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Feb 6, 2017
For a long while now I've been using Giant Bomb's lists feature to keep track of my collection of games and provide a brief, ~100 word review of each game as I played it. Since I also used to maintain a blog on a private website, I would carbon-copy a lot of the articles I wrote there onto the GB profile blog for the sake of completeness and discoverability. Well, the private blog site has shut...
Apr 19, 2015
If you’re uninitiated, Metal Gear Scanlon is the Giant Bomb premium video series in which Dan guides Drew through the MGS games. Drew is unutterably abominable at them, so the videos are oft painful to watch, but they have provided me with a special opportunity to develop unwarranted opinions about games I have never played. Somehow, I’ve managed to figure out why the series has achieved critic...
Apr 19, 2015
Extra Credits posted a follow-up video to that earlier collaboration where I thought some of their observations were getting things backwards. Here, EC covers a lot of the same ideas (and explores some other ones), and I feel tremendously vindicated. Alright, so, I said most of what I wanted to about this back then, so I’ll try not to just repeat myself. Instead, I’d like to point out that desi...
Apr 19, 2015
Extra Credits did a collaboration with Idea Channel to make this video about the weird phenomenon in games where people completely forget “what the game is about” (i.e. the narrative, subtext, et cetera), because they only engage with the mechanics (since those are fun, elaborate and demanding). It’s a really great and important thing to realize, but he goes awry by suggesting that mechanics ar...
Apr 19, 2015
As much as I adore Slender: The Eight Pages and Slender: The Arrival , and consider their core mechanic a masterwork of horror, the fact that there’s relatively little to them other than that mechanic (or variations thereon) leaves something to be desired. The missing component of those games, featured in most other Slender mythos stories, is investigation: the protagonist’s attempts to underst...
Jan 13, 2015
As an artform, games have more in common with music than they do with cinema. If you’re making a tabletop RPG, you’re often creating a set of guidelines that will let a group of people tell a story together. The rules of these games help decide what’s canon and not, and often provide a little creative input, but the real power of tabletop RPGs is the ability of the players and game masters to t...
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