Negative Effects

28 CommentsWednesday • January 27, 2010 • by Meho

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Having played through the opening five hours of Mass Effect 2 and No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle, two hot off the presses sequels to relatively popular franchise starters I was alternately in tears and in fits of laughter. Something is wrong here. Something is wrong with the media of games and I am not sure it will be fixed unless we take a critical view followed by a stand. Do we still want to play games? Or watch them, read them listen to them and, possibly masturbate looking at their digital actors? Ironically, the solitary, compulsory nature of playing games has in past earned the medium many comparisons with masturbation. But here and now, in 2010 is where the things are starting to go seriously wrong.

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