Recent content by Thomas Talbot

The first game I ever played was this really obscure Ocean development game called Cheesy. You played this yellow mouse who gets captured by a mad scientist. It did this really weird thing of shifting perspectives from like 2d to 3d to first person... awesome.

Actually, comparing them to stagecraft as you say, is really really interesting. I don't know what you mean exactly by "more complex"

In case people forgot, the title of this post was "...my doubts over the great debate" not "my aggravated slandering". There has been some really good points made by people in the argument for video games being viewed as art. Some completely new to me. As I said in my initial post, I had always...

In case people forgot, the title of this post was "...my doubts over the great debate" not "my aggravated slandering". There has been some really good points made by people in the argument for video games being viewed as art. Some completely new to me. As I said in my initial post, I had always...

@Zachary You seem to think that I am somehow opposed to video games becoming art. The fact that I have quoted Ebert seems to have made you believe that I have somehow become him. All I have shared is opinion, the "dishonesty" you seem to have branded me with is a fabrication. I'll say it again...

I know that the points I am making have probably already been "done before" but they haven't been made as a collective by me. The point of this post is to share my opinion and hear others' opinions based on the arguments already out there. Most of what I said was referencing Ebert. Anyway, I...

Yeah I'm kind of expecting quite a few of those. Surprised there hasn't been any already... You interact with literature do you not? You physically read it, reading, though not the most mobile of actions is still an action. The fact that each person can react to a book or poem differently is...

Let me just start by saying that I am first and foremost a writer. Literature has always been my medium for creative expression and thus I've never doubted that what I was doing could at least be considered some form of art. The other great aspect of my life, since I was 10 and my father bought...

Let me just start by saying that I am first and foremost a writer. Literature has always been my medium for creative expression and thus I've never doubted that what I was doing could at least be considered some form of art. The other great aspect of my life, since I was 10 and my father bought...

Sorry for the double post. My internet connection is a joke.

Thanks everyone who posted and shared an opinion. I posted this this morning thinking I'd come back to two or three replies, hoping to be able to reply to them all individually. Unfortunately is not the case so I'm going to try to answer as much as I can. To those who were wondering about the...

After reading the latest installment of Ben Crowshaw's Extra Punctuation, it got me thinking on the relationship between ourselves and our character choices. I DM a group of role-players from time to time and it has allways been an interest/ habit of mine to contrast the player with the player...