Submitted by MINI2uMARIO on Sat, 03/08/2008 - 08:47.
“If I throw a ball at you, I don’t expect you to drop it and wait until it starts telling stories.” Eskelinen may be right but such a useless comment but he deserves that I pick up the ball and throw it at his retarded self. What was he implying anyways? I suppose he was trying to separate narratology from ludology. After making that comment his credibility points dropped pretty fast.
So his way of defeating the study of narratology is to separate the “colonized” narratology from ludology by “resisting and beating them.” Who are them anyways? It’s quite interesting of the vocabulary he uses because later into his argument he describes duration in gaming as “set time in which the winner is the one who’s in the better position when the set time is up.” It is the exact proposition he used to begin his rant about ludology. read more »
