I agree with just about everything in that article. Simply put, I can't imagine any new games having the effect on me some of the older ones I played had, or me getting immersed in a game like I used to. To quote the author, "Wait a second. Is it possible that those old games didn't do anything magical with their programming to create 'immersion,' and that, like my kids with GTA, I 'immersed' myself in those games because I was playing them at a time before I was dead inside?"
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How should I put it? Life is like video footage.
Hard to edit. Directors, they never understood it.