“In the emergency of growing up, we all need heroes. But the father I grew up with was no hero to me, not then. He was too wounded in the head, too endlessly and terribly sad. Too funny, too explosive,… — Tom Bissell Copy Share Image
To create anything — whether a short story or a magazine profile or a film or a sitcom — is to believe, if only… — Tom Bissell Copy Share Image
“Final Fantasy VII awoke American gaming to the possibilities of narrative dynamism and the importance of relatively developed characters—no small inspiration to take from… — Tom Bissell Copy Share Image
“You have agency, yes, but what of it? It is just a game. But when a game does this well, you lose track of… — Tom Bissell Copy Share Image
“There are not many mediums whose Dantes and Homers one can ring up and talk to. With games, one can.” — Tom Bissell Copy Share Image
“The world, finally, is no longer large, and to ignore it likely requires more effort than to simply take notice.” — Tom Bissell Copy Share Image
“This is one of the most suspect things about the game form: A game with an involving story and poor gameplay cannot be considered… — Tom Bissell Copy Share Image
We are no longer worried that children are missing school because of video games, though. We are worried that they are murdering their classmates… — Tom Bissell Copy Share Image
To create anything… is to believe, if only momentarily, you are capable of magic. — Tom Bissell Copy Share Image
Charyn, like Nabokov, is that most fiendish sort of writer-so seductive as to beg imitation, so singular as to make imitation impossible. — Tom Bissell Copy Share Image
“Hocking was slender in the way that writers and musicians are sometimes slender: not out of any desire or design but rather because his… — Tom Bissell Copy Share Image
“Games such as Mass Effect allow the gamer a freedom of decision that can be evilly enlivening or nobly self-congratulating, but these games become… — Tom Bissell Copy Share Image
“And so, my beloved Kermit, my dear little Hussein, at the moment America changed forever, your father was wandering an ICBM-denuded watseland, nervously monitoring… — Tom Bissell Copy Share Image
“The impulse to explain is the Achilles’ heel of all genre work, and the most sophisticated artists within every genre know better than to… — Tom Bissell Copy Share Image
