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  • Games That Won’t Kill You!

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    I have a new post over on Pop GO that lists 5 video games without traditional “GAME OVER” screens or horrible deaths. Instead, the stakes are different — or, at the very least, the consequences for falling in combat offer something other than death. You can read the article here! — Ashley

  • Death in Video Games… Again: Thoughts on “Borderlands 2”

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    I already posted about death in video games being unrealistic, because you can reload anytime. This was never more evident than when I recently played Dishonored, because when stealth missions failed, I went berserk, hacked at guards until I died, and then reloaded to retry the stealth approach as if nothing happened. On the other hand, XCOM:…

  • Death in Video Games — It’s Just Not Realistic

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    Watching your character die is part of the gaming experience. Even when I breeze through a game on casual difficulty, I usually have one or two deaths before I beat the game — and when I crank up the challenge to hardcore difficulty, I expect to die on a regular basis. This doesn’t happen in every game. Braid is…