If you think that sixty or so pages describing Bilbo Baggins's birthday party, and turgid prose that reads like a description of an ordnance survey map, equates to literary genius, then yes, Tolkien is a god damned genius.
I'm very late responding to this, but then I only joined up a few days ago. Good article!
It will be interesting to see how specialised game writing becomes, given that interactivity is something unique and specific to games.
I feel inclined to question the validity of an experiment that measures responses to emotive stimuli within a controlled environment. I can't help but think that, were the subjects exposed to an actual bar brawl or an actual mugging, they'd respond as anybody else would.
By the way, sorry...
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