Tag: Games of the Generation
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Games of the Generation – Part 5: The Challenging
Prominent stand up comic and gamer Dara Ó Briain often jokes that unlike games, books don’t prevent you from progressing to the next chapter if you’re not good enough. Only games require a degree of skill in order to be experienced, or else bar your progress. Some games take this to an extreme. In recent…
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Games of the Generation – Part 4: The Sublime
In the age of the Romantic poets the idea of the sublime came to mean an overwhelming, almost religious feeling of awe in the face of nature; an intoxicating mixture of pleasure and fear. The Romantic poets and wealthy patrons flocked to the Alps in droves, and those snow capped wonders to them couldn’t have…
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Games of the Generation – Part 3: The Heartfelt
No longer satisfied with the usual pretexts of captured princesses and alien invasions, as videogames matured they attempted to tell bolder stories and give players greater motivation and emotional investment in the gameplay. Over the last few years certain works have emerged to challenge the popular notion that games are mindless entertainment, standing up to…
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Games of the Generation – Part 2: The Intense
As a tactile, multi-sensory media, videogames are very good at getting under your skin. Whether it’s the sensory assault of Bayonetta, the twitch reflexes of shooters like Battlefield 3 or just the fact that the universe is about to be annihilated by Reapers, the most bombastic games grip you with a vice like intensity. And…
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Games of the Generation – Part 1: The Whimsical
The so called seventh generation of games consoles finally came to an end this year after an eight year inning with the release of the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One (although Nintendo jumped the gun in 2012 with the Wii U). Those years saw many games and many changes, but so much more than that,…