Submitted by kiyochan on Sat, 03/01/2008 - 22:03.
First I have to apologize for my track record in blogging: traveling out of state without my computer every other week and spending the time in between preparing for a dang audition has totally taken a toll on my ability to write - in both the sense of typing something out and typing it out coherently. (Apologies for my terrifyingly awful arguments and writing in advance, too.) My notebook is laced with blog post outlines which were to be elaborated upon and incidentally, it is now that I take a break from the midterm to flesh one of them out. Oh, the irony.
Getting to the point and going very far back, when we watched the Activision promotional video, there was a good amount of talk regarding "having fun with your friends" as you play them - interaction was the thing to have, be it between person and game or two people drawing out a story together by playing the game. With these games and such simple "win-lose" scenario, the narratives were created between the people playing since there wasn't too much to the story in the first place. Shoot the alien before your friend. You saved the planet hooray. Gloat. Repeat. read more »
