Relationships Quote by Tom Bissell

““I have had moderately meaningful relationships in which I invested less time than what I have spent on some BioWare games.””

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“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…

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“You have agency, yes, but what of it? It is just a game. But when a game does this well, you lose track of…

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“There are not many mediums whose Dantes and Homers one can ring up and talk to. With games, one can.”

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“The world, finally, is no longer large, and to ignore it likely requires more effort than to simply take notice.”

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“This is one of the most suspect things about the game form: A game with an involving story and poor gameplay cannot be considered…

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To create anything… is to believe, if only momentarily, you are capable of magic.

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Charyn, like Nabokov, is that most fiendish sort of writer-so seductive as to beg imitation, so singular as to make imitation impossible.

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“Hocking was slender in the way that writers and musicians are sometimes slender: not out of any desire or design but rather because his…

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“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…

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“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…

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