Trigger Happy
no one wants to come home, turn on a game and feel like they’re still working at the office PC.50 But the particular aesthetic phenomenon of
Drawing you in
Modern videogames, as we have seen, glory in their graphic richness: spacecraft with scarred hulls, fighters with stubble, trees with individually swaying branches. But this does not necessarily reduce the player’s involvement in the game. What spoils “identification” is simply a lack of symbolic richness to suck you in. If a game with a beautiful graphic iconic construction also enjoys symbolic
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50 This is also the reason that, videogame journalists and hardcore system fetishists aside,
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