Toward a Philosophy of
Video Game Criticism
Gaming Under
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[Podcast]E.92
CRPGS: the Last Great Western Genre
Listener discretion is advised; contains profanity, references to drugs & alcohol.
Mike & Alex discuss the last great western video game genre: classical or western rpgs. If, as we have previously discussed, the rpg genre definitionally represents the conduct of intelligent life in fiction, the western rpg (in contradistiction to the deterministic jrpg) does so in-deterministically, affording the player political and social agency over the course of the game world
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