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Since Journey has been mentioned: Dear Esther It's one of the most faithful explorations of 'games as art'. And naturally as with every other time this game is brought up in conversation, it will devolve into a discussion of whether or not it can actually be called a game. To my mind games...

This hasn't happened to me before... I don't know how it even could happen... Please help. I am trying to write an assignment, which explores how survival horror games facilitates a fear death in the player. But my gaming experience fails me, I am in need of knowing two things: Firstly...

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Mostly I think games based on established franchises which are licenced and set to be released alongside something else in that franchise fail mostly because they are not in fact trying to be good games. Most examples of that kind of game has a huge focus on delivering the chance to relive or...

About Jamie Lannister's bathtub exposition scene, and the whole question of Ned Starks being a good guy. I think Jamie sees Ned as a good guy, whom he hates because he could never live up to Ned's standards. Jamie to be is basically in love with the idea of being a knight and the principles...

AHA! I knew there was a hidden agenda about ME3 somewhere in here! I couldn't believe I was actually reading a thread which was NOT about the ME3 ending in some way. Now lets talk about how the ending ruined your romance focused playthrough. Back on topic, I played through as a female...

Hell at this rate i might just let the escapist be my case for this assignment, cultural perspectives are just as dependant on the context in which something is discussed as who is discussing it.

The usual way people think of and use the concept of ownership tens to include the idea that it is something that is applied to an individual, even in the case of shared ownership people tend to think of that state of ownership being multiple individuals. This concept of individual ownership...

Interrestingly, noone has yet to raise the idea of communism as a contrast to democracy as well as capitalism. Do you mean that communism would essentially have anarchy or perhaps some sort of hyperdemocracy where everybody is a politician?

When you qualify absence of motivation with financial it leads me to think that you believe there is some other sort of motivation at work, is this true? Or do you believe that there is nothing left to motivate people in a communist society? On a side note i believe that is exactly what was...

In Animal Farm Orwell shows what was wrong with the russian revolution rather than what is wrong with communism in my opinion. Do you really believe there actually is a need to attain physical goods? Or is this sociological conditioning? Couln't human ambition and sense of superiority be...

If you have french revolution style fear and dicipline, you end up with something more resembling Stalin's stomping grounds than anything that has ever been close to the ideal of communism. The crux of your argument seems to be that people want stuff, but the basic tenant of communism is that...

The use of past tens is interresting :). But why would the existence of a government nessecarily lead to the existence of a ruling class? Is true altruism a myth? Is government without people inconcievable? Even if the government class has to exist, why would there have to be struggle? Not...

I study sociology which basically means i dont care about right and wrong, i just care what people think. So one of the requirements for communism to work is the ability to meet everyones requirements (whatever they may be)? Or is it fundamentally impossible for communism to exist because the...

This is essentially what i think is the problem with the practical application of communism, but by the time the vanguard party achieves monopolization of power, it's no longer communism, not even in the ideals. This is exactly why i posted this on the escapist, I can't stand the stereotypical...