Tag: Watch Dogs

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My Downward Spiral with ‘Watch Dogs’

I’m finally back to writing my weekly posts on PopMatters, coming back with one that had been holding me back almost since I stopped writing. This was originally supposed to be a review of Watch Dogs. I had gotten a copy from Ubisoft for that purpose. But the game was taking so long to play. Every time I sat down the play, I wanted to literally do anything else. While playing the game, I wanted to stop. There would be days or weeks in between play session as I got over my aversion to it. | more

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Choice and Consequence in ‘Papers, Please’

And with this PopMatters post I finish up an unexpected trilogy about morality in video games. The original post about The Wolf Among Us was supposed to be a one off and then I would go and tackle ideas about other games that had been building up during my inadvertent time off. But then I got those comments that ignored the main thrust of what I was trying to say by highlighting a single choice from that game and so I expanded. That happened with this post as well. It’s is just a hair under 3000 words. | more