| forest-spirit said: Maybe I should've put IMO on everything I wrote there. I'm just saying that I would never play (not for very long atleast) a game if it was boring to play. |
Well, it's not like the opposite of fun is boredom. You can not have fun in many ways... boredom is the absence not only of fun but of any induced emotion in the user.
A game could be disturbing to play - SOTC was, in places, or there's the infamous "press this button" scene towards the end of MGS3 - and yet highly emotional, even if it's not fun pulling the reins of the user.
I don't care much for the Malstrom article. He takes the original blog, that is thought-provoking though flawed, into his world of bloodlusted and envious hardcore gamers who hate anything holy i.e. economically successful. Having beaten the improbable hyperbole built upon the real material into ridicolousness, he ends dismissing the argument but adding nothing relevant.
