A mind immersed in a digital world
Monday, 5. May 2008, 21:17:43
There are just a few *very* good games ever made. It's not the most popular ones, not the most visually impressive ones, not the most technically advanced ones. For me the games that are truly good are the ones that manage to capture your mind and lock it in a word where it really wants to exist. A digital fantasy - abstraction, imaginative. Not a representation of the real world. A game is a combination of arts and crafts that manages to acheive what a single one cannot - sink you into a world powered and fed by your imagination. Your imagination, not that of others, because without your desire there, no external effort would help.
The *very* good games out there combine artistic creativity with brilliant technical execution to create your virtual reality that sinks you into your addiction to this virtual world. No matter what the genre of the game is, without your imagination engaging you deeply within this fantastic universe, it just won't work. The ones that manage to achieve this combine the power of all senses to provide you with that experience.
Deep, detailed environments, moody music, elements planned and layed out carefully. Engaging, captivating and intriguing stories, charming characters, ruthless villains and amounts of content that will etch in your brain for a long time. Very rarely a game has achieved splendour without a good mix of all of these, creating an environment that lets you submerge your mind in.
The *very* good games out there combine artistic creativity with brilliant technical execution to create your virtual reality that sinks you into your addiction to this virtual world. No matter what the genre of the game is, without your imagination engaging you deeply within this fantastic universe, it just won't work. The ones that manage to achieve this combine the power of all senses to provide you with that experience.
Deep, detailed environments, moody music, elements planned and layed out carefully. Engaging, captivating and intriguing stories, charming characters, ruthless villains and amounts of content that will etch in your brain for a long time. Very rarely a game has achieved splendour without a good mix of all of these, creating an environment that lets you submerge your mind in.
