The Problem With That Line ‘It’s Just A Game’ — Are Our Games Our Fantasies?
By Stephen Totilo
Games aren’t just games. Character-driven games (i.e. not “Tetris“) are roles that we adopt, as if we were actors. They are fantasies waiting to be fulfilled. As I said in my own “RE5″ post, a game trailer is an advertisement for a fantasy. It asks: Do you want to be this character and do these things? If so, buy our game and you’ll feel like you’re the one responsible for what you see here.
