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Old 03-28-2012, 04:55 PM   #641
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Originally Posted by Henry Fool View Post
On the wider issue, this is from an Oscar Wilde text that I've read many times over the years:

http://www.marxists.org/reference/ar...-man/index.htm
That's great and all and I am one of the hugest supporters of the idea that games are an art form but we're in a completely new territory here when it comes to the Mass Effect franchise and gaming in general. Bioware encouraged players to take the story and make it their own. Your quote is invalid because when you play a game you cease being a "spectator" and become a "participator." They took a game that was designed to make the person playing it be a participator and then, all of a sudden in the last 5 minutes, switched it to make them a spectator.
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