Fire!

in my opinion colored fire kinda messes up the atmosphere and as i wright this i wonder if any one really appreciates the mood fire sets in a lot games.

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I had almost forgotten about "the art in gaming" parts of screwattack. It has been a long time since the last one. This was a good view of fire in gaming with lots of games depicting it. Only scene I was surprised to not see was the FF7 Sephiroth scene.

i speaks to our instincts.. even very young gamers know that fire almost always takes your life away in a game..

in the new Alone in the Dark video game
Fire is your best weapon and it also can be your worst enemy

This seemed like such a good idea with no real in-depth analysis. It felt like an essay that didn't have any body, just an introduction and a conclusion. The last part with the different examples was the best and most interesting, otherwise this could have been done a lot faster with the description: "Images of fire in games". I would have liked to see some game-specific examples and comparisons, showing the progression literally in say all the Zelda games. Also TERRIBLE choice of music, JEEZ. If you picked a Hendrix song why was it "Purple Haze" and not the obvious choice of "Fire"? And what a terrible slow minor key orchestration of it on top of that! It would have been cute to play a LITTLE bit of "Fire" at the beginning but pick something that suits the mood of the story you're trying to tell, the music did not suit this video at all. If I'm coming off too harsh, this just rubbed me the wrong way the entire time. Easy answers and missed potential.

Honestly this felt it was made quick and without care.

Boring voice longs silence and loads of ugly fire movies.

Next time try to take a game with class, Shenmue now there is loads of art there.

I liked this art in gaming a lot. The last lines especially were really well written and time nicely with the video. I just have to agree with a previous poster there was one key scene missing. Sephiroth emerging from the flames. I'm not an ff7 fanboy, but I have to admit that scene was epic and one of my favorite video game uses of fire.

Makes me feel all FIRED up!
It's really a BURNING sensation.

I must say this video is pretty HOT.

Were those some Jimmi Hendrix tune i sensed in there, sounded like All Along The Watchtower and Purple Haze just done with a horn section.

Pretty good, but it's almost criminal that he forgot about what is probably the game with the best representation of fire seen to date, Battlefield: Modern Combat for the 360. I swear, the first time I saw something on fire I literally stood there, just watching, while getting pwned.

i saw this a week ago :D

I'm suprised he didnt talk about "next gen" fire like in Far Cry 2 were is spreads and creates forest fires in real time.

That is a rather interesting version of Purple Haze, where can I get that version?

I think this show is awesome.

Some, however, will only like it if the show is renamed to, "The Angry Fucking Art of Gaming Nerd"

What game is being displayed at 1:10? I remember playing that awhile back. Its the one with the guy with blond hair wsith the sword and the big monster in the Back.

Love the Jimi Hendrix in the background! Keep 'em coming.

Very informative and edumacational. I know feel 17 times more intelligent than I did five minutes ago.

Purple Haze made classical and symphonic? Win.

I really dug the orchestrated version of Purple Haze in the background!

Never though about fire in gaming THAT much, but it all makes sense now.....

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Freakin' loved the music as you may or may not have deduced. Where can I get that?

Quite a good episode, I thought you could of talked about which games incorperated fire well or differently.

Rather than repeat the feelings that fire can give us.

Also everytime I see GTA anywhere I want to play it.

I think the worst fire obstacle is the Tomb Raider series. If Lara touches fire, you'll burn and die.
Hate it.

It didn't seem to focus much on the "gaming". I felt likle he was describing what fire can do in real life.
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The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time had one of the greatest fire level(s) ever...

awesome video...

Glad to see that this is back, it's always good to see video games in a different light.

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I love the art of gaming.

As my Title says, this Art of gaming hasn't been the best I've seen...

It was Kinda slow, with a doubtful choice for the musics. No explanation about symbolism, except at the end (wich was Good by the way) no real comparison on each generation/consles/franchises, no must-be-seen fires.

It could have been a lot better, or at least a lot shorter.

I vote two Screwies for this one...

Alone in the dark.
That game is built around fire, every trailer has fire in it.

at 1:09? Looks cool.

I was starting to wonder whether or not you guys were going to continue doing this. Love the art in gaming. Keep it up!

Definitely a new take on the word. Interpret works too!

I've always thought that the mixing of the audio for The Art in Gaming was a bit a loose, and this one really was. I'm just too nit picky, but a bit of hard limiting couldn't hurt and perhaps some vocal compressing and mixing with the music, but hey good video even so.

Almost every Mega Man game has a fire level.

Fire Man
Heat Man
Flame Man
Burner Man
Flame Mammoth
Flame Stag
Magma Dragoon
Burn Dinorex
Blaze Heatnix
Flame Hyenard
Burn Rooster

It was okay, although I kinda expected more detail on the graphical side of things. Why does the fire in Bioshock look so much better than the fire in... ugh.. I dunno. Insert game with not very good fire. You get what I mean.

But hey if you were going for a more "how it sets the theme" then that's fine as well. How games are designed rather than how they work. In fact, that's probably what I should expect from this show, it is called the Art of Gaming after all.

I think that was the first game I saw fire in a game. The first level of TMNT 2 the one that was in the arcades and for NES...and now live arcade :P classic game :D

Can't believe they didn't show a clip of the fire plasmid in bioshock, they should have showed the little animation when you first get it.

Warning fire spreads.

My first time watching The Art of Gaming and it was more than what i expected. man fire has come a long way and for me the best looking fire is in GTA 4. Love the show and can't wait for the next video.

indeed fire is a great representation of many things and graphics from games have made it life like now. You should do water for the next show, the reflections and waves even to ripples are indeed impressive as fire

yeah fire is cool

but what about ice?

Such as a detailed look at the evolution of fire from 3 framed animation to full-on particle effects...

....highlighting particular innovators and stuff like that....

Its always nice to see the art in gaming come on the scene and Give us a little reminder of the Inherant expression in video Games.

Wow, that insight was very interesting... Not

That was a pretty cool video. love the flames of war pics.

Nice job dude, these art in gaming things are pretty interesting and its funny to see how much the element of fire has come from early spirtes and 2 tone colours....

Though when talking about fire i'm suprised that Bioshock want mentioned, the fire at the beignning of the game is awesome, even if the game is shit.....

To be honest, I really felt like he was saying the same thing over and over again. It just kind of seemed like he told us that fire is good and this is why, fire is bad and this is why, but he didn't go any further than that. I mean he could have told us about lighting and he really could have told us more about the advancements of fire through the ages.

Plus, why Purple Haze? That just seems so random.

I also would have liked to see some scenes from F.E.A.R., that game uses fire so well as an instrument of horror.

As many of you pointed out the tune is Purple Haze performed by a specific orchestra that has lent their talents to the gaming realm before (this episode marked the anniversary of the Art In Gaming. If you check out the first one you might figure it out). You can also get the tune from the official site, but you will have to do some homework if you want it.

Yes, there are lots of games with fire. I see that some of you mentioned not seeing some memorable scenes, but damn..there are just too many! I must say thought that I'm not shooting for imagery of specific popularity, just examples.

I saw a couple mentions towards there not being side by side comparisons or an evolutionary look at fire. As I mentioned in the preview a while back the focus was on HOW fire is used in video games. Even so, there still is a nod of comparison along with a dash of evolution in there.;)

Voxels and Polygons are planned for the future, but an episode of Master Koga may appear in before then.

and pointless. I mean, who cares that fire brings various moods.

The fire in Call of Duty 4 doesn't burn. So you can actually use it to hide in. Guess they missed that kind of detail, or they just didn't care.

Did anyone besides me catch some of Jimi Hendrix's Purple Haze in there? right around 1:00? anyone?

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