Classics: A Rant...
I’m a big fan of the classics. Classic movies, classic gaming, classic television, classic literature, classic art. But, much like the word “Hero” that was bandied about after Sept. 11 until the word had practically no meaning anymore, the word “classic” has come to be applied to anything over 6 months old. Sometimes less! How many times in a movie advert have you heard “An Instant Classic”? How the hell do they know? Becoming a classic takes many, many years with many, many people all loving it and considering it a classic together. Not because some armchair critic from the Bumf*ck News decides it for us. It’s starting to occupy that same space in our language as “revival”. We were having an 80’s revival before we were even done with the 90’s! To quote Patsy from Ab Fab: “Revival! Revival! It’s gotten so you take your clothes to the dry cleaners and when you get them back, it’s a revival!”
Now it seems Microsoft has decided to jump in on this wordplay and will be offering Perfect Dark Zero and Kameo at a reduced price (currently in the Europe only) and branding them “XBox 360 Classics”. We have yet to see a game that has even come close to pushing the limits of the 360 system, much less found a game SO intriguing as to be called even a “Modern Day Classic” (with the possible exception of Dead Rising on both counts).
If we are to go by Microsoft’s benchmark, babies are classics practically right out of the womb. By the time they are two they are antiques and by five, well they are ancient history! I shudder to think where that puts me. I’ll think about it while I’m riding my pet Raptor to the caves where I like to draw pictures of my tribes’ history on the walls.
Fruit Brute
Posted to Video Games on 28 August 2006
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Don’t forget, Oblivion. It’s by no means unpopular. ;-p Totally with you on the use of the word “classic,” though.