September 9, 2006

The Quest for Excellant Games Journalism Ends Here

"This is why gamers have such heated debates about save mechanisms: They're metaphoric stand-ins for the way life works. Playing a game with frequent save points is kind of like being the child of a billionaire: You can soar through life without worrying about financial problems because if you fail, there's a "restore" point waiting for you. Games with few save points force you to live like a scrappy, coming-from-nothing immigrant: You embrace scary amounts of risk to get ahead because you've got no safety net."

The above post is from Wired News on the debate over save mechanisms in videogames.

I think I will just let it stand on its own without comment.

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