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Re: So deep, so bald. by Vested Id 08/15/2007, 6:58pm PDT
Jhoh Clbbl O_____O wrote:

funaey arcraeds

Actually I am trying to link to the attached blog news thing section (this link probably won't work until tomorrow).

Having never played System Shock 2 - or, indeed, any game from Irrational, like other deprived console gamers - Gabriel had no idea what to expect. He wasn't prepared to to be confronted with emotional manipulation on the level that these people are capable of. I say "these people," as though they are some nebulous enemy force, but in some ways this is true. I expect to be wrung dry by these monsters and their devil priest, Ken Levine. One does not typically load up a shooter and, within the space of ten minutes, bear witness to a sobering meditation on loss.

One need not absorb that meditation, and indeed one may cut it short with violence, but most games don't even attempt to engage the player on this level. I'm not suggesting that we as gamers are affixed to a decrepit industry and that, through violent revolution, narrative power must become the only currency of the medium. But when it does happen, when a game tells a story so holistically, we should certainly recognize it.


Their emphasis.


Also: more emphases, sneer quotes, Roger Ebert rape threat.
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So deep, so bald. by Jhoh Clbbl O_____O 08/15/2007, 6:39pm PDT NEW
    Re: So deep, so bald. by Vested Id 08/15/2007, 6:58pm PDT NEW
    Listen up you fuckers you screwheads here is a man who would not take it anymore NT by Grumah 08/15/2007, 8:20pm PDT NEW
    So where does one go to see pictures of their wives? by Jerry Whorebach 08/15/2007, 8:41pm PDT NEW
        moore or pig.com? NT by Grumah 08/15/2007, 9:09pm PDT NEW
        Re: So where does one go to see pictures of their wives? by FABIO 08/15/2007, 9:10pm PDT NEW
            I would click on that but it's a Youtube, and they make my computer crash. NT by Jerry Whorebach 08/15/2007, 9:23pm PDT NEW
                Why would youtube make anyone's computer crash, that is wrong. by Jhoh Clbbl O_____O 08/15/2007, 10:02pm PDT NEW
                    I tried that, it did nothing - just like YOU. NT by Jerry Whorebach 08/16/2007, 12:40am PDT NEW
                        You're not running Netscape Navigator, right? NT by Worm 08/16/2007, 1:13am PDT NEW
                            No, Firefox, but it happens in IE too. by Jerry Whorebach 08/16/2007, 3:30am PDT NEW
            Re: So where does one go to see pictures of their wives? by E. L. Koba 08/15/2007, 9:43pm PDT NEW
                But not leave the house (that's asking too much). NT by Jhoh Clbbl O_____O 08/15/2007, 10:03pm PDT NEW
        You are right to be curious about their wives. by Quentin Beck 08/16/2007, 8:27pm PDT NEW
 
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