Posts Tagged ‘mass effect’

The Ballad of Tara Shepard (or: Why I’m playing the first Mass Effect again)

Playing through the first Mass Effect was one of the most gratifying single player video game experiences I’ve ever had. The second time I played it, that is.
The first time I played through the RPG dressed-up as a shooter, I played through as “Mark Shepard”, and I did what I usually do in games that [...]

A video game has never made you cry…but neither has a film or book

Video game blog Kotaku linked to an argument-provoking article on ihobo this weekend that makes the bold claim that a game has never made anyone cry.  Well, not in and of itself.  The author writes:
This is the nub of the issue here: a story can make you cry by empathising with the protagonist (or another [...]