Threefer
April 30th, 2008 emilywitt
In my blogging, I mostly focused on the actual games that we had played for class, and most of my posts are split 50/50 on negative and positive feedback about the games themselves. I think because for me it is hard to read about something that involves your senses, for example I cannot read about art without having the art in front of me, the same goes for video games. I found all of the readings to be informative, but without playing the games that are mentioned in the articles, some of which we did play, it was had to get a firm grasp on what they were actually talking about.
Also, looking at my posts, I seem to have a lot of gripe about Interactive Fiction. It might be confusing from my posts, but I do see IF as a realm of gaming, I think my opinions about it are just slanted because I do not enjoy playing IF games, and this unenjoyment comes from not being able to get a grasp on how exactly to play. I think for myself, I need to just spend more time with interactive fiction, really try and hone down on the different techniques needed to move forward in a game to really be able and form an opinion about the nature of interactive fiction being a genre of games.
Overall, I have personally never been that serious about video games, really only playing games that take no skill and no thinking capacity to play. Having to blog and write analysis and having to think deeper about the true nature and inspiration of games has opened my mind to all sorts of different games. However, looking back at my writing, I can tell that my personal gaming tastes have not changed. I still love a good game that I can just run through, jump on an enemy, and collect coins.
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