People are reviewing it as garbage, but giving it 5+ stars? Cmon, little bit of logic here.
Some documentaries are well done, although decent video game oriented documentary does not come to mind at the moment, and some are garbage, like this one.
People selected to be featured in this documentary were badly chosen. Phil Fish is known drama queen of indie game community. Guy threatens to kill himself every other week, just like he did in this documentary, then doesn't. He has some sort of mental issues and I do not want to make fun of him but I also do not feel he should be used as representation of indie game developer as its insulting to the community.
To prove my point, Phil Fish stated he would kill himself if he does not finish sequel to Fez, ... then just ... nothing. He just quit. Its not that I wanted guy to kill himself, but if he was that adamant he would finish Fez sequel, then he should have finished it. I would not have played it as I did not like Fez, but this way I just lost all respect for the guy. He left all of his fans hanging and is not nothing but a butt end of the jokes all over internet.
The other guys featured were equally disappointing. Edmund McMillen just makes games that are perhaps suited to be free on Kongregate and ad supported, but there is no way I would ever deem them worth paying for. On top of that he seems intent on making himself sound like rejected weirdo during the course of entire documentary. Its like he just keeps screaming "look at me, I am different", problem is, it does not come off as a positive thing.
Unless you know who people featured are, or are interested, I would give this one a pass. Even then, it is one of most boring, uninformative, documentaries I've seen recently. If you want to know about topic its more productive to hit forums or just contact few indie guys on Facebook. Seriously.
Some documentaries are well done, although decent video game oriented documentary does not come to mind at the moment, and some are garbage, like this one.
People selected to be featured in this documentary were badly chosen. Phil Fish is known drama queen of indie game community. Guy threatens to kill himself every other week, just like he did in this documentary, then doesn't. He has some sort of mental issues and I do not want to make fun of him but I also do not feel he should be used as representation of indie game developer as its insulting to the community.
To prove my point, Phil Fish stated he would kill himself if he does not finish sequel to Fez, ... then just ... nothing. He just quit. Its not that I wanted guy to kill himself, but if he was that adamant he would finish Fez sequel, then he should have finished it. I would not have played it as I did not like Fez, but this way I just lost all respect for the guy. He left all of his fans hanging and is not nothing but a butt end of the jokes all over internet.
The other guys featured were equally disappointing. Edmund McMillen just makes games that are perhaps suited to be free on Kongregate and ad supported, but there is no way I would ever deem them worth paying for. On top of that he seems intent on making himself sound like rejected weirdo during the course of entire documentary. Its like he just keeps screaming "look at me, I am different", problem is, it does not come off as a positive thing.
Unless you know who people featured are, or are interested, I would give this one a pass. Even then, it is one of most boring, uninformative, documentaries I've seen recently. If you want to know about topic its more productive to hit forums or just contact few indie guys on Facebook. Seriously.