tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8692381608294018617.post8977825166678744671..comments2023-11-05T07:27:43.837-05:00Comments on Narrative and Technology: Prompt 1: Reviewing the ReviewsAdamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16302919444091859459noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8692381608294018617.post-54778675732232539352013-10-19T09:19:24.520-04:002013-10-19T09:19:24.520-04:00"After taking a couple steps toward the build..."After taking a couple steps toward the building a voice stars talking and it accompanies you on your entire journey. The voice hardly makes sense and soon I found myself not even listening to it. For the entire story your character travels on a single path and all that you as the player do is hold down the W key to walk, only to switch fingers when one gets tired." - there are several ways in which you're obviously ignoring the game's intentions here. It's not, in fact, true that you can only walk - you can also zoom in, at the least (as well as swim up) - both of these are relevant.. And if you're not even listening to the voice, it goes without saying that you won't understand anything. My point isn't that we *must* take it as a game, nor that we must think that it's good - but that you should at least try to take it on its own terms, even if you ultimately think that it fails.<br /><br />Your discussion of the interaction makes sense. What I would have liked to see was an attempt at figuring out ways in which the game does offer limited interaction before dismissing it out of hand. You can, after all, move faster or slower, backtrack, zoom in or not, examine the writing on the caves and the cliff sides or not. Again, none of that is to say that you're wrong at the end of the day - but again, you don't seem to be thinking at all about the details of the game (or "game", if you prefer) before rejecting it.<br /><br />At the end you categorize it as a kind of picture book. Curiously, you ignore the story entirely, but are still interested strictly in the visuals. If this is the case, some actual discussion of the visuals (presumably the most interesting ones!) could have been productive.<br /><br />In short: what is missing here throughout is any engagement with the details of the game (or non-game) that you've been given.Adamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16302919444091859459noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8692381608294018617.post-640524563715573132013-10-17T03:04:04.618-04:002013-10-17T03:04:04.618-04:00There are other online retailers that can offer ga...There are other online retailers that can offer gaming systems for under $1500. For example Cyber Power offers great gaming performance in their Gamer Xtreme 5,000. It is actually powered by the same processor as Origin's Genesis computer; the Intel Core i7-2600K CPU. It is over-clocked at 4.4GHz and their GPU of choice is a single Nvidia GeForce GTX-570.<br /><br /><a href="http://pcgames.productadvertizer.com/games/" rel="nofollow">Top Rated PC Games</a>Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13192711699789475328noreply@blogger.com