Recent content by Jezixo

Thanks so much! I'm reading that link now. It reminds me of Tom Bissel at Grantland taking apart LA Noire. Bissel hardly ever gets through an article nowadays without bringing up ludonarrative dissonance. He's my hero. You gave me a link, so here's one for you -...

Sorry I haven't responded to this for a few days. But don't think I don't have more to say on the matter! I enjoy a good debate. And so, here we go. I'm not sure why that should be the overarching question - the point we are disagreeing on is whether this not-game is "good", by which I mean...

Thanks! After following that link, I do feel that my worldliness has expanded a tiny bit and I now have an understanding of a part of the world which I didn't before. But unfortunately that's more to do with the beautiful article the game links to at the end, and less to do with the game. I...

Thanks! That helps a lot. It looks a bit less awful now. Yes I love Yahtzee and Extra Credits, they're both a very strong force for good in the world of games. They inspired me to write essays like this. They have a restriction in the form of 5 minute videos and entertainment value, though...

Hello everyone. This essay on "Ludonarrative" was originally for a blog I was going to start, but that was a few months ago and I've been sitting on this for a while, so I decided to just dump it here. It's completed, apart from the examples section at the end which I suppose I could do if this...

I'd have an army of fairly decent, well outfitted human-controlled Spartan's from Halo: Reach's multiplayer. I mean, they can't have been that good, because I came out on top, but one of them had that electricky thing on his face so he'd been around a while.

"Squee!" is all I can say. This is the best turnout ever. Clint Mansell will absolutely OWN the soundtrack to this game... literally, I suppose. But seriously, when this game comes out a lot of people will be eating their words. Mansell has totally got this. The Fountain soundtrack is one of...

Best comic from these guys yet. Funny as hell.

I loved it, this is brilliant. Totally captures how I felt about it too.

I guess Han really did shoot first aaahahaha!

Yes! Shamus you are my personal hero. You tell em, man. I'd quote the entire second page for truth if such a thing were possible. I didn't even understand my own consumer behaviour until you laid it out like that. It's completely true though - I avoided CoD4 for a good two years while I...

Funny. You said it! Still love that film though.

This exact idea has been done, precisely the way you described it (the first idea, not the mercenaries one). It was called Savage: Battle for Newerth, and I personally loved it, and I usually don't like RTS's, so I suppose it did exactly what it was designed to do. Other opinions may differ...

An American Doctor Who would be like an Independence Day celebration in Trafalgar Square, or a British Statue of Liberty. It might seem odd, but Doctor Who is absolutely an icon of British culture, alongside tea and crumpets, red telephone booths, policemen with silly shaped helmets, the houses...

Excellent article, especially great considering it's your first. You have succeeded in writing about something I honestly had not given much thought to, and proposing something I'd never considered, and for that you win a donkey, sir, a donkey. Welcome to The Escapist!