/lit/ - Literature

>>7048570
Games will always be an inappropriate meaning for this kind of expression.

They're an innately Romantic medium in the Randian sense. You are the Player. You are Empowered. Your Decisions Matter. You are an Individual. You are the Hero.

This is the real cause of GamerGate: all these nihilistic, whinging, pathetic academics trying to subvert "player agency" and making worthless "games" where player outcomes don't matter or result in something awful.

Gone Home, for example, is a naturalist failure of a "game." You... "the player"... wander around a house and discover some morally reprehensible failure of a lesbian's story. Your agency is completely brushed aside. You are not on an adventure. You are not a player. This is not a game.

You are to sit down and read a book inside a non-game.

There is no "playing" and no "game" here, and Naturalistic games fail because the soul of any game is Romantic. You have a Goal. You can Achieve it, if you make the right Choices and Strive.