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    Playing for the story.

    The Secret of Monkey Island (TM). As you guys pick a lot atmosphere with sticks for story where's this in the lists? A lot of bubble-gum stories, my opinion. Diversified through challenges, but inane. Like in WarCraft 3: ~"Father, I release you of your burden". Why can't good ever reconcile...
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    I have a dream...

    I dream that one day games will be to us what they are for the talented and smart people who make them. Built in four, played in five years. The sweat oozing down my brow with cognition as I marvel at the magnificent precision, walking up the ladder of infinite recursivity towards the single...
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    When did we go from "games can be art" to "all games must be art?"

    Wrong. Art is= beautiful. The multilayered progressions of color and geometry and meaning over the canvas of a Dali, for example, can be equally matched by the same phenomena applied to the primitive brain's energy fluctuations. The pixel-gut wrench must flow into cycles and have a course of...
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    When Games are Sold Like Guns: An Interview with the ECA's Hal Halpin

    The hidden purpose of abusive law is to provide a bridge towards future aberration. They will implement measures to be able to compensate for that. That's why I am against these things. At first they are a momentarily welcomed compromise, then they are hell.
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    When Games are Sold Like Guns: An Interview with the ECA's Hal Halpin

    You guys get it wrong. Censoring evil is bad, as it leads to totalitarianism. Then, totalitarianism censors evil, to give it a special place where it will grow out of sight. Censoring evil inflates it. Removing evil is good. Distinction: evil done, and evil virtual, as games...
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    When Games are Sold Like Guns: An Interview with the ECA's Hal Halpin

    This law would be great! Governments will deny, mothers will not buy, precedents will blame, everything the same, violence won't drop, government won't stop, rage will amplify, I want them to die, they take it all away, why can't I just play?
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    Video Games you cannot criticize.

    So is anybody going provide a perfect non critique to a game so we can see the game accepts the non critique and thus is above being criticized? I couldn't criticize a perfect game. I just couldn't. Oh, wait, I could. No I can't. Bah, I can. Game is an alternate reality over yours, that is...