I always knew this day would come, much as I'd hoped it wouldn't. I throw myself at the mercy of Bethesda, and ask only that they continue to create single-player installments at the same rate and with the same quality.

I don't know why but I love finding out that famous people have a sense of humor

It might be the meta-analytical narrative centered around a quirky egotistical personality?

Peter Molyneux meets Peter Molydeux

This whole joke is getting so fucking meta...

The Wii is the exact opposite of immersion and I will not make any attempts to hide my contempt for it to appease the misplaced pride of hordes of internet fanboys. That said, I'm not going to get into an argument about it - feel free to ignore that portion.

That's fair - I do tend to focus on narrative too much in my analysis of video games, when it's not necessary to the label of "interactive art." As mentioned in my response to rathorial, Sim City has no traditional "narrative" to speak of but the player creates his own narrative through the creation of the city and…

I think you missed a couple of my points here. When I say Angry Birds isn't a video game, I'm not being literal, but flushing out what I think is an important point - no one ever refers to Angry Birds as a "video game." They refer to it as a social or casual game. The connotation of "video game" has essentially…

If we want to say that the core element of what makes something a "video game" as opposed to something else is the act of solving challenge situations, I say great! But then we need a word for an "interactive narrative experience" where "gameplay" is not necessarily the core of, or even a part of, the experience.

Oh, no. It's a pretty common expression, actually.

Oh man this made me laugh

Not intentionally...Reference to what?

Well, just about every major smartphone you see released these days handles better than PSP level graphics and physics, they just don't have the games library to support it.

Battlefield fanboys and Modern Warfare fanboys need to just all fuck each other and get it over with

The key here though is the existential crisis of realizing that you are a terrible, terrible character and it's someone else's fault.

I think the word is opportunist, but I haven't checked to see if they're synonyms.

I aim to please

Keep his support bases happy at the expense of everyone else so he can get reelected.

This has inspired me to write a fanfic where Sephiroth has a dream-within-a-dream realization that he was not only created by Shinra as a Mako-infused superweapon, but that his entire universe was a video game designed solely for the entertainment of teenagers.

"Well considering a 1.00 kd would be average"