Game Devs on Ebert's Put-Downs

Gamsutra has a writeup of a recent Austin Game Developers meeting. Damion Schubert, Allen Varney, and Scott Jennings took the stage to discuss games as art and Roger Ebert's opinions. From the article: "McShaffry then asked the panel to consider whether Ebert was picking on youth culture in general, and assuming technology wasn't an issue, whether popular games like Grand Theft Auto would be played 500 years from now, like the works of Shakespeare are enjoyed today? Jennings didn't want to speculate that far into the future, but he admitted to still playing and liking the Final Fantasy games released for the Super Nintendo."

Head-scratcher

[White Gold Wielder]

Is Roger Ebert art?

Older than America

[tepples]

And what's the deal with the "500 year standard"

Double the age of the United States of America, rounded up to the nearest century, is one conception of an upper limit on what constitutes "limited Times" under the Copyright Clause of the U.S. Constitution.

Well the answer is No, but Tetris will survive

[WillAffleckUW]

I expect the version of Tetris to survive will be the one in the Monty Python and the Holy Grail game, where one piled dead and dying corpses on top of each other, some ... well ... not quite dying as in "I'm not dead yet.", "I'm feeling better."

Re:Gonna say "No"

[Anonymous Coward]

But there will always be paper.

Definitely.

Ever tried wiping your butt with a floppy disk?

Re:Gonna say "No"

[Skynyrd]

Cervantes wrote Don Quixote, then an imposter wrote a sequel (really).
To keep it from happening again, Cervantes wrote part III and killed him.

Oh yeah, baby. A pointless degree in Spanish Lit finally pays dividends on Slashdot!!!!

Ah, but this raises the question:

[I(rispee_I(reme]

What about a mod for GTA that has the characters enacting Hamlet?