Best Videogame Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Many are quick to dismiss those who pursue the arts, insisting a degree in one useless or a vow of poverty appropriate, yet wouldn’t want to live in a world without music, literature, television, or videogame.”

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Author:J. Andrew Schrecker

“An ancient gate, sealed by the powers of Light and Darkness, barred the way to the Pillars beyond. To depart this place and continue my journey, I would have to find the means to open it.”

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Author:Amy Hennig

“Once games required an actual place to play them, whether on the chess board or the tennis court. Even wars had battle fields. Now global positioning satellites grid the whole earth and put all of space and time in play. Warfare, they say, now looks like video games. Well don’t kid yourself. War is a video game—for the military entertainment complex. To them it doesn’t matter what happens “on the ground.” The ground—the old-fashioned battlefield itself—is just a necessary externality to the game.”

War Reality Games Real World Warfare Game Videogame Videogames

Book:Gamer Theory

Source: Gamer Theory

“I don't think anything really consciously went into 'Legend' that was influenced by videogames, but I'm pretty sure some of my experiences and love for gaming contributed to a few of the factors that are in 'Legend'.”

Thinking And Love Factors Legends Gaming Videogame

Author:Marie Lu

“There is a definite argument to be made that videogames are becoming an art form put together by artists of different types.”

Art Made Different Together Form Artist Type Becoming Argument Definite Videogame

Author:John Romero

“It's always a dream to be on the cover, it's one of the things an athlete always aspires to do, to be on the cover of a videogame, but I never thought I would get to do it this quick.”

Dream Athlete Aspire Videogame

Author:Dwyane Wade

“Videogames are a little more work and they're a little more stilted.”

Littles Videogame

Author:Carlos Alazraqui

“I really enjoy it - it's like a videogame on wheels. The GPS touch screen is one of the most entertaining things I've ever seen in a car. I still have a Range Rover that I don't drive much anymore, because I started feeling bad about it.”

Stills Feelings Enjoy Car Screens Range Wheels Entertaining Gps Feeling Bad Videogame Range Rover

Author:Mike Shinoda

“(UGO, about Crank) I see the addiction to video games because you want to win them and it's just hard enough so you'd want to keep playing it over and over to try to figure it out. I definitely feel the movie is like a game at times but I'm not a huge videogame lover.”

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Author:Amy Smart

“When I hear young people today complain about being bored - and the things that keep them from being bored are generally exclusively videogames and/or computer pastimes - I just try to encourage them to go outside.”

People Trying Today Young Computer Complaining Bored Pastime Being Bored Videogame

Author:Nick Offerman

“When I play videogames I'm trying to go deep every pitch. I'm definitely not going to try to do that in real life. In the (video)game I'm trying to leave the yard.”

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Author:Dustin Pedroia

“As a child growing up, you never thought about being in a videogame, then to have a game of your own and be lucky enough to set the bar with it in the gaming world, it's a dream come true.”

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Author:Tiger Woods

“I know how addictive videogames are - I have friends who cant get up off the couch because theyre so hooked. They provide these different virtual worlds that you can live in.”

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Author:Olga Kurylenko

“Digital television, satellite radio, videogames, iPods - so much media. Do books even matter anymore?”

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Author:Mo Rocca

“More and more good actors are now transmigrating into the videogame space and playing roles there because it's where my generation of kids get stories from.”

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Author:Andy Serkis

“I'd love to take a stab at writing videogames. There are a lot of storytelling opportunities that really aren't being taken advantage of in that field. I'd like to experiment with telling a truly non-linear story.”

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Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“I'd like to work with some of the videogame companies for the simple fact that they obviously need some sort of writer's help. I play videogames, and lately it's hard for me to enjoy them because I'm spending all my time cringing at the corny dialogue, thin characters, and glaring plot holes.”

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Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“As I am ageing, naturally, how I want my videogames to be played must be changing.”

Want Ageing Videogame

Author:Shigeru Miyamoto

“Videogames need more women and are too reliant on male, stubble-covered heroes.”

Needs Hero Males Covered Videogame

Author:Rhianna Pratchett

“We think we have to work because the advertising industry has elevated wants into needs. The newspapers and the television batter us incessantly with the latest "must-haves", whether that's shoes, videogames or patio heaters. As a result, mums think they "have" to work at Tesco in order to buy expensive trainers.”

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Author:Tom Hodgkinson

“The thing about the state of hip-hop is that people are too concerned. I don't think that there's a problem with being too concerned about videogames, especially for me, because I'm not in the industry. I'm just a consumer. But hip-hop is constantly like, "What are you doing for the scene?"”

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Author:Aesop Rock

“We are cannibalizing our audience by only giving them regurgitated material. Every movie is either a remake, a sequel, based on something else. Based on a former television series. Based on a successful videogame.”

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Author:Dean Devlin

“Certainly the format of ghostbusting lends itself to a videogame beautifully.”

Format Videogame

Author:Dan Aykroyd

“A God. The God. One word can make all the difference in the world.”

World Differences One Word Gaming Videogame Half Life

Author:C. S. Lewis

“When life gives you lemons don't make lemonade, make pink lemonade. Be unique.”

Giving Unique Caves Lemons Portal Lemonade Videogame Life Gives You Lemons Make Lemonade If Life Gives You Lemons

Author:Wanda Sykes

“I've been playing videogames since before my career in this business, but what happened is several videogame companies were recruiting students back then and I applied with barely any hope of getting accepted to any of the companies. However, I got accepted! Although my path was already set to become a piano instructor, I chose the path of videogames instead. My parents cried, my friends were worried and my teacher was stunned (we're talking about way back when game music wasn't as popular as it is these days).”

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Author:Yoko Shimomura

“I'd already started directing short films when we were doing 'Lord of the Rings,' then videogame projects. So Peter's known that I've been heading towards directing for a long time. But I always thought my first outing would be a couple of people and a digital camera in the back streets of London somewhere!”

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Author:Andy Serkis

“When people laugh and applaud as characters are killing each other, and you never see the body that's lying there, or you never see the family that suffers, then it turns into a cool thing to do, like a videogame. Then, when you watch the news and see that 15 soldiers were killed, you start to see them as just numbers, material, information, images. We lose the real weight and real value of one simple human life.”

“We know that drugs, sex and rock and roll stimulates something called dopamine in the brain. So do videogames. Dopamine is something that we crave.”

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Author:Devra Davis

“I think there's a lot of scope in broadening the way videogames approach depictions of masculinity, which is still extremely narrow in scope. It would be nice to see a panel about gender in videogames and it not just be about one gender!”

Thinking Way Stills Would Be Nice Approach Gender Being Nice Masculinity Scope Depiction Videogame

Author:Neil Druckmann

“Right after the 9/11 attacks I was living near Oakland in California with a buddy who had also grown up in the skate/punk scene of the 80s. We were so shell-shocked from the attacks that we sort of regressed into this childlike mode of filling our apartment with '80s memorabilia. We got all of our favorite skateboard decks off of eBay, bought a bunch of old independent trucks, we got a credit card so that we could buy 720 off of a videogame vendor, we sat around listening to T.S.O.L. and The Misfits playing 720 and pretending that we were still living in our childhood.”

“I suspect the popularity of young adults and dystopian novels has something to do with a desire for allegory and old-fashioned morality tales. In fact, you might find your religious framework here in dystopian, post-apocalyptic fiction. Here, and in videogames, you find strict codes of authority, the "rules of the game," the life-or-death quest and struggle that people crave.”

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Author:Allegra Goodman

“I think it's really cool that videogames are getting more and more sophisticated and believable, and that people who worked on movies are being asked to art direct and design video games and characters, so they look better and better. When I see Jurassic Park on the screen, I predicted that games would be able to create a virtual experience that was just as real as the movies - we're not quite there yet, but it's getting better all the time.”

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Author:Mark Walton

“I think where the criticism of videogames come from is where videogames are just Xeroxes of films, and when you get a film adaptation of that game, you've just Xeroxed something twice. I think that's where a lot of the criticism comes from - there are ultra-violent games that are already based on a million films. But there's definitely beauty and art and design in games. I don't think anybody could deny that.”

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Author:Edgar Wright

“When I was a kid, we never had a videogame in my house. But my cousin did, and each time I went to her house I was able to play 'Tetris' and 'Mario.' Those were the only two games I played as a child.”

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Author:Olga Kurylenko

“I don't want to criticize any other designers, but I have to say that many of the people involved in this industry - directors and producers - are trying to make their games more like movies. They are longing to make movies rather than making videogames.”

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Author:Shigeru Miyamoto

“When you play a videogame, you could be a completely different person than you are in the real world, certain aspects of the way your brain works can be leveraged for something you could never do in the real world.”

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Author:Christopher Nolan

“Everything we have today that's cool comes from someone wanting more of something they loved in the past. Action figures, videogames, superhero movies, iPods: All are continuations of a love that wanted more.”

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Author:Patton Oswalt

“I'd already started directing short films when we were doing 'Lord of the Rings,' then videogame projects.”

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Author:Andy Serkis

“I had never done anything with blue screen before, or prosthetics, or anything like that. Lord of the Rings was like stepping into a videogame for me. It was another world completely. But, to be honest, I basically did it so that I could have the ears. I thought they would really work with my bare head.Working with Martin Scorsese was an absolute minute-by-minute education without him ever being grandiose about it.”

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Author:Cate Blanchett

“What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.”

Men Littles Secret Miserable Gaming Misanthropy Keeping Secrets Videogame

Book:ANTI-MEMOIRS

Source: ANTI-MEMOIRS

“Being human totally sucks most of the time. Videogames are the only thing that make life bearable.”

Humans Being Human Bearable Videogame

Author:Ernest Cline

“I'm a football guy at heart; maybe I should have played football for a living instead, because I play a lot of football videogames, I'm really into them.”

Should Heart Play Guy Football Basketball Should Have Videogame

Author:Jason Kidd

“The guys from Atari that are making the next Alone in the Dark game came and we had a great meeting. I'd love to do that. I'm a fan of video games. I like them. And to get to be part of one of them would be a fun and exciting thing.”

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Author:Christian Slater

“Well, I've been a fan of videogames all my life.”

Wells Sports Fans Videogame

Author:Michael Strahan

“When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your D*** lemons, what the h*** am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life's manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I'm gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!”

“When I see myself in the videogame it's amazing how realistic I look. This is the most authentic and realistic soccer game I have ever seen. It is like I'm looking in a mirror. The attention to detail is incredible.”

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Author:Claudio Reyna

“Some trees flourish, others die. Some cattle grow strong, others are taken by wolves. Some men are born rich enough and dumb enough to enjoy their lives. Ain't nothing fair. You know that.”

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Author:John Marston

“What I created got abominated.”

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Author:Ralph H. Baer

“There should be no telephone in your writing room, certainly no TV or videogames for you to fool around with. If there’s a window, draw the curtains or pull down the shades unless it looks out at a blank wall.”

Ifs Should Writing Looks Rooms Tvs Wall Fool Draws Window Shade Blank Telephones Curtains Videogame

Book:On writing: a memoir of the craft

Source: On writing: a memoir of the craft

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