they just flip around like a toddler rolling a plastic animal around. The maps are huge but incredibly boring. It's meditation game for the autistic. Oh wait, now he's driftwood just rolling around. Change is scary. Someone payed someone a lot of money to hype this up to get attention. Games like this are nothing new, but they at least try.
For the first time in 90-year Oscar history, a video game is eligible for an Academy Award
How many video games were there 90 years ago? How many video game trailers were there 90 years ago? 25 years ago? It's not like the Oscars have been holding down the video game trailers for almost a century.
If you want to see a trailer that does deserve nomination, you should look at the trailer for Crawl. Excellent voice acting and writing, and it describes the game really well.
BeauHD. Worst editor since kdawson.
I haven't had a chance to watch this trailer yet but I thought Dead Island had one of the best trailers I had ever seen at that point in time. I've never had a chance to play the game, but the trailer was very emotionally evocative.
I had no idea they'd become so utterly irrelevant.
"Tumbling" bears (bearly...pardon the pun...one model in 4 positions isn't exactly tumbling) while listening to someone drone on is not only a "game", but something that COULD potentially be nominated for an academy award?? Wow. Manos-The Hands of Fate would be a better contender.
Agile Spaceport - You will never find a more wretched hive of scrum and villainy. We must be cautious.
It must be because of the space bears. No one has ever made space bears.
so what criteria can make video game trailer become eligible?