Submitted by lobster_king on Tue, 03/04/2008 - 22:31.
Oh dear. I knew there was trouble brewing when I first started to read Markku Eskelien's 'Towards Computer Game Studies'. "What's this?" asked my brain, "Complete and utter refutation of the narrative theory we've been studying, in relation to video games, which we've also been studying?!" What a mess. Jeez, it's just like an English/literature class to bolster your confidence in one theory or theoretician and then bring it all crashing down around you a few weeks later with the next name on the list. Except after four years of this, you start to realize that they're all right. Or they're all wrong. Really, they got some of it right, and they were just guessing at the rest. Anything to stir up some controversy. read more »
