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A Narrative in X Parts
Linear narrative in a single medium is easy enough to grasp, but there has always been storytelling that jumped across mediums and broke apart the simple, linear structure. Yet the concept of telling a single, epic story by piecing together various fragments from a multitude of media still gives some people fits. Why not be excited by the possibilities, instead?
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Can Sci-Fi this Mashed Up Be This Good?
Mass Effect is a franchise that blends bits and pieces from Star Trek, Star Wars, Stargate, and probably a few other science-fiction universes. And it’s good. Really good. So good, that the notion only truly original content can be great is completely obliterated in its wake.
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L.A. Noire Kind of Sucks
The critical darling of the moment, the commercial success, the video game that looks more like a film than any other video game before it, L.A. Noire — it kind of sucks. There. I said it.