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Chris Dahlen
Chris Dahlen
I cover music, gaming, technology, and pop. Maybe you've seen me at Pitchfork, The Onion AV Club, Variety, Edge Magazine, Paste, GameSetWatch, or any number of alt-weeklies.
I'm based out of Portsmouth, NH, which is an hour from Boston and an hour from Funspot. Look me up at "savetherobot" on Xbox Live, and @savetherobot on Twitter.
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I’m torn as to whether sex belongs in games. I’ve followed the debate for years, between the folks who feel that sexuality proves maturity – that if games can show relations between consenting adults, we can finally call them “art” – and the folks who think games can’t handle it, because they don’t understand relationships and they can’t capture nuance and anyway, kids play these things, so we should all keep our pants on. Set aside the theory, and in practice, you can see that games are conflicted.
July 29, 2009
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I agree, the mechanic can work - and there are games on Newground that prove it. But I can't get over the shift of tone. I don't think I'll ever be able to jump from "we're saving the world together" to "as soon as your G-bar turns blue, I'll press the O button." And I'm a total sucker for romances in RPGs, but the epicness would fall flat if we tried to consumate the relationship and I hit the L1 button too early. It's just a mini-game too far for me.
If you're not going to play the game, you can also just see the scene on YouTube (in HD!).
But if you like action-RPGs, it's worth a look. It improves on the first one, and getting to play as a minion in a few of the sections is a hoot.
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