Our Games Are Not Depressing Enough [Feedback Loop]

An excess of violence has become a point of criticism for video games. The real problem isn’t the violence, but how games want us to feel about our stylized murder sprees.

In recent interviews David Cage and Warren Spector both addressed the need for games to be more emotive and less violent. However, it shouldn’t be an binary situation. Violent games could be a path to better art, if we deal with the violence in the correct way.

In Edge magazine, Cage’s interview centered around the recent E3 demo Kara. The demo by Quantic Dream showed a game character presenting subtleties of emotion only approcahable by the last Quantic Dream tech demo, ‘The Casting’.

While next-generation technology is not required for good games, Quantic’s demo shows the potential to create characters with greater emotional depth, a characteristic that does more to make them realistic than all the pixel resolution in the world.

Soundscapes – Music can ruin everything

Music is powerful. It can tell you what type of game you’re about to play, what time its set in and the intensity you can expect from the gameplay before you see any visuals on screen. Great music can be

A new Deus Ex is possible, says Eidos

Surprised? I hope not. It’s not as if we’re continually inundated with sequels and franchises in this industry or anything. In an interview with Eurogamer, the production coordinator for Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Marce-Andre Dufort, revealed his thoughts on a

Deus Ex: Human Revolution Outsourced its Boss Battles

Human Revolution released to pretty much universal praise. However, one thing that stuck out are the game’s boss battles. They have been criticized as uninspired, boring, forcing you to fight no matter what, and for being generally out-of-place in an

New Ideas: Dishonored

I’m one who hardly ever posts news posts. I’m too busy to scour the net for exclusives, and I’m not paid nearly well enough (at all!) to care about reporting on new things. Besides, it’s not like we have any

The Friday Post Would Love to Be a Pepper Too!

Look at these fucking peppers. They look delicious. I want only a taste of them. But we don’t have time for that, because things! You can read! Must be posted! -This week’s big controversy around the internet was Japanese developers

The Friday Post: Now For Dinner!

Toothpaste for dinner! Webcomics! I just finished speed running a novella (as in, writing about a dozen pages) so I got nothing. Let’s hope other people do. -Patricia literally posted everything. Literally. Everything. If you scroll back a week, you