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Dramaturgy in Video Games

Thursday, December 1, 2011

On Tuesday, Grantland published a Tom Bissell piece discussing what he views as the significant flaw in the recently released and excellently received Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.  The (major) flaw, in Bissell’s opinion, is that the game mishandles its storytelling – that it relies to a large extent on lengthy and painful exposition in PC-to-NPC [...]

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Oblivion Kinda Sucks

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

I’m some% through my second playthrough of Oblivion for the 360 and with over 30 hours of gameplay down I’m struck by a couple of things: 1) This game is not that good and 2) I have spent over 30 hours in the last month playing a game that I determined was not that good [...]

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But if they’re really zombies…

Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Video Game Allows Players to Slaughter “Tea Party Zombies” To paraphrase future President Camacho, I know s***’s bad right now, with the earthquakes, hurricanes and bitter partisanship in the electorate, but there ought to be one thing we, as Americans, can agree on: if somebody becomes a zombie, you take them out.  Honestly surprised that anyone [...]

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