Snow Crash is great for its intriguing themes and sci if setting though not very character based, I was thinking about picking up his book Diamond Age too, and maybe some of George RR Martin’s sci if books.
I’ve bought a lot of books in recent years but haven’t given myself enough time to read ‘em beyoned a Bowie biography called The Next Day. After playing a bit of Cyberpunk I finally decided to get started on Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash.
His point was that games can’t be art because they are interactive as opposed to film which he feels undermines the medium the means of artistic expression which of course is just silly ignorance, and also dreadfully ironic as he has been quoted on saying “Hardly any movies are art“ a long time...
So I guess you ultimately agree with Roger Ebert then? Well that’s fine, ultimately I don’t think you are right and just haven’t played enough good games yet and books are aren’t any less or more entertainment than video games. There is a starking contrast between literary fiction, and fairy...
Many games do include great writing, if you don’t think they do then I’d suggest to play more games like Disco Elysium, Planescape, KOTOR 2, Super Paper Mario even, heck even the recent released Persona 5 Royal has some excellent writing in it. As for Silent Hill 2? The writing is absolutely...
I still don’t agree that video games have worse writing than movies or books, because it fuels a needless narrative that games needs to catch up to them and do what they do instead of doing what video games does best. It’s as silly as that time when I read an opinion Piece in some newspaper that...
I was excited for Demon’s Souls, I’m glad Jason Schrever was indeed right on the money. I also love Hitman 2016 and Hitman 2 018 so I’m all kinds of excited for Hitman 3. I‘m liking the look of games like Kena and Stray as well.
As I understand it, From Soft aren’t involved, Blue Point and Studio Japan are doing this remake so let’s hope they can match the design and combat philos of From. I hope they do have some of the game designers to oversee things at least.
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