Comments on: Playing Games http://www.tlarson.com/blog/2006/02/12/playing-games/ What's Tyler Larson stumbled into today? Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:01:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Daniel D http://www.tlarson.com/blog/2006/02/12/playing-games/#comment-1730 Daniel D Thu, 07 Sep 2006 04:13:09 +0000 http://www.tlarson.com/blog/?p=25#comment-1730 thank you. god thank you. i'm a college sophomore. yes, i know that edginess you speak of. yet i find myself squeezing in a half hour here and there for some Max Payne 2, or others. Max Payne to is pure detective fiction. I've taken US Detective Fiction and Film, and so i've digested detective novels [classics, like The Big Sleep], and felt a similar kind of intrigue, yet my trigger finger was twitching. But its a great balance off video games to draw the world as your own, through your imagination. One thing video games lack over books of similar action, off the bat, is a degree of imagination, particularly visual. Games nowadays are all about CG, not like older games where a few pushed pixels somehow became a plant, or a health box. Books, however, only give you descriptions, and if the visual isn't the point at the time, you've just got to bridge it with your mind. No doubt video games are a surely legitimate [good video games] form of productive stimulation, yet like you mentioned, some kind of balance needs to be struck, at least variation. Again, thanks for this. Makes me feel like popping in Far Cry, or the Sims. Daniel P.S. - del.icio.us'd ;] P.S.S - speaking of vid games, did you hear about Spore?! Revolutionary! I can't wait! keyword: 'spore gameplay google video' thank you. god thank you.

i’m a college sophomore. yes, i know that edginess you speak of. yet i find myself squeezing in a half hour here and there for some Max Payne 2, or others.

Max Payne to is pure detective fiction. I’ve taken US Detective Fiction and Film, and so i’ve digested detective novels [classics, like The Big Sleep], and felt a similar kind of intrigue, yet my trigger finger was twitching. But its a great balance off video games to draw the world as your own, through your imagination.
One thing video games lack over books of similar action, off the bat, is a degree of imagination, particularly visual. Games nowadays are all about CG, not like older games where a few pushed pixels somehow became a plant, or a health box. Books, however, only give you descriptions, and if the visual isn’t the point at the time, you’ve just got to bridge it with your mind.

No doubt video games are a surely legitimate [good video games] form of productive stimulation, yet like you mentioned, some kind of balance needs to be struck, at least variation.

Again, thanks for this. Makes me feel like popping in Far Cry, or the Sims.
Daniel

P.S. - del.icio.us’d ;]
P.S.S - speaking of vid games, did you hear about Spore?! Revolutionary! I can’t wait! keyword: ’spore gameplay google video’

]]> By: Shaun http://www.tlarson.com/blog/2006/02/12/playing-games/#comment-69 Shaun Sat, 11 Mar 2006 14:36:07 +0000 http://www.tlarson.com/blog/?p=25#comment-69 Hi Larson, I'd like to buy 1 of the pictures in your gallery. How do I contact you and how much will it cost? Thank You Hi Larson, I’d like to buy 1 of the pictures in your gallery. How do I contact you and how much will it cost?

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