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To explain how a game with such lofty credentials could be, in the playing of it, only plucky fun, and ultimately a failure for anyone with his brain turned on, a person sympathetic to its cause raises two arguments. Either, a) Irrational Games fell prey to the familiarity of its own genius. Or, b) BioShock was never a Franchise(TM). Infinite is a fraudulent qualifier to the excellent BioShock name. Infinite is a…
The Last of Us is a cynical game. I don't mean its grim atmosphere, or its gruesome setting, or its storyline. The cynicism I see is in the way the game plays, in the decisions its developer made and considered to be important. Unfortunately, cynicism sells these days, and the game's creators have found near-universal acclaim for crafting a fake, disingenuous experience that simply refashions the culture's most…
You can see it––Call of Duty: Ghosts (CoD:G) took a big step back. Gone is the photo-realistic style of the Modern Warfare series. Gone is the high-contrast look that made the franchise appear so vibrant, like battle footage shot on video with a handheld camera. It's gone. Absent. Nevermore to appear, it seems. The sharp graphics of Modern Warfare were a savior for Call of Duty fans. After another muddy,…
"Beyond: Two Souls" is a game. Seems important to say that up front, as it's been said the game isn't so much a game as a movie trying to be a game. Some will want to argue this point, raising terms like player agency in order to critique what B:TS is doing. Truth be told, B:TS asks less of the player than other games in amount of button presses, but demands more from the player than other games. It's not because…
