Posts Tagged ‘mass effect’
The Ballad of Tara Shepard (or: Why I’m playing the first Mass Effect again)
Posted by RandomRage | Filed under Games
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
Posted by RandomRage | Filed under Games, Rants
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 [...]