Sadly there will probably even be a third article voicing my dissapointment with Dragon Age, this time focusing on the structure of the game and how the plot is relayed.

Have you caught this story? http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/bioware-defends-story-structure

While Patrick’s argument is perfectly cromulent, it’s dismaying to hear the game boiled down to such a simple forumla. DA:O should have been bigger and more ambitious than that.

I think you see things differently from most MMO players, like many educated people will see their relationship to computers as a clear tool-worker link because they’ve gone past the “woaw” phase where your mind get used to these things. Many people actually don’t get used to them, they seem like more than tools, similarly to MMOs which seem more than games. This is why the term “Virtual Worlds” was coined. This documentary talks about the addictiveness of the phenomenon, and you’re right, it’s “biaised”, in that the documentary doesn’t clearly say it’s showing only one side.

I had the opposite opinion of the documentary “Us Now” which was presenting the social networking phenomenon under a too positive light.

These applications are too new and fast-evolving to spawn strands of research and journalism which are unbiaised. There’s too much emotion, passion and hate around these things.

TK.

Margaret

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