Showing posts with label Philosophy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Philosophy. Show all posts

Thursday, February 03, 2011

Warp Zones, Fast Travel, and Teleportation: Screw the Journey

Awesome!
I'm currently reading (very slowly) The Legend of Zelda And Philosophy and I'm having a very hard time getting through the first proper chapter because it is pissing me off. It is arguing that being able to skip the journey in video games is... degrading to the experience? It stops you from being able to appreciate the areas in between where you'd like to go and rips you out of the illusion of space that video games provide. I freaking love being able to fast travel (to borrow Oblivion's term) because I find going the long way in games to be extremely tedious. This also sort of applies to my life.