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If today’s videogames are the bloated, unattractive, past-their-prime but still touchingly vulnerable men who frequent massage parlors, game reviewers are the bored women who try listlessly to appear enthusiastic as they snap on the rubber gloves in order to get to the happy ending over and done with as quickly as possible.
Archive for the ‘Games and Writing’ Category
Our Plays Are Numbered
Posted: March 15, 2012 by Twitchdoctor in Games and Marketing, Games and the Media, Games and WritingTags: Chuck Klosterman, criticism, Doom 3, game reviews, IGN, Review, Video game
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A Few Thoughts on L.A. Noire
Posted: June 21, 2011 by aegisfang in game design, Game Genres, Games and Writing, New MediaTags: game reviewing, gameplay, videogames
In the month or so since L.A. Noire has come out, I have read review after review proclaiming it to be a revolutionary game. I have heard this before. Reviewers call games genre-changers or “like nothing I’ve ever seen before” or innovative or even, if you’ll excuse the terrible pun, “game-changers”. I hear this yet [...]
The Critic versus the Consumer
Posted: March 25, 2011 by Twitchdoctor in Games and Life, Games and WritingWhen everything seems to be going pretty well in my research, writing, and teaching worlds it is usually a sure sign that the bottom is about to fall out of something. Or maybe everything. Sometimes, however, it produces a productive overlap where my teaching helps shape my writing and research agenda which in turn helps [...]
