New Favourite Blog
I found this one just a few nights ago, and I loved it instantly. It’s www.game-ism.com, and it’s awesome. It’s an example of what a blogger should really attempt to be. His posts are the right length, well thought out, and give you the sense that he’s really put time into this. Example: TF2 vs. Vanilla FPS. Not only does he give us a full post, he provides diagrams to support his theories. His posts are very much devoted into looking deeper into games. Not just their mechanics, but also their story line, and the symbolism in the games. They’re long posts, but they’re entertaining posts.
Example. He knows he overanalyzed, but both him and his audience don’t care. Why? Because that’s the fun of the post. It takes apart the song by someone who knows a lot about the game, not someone who’s never played it but graduated with honors from Oxford after finishing a doctoral study on the combination of story and song. While the person who has a doctorate might be more knowledgeable in symbolism and general story, he probably won’t know as much about the characters and story of the game. But anyways, the blog is great. Check it out, guys.