This week, ailing music weekly the NME ran a feature on the 'power-struggle' between games and music, with some all-too-predictable shock-value reporting from ageing punk journalist Steven Wells, and some even-more-predicable quotes from writer David Quantick and the joke band Nickleback.
NME writer David Quantick chipped in with: "Games are not rock 'n' roll, they're metal – aggressive, loud, violent and scared of women. You can't dance to a game or have sex to it.
"Games are still for nerds. Rock 'n' roll is about f*****g, games are about w*****g. Rock music makes you leave the house and meet drugs, games make you stay in and smell of your own p**s."
Meeting drugs?
Leaving aside the question of why we would want to 'meet' drugs, NME amazingly undermines its own threadbare argument by quoting joke band Nickleback's Chad Kroeger, who urges "ver kids" to "start rock bands... set down the Guitar Hero, learn how to play an actual guitar and start a band..."
TechRadar cannot put it better than the Guardian's Keith Stuart's quick riposte, with the veteran gaming journo noting that: "Personally, I feel that if Guitar Hero has prevented the foundation of just one new Nickleback-inspired band, Harmonix, the creator of the Guitar Hero series, should be given some sort of medal."
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tech89
December 9th 2008
5. Why do people care less whether someone plays a game (involving music) or an actual guitar? Who honestly cares. A waste of NME article space for the magazine.
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zoydwheeler
December 6th 2008
4. Is there a link to the original article on NME.com or anywhere else?
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stevenwells
December 5th 2008
3. Adam, you are a very naughty boy. Not only have you not read the original article, but you've written an attack on that article based on an article about the article. What you need to do now is read the original article, and then apologize to the author you have so horribly misrepresented. And then, of course, you need to say sorry to your readers for misleading them. Next time, don't be so lazy.
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troyhark
December 5th 2008
2. Seeing as Quantick often and rather obvously writes satirically, I think the sense of humour train left the Guardian standing on the platform here.
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machead29
December 5th 2008
1. is this really a big deal? im with the nme on this one - want games, **** off to gamesradar
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