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Full headline, because yet again PC Gamer makes too long headlines/Dreamwidth's subject field is too short: "Even 'cozy' gaming's biggest fans can't decide on its definition, but they aren't worried: 'There's a whole lot of grey area, and that's what makes it interesting'"
This is incredibly timely for me, because I almost wrote a post a couple days ago ranting about this very thing, i.e. how I wish the word "cozy" would stop being used to describe video games. I went through a Steam discovery queue a few days ago, and no less than four disparate games in that particular queue used the word "cozy" in some way to describe the game. Hell, one of them used the term "cozy murder mystery." What in the actual fuck.[1]
In any case, it's just yet another example of how game genres are the dumbest. "Cozy" is simply yet another bullshit buzzword, in a growing list of bullshit buzzwords used to describe, badly, various aspects of the modern video game industry. It means nothing and is, thus, essentially worthless.
In any case, "a whole lot of grey area" is not a good thing when it comes to trying to fucking define a term. It doesn't make it "interesting," it makes it "goddamned annoying."
Or... I don't know, maybe I just hate the word "cozy" itself, in general.
[1] - That said, apparently cozy mystery is a thing even outside of video games. Again, what the fuck. Seriously, "giving a feeling of comfort, warmth, and relaxation" is decidedly not what comes to mind for me when I think of "murder."
This is incredibly timely for me, because I almost wrote a post a couple days ago ranting about this very thing, i.e. how I wish the word "cozy" would stop being used to describe video games. I went through a Steam discovery queue a few days ago, and no less than four disparate games in that particular queue used the word "cozy" in some way to describe the game. Hell, one of them used the term "cozy murder mystery." What in the actual fuck.[1]
In any case, it's just yet another example of how game genres are the dumbest. "Cozy" is simply yet another bullshit buzzword, in a growing list of bullshit buzzwords used to describe, badly, various aspects of the modern video game industry. It means nothing and is, thus, essentially worthless.
In any case, "a whole lot of grey area" is not a good thing when it comes to trying to fucking define a term. It doesn't make it "interesting," it makes it "goddamned annoying."
Or... I don't know, maybe I just hate the word "cozy" itself, in general.
[1] - That said, apparently cozy mystery is a thing even outside of video games. Again, what the fuck. Seriously, "giving a feeling of comfort, warmth, and relaxation" is decidedly not what comes to mind for me when I think of "murder."
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Date: 2024-03-10 02:50 pm (UTC)From:"Cozy murder mystery" immediately brings to mind shows like Murder, She Wrote: A charming old lady living alone in her quaint small town just writing novels and sipping tea and occasionally (once a week) solving all the murders that happen to be constantly going on around her. I can see it being a genre.
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Date: 2024-03-10 07:39 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2024-03-11 12:12 am (UTC)From:That would still make it a pretty cozy Lovecraftian horror.