The art of creating characters in video games is neither objectively new, nor even new to me. I’ve been messing around with video game character creation suites for decades, though I certainly never thought of it as art. I think the most common use for these creation tools […]
At his Invincible Super Blog, Chris Sims has some trouble with Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim and compares the game to Assassin’s Creed 3: Brotherhood and Fallout 3. “What’s the point of giving you an overwhelming amount of content when none of it matters?”
Shamus Young over at Twenty Sided takes a look at the odd Thieves’ Guild quest in Skyrim: “The Player is railroaded into accepting this idiotic sequence of actions, is prevented from asking reasonable questions, and is forced to ask stupid ones.”
In his piece about Skyrim, Tom Bissell made a joke about “adult women” not knowing what the game was. He apologized on Kotaku: “Do I loathe people without senses of humor? Very much so. But what I loathe even more is people who thoughtlessly propagate stereotypes and fall […]
Tom Bissell over at Grantland loves Skyrim the game… the exposition-spewing side of Skyrim not so much: “Dense expositional lore has no place in video-game stories — especially stories that go without highly wrought cinematics — and it seems increasingly clear that video games are neither dramatically effective […]
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