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It only makes sense to analyze games from a narrative standpoint when the most heavily-promoted and pushed games are linear, finite experiences cribbing from movies and books. Toaster analogy works well with session-based multiplayer games or primarily replayable games - and, well, critics tend to not bother with narrative analysis of Dota or Crusader Kings. Turning sessions into separate experiences is another matter and it is a very good avenue for any critic that is not afraid to feed personal experience into writing. Personally I think treating games as appliances is very depressing and self-defeating. The endpoint of 100% utility-oriented approach to food is Soylent; I am sure some games addict dreams of a automated entertainment unit injections that will cut time spent on installing, updating and learning to play games (also finally, an objectively good video game), but it runs counter to the escapist purpose of recreational produts. bewilderment posted:Architecture? I think Destiny was mostly approached from that direction. Not because it has pretty buildings, but because it is a massively expensive, long-term project shaping landscape around itself. Rather than exchanging experiences people mostly wrote about the state of Destiny as a system. Same can be said about writing on WoW probably, and various pieces about closing or failing MMORPGs remind about the eulogies for demolished buildings.
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