Video_Game_King

I can no longer tell what's a new feature on Giant Bomb and what's a weird bug.

@sgtsphynx said:

@video_game_king said:

What the hell is the expression on Nomiya's face supposed to be?

I just looked it up in the resource files. It's a frown. Surprisingly.

Not really. I can probably do some research on how structuralism works and simply get a feel for that. Can't be as bad as deconstruction. I have little, if any, memory of how that works.

Isn't narratology just what any old literature class will teach you, anyway? The mechanics of narrative and whatnot?

Ludology is the mechanics of play. How you interact with a game. Its rules, its goals, the strategies you employ to achieve said goals, etc. Extra Credits and the Angry Video Game Nerd (surprisingly) demonstrate this mindset fairly well.

The solution for ludonarrative dissonance sounds worse than the problem the term creates. It's hiding what makes ludonarrative dissonance...well, that. The dissonance arises from both the game and the narrative together.

My solution? You shouldn't use the term until you have a basic understanding of ludology and narratology. That might sound elitist, but it's a lot easier than it sounds.

I think it mentions it early on in whatever episode this was? I know that they're cousins or something.

Last night, a strange thought entered my mind: a good deal of Zelda games begin with Link waking up. For example:

1. Link to the Past
2. Ocarina of Time
3. Wind Waker
4. Skyward Sword
5. A Link Between Worlds

Why is this a sort-of-trope in the Zelda universe? Is there some mythic reason the writers continually choose this? Is it a type of series in-joke, like the "it's a secret to everybody" thing? Anybody got any answers?

I'm slowly realizing that maybe I should've led Rin's thread with this song.

And then there's all this weird shit.

I also imagine this is why lists are so damn popular: they're very easy to split up into those annoying "page 1 of X" formats that requires me to click through an entire goddamn list.