The Game Critique

I’m Done and Now I’m Back

I’ve been only lightly using the internet and got pretty much away from the site due to my summer class. The last class I needed to graduate. Well I passed it this week and minus all the bureaucratic nonsense it will take to transfer the credits to Boston University I am a college graduate. Hurray [...]

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What I got from E3

I know it’s kind of pointless to write anything on E3, especially after this pretty much summarizes the whole thing, but it’s my blog and I want to. Going into E3 I wanted to see only a few things: Beyond Good and Evil 2, The Last Guardian, Dragon Age 2, Mirror’s Edge 2 and anything that [...]

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Games are Structure

(Forget it, this is going up as is. – Eric Swain) My last post was really only the first half of a longer first draft I wrote on paper. When transcribing it I realized it started to meander and connect too many points, so I cut it down and resettled everything else into another post where it [...]

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4th Edition and Cooperative Storytelling

After PAX East sparked my interest in DnD and my players wanted to get back to it, I decided to give it a try. I liked the 4th edition simplification and streamlining of the rules. So I got the core books and read through them in anticipation of trying a new campaign. What I want [...]

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PAX East in 67,719 Words

I got to Boston around 3 pm on Thursday. Plenty of time for the pre-PAX meet up and Justin’s birthday. I spent some time at the Copley mall before heading up to the Cambridge Brewing Company. I got there really early, so early in fact that I sat around doing nothing and that usually leads to [...]

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SLRC – So Long Righteous Comrade

SLRC is dead Long Live SLRC So reads the title of the ever changing acronym SLRC blog. Ben Aberham if not the most prolific internet critic is definitely one of the most important. Besides his own blog he was the creator of Critical Distance, an effort to bring all the best of game criticism under one URL [...]

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Nostradamus Check Up ‘09

Last year I said I called it to a number of predictions I had made. Then in February I made several predictions about the coming year. Let’s see how I did. 1- On Resident Evil 5 I said that it would be an end to the series being about horror mostly because of co-op as an [...]

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Apologies and Clean Up

.!. For those of you following me on twitter, which I suppose is all of you given my repeat audience, you will know of my present troubles. Two weeks ago I had midterms, which took up a lot of my time. The week after that I got a horrible case of the flu that my only [...]

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Here was the Plan, Here is the Plan

I haven't posted anything for almost a month. This is not due to lack of trying. My original plan was to finish up the last of my Beyond Good and Evil related posts now taking a total of 3 month of my life to complete while the game took me less than two weeks. (Writing that post is like pulling teeth.)

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The First Step to Better Video Game Storytelling

I feel like all I’m about to do is state the obvious. A thought came to me as I finished up Heavenly Sword as my mind turned to stories in video games. Video games need stories crafted specifically for the medium. Every medium that tells stories has their own way of crafting a story. Length is [...]

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