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The Story Mechanic Part Fourteen: David Cage: Cutscene Murderer
I’ve got a pile. It happens when you get older. Spend all day sitting at work on an ever more wrinkly bottom, busying yourself with all the miserable parts of being an adult and not playing on your...
View ArticleThe Story Mechanic Part Fifteen: Batman & Robin Syndrome
If there is one thing the whole world agrees on, it’s that Joel Schumacher made a bloody pig’s ear of Batman.For those who haven’t seen Batman & Robin, here is a quick clip of the director...
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The Story Mechanic Part Sixteen: Local Hero
It was a long wait for Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch.As it turns out, the wait wasn’t without good reason. Since Ni No Kuni’s release in Japan, we have witnessed a studio’s superhuman effort to...
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The Story Mechanic Part Seventeen: The Interactive Column
BioWare really achieved something with the Mass Effect series. Let nothing that you read here, or anywhere else, distort that fact. I know they achieved something because, for all my trying, I can’t...
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The Story Mechanic Part Eighteen: Guessing Our Destiny
Some guys are too big to tackle on your own. Bungie are designing Destiny to be one of those games. It only seemed fitting that I talk to resident Bungie mega-fan Mick Fraser about Destiny, Bungie,...
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The Story Mechanic Part Nineteen: Dropping a Deuce on Gran Turismo … Again....
Sometime ago in the dim and distant past I wrote a review of Gran Turismo 5 which, by my low-key standards, caused a bit of a furore. I scored the game a seven, which I felt it deserved, but I slightly...
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The Story Mechanic Part Twenty: Loving Life From My Sofa
The news coming out of LucasArts this week, the halt on all internal production and a switch to a model where all Lucas IP is developed externally, is a sad one. It’s not so much the loss of jobs (I’m...
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The Story Mechanic Special: An Interview with Ricardo Bare
Story is important to me.Not necessarily narrative, or even plot, but there has to be something in the background of a game to give what I’m doing some kind of context. Even Space Invaders – even Pong!...
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The Story Mechanic Part Twelve: The Stories of 2013
I’ve already bought all my Christmas presents. Cards and paper are organised. New decorations are poised and ready to hang from the tree. It isn’t that I like Christmas, though. No, no, no.I’m...
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The Story Mechanic Part Thirteen: The GodisaGeek Nativity
It is nearly Christmas (said the millionth online columnist capable of reading a calendar). For the past six months this column has started looking at story in games and now, with a clearly inflated...
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