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While I have enjoyed Fez, Braid and Super Meat Boy, I cannot say that I am all too excited to watch this movie.  In some ways I think that I would prefer watching a movie that focuses on the technical side a little bit more.  Especially since the developers sound somewhat unrelatable.

I'd like a movie focused on the technical side as well.

As for the developers, I found them fairly relatable. Blow's commenting on blogs/reviews was dumb to me, but in interviews he seems like a really nice and calm, normal guy. He might just not communicate very well through text, and I know how that goes. I know Fish has become a bit antagonistic on the Internet himself, but when he gets upset in this movie, I totally understand why and I can see where he's coming from. As for the Super Meat Boy developers, I didn't really have a problem with either of them, except that Refenes is weird. McMillen's actually fairly charismatic, even though some games they show he designed previously are definitely out there and a bit gross, even for my tastes. 

But as I said, it's not the greatest thing ever, so if you skip it, you won't be missing out on an epic documentary or anything, I just found it interesting. Plus, I could relate with their struggles after having some of my own that also involved staring at computer screens. 

I watched this movie a few months ago. I think my enjoyment of it was hampered by the inclusion of Phil Fish (who I still think is just a huge jerk). I found the other two stories interesting enough though. So I walked away with a similar reaction as you did, it was good but not great. As a video game-documentary, I don't think it comes close to being as good as King of Kong.

I wish Netflix had King of Kong. I really want to see that one.

I enjoyed this movie quite a bit. It certainly made me appreciate the crap that Indie developers go through. At one point it seemed like Phil Fish was gonna kill himself over that damn game. I'm looking forward to playing Fez. I bought it a while back, but still haven't played it for some reason.

It made me appreciate what they do, for sure. And I hope never to have their jobs. lol I need to pick up some of these games myself.

I remember this movie now! I thought about watching it too on Netflix but when I saw it was about the creators behind games that most now use as examples of "games as art" debate I quickly lost interest. It reminded me of thos independant films that showed up and coming artist being all pretensious snooty about despite their success, no one couldn't understand them or their true meaning of their work.

I didn't get that impression from the Super Meat Boy creators. McMillen was weird and his older game ideas were kind of gross, but he seemed like a really cool, normal dude. Refenes was a bit more abrasive, but honestly, I don't disagree with his assessment of many modern games being shit. They definitely never presented their game as high art, either, from what I gathered. 

As for the other two games and developers, I thought Phil Fish had pretty much the reaction most people would if they were in a situation as stressful as his. I can definitely see how Fez could be seen as an art game, which doesn't bother me, but I don't think he was being overly pretentious about his game from that angle if that's what you were worried about.

Jonathon Blow on the other hand, yeah, he literally told people who gave his game positive reviews that they didn't "get it" so I imagine you wouldn't like him. 

I think it's worth starting up on Netflix and giving it a chance, though. If nothing else you can stop it or skip scenes if you don't like it.