26th March 2005, 9:56 PM
Perhaps I wasn't clear.
Allow me to try again.
I fully agree with pretty much every single statement that article made, including the one about games being the next storytelling frontier, and that it isn't yet at it's peak, or anywhere close to it.
I only meant that the statement that games are the next frontier is cliche at this point and that we gamers have been hearing that, and already BELIEVE it, so saying it again is insulting because it suggests we never thought of that before on our own.
That's all. I'm sorry if I gave the impression that I didn't think computer games could tell good stories or that there was a lot of even further potential. I don't think that at all.
Allow me to try again.
I fully agree with pretty much every single statement that article made, including the one about games being the next storytelling frontier, and that it isn't yet at it's peak, or anywhere close to it.
I only meant that the statement that games are the next frontier is cliche at this point and that we gamers have been hearing that, and already BELIEVE it, so saying it again is insulting because it suggests we never thought of that before on our own.
That's all. I'm sorry if I gave the impression that I didn't think computer games could tell good stories or that there was a lot of even further potential. I don't think that at all.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)