Tag: Tom Bissell

Awesome Article, Shame about the Joke

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 […]

Awesome Game, Shame about the Dialogue

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 […]