Ha ha, debated - Yes an old pal of mine had this confused, he worked within the gaming industry somewhere in Canada for a while; we had a good laugh about this kind of thing too.
It's not very abstract at all... here: If I go to college for 2 years I can claim an associate degree for three~four years I can claim a B.A. and after five~six years a Master, past that would be of my vocation but at the point of Mastery I can teach in my field. I'm also reffered to as doctor.
In my short time I've seen enough snob proffesors who believe they may pronounce their knowledge in any field outside of the field they are studied, should this person as learned as they are speak professionally outside of their field they tend to be laughed at when speaking to professionals of that field. Though the laughter is just out of ear-shot it's still there...
In sales the laughter is expressed through word of mouth, but opinions differ, which I understand as a 'hardcore enigma', game designers are not movie directors and none of them are as verbose and imaginative the way JRR Tolken was. But to be fair JRR Tolken wouldn't be able to understand the meaning of 'play' the way Shigeru Miyamoto understands that word and even to a much greater extent explaining that word in an electronic interactive form.
Games aren't movies, or novels, they are games, they are a future age of toys.
Here's a rough sum, traditionally girls love dolls boys love GI JOE's in america anyway, look where we are today, Girls love Dogz and The Sims and guys love Halo and CoD4, whats the narrative there? ^_^
I'm Unamerica and you can too.
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