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話說天下大勢，分久必合，合久必分
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話說天下大勢，分久必合，合久必分
1d ago
Those failure states exist to create the illusion of agency. No game advertises itself by telling you the princess can already be considered rescued, because that's the artistic intent, but hey you can come push buttons if you want to see it.
Just because the princess gets rescued in the end doesn't mean that the story is the same. In the case of a video game, instead of "the princess was rescued," it would be "you rescued the princess." The fact that you, the player, actually put forth effort to cause the princess to be rescued is a huge leap. Video games are at their core more immersive than movies. 3D and now 4D movies try to make it so that you're literally feeling the things that the main character feels. Video games are simply the next evolution to that. Now, instead of watching James Bond shoot that bad guy, you are James Bond, and you are shooting that bad guy.
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John Carmack put it best: "Story in a game is like a story in a porn movie. It's expected to be there, but it's not that important."
South Bay is really rough in terms of nightlife (mostly because the majority are 30s married Asian/Indian programmers). San Francisco is pretty fun if you know where to look.
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