Tag: in-game decisions
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Agency and Storytelling in Video Games
Weaving a good story is a major achievement for a video game, and it seems that lately we’ve become a little obsessed with this. While we gamers still love our side-scrolling platformers and the modern versions of them installed on our smartphones, there’s been a trend in recent years: We want stories. We want cinema. This…
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Playing Telltale Games with Someone Else
Recently I played the first episode of Telltale Games’ Game of Thrones series with my boyfriend. It was difficult — first of all, because I had to wait an entire month until after we were both back from the holiday break and could play together. (He’d already downloaded it, so it was waiting in San Francisco. Otherwise,…
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Who is Renegade Shepard — and How Heroic Is She?
Mass Effect is my favorite video game series, and what I love most about it are the in-game choices you’re able to make as Commander Shepard. You can be a diplomatic Paragon or a sharp-tongued Renegade – and both are badass. You can romance your NPC of choice (or not), help friends in their personal…
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