RJ Layton

The table of contents I posted last week is getting refined, but I finally feel like I have a solid direction I am heading in. Some more major changes were made, and I plan to post those this weekend.

Updates for the Tower's atlas are included in this post. Effectively the Tower's "scope" has been reduced and things are getting more and more defined.

More updates to the Tower Atlas. You could call it 2.0!

First, this rant is obviously going to have spoilers, so avoid it if you haven’t finished it and are planning to.

Also, before I get started, let me say that I generally enjoyed BioShock. I actually finished the game, which is either a testament to how good the game is or how short it is. Regardless, I don’t actually finish every game I buy, so this alone is a plus.

...A blog post with such a title, coming from a student in USC’s prestigious cinema school? Before accusing me of blasphemy, hear me out. I do not intend to argue that film or cinema itself “sucks.” Certainly there are many great films, cartoons, music videos and so forth that are wonderful, and I do enjoy them. No, what I am referring to is specifically in relation to videogames. While conceptually my disdain for movies could relate to many forms of interactive media, this post will focus on how I find myself growing increasingly weary of movies and their continued effects on and usage in videogames in particular.

Less than 24 hours since I posted my blog post on why movies suck, I find this. It’s an article by Seth Schiesel titled, “A New Video Game Hopes Expressive Characters Lead to Emotional Attachment.” The hidden subtitle is “Proving RJ’s point about why movies suck.” On the surface, it’s an article about the new PS3 videogame, Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction. Looking deeper, it’s an article about how videogames are still struggling to catch up to its superiors in the film industry.