The object of most video games is very simple: Beat the bad guy who's in charge of all the other bad guys. Now, actually getting to the point in a game where beating the head bad guy is one of the proudest and most joyful feelings a gamer can experience. It means we're now so close we can taste it, and all we have is one more guy to knock off before World X is saved! If we pull it off, we're rewarded with a great ending, or at least a congratulatory ending reminding us how important we are and how … more
As a gamer, I've sat back and watched for years as television, film and basically every other medium on the face of the planet has been unable to understand video games. When a movie about music gets made you get the sense that at least they understand music. When television is featured in a movie or talked about in a song, there is this sense that the medium is being understood by another medium. Video games don't get that. In fact, if you are a gamer you've … more