December 8, 2011 Eric Swain Critical Responses, Recent Posts Better the World Think You a Fool than to Open Your Mouth and Prove It Right Tadhg Kelly is a very good marketer and a pretty good essayist when it comes to that field, but every time he ventures forth out of marketing or the cold world of numbers I cringe. A recent opinion piece on Edge is one of the bigger offenders in cringe worthiness and laughably contradicts itself so spectacularly that it almost doesn’t need a response. But I am going to respond anyway, because 1 I don’t like people constructing untruths from my former field of study and 2 as a jumping off point to clear up some misconceptions I see perpetuated mostly by accident. | more
April 14, 2009 Eric Swain Game Essays, Recent Posts The Storyline Behind Beyond Good and Evil During the game's tenure as the Vintage Game Club's focus and playthrough, a lot of the discussion focused on the story and the player's confusion that came about from it. Indeed it is confusing if you aren't playing close attention and search out many of the details from conversations. Even then you have to make a number of inferences to get the whole picture. | more