Recent content by Witney

This was said up top: "But apparently, getting frustrated and using the same approach is their idea of "fun." They say they like to "learn in the heat of battle" but all they're really doing is learning a few attacks/combos and then using those few moves over and over and over... This...

I've watched a few videos on The Escapist by Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw, and he seems especially focused on what a game's story is, and the disposition of the characters. A video game-loving friend of mine feels the same way, and argues that games are artistic and emotionally edifying because of...

"When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things."

Not that you'll forswear video games at age 32. I imagine, though, that's when you'd lose interest.

I have a nephew who is 7, and he's just beginning to play video games. I was about that age when I started, but, even in retrospect, that seems a little early to lose one's self to hours of TV viewing. 8 I think should be the cutoff. You may continue to play video games for the rest of your...

I'm not sure if kids these days still buy entire albums, but this is still a fun topic to reminisce on. My first album was "Weird Al" Yankovic's "Dare to Be Stupid." I was 8 years old. I bought it on cassette from Record Surplus in Los Angeles.

Traumatic amnesia.

Games are better without plot anyway. Stories only get in the way of gameplay, and are usually completely extraneous.